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The Green Party has quite a robust code of conduct, which we can use to remind people of the rules. That usually de-escalates internal issues before they develop, and we have a complaints procedure if it goes further than that.
Although our relationship with the Scottish Government is positive and very good, we sometimes get caught in a policy cul-de-sac. I would just like to see a little bit less conversation and a little bit more action, pleaseāas somebody once said.
If a company wants payment in advance, we might decline that and instead use payment in arrears, which essentially de-risks our cash flow. For a longer-term contract, we might turn to a parent-company guarantee or a performance bond.
Tenants are being served with rent increases of 70 per cent. That is a de facto eviction. If you live in a local authority area that has declared a housing emergency, you are going to be homeless.
We are continually looking at options and de-risking. We are looking at how to reduce emissions in the long term and at what we can do in the short term, such as modal switch, to keep emissions as low as is reasonably practical.
What is the Government asking councils to do? Have they to wait for a de facto referendum before anything changes, because it is carrying on just as it was before?
The United Nations poverty envoy, Olivier De Schutter, has warned that another wave of austerity might violate UK human rights obligations and increase hunger and malnutrition.
I do not blame the federation for that quote because we learned last week that the police are becoming de facto ambulance drivers due to chronic shortages in the health service.