Patrick Harvie, co-convener of the Scottish Greens. Image: Ken Jack
The Scottish #GE2015 debates were telling in many ways. Firstly, as Adam Ramsay so aptly pointed out, Ruth Davidson is a much better Tory than David Cameron. Jim Murphy is a bit shouty; Willie Rennie is, well, Willie Rennie; and Nicola Sturgeon is human after all.
The star performer in Aberdeen, I thought, was Patrick Harvie. Ardently and succinctly, Harvie argued for a high tax/high wage system with a reworked approach to sustainability of both the economy and the environment: a ‘Scandinavian model’ of politics – that old socio-democratic romanticist.
