Patrick Harvey Interview

He doesn't come across as being very intelligent- multiple Scottish Green policies have been completely unworkable or actually environmentally damaging - banning new wood burners, trying to force homeowners to convert to heat pumps (impossible for old housing stock & tenements), the deposit return scheme - I'm now very anti-Green as they are grossly incompetent. They pick a stance that sounds good as a soundbite without any interest in whether it's actually environmentally beneficial, economically viable or even scientifically possible.

Well, it's sad. I used to like and admire Patrick Harvie, dotting about the West End with his bicycle and his collarless shirts. He seemed refreshing and earnest.

He became more and more intransigent and bitter and ragey over the years. I think politics can ruin people.

Then again, maybe I just hadn't seen the murky bits that have revealed themselves since he's been in power. His illogical, intemperate positions.

“I think there are some politicians who, for quite profoundly ill-judged reasons, are trying to tell doctors what drugs they should prescribe to which patients, and I think that’s deeply wrong and dangerous,” he says. He argues that doctors should be allowed to prescribe puberty-blockers if they think there are good medical reasons — “which there are”.

Does he understand that Hilary Cass is a doctor? An eminent, highly regarded, highly experienced paediatrician?

You could get the impression he doesn't think she's qualified. What is it about the woman Hilary Cass that he is unable to respect, I wonder.

Any parent who has encouraged their child to eat their greens is currently saying,

"It's all right, I've binned the brocoli, there's loads of turkey twizzlers and cans of macaroni cheese."

It's not scientific! It doesn't follow the science! No sciencey science or anything. No science or sciencing was involved in the unsciency unscience not science thing here!

A crashing disappointment.

I loathe him.

Ugh he's such a vile little scrote.

I pray he doesn't get in on the list in 2026.