Just hungry for power! Nicola Sturgeon playing with fire as SNP deal to ...

UN secretary general António Guterres said: "If we combine forces now, we can avert climate catastrophe but, as today's report makes clear, there is no time for delay and no room for excuses." The UN secretary general went on to urge governments around the world to accelerate targets. As part of the SNP-Greens deal, Ms Sturgeon has made Scottish Green Party co-leaders Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie ministers in her Government. But critics have said with only two ministers, their ability to create change is limited and, regardless of whether they were directly involved, the Greens will bear the brunt of any failures which occur during their tenure. Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross called the deal a "nationalist coalition with one overriding goal: to separate Scotland from the United Kingdom". Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the pact between the pro-independence parties “confirms the long-held suspicion that the Scottish Greens are just a branch office of the SNP”. A spokesperson for the Scottish Greens said: “Mr Hallam doesn’t appear to be aware that the licensing of oil fields is a reserved matter for the UK Government, it is not in the Scottish Government’s gift. "Oil and gas extraction is an area where the Scottish Greens and SNP remain apart, but the cooperation deal does provide climate action in the areas devolved to Scotland, including shifting transport spending towards public transport and active travel, speeding up the decarbonising of homes and growing Scotland’s renewables capacity to create jobs and pave the way to a just transition.”