Patrick Harvie's increasingly scary Scottish Green party should terrify us all – Scotsman comment
Scottish Green party co-leader Patrick Harvie should worry that their presence in the Scottish Government ‘scares some people’
Published 15th Aug 2023, 04:55 BST
After ex-Scottish Green Robin Harper renewed his criticism of his former party over the weekend, co-leader Patrick Harvie claimed that their presence in government “scares some people” – such as “former Greens” who “never really embraced the social or economic dimension of Green politics and wanted us to be little more than an environmental pressure group”.
Rather than trying to refute Harper’s charges that the party had become “careless and cocky” and was “not listening to people and bringing them along”, Harvie seemed more interested in proving them. Revelling in the fear you instill in those you disagree with is a particularly antagonistic way to do politics.