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SNP manifesto release. 10% of transport capital budget for walking cycling and wheeling by end of parliament.
Total transport and connectivity capital budget this year is 2.2bn. So is this a doubling or is a decent chunk of that connectivity?
Plus a reiteration of the 20% car kilometre reduction by 2030. Despite pledging dualling of A9 and A96
Realistically they're gonna win, just a question of if the greens are needed to pass budgets to push further.
and free bikes for all?
The other place -
"Fears that resumption of alcohol sales, restricted due to Covid, will incentivise return to Commons"
Make of that what you will.
Anyone want to guess where the LibDems are holding their Manifesto launch...
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I think that makes things even clearer than they were before regarding their position.
(UK)
But
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19238119.poll-shows-labour-support-lowest-level-keir-starmer/
Good to see the SNP being pushed in the right direction, but...
"The Scottish Greens have, for the first time ever, secured increases in the budget for cycling and walking that take it over £100m but this is still just 3% of the national transport budget. We will immediately increase the active travel budget to at least £320m. We view this as a minimum level of investment. Over the duration of the next Parliament, we aim to increase the overall budget for cycling, walking, city centre transformation and 15-minute neighbourhoods to 20% of the national transport budget. Further capital could be raised to accelerate the transition through local taxes aimed at the most polluting vehicles and their use. We will underpin this expenditure with reforms that deliver safer, greener and better communities."
You (probably) can’t vote for him anymore.
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His comments come ahead of the party’s manifesto launch on Monday, when he said the full taxation policy would be revealed, hinting only that he “would like to see parity in the tax system”.
Mr Ross said: “When you’ve someone that has the appeal of Ruth Davidson, someone who has fought through Scottish politics in the last decade, to ensure that full UK voice is heard here in Scotland, then you use them.
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The Scottish Labour leader claimed the party had to cancel their programme launch on Tuesday due to an “unscheduled” announcement by the Government on Covid-19 restrictions.During an appearance on the BBC’s Sunday Show, Sarwar said that the original launch had been planned for last Monday but was cancelled due to a halt in campaigning after Prince Phillip’s death.
He said they had planned to move to this coming Tuesday 20 April but there was "an unscheduled Scottish Government statement now on Covid, despite us seeking clarification from the government on that".
However, the First Minister hit back and pointed out the briefing had been scheduled for weeks as a precursor to restrictions lifting on April 26 – and she had mentioned it during an announcement on April 6.
On BBC the Labour leader speculated that this 'unscheduled' announcement from FM might be an earlier opening of pubs. No one seemed to know it was in diary which is odd.
The Sunday Show talked about Labour's likely policies but he was hampered by late publication of manifesto.
Lorna Slater from Scottish Greens was on earlier. Their manifesto 96 pages long.
Reminded people that Robin Harper was the first green parliamentarian in UK. That was before England elected their sole MP.
Lorna pointed out that things like fracking 'ban' here was an indication that we could do more without independence. That in theory is fine if the neighbouring parliament is happy to retain and increase powers Holyrood already has. Currently there seems to be a lot of hostility to Scotland reforming land and sea use etc from unionist parties where ownership, use and taxation might be challenged.
Has someone kidnapped the Conservatives? Are they being coerced into this against their will?
During the pandemic, the number of people cycling and walking to work has increased and we must take steps to maintain this. Due to the changed context, the Scottish Government’s 2030 active travel ambition should be brought forward to the end of the next Parliament. Over the course of the next Parliament, we would increase the share of the transport budget which is spent on active travel to 10 per cent.All local schemes must meet a range of standards to ensure they are suitable
for buggies, wheelchair users and
older people, set by the Active Nation Commissioner whose role should be put on a statutory footing. Temporary schemes implemented during the pandemic must be evaluated and only maintained if they have been effective. Councils should lead post-COVID reviews of changed travel patterns in their area and be encouraged to create more low traffic neighbourhoods, bus and bike only roads, school streets and low emission zones where they
would be beneficial.By the end of the next Parliament, every city in Scotland should have a cycle network designed for commuting. In 2021, we would invest £1 million in cycle proficiency training
for adults and cycle repair vouchers to encourage more people to take up cycling.
Active travel
“set by the Active Nation Commissioner“
Still in post?
Will be interesting to see how this is used by local councillors -
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Temporary schemes implemented during the pandemic must be evaluated and only maintained if they have been effective.
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Obviously the Tories won't get enough Holyrood seats to actually implement any of this, BUT it’s important that they stick with it to hassle the new Gov.
Especially the speeded-up timetable proposals.
ALSO that they *make* Tory councillors everywhere understand/advocate these new (to them) ideas/policies.
Maybe a certain cycling enthusiast at No.10 Downing Street had a word in the Scottish Conservatives' shell-like?
Anyway, welcome news. If cycling and walking can be the subject of a new cross-party consensus (as motor vehicles have for the past seventy years) that will be one positive to come from this dreadful pandemic.
Not going to India now, so he’ll have time...
Anas was blaming Nicola yesterday for postponing the Labour manifesto launch with an 'unscheduled' coronavirus meeting on the day they were going to present. This claim repeated by media - quite puzzling.
If we can do a divisive and economically damaging bxt during lockdown then no reason we can't consider our future governance. Think it's vital as the prospect of having Holyrood weakened is a hot topic according to polls. The Holyrood election will very much be about Indy no matter what Anas. I'm hoping he changes his mind. More chance of that than any change from London leaders.
Thread analysing Conservative manifesto -
This football stuff is weird. Some entertainment businesses with big wage bills to cover want to play against each other (I believe in addition to their existing game schedules). Sure, whatever. Unless fans want to be responsible for wages, why should they own the clubs? There are businesses I love, should I also get to be the owner of them?
I'm also not keen on punitive taxes for innovative businesses to make it easier for outdated businesses to cling on for longer. For example, taxing Amazon's self-checkout supermarkets (which really means: tax their customers) and/or subsidise the companies with human checkout staff that are being left behind. If they want to change the rates system so that out of town distribution centres pay more rates, that's fine as long as other users of out of town real estate are also hit.
"human checkout staff that are being left behind"
Why wouldn't you tax them heavily? We are gradually making a substantial proportion of the population unemployable through automation.
Now, it's easy to say well just get them to retrain and do the green/tech/whatever jobs of the future, but that misses the point that arround half the population have an IQ of less than 100, and arround 30% an IQ of 80ish.
What are these people really going to do? They didnt 'succeed' at school the first time, why do people think they will a 2nd time.
Yes these companies need to be taxed highly, because in a few years UBI will be inevitable or half the country will simply starve...
I think I agree with you on the ends but not the means.
Imagine cyclists were subject to extra taxes to pay the wages of laid off petrol station employees. Or, people who work from home instead of driving to the office have to pay extra taxes to pay the wages of redundant city centre cafe staff. When you tax something you get less of it, so you'd have less cycling and more people who could work from home would be driving to the office.
If we decide that people need to be supported (even by UBI) then that should be funded by society as a whole and not by taxing the better versions of things IMO. Otherwise we just hold back the improvements and keep the inefficient models on life support.
people who work from home instead of driving to the office have to pay extra taxes t
No matter how extreme your argument is, Deutsche Bank got your back.
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