Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie during the party's General Election manifesto launch at Summerhall in Edinburgh, June 20, 2024
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THE Scottish Parliament has once again backed calls for free bus travel to be extended to those seeking asylum, but delivery remains as elusive as ever.
The then SNP First Minister Humza Yousaf had committed his SNP-Green coalition government to the £2 million policy last year, only for it to be dropped by his successor John Swinney in August on the grounds of cost.
Speaking for his party’s motion calling on the policy to be revived and enacted, Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie said the U-turn “should appall.”
It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR
