Hamish Macdonell - Not playing ball (II)
IT is all getting a bit murky in this spat between the Greens and the SNP.
Now the Nats have hit back by drawing attention to the actual agreement between the two parties which states that the Greens will support "ministerial appointments", not just the first ministerial appointments.
According to the SNP, the Greens have now broken the agreement by abstaining on today's vote on the new ministers.
The Greens insist, however, that the agreement also committed the Scottish Government to favourable treatment of green issues which, they claim, ministers have not done.
Not worth the paper it was written on? Certainly, but it helped Alex Salmond get his government approved back in 2007 and that was all that mattered then, and probably now.
ends
Now the Nats have hit back by drawing attention to the actual agreement between the two parties which states that the Greens will support "ministerial appointments", not just the first ministerial appointments.
According to the SNP, the Greens have now broken the agreement by abstaining on today's vote on the new ministers.
The Greens insist, however, that the agreement also committed the Scottish Government to favourable treatment of green issues which, they claim, ministers have not done.
Not worth the paper it was written on? Certainly, but it helped Alex Salmond get his government approved back in 2007 and that was all that mattered then, and probably now.
ends
Labels: Greens, Hamish Macdonell, SNP.
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