David Maddox: Hot from John Swinney's budget speech

The Finance Secretary has offered £22 million in the first year to start off the Green's insulation scheme. That should be the deal clincher, double the SNP's original offer, but only a fifth of the Greens' original demand, nevertheless a fantastic achievement for a party with just two MSPs.
Even more significantly he has given the Tories the credit for a new town centre regeneration fund of £60 million for 2009/10, three times what the Tories were asking for and even more than the £50 million demanded by Labour.
And finally he has agreed to be flexible over where money for new affordable homes will go to bring Independent MSP Margo MacDonald on board. She wants more cash for Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Assuming this is all enough then that will equate to 66 votes for the budget and 62 against. Looks like Labour and the Liberal Democrats have been marginalised again.