If last week wasn’t bad enough for hapless Humza Yousaf, this week has brought him even more turbulence. Now the Scottish government’s SNP-Green coalition has collapsed leaving the SNP to field a minority government and some rather, er, furious Greens in opposition. And to add insult to injury, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross delivered a real zinger in First Minister’s Questions today when he announced that he was lodging a vote of no confidence in Humza Yousaf.
‘He is a failed First Minister,’ Ross told Holyrood, ‘he has focused on the wrong priorities for Scotland.’ With Labour, the Lib Dems and the Tories all looking to support the motion, all eyes are now on – you guessed it – the Greens. Mr S wonders quite how charitable they will be feeling…
The Scottish Greens can hardly contain their anger at Yousaf’s decision. Co-leader Lorna Slater this morning labelled the decision as ‘political cowardice by the SNP’, fuming that Humza Yousaf ‘can no longer be trusted’. Oo er.
The eco-activist’s derisive attack on Yousaf will likely be the first of many. Indeed it came before the First Minister was lambasted by Scottish Labour, whose leader Anas Sarwar called for a Holyrood election. Meanwhile Alex Cole-Hamilton of the Scottish Liberal Democrats staged a rather peculiar intervention, telling the Chamber that ‘two clowns have left the clown car, but the circus continues’ before, er, quoting Taylor Swift…
Meanwhile in First Minister’s Questions, Patrick Harvie launched a scathing attack on the Nat-in-chief today, hardly able to contain his derision for his former government colleague:
Who does the First Minister think he has pleased most today? Douglas Ross, Fergus Ewing or Alex Salmond. And more to the point, which of them does he think he can rely on for a majority in parliament now?
Burn…
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