Just who do the Scottish Greens think they are? They provide a mere seven seats to the SNP’s 64 and they won 1.3 per cent of the vote in the constituency section of the Holyrood elections in 2021 (they had 8.1 per cent in the regional section). In return for that meagre offering they think they have the right to end economic growth in Scotland. No wonder at all then that Kate Forbes and Ash Regan are unbothered by the prospect of the Greens leaving government – maybe even pushing them out should they win the SNP leadership – and only Humza Yousaf has signed up to their ‘non-negotiable’ demands for ‘climate justice’ and trans rights. It ought to be pretty obvious to anyone in the SNP that the Greens are more trouble than they are worth.
In return for their meagre offering the Greens think they have the right to end economic growth in Scotland
What, exactly, is ‘climate justice? It seems only to be a euphemism for shrinking the economy.
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