A LEADING climate activist has said the SNP’s ending of the Bute House Agreement with the Scottish Greens represents a “betrayal of future generations all around the world”.
Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate – who was pictured bumping elbows with Nicola Sturgeon at COP26 in 2021 – responded to Humza Yousaf’s decision to terminate the power-sharing agreement this morning with a scathing post on Twitter/X.
Sharing a clip of Greens co-leader Lorna Slater stating future generations of Scotland had been betrayed, Nakate said: “I worked with @NicolaSturgeon at COP26 to urge Scotland and other rich Global North nations (which have long benefitted from fossil fuels) to take bold climate action.
“This is not just a betrayal of future generations of Scots. It is a betrayal of future generations all around the world.”
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Nakate spoke at COP26 in Glasgow at an event alongside Sturgeon called Racing To A Better World.
She said that thousands of activists and people living in countries affected by climate change “do not see the success that is being applauded” at the summit.
Sturgeon said she was sitting next to Nakate because “I recognise that people like me, our feet do need to be held to the fire.”
The response to the ending of the BHA from the Greens has been brutal with Patrick Harvie stepping up in the Holyrood chamber to ask Yousaf “who he has pleased most”: Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross, SNP rebel Fergus Ewing, or former first minister and Alba Party leader Alex Salmond.
All three have been frequent critics of the Bute House Agreement, with Harvie – in a terse question in Holyrood – further asking which of them the First Minister could rely on for a majority in Parliament.
Yousaf is now facing a no-confidence vote tabled by the Scottish Conservatives. While the Unionist parties will vote against the First Minister, it remains unclear how the Greens and Alba MSP Ash Regan will vote and this will be key to whether Yousaf survives it.
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