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The Scottish Greens do not have an issue with the de facto situation that we have with the one-year transition period between election to this Parliament and local authority elections in the subsequent year.
We will continue to focus on them while, unfortunately, the Tory party in Scotland is busy being sidetracked down a cul-de-sac as it tries to do a deal with Reform UK, which the people of Scotland will not thank it for. 17:00 We are one week on from the publication of the Scottish Government’s budget.
It was developed in conjunction with Welsh National Opera, and it has also been staged, with Scottish Opera’s costumes, arrangements and set, by the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. I, too, made that trip, and I found it most illuminating.
That is not exactly the action of a potential Government in waiting, or even a junior partner in the nod-and-a-wink unionist de facto coalitions that we see in Edinburgh, Fife, North and South Lanarkshire, Stirling and West Lothian.
Will the Government consider targeting a programme of awareness and education at adult males on how to deal with and de-escalate such situations? Many men would find that incredibly helpful.
Often, as a state, we say that we understand that private enterprise is risky, so we will incentivise and de-risk it, and it will get to privatise the value that is captured.
The whole point is that the bank should not replace private sector investment; the bank should add value and perhaps de-risk investment. If an organisation or business can secure private sector investment, the bank should be looking for ways in which it can add value elsewhere.