Updates

Greens call for drug services to be exempt from prosecution

Wed 20 Jan, 2021

Scotland’s top law officer must use his public interest discretion to exempt staff overseeing lifesaving public health interventions from prosecution, the Scottish Greens have said.

The Scottish Government is expected to outline its plans to tackle Scotland’s drug deaths crisis in a statement to parliament this afternoon. Scottish Greens justice spokesperson John Finnie MSP has said that interventions such as safe drug consumption rooms must play a part in this response, but this can only happen if the Lord Advocate exempts them from prosecution.

John Finnie MSP said:

Nuclear convoy passes through Scotland in lockdown

Mon 18 Jan, 2021

Nuclear weapons passed through Scotland on Friday despite restrictions and health services being stretched, the Scottish Greens understand.

The convoy travelled from Burghfield to Coulport and passed through Stirling, and follows another convoy which travelled to Coulport on the 27th November then was sighted returning on December 2nd.

In early December, there was a COVID outbreak at the nuclear submarine base at Faslane which substantially increased case numbers in the area. [1]

Revealed: Scottish Govt has power to seek Trump McMafia order

Sat 16 Jan, 2021

The Scottish Government must press on with an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) on Donald Trump’s Scottish acquisition of Turnberry golf course, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has said, after legal advice confirmed ministers have the power to seek one.

Home care staff testing better late than never

Fri 15 Jan, 2021

Scottish Greens have welcomed proposals for asymptomatic testing of care at home workers as ‘better late than never’.

The Greens first proposed regular COVID testing for all NHS and care staff last April.

Responding to the announcement by the First Minister, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said:

“Since the start of the first lockdown we have called for regular testing for our front-line workers who have gone above and beyond to keep us safe.