Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
Islay, the Green Party is not "mickey mouse". The idea behind the Scottish voting system is to try to reflect the democratic opinion of all voters. At the time the system was devised, the worry was that the Labour party would always be in control with a first past the post system and it was believed that this Additional Member voting system would allow others to have a say and influence the policies that were chosen. The system has been thwarted because the Greens have given the SNP a working majority and the committee system which was designed to reflect all shades of opinion has been distorted to reflect the decisions of those 2 parties.

Our best hope is that the inquiry into the behaviour of the SNP in relation to the Salmond case is actually confronted by all the other parties. By asking for the law courts to intervene and by asking the Green Party to abandon its support the SNP, or risk being associated with one side in a very bitter internal SNP war, the other parties might just get this devolved arrangement to work as planned. Putting the SNP in a minority situation could help us all.
Or we cud ask Lizzy do close it.

Better all round.