It is said that a week is a long time in politics, and this one has been no exception.

But the decisions that have been made by the First Minister and his team will leave a lasting and painful legacy that will be felt by households and families across our city and beyond.

I’m not about to pretend that the situation he faces is easy.

14 years of Tory austerity are now being followed by a UK Labour Government imposing the same fiscal rules.

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But there are different choices he could make, from fairer tax on the wealthiest to clawing back some of the big business giveaways that are still being funded.

Instead, the SNP government has started backtracking on commitments, cancelling legislation and raiding budgets that will severely hurt both people and the planet.

On Tuesday they cut our cycling infrastructure budget and brought back double-price peak rail fares.

Yet they’re still pouring hundreds of millions of pounds into climate-wrecking road-building projects.

With transport as Scotland’s biggest carbon emitter, this clearly shows we are not working with a climate-conscious government.

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The Government is finally being forced to accept that we’re years behind where we should be on climate, so we must urgently accelerate climate action.

Yet with so much of Glasgow’s housing stock and public buildings needing to be upgraded to cut both bills and carbon emissions, the Government announced that they were cutting £1.7 million from energy efficiency and decarbonisation budgets.

It’s not just our environmental policy that is paying the price for the SNP’s decision to go back into minority government.

It’s also the work that was underway on equality.

Among the announcements buried away in this week’s Programme for Government was the decision to scrap the human rights bill and to drop a commitment to delivering a Scottish ban on so-called conversion therapy; instead choosing to wait for legislation from Westminster and a Labour government that many LGBTQ people simply don’t trust.

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It’s pretty galling to see a pro-independence Government removing Scotland’s influence from the process.

Perhaps most shockingly there was the decision to halt the rollout of universal free school meals for primary school pupils, continuing the stigma of means testing and undermining our efforts to tackle child poverty.

It has been frustrating and difficult to watch.

With the Greens in Government, we scrapped peak rail fares, committed to free school meals, introduced legislation for rent controls, invested in climate and nature like never before. Now all of that is being scrapped, watered down or shelved.

Among the misery, there has been some smattering of good news, with the SNP backtracking Creative Scotland’s decision to close a vital fund for artists.

I’d heard from lots of constituents who had outlined exactly how this cut would have impacted the projects and services they operate in Glasgow, so I’m sure this will bring a sigh of relief to many Glaswegians who rely on it.

But it goes without saying that this reversal is down to the culture sector’s relentless campaigning, rather than any particular change in political will.

And the stop-start nature of funding for culture has been going on too long, causing insecurity and anxiety for everyone involved.

Looking ahead, the outlook is deeply troubling.

With the Labour government making clear that they will follow the same failed economic agenda as the Tories, we urgently need to focus on how Scotland can make better choices and fund the services that we need.

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Both within Government and now again in opposition, the Scottish Greens have come to the table time and time again with workable solutions, whether that be through relentlessly pushing to change the unfair and outdated way in which we fund our councils, or making the case for a millionaires’ tax to ensure that the super-wealthy are paying their fair share, or cracking down on the biggest polluters.

It’s time for some radical honesty on the state of our climate and our economy, and the wellbeing of the people that live in it.

These are the kind of solutions that we need and that the SNP is backing away from.

We don’t have to settle for managed decline.

Scotland can choose a fairer, greener and better path, both now if the Scottish Government makes the right choices, and in future as an independent country where everyone can live with safety and security.

The SNP may be moving further away from that vision, but the Scottish Greens never will.