SNP faces budget fears as cross-party relations break down

All is not well in Holyrood. The SNP announced its programme for government on Wednesday – but it hasn’t left many impressed. And now it transpires that the governing party is set to face further problems in passing its budget, as it continues to fail to work with its political opponents. Not like the Nats to rub people up the wrong way, eh?

Once in a co-operation agreement with the SNP, it seems the Scottish Greens are still rather upset with the nationalists. Patrick Harvie’s barmy army has thrown its toys out the pram after Swinney’s speech revealed that policies the parties had formerly worked on together were to be delayed. One decision blasted by the pro-indy eco-zealots is the removal of the pledge to deliver universal free school meals to all primary students. ‘That’s not acting in good faith,’ eco-activist Ross Greer raged to the BBC. ‘That’s something we had agreed.