The SNP could lose its working majority if the Scottish Greens, their coalition partners, decide to end their power-sharing deal over an abandoned greenhouse gas target. The Telegraph has more.
The Greens are to call an extraordinary general meeting at which party members are expected to vote on whether to continue with the deal, which kept the SNP in power after it failed to win an overall majority in 2021.
Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie said things have “come to a head” after the Scottish Government scrapped its target to cut greenhouse gases by 75% by 2030.
Earlier this week, Humza Yousaf, the First Minister, admitted that his Government was scrapping Nicola Sturgeon’s promise to cut Scotland’s carbon emissions by 75% by 2030, after experts warned it was unachievable.
Now furious Scottish Green members are demanding that the Party’s leaders consider ripping up their power-sharing deal with the SNP and quitting the Government.
Chas Booth, a Scottish Green councillor in Edinburgh, wrote to the party’s executive, demanding an extraordinary general meeting be held “as soon as reasonably possible” to consider pulling out of the coalition with the SNP.
He warned the Greens were being “used as a figleaf for the SNP’s woeful and inexcusable climate inaction”.
Mr Booth said there had been “anger” on a party members’ call on Thursday evening as a result of the Greens being “part of a Government abandoning climate targets”.
His call was backed by Anthony Carroll, a Glasgow councillor, who said members should have their say again on the coalition deal, and accused the SNP of having “shown a lot of contempt in the past year”.
Meanwhile, Labour has reiterated its “iron-clad” commitment to climate leadership. Ed Miliband, the shadow climate secretary, called the SNP’s U-turn a “devastating and humiliating admission of defeat”.
Labour has a stated aim of achieving net zero by 2045, with an interim target of at least 70% by 2030.
The party has pledged to deliver “the lower bills, good jobs, energy security, and climate leadership that Scotland needs” with its Green Prosperity Plan.
It would be ironic if Humza Yousaf was swept from office because of the one sensible decision he’s made.
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It won’t really matter if Useless is “swept from office” as the replacement will just be another WEF stooge.
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
The argument for an independent England gets stronger. Once independent, expel Londonistan.
Once done we should get a conservative Government.
I agree. I was brought up as a Unionist, but now – as far as the Scottish population is concerned – if the majority wish to leave, good luck and good riddance. If the majority of Scots so hate being part of a 4 nation union speaking a common language (because they believe they have no say – despite us having 2 scottish PMs in the past 20 years) and wish to subsume themselves into a 27 nation union instead (delusionally thinking they’ll have more influence), let them leave and don’t let the door bang them on the arse on the way out.
What was a mighty and respected nation to me in my youth is a complete laughing stock now. I feel sorry for the minority of decent Scottish people opposed to all this nonsence.
Actually it’s the minority of Scots who support the vile SNP/Greens, many of them benefitting from the extra ‘free money’ that is thrown at them, and astonishingly don’t understand that our infrastructure is crumbling because money is spent so waste fully and secretly.
Yes, I’m proud to be Scottish and British, but thoroughly disgusted and ashamed of our pretend Parliament in Holyrood.
Spot on. Since the UK, Commonwealth, EU and UN all regard England as the World’s Cash Cow, England should declare independence from them all, and see how they like it.
Northern Ireland, Wales & Scotland should also declare independence, along with every American state, Australian & Canadian province, every European nation, and all the main ethnic regions in Russia, China & India, scuppering the Globalist dream of a “Borderless World”.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/michael-gove-pressure-scrap-foolish-window-planning-rules/
This is bloody unbelievable.
“Upstairs windows in new-build homes must now be at least 1.1 metres (3.6ft) from the floor, leaving younger children unable to see outside.
The regulations were introduced over fears that hotter summers brought on by global warming will lead to people opening their windows more frequently, putting them at risk of falling out.”
Clown World doesn’t come close.
I vaguely remember a concept called “personal responsibility”. Whatever happened to it?
“personal responsibility”
Gone the way our country has gone – to the dogs.
It is loonyville as the only new homes being built our way are tall blocks of flats with floor to ceiling windows and concrete. We call them the energy guzzlers cold in winter and hot in summer.
ha ha ha ha ha ha jeez. —In the top down world of pretending to save the planet you can just visualize all the discussions in offices where council and business people are all around the table coming up with their latest eco nonsense. I think probably 90% of the people involved in the planning of stuff actually believe the climate garbage that gets fed to them. ———Here is a good example from near where I live. All along the promenade in a town called Kirkaldy the council have seen fit to plant a whole series of Yukka type plants. No doubt they think that in a warmer world they are being very forward thinking. But in reality I have never seen a sadder or more pathetic excuse for palms in my life. For about 7 months of the year these plants are subjected to lashing wind, rain, ice and all the other horrendous weather that made the Romans call a halt and build Hadrian’s wall where they built it. ——I can visualise these Romans saying “F..k it I am not going any further up there. It is BRASS. ——–Looks like the Romans knew what silly governments these days don’t.
SNP, Green, Labour, Lib Dem, and Conservative. All coercive collectivists intent on destroying western civilisation. They’re just different pustules on the same pox-ridden arse.
The greens are a minor party in the coalition, using blackmail to get their pet policies reinstated. Well tough: how did that expectation go for the LibDems in 2010?
Net zero is absolute nonsense and more people are beginning to cotton on to this. Ignore their shrill wails, this whole thing needs to be utterly discredited.
How about the Greentards try actually getting a majority next election and hence, by logical extension, a mandate for all this panty-wetting, self-inflicted race to impoverishment. Of course, they care nothing about the economic problems, just their hysterical doom-mongering mantras.
No matter how Yousless the SNP, at least they realised (in private) the massive inconvenience of these egregious commitments.
All parties supporting either this or the woke crap deserve complete annihilation.
Humza Yousaf, the First Minister, admitted that his Government was scrapping Nicola Sturgeon’s promise to cut Scotland’s carbon emissions by 75% by 2030, after experts warned it was unachievable.
Chas Booth, a Scottish Green councillor in Edinburgh, […] warned the Greens were being “used as a figleaf for the SNP’s woeful and inexcusable climate inaction”.
Ed Miliband, the shadow climate secretary, called the SNP’s U-turn a “devastating and humiliating admission of defeat”. […] Labour has […] pledged to deliver “the lower bills, good jobs, energy security, and climate leadership that Scotland needs” with its Green Prosperity Plan.
This really highlights the core aspects of our political malaise: The sole guy here who’s actually responsible for something gives up on it, and not – mind you – because it’s total nonsense to put the people of Scotland through this as the CO₂-emissions of Scotland don’t even figure globally, but because it literally cannot be done.
The Greens immediately go to war about it because reality is none of their concern, they just want more taxpayer money spent on it, regardless of the eventual outcome.
Enter the Millibrain party which doesn’t give a shit about anything save getting into power.
Fantasists and traitors conspiring to ruin the country and its people for their own benefit.
Nice one.
Thanks.
You say the Greens only want more money spent on it. Correct. —-But we need to enlarge on that and say why. ——The reason is because they are communists. —GREEN =RED. They are anti capitalists and they have hijacked the environment for their communism which seeks to control the worlds wealth and resources. It has NOTHING to do with the climate.
The people who founded the Greens where communists but I don’t think they can still sensibly be called communists nowadays. They’ve degenerated into the archetypical polit-whores, in bed with whoever pays them most for this. Eg, Annalena Baerbock, the current German secretary of foreign affairs, campaigned for ending arms deliveries into so-called crisis regions in the name of world peace. She became a very vocal “We stand with Ukraine!” hawk the moment her puppet masters wanted that. I don’t think she has any convictions which aren’t for sale.
I am late to this issue, or I would have had plenty to say as obviously having to live in the Socialist Republic of Scotlandia I have more to lose than most of the rest of you. ——I have never voted for any Socialists in my life, but I am now almost hoping that since the Conservatives are just another bunch of socialists and are not going to win the election it would be better if Labour wiped the SNP out, so we up here can be rid of this squirming bunch of eco woke parasites for good.
The exact opposite is true of all these sound bites.
“Climate leadership”
What’s that when it’s at home? Our politicians couldn’t run a bring and buy stall.
Leadership? For crying out loud.
“Climate leadership”
What’s that when it’s at home?
“We’re aspiring to be the first who really throw the common people under the UNbus, despite this won’t make one jot of a difference! Somebody has to start with it!”
One of the many climate lies the UN uses to camouflage its forever ongoing attempts to rip off people in Europe harder.
The western world has to be the first to throw their citizens “under the bus” because our politicians are fully onboard with the UN idea that we have benefitted from the use of fossil fuels and probably used up more than our fair share of what they consider a finite resource. So we are to STOP doing that as fast as possible. There was no concern whether it was going to be practical or possible to stop using fossil fuels in the timescale of Net Zero and no apparent concern for the cost. ——This is preposterous, and shows what happens when ideology trumps common sense.
Of “the SNP’s U-turn a “devastating and humiliating admission of defeat”.”, it’s a defeat of their idiotic rhetoric, and a victory for reality.
What the imbecile Miliband describes as “humiliating defeat” is actually a great victory. —-But it is only one battle. There is still a war to be won against GREEN/RED tyranny.