sticky“Why would the LibDems agree to this?”
‘Power’
Anything except the Indy parties.
Sorry, no -
So that they are in the best place to bring their expertise and enlightened policies to CEC and do the BEST for Edinburgh.
‘Running Edinburgh’ is complex.
To what extent political decisions at local level make much difference is difficult to determine.
Of course ‘running the City’ is something of an exaggeration. CEC has direct responsibility for some things - schools (about 75% - which creates whole other issues…) and Social Work - while both involve the opportunities for ‘local input’, councils are heavily constrained by external legislation.
‘We’ are perhaps more concerned with roads, paths and ‘open spaces’.
Decades of ‘everyone wants a motor car and we have to cater for them’ is perhaps over, but there’s a long way to go.
With a new administration that actually wants to change priorities there could be some room for optimism.
But what are the chances of ‘the opposition’ agreeing/helping rather than kneejerk opposing??
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