Nicola Biggerstaff

By Nicola Biggerstaff, Policy Co-ordinator at Common Weal Scotland.

The Common Home Plan is our vision of a Green New Deal for Scotland. By establishing seven main environmental threats and providing solutions which span across every industry (broken down below), we believe we have the capacity to go Beyond Net Zero.

The use of the Additional Member System (AMS) in Scottish Parliament elections has been in place since its opening in 1999. It has never been subject to a majoritarian style vote, and so it is almost impossible to tell if a change in systems benefits any one cause or party.