Fucking please, get these incompetent idiots out of power now.
Defying the Greens was the first indication Humza has a spine or any instinct for political manouvering we have seen yet.
Good for him- why should his party suffer for the Green’s mad and unpopuliar policies?
Coalitions often cause strife within the meber parties as one party inevitably attracts more public ire than the other- Cameron was masterful at ensuring the lib dems suffered most from their deal. He did that by largely calling the Lib-dem’s bluff when they threatened to leave and allowing them a few token policies to run into the ground.
Yousaf was handed this oppurtunity with the DRS and Building Regs- he is quite right to take a harder line now. Far better to have the Greens infighting over whether to stay in the coalition than to bend over to accommodate green policies and risk unrest in his own ranks.
Quite impressed tbh- didn’t think he had it in him.
I should say that despite the National’s headline it’s Green members calling for a summit within the Green Party.
Two stories about rats posted at almost the same time. 😛
Hopefully these barely competent toadies sink back into obscurity where they belong.
Paywall, but presumably this is over puberty blockers, not ditching the climate change pledge? That would be in keeping with the current Scottish “Green” priorities. Still, I can’t see anything separating Harvie and Slater from their ministerial salaries. They can’t believe their luck.
I don’t think the decision around care for trans youth is the right one, I have only some sense of the distress that trans folk feel at the sight of evidence-based care being withdrawn, but it was a decision made by clinicians which should be scrutinised and reviewed through those channels.
Instead of helping to ensure that scrutiny happens and a well-evidenced decision is reached, I think calling to collapse the Bute House Agreement distracts from it and entrenches the idea that politicians should be directly involved in decisions like these. I’m not of the view that that is a good idea.
From a political perspective, summits like these have obvious risks. Along with dinging the trust between them and pro-BHA SNP colleagues, it threatens to give anti-BHA SNP folk more ideas about how they can destroy the relationship. I can see why some Greens are upset with the SNP, but I don’t see how this helps them achieve their goals.
They won’t end the deal lol.
It’s the only thing that gives them the illusion of relevance .
You have to be pragmatic in government and The Greens are too used to being a protest party. SNP are only slightly better.
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Good tbh, get these incompetent nutters to fuck
Fucking please, get these incompetent idiots out of power now.
Defying the Greens was the first indication Humza has a spine or any instinct for political manouvering we have seen yet.
Good for him- why should his party suffer for the Green’s mad and unpopuliar policies?
Coalitions often cause strife within the meber parties as one party inevitably attracts more public ire than the other- Cameron was masterful at ensuring the lib dems suffered most from their deal. He did that by largely calling the Lib-dem’s bluff when they threatened to leave and allowing them a few token policies to run into the ground.
Yousaf was handed this oppurtunity with the DRS and Building Regs- he is quite right to take a harder line now. Far better to have the Greens infighting over whether to stay in the coalition than to bend over to accommodate green policies and risk unrest in his own ranks.
Quite impressed tbh- didn’t think he had it in him.
I should say that despite the National’s headline it’s Green members calling for a summit within the Green Party.
Two stories about rats posted at almost the same time. 😛
Hopefully these barely competent toadies sink back into obscurity where they belong.
Paywall, but presumably this is over puberty blockers, not ditching the climate change pledge? That would be in keeping with the current Scottish “Green” priorities. Still, I can’t see anything separating Harvie and Slater from their ministerial salaries. They can’t believe their luck.
I don’t think the decision around care for trans youth is the right one, I have only some sense of the distress that trans folk feel at the sight of evidence-based care being withdrawn, but it was a decision made by clinicians which should be scrutinised and reviewed through those channels.
Instead of helping to ensure that scrutiny happens and a well-evidenced decision is reached, I think calling to collapse the Bute House Agreement distracts from it and entrenches the idea that politicians should be directly involved in decisions like these. I’m not of the view that that is a good idea.
From a political perspective, summits like these have obvious risks. Along with dinging the trust between them and pro-BHA SNP colleagues, it threatens to give anti-BHA SNP folk more ideas about how they can destroy the relationship. I can see why some Greens are upset with the SNP, but I don’t see how this helps them achieve their goals.
They won’t end the deal lol.
It’s the only thing that gives them the illusion of relevance .
You have to be pragmatic in government and The Greens are too used to being a protest party. SNP are only slightly better.