Standing on the stage at the Caird Hall in Dundee this week, addressing the Scottish Trades Union…

Gillian Mackay: Greens addressing the STUC felt like a real turning point

Standing on the stage at the Caird Hall in Dundee this week, addressing the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) as the first Scottish Green co-leader ever to do so, felt like one of the most important moments of my political life.

standing on the stage at the Caird Hall in Dundee this week, addressing the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) as the first Scottish Green co-leader ever to do so, felt like one of the most important moments of my political life.

It felt significant. Not for the sake of a milestone, but because of what it reflects. Greens at the STUC? Surely that’s Labour territory? Except it isn’t. Not any more. And it hasn’t been for some time.

The workers who put their faith in Keir Starmer in 2024 are now being told to wait, and that economic stability must come before fairness, as if the two things are somehow in opposition.

They are not. They never were.