Of the political parties in scotland can do to make a real difference. i will vote, i have always voted, but i honestly don t think any of them are any. a politician will always tell you what you want to hear, but none of them actually follow through and do it the majority of the time. so i think if they were going to do something about it, they would have stepped up and done it before now. at the last local elections in 2017, the snp won 431 seats, the conservatives 276, labour 262, the lib dems 67 and the scottish greens 19, and non party candidates won 168 seats. significant increases on those results will be viewed as a success by any of the competing parties. the pro independence alba party and the scottish family party are also putting up a significant number of candidates. like other councils across scotland, inverclyde s budgets have been ....