The Scottish Green Party today
launched its manifesto for the 2007 Holyrood elections. The document is
based on seven key pledges that aim to be the priorities for Green MSPs
during the next Parliament.
The party is, unsurprisingly,
putting climate change at the top of its agenda, with a set of policies
designed to reduce emissions every year and “secure the economic and
social benefits” of a low-carbon economy.
This includes a £100m fund to support
imaginative community initiatives to cut emissions, as well as a
promise to keep key public services in public hands, and end the
ASBO-only approach to young people by providing opportunities for
“social behaviour”.
At the manifesto launch at Our Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, Mark Ruskell, Scottish Green Party campaign director, said:
“The real difference between the
Green Party and the other main parties is that we are the party that
makes a serious effort to identify the root causes of Scotland's social
and environmental problems. The others have added the thinnest layer of
green camouflage - offering the people of Scotland mere gimmicks and
sticking-plaster solutions.”
Robin Harper, Green Party co-convenor,
added: “Whether or not the polls are right to suggest we could hold the
balance of power in the new Parliament, one thing is for certain:
unless more Green MSPs are elected in a month’s time, the Scottish
Executive and the Scottish Parliament will continue to drift on the
issues that matter to the country. The only way to ensure that
Scotland’s government takes climate change and social justice seriously
is to first vote Green on the 3 of May: not a protest vote but a
progress vote.”
See the full manifesto
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