Green plans to reduce social housing rents

Edinburgh Council has an inglorious recent history of budget-setting.

- Ben Parker

Edinburgh folk face difficult decisions on their spending

Attempts to cut all funding on climate initiatives in the first year of this political term forced Greens to pursue a creative approach to decision-making that budget day.Ultimately it led to the disgraced former Labour leader passing a Liberal Democrat budget which he hadn't read, which didn't add up and which betrayed the Labour values he was elected to represent.

When this has been the historical offer, it's no surprise that people in Edinburgh might not be waiting with bated breath for parties to release their spending plans.