Patrick Harvie has launched a blistering attack on John Swinney's decision to appoint Kate Forbes as Deputy First Minister.The Scottish Greens co-leader, who was sacked from Government last month, asked if her return to the Cabinet this week signalled a return to "the repressive values of the 1950s".Forbes faced a backlash last year after she admitted she would have voted against equal marriage legislation if she had been an MSP at the time.The MSP for Skye and Lochaber was further criticised after suggesting having children outside of marriage was "wrong" according to her faith as a member of the Free Church of Scotland.Harvie and other Scottish Green MSPs were left furious over the manner of Humza Yousaf's decision to terminate the powersharing deal between the environmentalists and the SNP at Holyrood.The collapse of the Bute House Agreement between the two parties ultimately cost Yousaf his job and paved the way for John Swinney to take charge of a minority SNP administration.The new First Minister received support from Forbes for his leadership bid and yesterday promoted her to Deputy First Minister.Speaking at FMQs today, the decision was criticised by Harvie.He said: "The Scottish Greens have been clear that we acknowledge the SNP's right to form a minority Government.
But we have been equally clear that the First Minister must quick give a signal of the direction his Government will take."Yesterday, that signal came pretty clearly - progressive ministers sacked, and the second-most powerful job in Government given to someone who has opposed LGBT people's legal equalities, who has expressed judgmental attitudes towards abortion, and has even expressed the view that people who have families without being married
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