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Greens enter Scexit pensions farce

Sky

Undeterred by the SNP’s agonies, the Scottish Greens have now decided to jump into the row about post-Scexit pensions. The indy-backing party, which props up Nicola Sturgeon’s government at Holyrood, has come out claiming that nervy Scots need not worry about their pensions being paid if the country voters for secession, according to one of its leading lights at the Scottish parliament.

A not-so magnificent seven currently take the party whip up in Edinburgh; among them is Ross Greer, the charisma vacuum best known for hoping for the death of the-then critically ill Margaret Thatcher, for calling Churchill ‘a white supremacist mass murderer and declaring that ‘nothing would thrill me more than for Buckingham Palace to burn to the ground.’ In a party led by Patrick Harvie, to be known as ‘the stupid one’ is quite the accomplishment.

Greer appeared on (what else?) another podcast where – surprise, surprise – he suggested that the rest of the UK would, for reasons unknown, continue to pay Scottish pensioners’ benefits if the country quit the Union.

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