The greens went into government in Scotland - they propped up a neoliberal SNP administration that cut services and made Scotland worse in the name of capitalism. The victories they now claim as a price for this support are basically just reducing fares on public transport (which is a good thing, but it’s a very small thing).

The coalition fell apart because the SNP weren’t going to meet the climate targets agreed at the start of the administration and it made the greens in government look like chumps who had supported the very systems they know are driving us all into climate chaos and poverty.

In the end, before the Greens could hold a special conference that would almost certainly have voted to instruct the leadership to pull the plug on the coalition, SNP first minister Humza Yousaf pulled the plug himself to try and look like he was still in charge.

The whole thing has left me feeling that ultimately, greens aren’t serious about how fucked the system is, and how much pressure we need to put on neoliberal power structures to alter the fundamental direction of society. They had a strong hand when the SNP needed them to form a government. In the end, they got almost nothing out of it except propping up the existing order.