Second Chance
WHAT a great way to start the day.
The Greens are out of government They were less environmentalists and more power-crazy opportunists pushing half-baked policies with the fervour and single-minded intent of one of our magnificent red stags galloping into the rut: the ones they put a target on the heads of 24/7. The sting in the tail for them was the humiliation of being dumped instead of being the dumpers.
The Greens stirred up controversy with their particular kind of power-sharing holding the Government to ransom. It was a joke really, considering they only managed to scrape a few votes to just about become MSPS in the first place. Their unfathomable steadfast support of the insane headlong rush into overdeployment of unreliable wind energy to enrich global investment companies to the detriment of communities, the environment and energy security helped give their party a new slogan: Green is the new Blackout.
I don’t predict happy times ahead in Holyrood for the nationalist party as a minority government but there is something Humza Yousaf has a chance to do to endear himself to his rural communities. He might even claw back some lost votes.
First Minister, you’ve ditched one serious hazard to your Government; now ditch another. You have a golden opportunity that you would be advised not to ignore. You have the perfect fall guys: the Greens. Tell communities “it was the Greens that made me do it” and tell SSEN to go away and think again and that there will be no more overhead lines or massive substations in Scotland’s iconic landscapes.
Lyndsey Ward, Beauly
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