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Scottish government coalition collapses as SNP end power-sharing with Greens (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 9 months ago by Olap to c/scotland

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The Bute House Agreement falls. Patrick Harvey may well be resigning today too. Minority government to continue for rest of the term, no sign of a no confidence vote but next budget negotiations to be fraught for sure

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think this is true? As far as I know, there was just one council (Aberdeen) where any Labour councillors formally joined a Conservative coalition, and they were all suspended and so are no longer members of Scottish Labour. There may be others where there's confidence and supply agreements short of a formal coalition, granted.

I'm not sure how much local agreements can tell us, anyway. ~~There are several councils with formal Lab/SNP coalitions~~, [EDIT: I was wrong about this, see discussion below!] but I don't think that makes a Lab/SNP coalition in Holyrood very likely!

[–] Olap 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_Scotland - hard to gauge how often an anti-snp deal is done here. But I don't know many councils where Labour/Con minorities are engaging with the SNP.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Turns out I'm out-of-date with my info!

You're right, there aren't currently any Lab/SNP or any Lab/Con coalitions, and I guess all those Aberdeen former-Labour councillors lost their seats, as well as their membership of the party, which is a good cautionary tale for any Labour politicians considering a pact with the Tories.

[–] ForgotAboutDre 0 points 9 months ago

Further than that. Labour councilors that support SNP councils to stop Tories getting in power have been kicked out the party.

Labour hate the SNP. Tories are just colleagues they disagree with. They don't think along lines like left/right, progressive, best for governing etc.