Dear oh dear. Things haven’t been going well for for the Green party lately and now they’ve just got a whole lot worse. The Green’s first UK parliamentarian and former leader of the Scottish Greens Robin Harper has quit the party, announcing that the Greens have ‘lost the plot’. Mr S wonders how long it took him to notice – has he been living under a rock?
In a scathing letter written to his successors ‘after lengthy consideration’, the octogenarian let loose on the party he’s been part of for decades. Berating the party’s leftwards move ‘into the gap’ vacated by the Scottish Socialist party, the former MSP raged about the Scottish Greens’ preoccupation with ‘needlessly destroy[ing] the United Kingdom’, the party’s handling of trans issues and its inability to ‘cooperate meaningfully’ within politics.
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