Submission statement: Important as SNP are likely to be the largest party or win a majority in Holyrood come May. This basically copies from Green Party policy passed last year, although the Greens said both tenants and councils should have first right of refusal. This is another example of SNP shoring up their left flank and focusing more on trying to get Green voters to vote for them in the constituency seats, especially. There’s also SNP being pro-immigration and really very anti-Reform. We also see this in Wales with Plaid Cymru outwardly calling itself a progressive party and being pro-immigration. When both SNP and Plaid Cymru speak about Greens, it’s not in an insulting way like with Labour and Conservatives, but it’s in a way that it’s like “why bother, we’re woke, too! And we can stop Reform”. I think we’ll see SNP and Plaid Cymru copy more Green Party policies, because in both Scotland and Wales (and England), Greens lead with young voters.
The rent controls came from the Scottish Greens in return to prop up SNP.
lionmoose on
Rather hinges on what fair market rate means tbh
mostanonymousnick on
The UK has one of the highest rate of social housing stock, nationalising more doesn’t seem like a particularly productive use of public money and seems to stem more from an ideological opposition to private renting.
Livid-Mulberry-1054 on
There’s a Braveheart prima nocta joke somewhere here
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Submission statement: Important as SNP are likely to be the largest party or win a majority in Holyrood come May. This basically copies from Green Party policy passed last year, although the Greens said both tenants and councils should have first right of refusal. This is another example of SNP shoring up their left flank and focusing more on trying to get Green voters to vote for them in the constituency seats, especially. There’s also SNP being pro-immigration and really very anti-Reform. We also see this in Wales with Plaid Cymru outwardly calling itself a progressive party and being pro-immigration. When both SNP and Plaid Cymru speak about Greens, it’s not in an insulting way like with Labour and Conservatives, but it’s in a way that it’s like “why bother, we’re woke, too! And we can stop Reform”. I think we’ll see SNP and Plaid Cymru copy more Green Party policies, because in both Scotland and Wales (and England), Greens lead with young voters.
The rent controls came from the Scottish Greens in return to prop up SNP.
Rather hinges on what fair market rate means tbh
The UK has one of the highest rate of social housing stock, nationalising more doesn’t seem like a particularly productive use of public money and seems to stem more from an ideological opposition to private renting.
There’s a Braveheart prima nocta joke somewhere here