I listened to Ross Greer Green MSP on the BBC Today programme proclaim the policies of the recent SNP/Green coalition government as “progressive,” with Green continued support contingent upon their continuation.
This word “progressive” has been purloined by the Greens and other platoons of the Woke brigade, and attached to policies such as self-ID as trans by 16 year old adolescents and male adults, without regard to the potential consequences for women’s need to have safe spaces. It is also “progressive” for a Highlander to stop placing wood in a stove to save the planet, while elsewhere 1,400 coal fired power stations eliminate in second whatever gain in emissions that makes.
Noticeably missing from Mr. Greer‘s interview, was any recognition of the profound damage being done to today’s young people, and by extension to the nation in the years ahead, by SNP/Green decisions: £200m cuts to housing, cuts to primary and secondary education, cuts to universities, and the crisis created in the equally important further education colleges, as reported so accurately by The Herald.
As I look at the condition of Scotland as a result of the SNP/Green government, and realise how ill-prepared it has made the people of Scotland to rise to the challenge of creating a successful economy in this highly competitive world, and the social life dependent upon it, I have another word for Mr. Greer’s “progressive” – stupid.