Mark Dolan: Will Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP regret going Green?

Big news north of the border, where Scotland's supreme and glorious leader, sorry First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon has done a deal with the Green party to achieve a working majority in the Scottish parliament. Now the Scottish parliament was actually designed to produce a minority administration, but who can be bothered with facing votes of confidence, debating legislation and providing accountability to the Scottish people. That's such a drag - who's got time for that. Not commander Sturgeon.

Now I'm all for cleaning up the environment and leaving the world to the next generation, in a better position than how we found it. However that's not really what the Green party are about in Scotland.

They are pushing for a flurry of hard left economic policies, they want an independent Scotland – and they want to stop oil exploration in the north sea. With this deal Nicola Sturgeon has arguably dealt another blow to the cause of Scottish independence. Because if the good people of Scotland vote to leave, not only will they struggle to achieve EU membership given their debt to GDP ratio, but their lentil munching partners in the Green partly won't let them drill for oil, the most valuable resource Scotland has, closely followed of course by engineering expertise, chemical science, financial services, construction and of course whiskey

Tunnocks tea cakes…

And alpha male heart-throbs like Gerard Butler…

Now for an independent Scotland to not pursue an income through potentially vast oil reserves off the coast, kills the business model of the whole project altogether. And what about all that wonderful Aberdeen Angus Beef?

The greens will have a beef with that. Plus with the highest rates of drug deaths in Europe, sky high obesity, a crisis in their health service and with schools lecturing four year olds on which gender to choose, independence in my view would produce a poorer, more divided and inward looking country. It would be a race to the bottom, and their new partners the Green party, will help them get there, even more quickly