Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon said the SNP may regret being so lenient on their troublesome reactionary.
Such a minor sanction amounts to a slap on the wrist, a mild ticking off or a tweak of the tail.It also makes the SNP’s group and Humza Yousaf look weak at a time when they need to project political strength.Party politics is a team game but the former Cabinet Secretary has gone rogue and acted like a loudmouth auditioning for a role in the Tory group.MSPs should be able to criticise party policies and even, on occasion, be allowed to vote against the whip.
“But I do think it is best that children be brought up by a man and a woman, and I believe that those couples who choose to get married are making a commitment which means in practice they will stay together much longer than those who don’t.” His hostility to Slater over the deposit return scheme also reflects a long-term aversion to green politics.
Before he entered government in 2007, he was also behind the invitation to Holyrood of Bjorn Lomborg, a well known green sceptic who once said the world should end its “obsession” with global warming.
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