Newly elected Scottish Green leaders to campaign on universal income and free bus travel | Scottish politics
Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay, the new leaders of Scottish Greens, promised to make a universal income, free bus journey and higher taxation campaign for the rich after winning a silent election contest.
Greer and Mackay, both in Holyrood, with Backbench MSPs, voted to the common contacts of the Scottish Greens after a low participation of 12.7%-only 950 of the 7,500 members of the Part of the Part of the Part of the Part of the Part of the Part of the Part of the Part of the Part of the Part of the Part of the Part of 7,500 members voted after a low-key summer campaign.
They admitted that participation was worrying. Greer said that he has long believed that the party has lost its energy and that significant changes are necessary in their structures, internal elections and campaign apparatus.
“We’ve allowed to be a radical bureaucracy instead of a radical democracy,” he said. “And we should see serious internal reform. If we are going to grow as a party, we need to reform as a party.”
Mackay refused to be embarrassing. “I think it’s a worry. And I think that’s why we need to find out why [turnout was so low]”He said.
Leadership Competition, Britain’s longest -time party leader Patrick Harvie announced earlier this year, the patient has announced that he stopped 17 years later due to health.
Harvie took the Scottish greens to the government, for the first time in England, the Greens shared the power in a groundbreaking agreement with Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party in 2021.
Former leadership partner, Lordna Slater, who was standing to be Ash-Konvener again and is expected to win, was defeated narrowly by Greer in the second vote with 13 votes.
As a result, Mackay, who demanded a clear direction change in Holyrood, the party’s active members won in the first vote with 34% of the votes. He won Plaudits for his campaigns about the Scottish Law on the Tampon Regions around the abortion clinics and his campaigns on disposable Vapes and free bus ride for under the age of 22.
The voting supports the result of the two new joint leaders selection competitions for the Greens in England and Wales. The result will be announced on September 2, unlike a relatively compliant campaign in Scotland, after a competition that is energized with open conflicts about the direction and purpose of the party.
Greer and Mackay said that they supported Zack Polanski, a wide-scale “eco-pop” Zack Polanski, who was widely leaning on a party hustle last month to become a leader in England and Wales.
Speaking after the Scottish leadership announcement in Edinburgh, which will remain at the birth leave until January, before returning to Holyrood, Mackay said that NHS reform preferred much stronger campaigns for a four -day week and a universal basic income.
Iz We must make sure that the work allows people to develop instead of survival, ”he said. After the announcement was announced, he was not sure what the cost of a universal income would cost by talking to journalists – some estimates show that it could cost at least 7 billion pounds.
Greer, the architect of the Greens’ Power Sharing Agreement with the SNP and a close working relationship with the First Minister John Swinney, said Scotland’s tax system was “stacked in favor of the super -rich”.
Scotland has higher income tax rates than the rest of the UK for higher earnings, partly interested in Scottish Green Budget SNP. Greer said that Scotland should reform the council much more progressive and to remove real estate tax cuts for the rich.
