I mean we have and we do, that's where the Verity House Agreement comes from. The sad reality is though that most media outlets don't care that much about local government so it doesn't get enough pick up for people to notice.

And by bare bone I mean everything that isn't statutory gets defunded. Would make current situation look utopian

Because the government appoints someone to come in and set the budget and cuts everything to the bare bone.

It has been considered on a near annual basis

Very honoured to be considered worthy of your 'not wildcards' list 😂

Oh for sure. Their policy platform will be very interesting for this.

Aye I get that but there's been a lot of greens upset the last few days at the prospect of a more left-wing party and I think it's helpful to acknowledge we aren't nearly as perfect as we think we are. Lack of internal debate is the cause imo but the problem is there.

My point is that many people won't see the Greens as a party of the left because while we clearly are in theory, we often aren't in practice. Such as with forcing local government austerity.

Every council across Scotland is either breaching statutory duties or running scarily close. That's not from local government cutting our own budgets, noone is decreasing their rates or council tax. The cuts are all coming from Holyrood budget.

2023 isn't nearly the only time we've supported cuts to local budgets.