Tag and obligatory fuck Fandom.
In other news I suspect nobody cares about Scottish politics here unless Lightning has popped up yet, but this is a fascinating bit of political dumbassery to me. A few days back the SNP (moderate left Scottish Nationalists) leader withdrew their emissions target for 2030 - it was looking a bit unrealistic, but good to have either way. Unfortunately for him, the Green Party were his coalition partners, and were obviously upset about this.
So he then called them in this morning to sack the Green members who were part of his cabinet, and publicly announced that the coalition was over before the Greens could jump ship.
He's now running a minority government, facing a vote of no confidence from Scottish Parliament (in part because the Greens are understandably pissed), and his own party are one more bad bit of PR from mutiny. There's a hell of a lot of ideological splits within the SNP and now that things aren't going well, he's facing down a lot of the problems that have been kinda swept under the rug the past few years. I'm kinda inclined to think we might see, not the collapse of the independence movement, but perhaps a kind of collapse of the SNP. Scottish Parliament has proportional representation, and if voters are really unhappy with the SNP, it looks like smaller nationalist parties or even Labour will gain ground.
It's kind of a good example of why timing is everything - I suspect that if the independence vote had been held between 2017 and 2019, it would have been very close, but now it looks further off than it has for ages.
Perhaps the golden rock was inside us all along.