Surely there can be no deal between the Scottish National Party and the Greens if the exploitation of the Cambo oil field, west of Shetland, is allowed to go ahead?
In May’s Scottish parliamentary elections, the SNP won by far the biggest number of seats, but fell just short of a majority. After the election, Nicola Sturgeon announced that she was entering negotiations with the Scottish Greens, which, on the back of their best-ever results, had eight MSPs.
On 28 August, the result of these negotiations will be put to an extraordinary general meeting of the Scottish Greens, where the party’s members will decide whether or not to accept whatever deal the SNP has negotiated with their party’s leadership. There has been much speculation that the proposed partnership would be similar to that between the New Zealand Greens and Jacinda Arden’s Labour, where the Greens get a minister or two but aren’t bound into a full formal coalition.
