‘Green’ politics is now understood as a campaign for electoral and national suicide. With the coming European elections the writing is on the wall for globalist ‘progressives’ across the continent.
The First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, quit on live television on April 29, following the collapse of his left/Green Party coalition government. A power sharing agreement between his bizarrely named Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Greens was broken over the SNP’s retreat on Net Zero commitments.
Despite his camera savvy assertions, Yousaf’s departure has nothing to do with either duty or principle, which he stressed in the speech announcing his resignation. It is the result of a feared public backlash against higher taxes, over-regulation, and the madness of progressive “green” policies which prefigures a European political realignment.
Yousaf’s coalition with the Greens fell apart because his SNP had recognized that the extreme Net Zero agenda was unrealistic, and could deliver only electoral suicide. The SNP under Yousaf had abandoned its “decarbonization targets” in early April, with Green co-leaders Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie describing Yousaf’s attempts to ditch extremely unpopular policies as “an act of political cowardice” and a “betrayal.”
As a result, the Greens withdrew support from the SNP, which fell one seat short of a majority in 2021. A new deal with a new leader is unlikely, and the chaos spells doom for the SNP with an election coming this year. The SNP remains in power – for the time being – albeit in a minority government.
Wider lessons for globalist ‘greens’
The lesson from Scotland is that the liberal parties of Europe face electoral meltdown. A recent report from the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) warned of a “sharp right turn” following EU elections in June:
Inside the European Parliament, a populist right coalition of Christian democrats, conservatives, and radical right MEPs could emerge with a majority for the first time.
The future spells doom for the doomsayers, it seems, with the globalist agenda under severe threat. The existence of the globalist EU itself may be threatened, with Unherd saying in December that this decade may be the EU’s last.
The ECFR report continued:
This ‘sharp right turn’ is likely to have significant consequences for European-level policies, which will affect the foreign policy choices that the EU can make, particularly on environmental issues, where the new majority is likely to oppose ambitious EU action to tackle climate change.
The attempt of the SNP to avoid electoral oblivion has only made it fall faster. It is an example which will be nervously observed from the once-dominant power in Europe.
Germany next?
The SNP’s partnership in power with the “green” zealots mirrors that of the government of Europe’s former economic and industrial powerhouse, Germany.
The crisis-hit Scholz administration relies on the support of a Green party whose policies have not only devastated the economy with deindustrialization, lockdown debt, and soaring energy prices, but have also, as in Scotland, advanced a raft of extremist “progressive” issues, such as the promotion of the “trans” movement, opposition to border and immigration control, with both Green parties pursuing policies strongly resented by the public.
Greens Go Further! Green Party campaign leaflet, Berlin, 2021
Scotland’s Greens sought to ban wood-burning stoves, and Germany’s Greens were met with similar outrage with their decision to ban gas-fired central heating, and mandate the use of heat pumps. Yet the money for the subsidies required has run out – as “green” policies have helped to destroy the economy.
The Greens succeeded in closing the last of Germany’s nuclear power stations in August 2023, but the policy of replacing home heating which works with an expensive alternative that does not, was met with widespread opposition.
As a result, it is not just heat pump sales that have plummeted in Germany, but the sales pitch of the international “green” lobby.
Faced with defeat in the European elections, which the ECFR blames on “national parties start[ing] to respond to the changing opinions of their voters,” many parties of the liberal establishment are rowing back on Net Zero commitments – as well as on other issues beloved of the shock-haired shock troops of “progress.”
The face of globalist progressives
The co-leader of the Scottish Greens is Patrick Harvie, whose social media accounts notify readers that his pronouns are he/him.
The causes he supports are an object lesson in how Net Zero is not the only crazy agenda aggressively pushed by the Greens, whose policy platform is increasingly seen as electorally toxic. He is a self-described member of the so-called “LGBTQ+ community,” identifying as “bisexual.”
Like many progressive fanatics, he strongly supports the futile and avoidable destruction of the population and nation of Ukraine.
Here he is in 2020, championing the prescription of hormones and surgery to sexualized children as “trans healthcare.”
I wish I could say it was shocking that an MSP today called on the First Minister to instruct the NHS to withdraw trans healthcare from young people.
Trans healthcare already suffers from unacceptably long waits, even for referral. Greens will continue to push for improvement. https://t.co/9iXwQ8zmUz
Naturally, he repeatedly describes Christians with disdain, labelling the Christian Institute as a “hate group.” The institute “campaigns for “the furtherance and promotion of the Christian religion in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.”
The NSS recently agreed that after his latest outburst the racist historian David Starkey had to be removed as an Honorary Associate. They accepted that his racism was a red line. Why should homophobia, transphobia and misogyny be treated any differently?
As Britain’s Telegraphreported, explaining the background to the collapse of Yousaf’s SNP-Green coalition:
Harvie’s determination to indulge his permanently-angry purple-haired activists even at the expense of the Scottish Government’s credibility was probably the last straw for many senior SNP ministers, if not for Yousaf himself.
Harvie is a strong advocate of abortion. He and his party describe the reminder that the lives of unborn children have value as “misinformation and intimidation,” as they seek to afford “dignity and privacy” to women killing their children, “as they are at every other medical procedure.”
SPUC, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, pointed out that the measure to legally enforce “buffer zones” around abortion facilities was “opposed by 70 percent” of the Scottish public.
The Greens in Scotland, as in Germany, vehemently oppose any attempt to control mass migration – however weak and belated.
The Greens have also refused to alter their stance on the now discredited notion of “gender affirming care” for children.
Against scientific advice, the Greens prefer to support the views of the “trans community,” saying “lived experience” is a better guide to reality than the clinical evidence that prescribing hormones and surgery to confused children is wrong, and causes irreversible harm.
The U.K.’s Cass Review, published in mid-April, cited a lack of “evidence based guidelines,” noting that pro-transgender organizations such as WPATH had exerted considerable influence in the adoption of the Dutch Pathway – a template which resulted in rapid access to hormones and surgery including for children.
Cass said in her introduction, “Although some think the clinical approach should be based on a social justice model, the NHS works in an evidence-based way.”
The rejection of the fast track to “puberty blockers” mirrors a similar preference for evidence-based decisions in Western electorates.
The Godless, nation-wrecking policies of national suicide have produced enough evidence of the motives, methods, and monumental disaster of the globalist Green agenda. It is anti-natalist, pro-open borders, anti-family, and seeks to promote the sexual distortion of the lives of what few children we still have. In a final irony, is also destroying the economic prosperity on whose subsidies it relies for its own survival.
Happily, “green” politics is now understood as a campaign for electoral as well as national suicide. This realization has spelled the end of the appalling Scottish coalition government, and with the coming European elections the writing is on the wall for globalist “progressives” across the continent.
Humza Yousaf’s left/Green government was just the first Green-backed coalition which has ended in disaster. It will not be the last. For the reality based community, the best news is yet to come.
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President Donald Trump addressed the nation late Saturday night at the White House following the U.S. military carrying out “successful” strikes on an Iranian nuclear facility while warning the Iranian regime if they don’t come to peace, the U.S. could target more sites.
The president, flanked by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, said the strikes were “carried out” with “massive precision” on the Islamic Republic’s three major nuclear facilities, including Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan. He touted the mission as a “spectacular military success.”
Trump said that the goal of the strike was to destroy the country’s “nuclear enrichment capacity and [put] a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.”
He proclaimed the nuclear sites as being destroyed, calling on Iran to make peace.
The president said that he hopes the U.S. military forces won’t be needed for future operations; however, he added that the Iranian regime can’t continue to target Israel and the U.S. He warned that it could get worse for Iran if they do not attempt to make peace.
“This cannot continue. There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember, there are many targets left; tonight’s was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill, most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes,” Trump warned.
“Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace,” said Trump.
He warned that if peace is not achieved, all bets are off, indicating future strikes are possible. He highlighted Iranian terror attacks against Americans, adding they have been responsible for the deaths of thousands of American lives.
“If they do not [achieve peace], future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier. For 40 years, Iran has been saying, ‘Death to America, Death to Israel.’ They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs, with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We lost over 1,000 people and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of the hate,” the president said.
Trump congratulated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, adding that the two leaders had worked as a team.
“I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a long way to erasing this harmful threat to Israel,” said Trump.
Multiple reports indicated six B-2 stealth bombers based out of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri were used to carry out attacks on Fordow, while 30 tomahawk missiles were shot from nuclear subs.
The U.S. military strikes just over a week after Israel initially launched targeted strikes against the Islamic Republic after months of failed peace talks urging the Iranian regime to cease their development of nuclear weapons. The strikes mark the first time in history the U.S. has carried out military strikes inside Iran.
In a nationally televised address Saturday night, President Donald Trump declared the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities a “spectacular military success.”
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Trump said the three nuclear enrichment sites—Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz—were “completely and totally obliterated” in what he described as a textbook U.S. military operation.
The address came just days after Israel launched its own offensive against Iran, but Trump emphasized this was a unilateral U.S. action.
“There are many targets left,” Trump warned, vowing future strikes “will be far greater and a lot easier” if Iran continues to threaten global security.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump says strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities were a "SPECTACULAR MILITARY SUCCESS." pic.twitter.com/Y7yBUWN8hO
President Donald Trump, speaking from the White House on Saturday night, declared that the United States had achieved a “spectacular military success” by carrying out precision strikes that wiped out three of Iran’s most critical nuclear facilities.
Standing alongside Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Trump laid out the scope and impact of the mission. “Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success,” Trump said. “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.”
The U.S. military targeted Iran’s Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz facilities—longtime pillars of the regime’s illicit nuclear program. Trump said the operation was designed to “put a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.”
“These are names the world has heard for years,” he said. “Everyone knew what was being built in those places. Now, they are gone.”
Trump made clear the operation was exclusively American, signaling the unmatched strength and precision of U.S. forces. “Only one military on earth could have done what we did tonight,” he said.
His remarks followed a post on Truth Social earlier in the evening where he confirmed the success of the operation and praised the armed forces. But during the live address, the president expanded on the broader meaning of the strike.
“For 40 years, Iran has chanted ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel,’” he said. “They’ve maimed our soldiers with roadside bombs and shed blood across the region. This cannot continue.”
While Israel launched “Operation Rising Lion” last week against other Iranian military targets, Trump made clear that the U.S. strike was of a different magnitude—designed specifically to eliminate the hardened underground enrichment facilities Iran had used to evade accountability.
The president ended the address by thanking the military leadership for their “unmatched skill,” giving credit to God, and offering blessings for America, Israel, and the world.
