James Cook

Yeah, the Greens are absolutely delighted.

They're delighted about their win there and their win in Glasgow Southside.

And both of those seats are very interesting because one was Angus Robertson, as you say, an SNP cabinet minister.

Not only that, but he was defeated by the former co-leader of the Greens, Lorna Slater, who was unceremoniously, along with her fellow co-leader, chucked out of the power-sharing arrangement by Hamza Yousaf.

So, I mean, she might well think that that was a degree of sweet retribution.

And the seat that they won in Glasgow used to belong, until she stood down at this election, to one Nicola Sturgeon.

Well, I've been asking him about that.

I actually had quite a long chat with him earlier.

And I was saying to him, you know, you didn't get to that 65.

You've fallen back in vote share.

You've fallen back in seats.

All right, there's a pro-independence majority in the Parliament alongside the Scottish Greens.

But, you know, in the campaign, he was at pains to say that it wasn't a pro-independence majority, including the Greens, which...

would force the issue.

It was an SNP majority.

And, you know, SNP sources I've been talking to have been pointing out there's been a pro-independence majority in Parliament for quite a long time, if you add together the SNP and the Greens.

So the question is now, what does he do with that?

And he has a couple of options, really.

I mean, either he can steamroller ahead and say, well, the Greens are with us.

There's a pro-independence majority here.