Green tail wags SNP dog

I AM at a loss to understand why Nicola Sturgeon made her deal with holyrood’s handful of Greens.

Surely there is nothing she can now do that she could not have done by purchasing Patrick harvie’s support on a case by case basis. Instead she has a green tail, representing 4 per cent of Scotland’s population, wagging her nationalist dog.

In addition, the Greens have been permitted opt-outs on a whole range of issues. If the SNP continues to make a horlicks of finance north of the Border, the Greens, whose own economic illiteracy includes an implacable hostility to growth, carry no responsibility. they are in effect both in government and opposition simultaneously.

to have any hope of independence, Miss Sturgeon must get middle Scotland on board, but that is perhaps the most cautious part of the electorate.

It has always been resistant to the kind of Leftist, virtue-waving radicalism which cares little about consequences and treats the fears and reservations of ‘little people’ with superior, bourgeois contempt. DR JOHN CAMERON,

St andrews, Fife.

SCOTLAND is being served up a government of two parties, one focused on independence and one focused on climate change.

Whatever happened to solving all the problems over health, education, jobs, ferries, roads, farming and other important aspects of daily life?

A restaurant with only two items on the menu will find its customers don’t come back.

GERALD EDWARDS, Glasgow.