slater and as he said, that was on him, that decision was accepting responsibility for it and it followed divisions between the snp and the greens and it should be said within the snp itself on economic and social policy including the issue of gender. well, for me, the bute house agreement was coming to an end anyway. it was coming to an end in a matter of days, possibly a matter of weeks. that process almost had started with the greens, for example, going to be putting that to its membership. it was votes of no confidence coming up. it was going to be a party over gender. patrick harvie, as you say, and therefore, in my mind, whichever way i looked at it, whether it was a matter of days or it was a matter of weeks, the bute house agreement was going to come to an end. so that's why i see, as i have said from the beginning, the ending the bute house agreement to me was the right thing to do for the party in the country that i lead. but i accept fully the manner in which it was done clearly caused upset, and therefore i've paid the price of that. he also talked about his concern. he said t