I’M distressed that Humza Yousaf has resigned as First Minister and leader of the SNP. I’m even more distressed that he didn’t take on the…
With such a significant level of independence support, the risk was minimal. Why didn’t he have a go?
Kate Forbes, on the other hand, would not be the first choice of many of the paid politicians in the SNP and will be attacked by the media, as she was last time. I take the view that any politician who the establishment and the media don’t want is probably a good sign for the people. Kate seems to me to be an intelligent, competent and confident young woman, who would not let others push her around. She seems to me to be just what the SNP needs at this time.
The wider Yes movement need to identify an independent leader with a strong voice capable of uniting the Yes movement with the political vehicle for independence, ie the SNP. TUESDAY’S National read like some Kafkaesque stramash and whamjamclamfrey with regards the future SNP leadership. Because that is what it will take to force the issue of independence, as the idea that somehow a future Labour government – protecting its own selfish political and economic interests at Westminster – will give Scotland a Section 30 and a referendum is one about which even the Pictsies would say; “Aye right, yees boggin coup o’ scunners”.IN October 2023, Spain’s Pedro Sanchez and Scotland’s Humza Yousaf were the only European leaders to unequivocally call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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