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Mark Smith: Bye bye Patrick – there are some things you need to take with you

Mark Smith: Bye bye Patrick – there are some things you need to take with you

Remember back when Nicola Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie were in government and we thought that, like winter in Narnia, it would never end? Well, here we are in 2025 and Sturgeon’s standing down as an MSP and Harvie’s standing down as co-leader of the Greens and I would like to mark the occasion with a message to Mr Harvie: goodbye and good luck, but there are some things you need to take with you.

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