Lorna Slater prefers Lyme disease and ticks to unpopularity
The Green minister’s increasingly desperate refusals to make a decision on bracken betray an immature leader
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Narrated by Magnus Linklater
Power is difficult. For a minister with little experience of it, power is doubly difficult. And for a Green minister, trying to juggle the tricky business of saving the world against the irritations of political reality — why, it’s well nigh impossible.
How then to handle it? Well, in the case of Lorna Slater, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, the answer seems to be to sail serenely through policy storms, intent on a vision of the sunny, detoxified uplands lying somewhere ahead, eyes firmly fixed on the script in front of her.
I am not sure why she is having to carry all the flack for muddled policies, such as the bottle return scheme and highly protected marine areas. Whenever she rises to speak, the
