Know Your Enemy

Where's the last place you'd expect to bump into a Green Party MSP? Well, yes, okay, picking up the keys to his brand new Hummer would probably be the last place.

So where's the second last place you'd expect to bump into a Green Party MSP? Right, yes, loading the grenade onto the harpoon at the front of a whaling ship would be a weird place to find him.

Ok, where's the third last place you'd expect to bump into a Green Party MSP? Oh, for fu-----yes, you're right, you'd not expect him to be dressed as Rambo and wielding a chainsaw in the Amazon.

Let me rephrase the question then. Would you expect to bump into a Green Party MSP wandering the corridors of a nuclear power station? Well actually, there's no reason why not.

There's an old adage about knowing your enemy, so in one respect it would have been churlish of Patrick Harvie to turn down an invitation to tour Hunterston B. And I'm sure the Green Party voters will know that the visit is unlikely to turn him into a cheerleader for the radioactive squad. But the issue has been divisive of late, not only in the Green Party but in the wider environmental community. May the photos have given some pause for thought?


Incidentally, I was going to write something extremely witty and erudite about The Steamie's David Maddox claiming that Patrick Harvie had "led a delegation of Green MSPs" to Hunterston B, but Malc got there before me.