Budget Crisis - Greens famous for 5 seconds

The Green party have been somewhat villified for rejecting the 33million home insulation plan offer they wanted, being unable to take yes for an answer (if I can steal another's handy phrase), Patrick Harvie is all over UK Politics section of BBC News and The Scotsman and the party could perhaps be seen as being solely responsible for a nerve-jangling second round of budget negotiations and planning problems for Scottish councils.

All in all though, it could prove to be a brilliant piece of work for the party. They may be hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons but a party that polls 1% in recent surveys arguably needs to do something drastic. And scuppering a 33billion budget at the verey last minute is pretty drastic in anyone's book.

Could the real reason for the Greens voting down the budget be that they wanted some headlines to boost future electoral hopes?

After all, according to some, the next Holyrood election could be a heck of a lot sooner than we all had previously expected!