Free the Greens from the SNP’s clutches!

I have not been entirely flattering about the performance in government of the Scottish Green party ministers, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater. I have accused them of being responsible for most of the policy failures that have defined Humza Yousaf’s annus horribilis. Everything from the Deposit Return Scheme for bottles and cans to the Gender Recognition Reform Bill; the Hate Crime Act to the ban on wood burning stoves.  

But it is time for me to put the record straight and say that the Greens aren’t all bad. Some of my friends have been Green and a few even remain in the party – though with increasing annoyance at its policies on women’s rights. Anyway, it was the SNP leaders, Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf, who should really be blamed for policy disasters that have defined what is now being called the Coalition of Chaos. You don’t blame the crew when the ship hits an iceberg, you blame the captain – who ideally should go down with it.