JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
A coalition of failure and betrayal
The SNP is descending into civil war, but not before dragging their partners the Scottish Greens down to their political level of treachery and neglect, shunning the basic principles of their platform, writes MATT KERR

COALITIONS have never been my cup of tea. Well, not the kind between political parties at least.
I had read about the coalition during the war to defeat Hitler, and that didn’t seem so terrible an idea, even if we may struggle to accept some of its excesses — not least banning this paper’s predecessor for a time.
Parliamentary parties had to come together then to defeat a common enemy, but what exactly is the common enemy that drives these relationships in peacetime?
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