Green grievance
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was accused of “green window dressing” as she unveiled the SNP’S government’s “most ambitious ever” investment in schools, hospitals and roads. But she faces a growing rift with her key-budget allies, the pro-independence Greens, who derided a £17 million fund announced, aimed at helping shift Scots to adopt electric travel.
Are the turncoat Greens getting the message that the SNP does little for them, the SNP simply USES them to stay in power?
Jock Tamson
Climate change is just a con to make the rich richer and bleed money from the rest of us in increased costs .
nats are data mining comments
Another day, another SNP announcement. Big numbers, unachievable timelines and the inevitable comparisons to the UK. Like all the grievance rhetoric this is more noise.
Enough is enough
The most “green” policy the SNP could make would be to ban all travel by car, taxi and limo by members of the £120 million a year tax-gorging Shortbread Senate.
Damian Thirsty
The left will not address the green dinosaur in the room, that population size affects the planet. And if that population lives in areas that require the use of energy to sustain them, that causes even more damage. Living where it snows a lot uses more energy than living where you need no heating. So yet again we see one SNP policy contradicting another SNP policy. Policy one, must be green, policy two, we must have open door migration.
Colin Burgess
This FM has almost certainly never bought a litre of petrol (or diesel) from her own pocket. For most of her adult life, she has been ferried around by taxi or ministerial car, all at the taxpayers’ expense. Yet she considers herself to be the best qualified to deny Scottish motorists the use of their cars.
Old Siggy She’ll be out in the electric helicopter spreading the word next.
Angry Scot I can cover around 750 miles on a full tank of diesel (60 litres) which takes only a few minutes to fill. Until an electric car can match this I’ll stick with what I’ve got.
Aristotle
If they’ll let you! able to cope with potholes? Wouldn’t be better to fix them first?
Big Eck The Greens should find the courage of their convictions and vote down SNP budgets – SNP voters like myself would be delighted to see the SNP government held to account for its window dressing. As usual with the cowardly Greens, bleating about “window dressing” will melt away and the Greens will prop up SNP budgets and the First Minister every time.
SNP Voter after a haggis maker rebranded Scotland’s national dish in Union Jack packaging. Stahly Quality Food sparked a furious backlash by advertising the signature Scottish dish as the “Great British Haggis”.
Boycott.
RJS
Notice the proud Scottish thistle on the packaging.
George Porter-mutch
Sad that some aren’t patriotic and resent the State flag which represents our Great Britain.
Jomydo Difficult to warm to a gaudy flag that is regularly hijacked by the political right and extreme right. I associate it with racists.
Not Impressed It’s unclear what would motivate someone to be so irate about packaging, but whatever it is needs to be ignored. These people need to get a life, this is not something that can anger anyone, it isn’t rational.
Med One Haggis originated in Northumberland but is now principally associated with Scotland, so the British flag is appropriate. In any case, the Scottish “national dish” is a deep-fried Mars bar served with cheese-soaked chips.
Euan Gray The term “Scottish” has a lot of kudos outside Britain. Ignoring the flag, calling it a British haggis seems like a stupid thing to do, when anyone looking to buy haggis will always associate haggis with Scotland.
Dunnomuch Will this be the trigger for indyref 2?
Spooked
Boycotts and bans so reminiscent of nationalism of old, makes me sick that there is so much hate and division in our country and we all know what and who have caused it. There is nothing civic about nationalism.
Alan Parker