Scottish Greens will 'carry the can' for SNP says Cole-Hamilton

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However, the SNP leader’s political gamble could be beset with problems amid concerns that the Greens will demand hard-left policies that could scupper her bid for Scottish independence. GB News host Mark Dolan said that the SNP leader could regret making a power-sharing deal with the Greens. This is because he maintains that the Green’s will demand “a flurry of hard-left economic policies” that could “kill off the independence project altogether”.

Ms Sturgeon announced the pact with the Greens on Friday.

She stated that a fresh independence vote will be sought before the end of 2024 if the coronavirus crisis has abated.

Referring to the new political pact one Daily Express reader said: “This will be worth watching!

“Unfortunately, I live in Scotland and expect a horror show.

“Two zealot parties, with two radically different agendas.

“A real recipe for disaster, which, unfortunately, the tab will be picked up by the citizens of Scotland.”

Commenting on the Express.co.uk story, another reader noted that “the SNP and Greens are chalk and cheese”.

They added: “The only thing they agree on is independence.

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“The Greens will try to hold the SNP to ransom and the coalition will fall apart.”

A fourth person reminded the SNP leader that “she signed up for a once in a generation referendum”.

That reader added: “You lost that one in 2014.

“The UK held a countrywide referendum in 2016, you lost too.”

Referring to the new coalition, Douglas Ross, the Scottish Conservative leader, tweeted: “Scotland will suffer from this nationalist coalition of chaos.

“The SNP-Green government will be anti-jobs and anti-business.

“They will also be anti-families, anti-drivers, anti-oil and gas.

“Nicola Sturgeon failed to win a majority, so she needs a hand to ramp up the division and push for indyref2.”

The Scottish Conservative’s shadow cabinet Laim Kerr secretary savaged Ms Sturgeon of letting the “extremist” Greens join her government.

He said: “The Green extremists don’t belong anywhere near government. Their manifesto is a doctrine to start a war on working Scotland.

“Scotland’s economic recovery from Covid will be under threat from the Greens’ anti-business, anti-jobs ideology.”

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