Humza Yousaf cancels speech amid turmoil after power-sharing deal collapses

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1. >Scottish Labour to table no confidence motion against governmentpublished at 10:2510:25

   >The Scottish Labour leader has confirmed his party will table a vote of no confidence vote against the Scottish government.

   >Speaking to LBC, Anas Sarwar said: “I think it would be completely untenable for the SNP to presume they can impose another unelected first minister on Scotland and that is why Scottish Labour has said already we don’t have confidence in Humza Yousaf.

   >”But, today we will also be laying a motion before parliament saying the Scottish parliament does not have confidence in this Scottish government.”

   >He added it should be up to the “people of Scotland” to decide who leads the country, rather than a “small group of SNP members.”

   [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy635006p1pt?post=asset%3Ae47d3aa2-e314-4f42-8ff5-fbe4bae4730f#post](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy635006p1pt?post=asset%3Ae47d3aa2-e314-4f42-8ff5-fbe4bae4730f#post)

   Jesus that Bute House speech is working out a peach for Humza.

   The Greens will vote agains this I think. So it won’t pass by the skin of their teeth.

2. I’d cancel the speech if I was in Humzas shoes and facing the day he is. I’d just ring in sick and go play the new Manor Lords game or something, sort out the loft, anything to not go in to work.

3. The entire UK just needs to go back to the polls at this point.

   We have unelected (by the general population) heads of state in England, Wales and Scotland.

   In England Rishi Sunak wasn’t even elected by the party members he’s that unpopular.

4. Why did he end the deal? It seems like political suicide

5. I’m not averse to seeing the back of Yousaf. He has divided loyalties and a troubling view of Scotland and the UK for a major leader. Scotland deserves someone who truly cares about Scotland.

6. This the guy that said there’s too many white people in Scotland? lol

7. That last night asleep anxiety would have finished me off
   Idk how these lot do it

8. Humza still has not had his “I am a fighter not a quitter” or “The quiet man is here to stay, and he’s turning up the volume” moment so he can’t quit till he has had one of those.

9. We really are inching closer and closer to a government collapse here. The BBC is saying that “it is unlikely Yousaf would find it possible to agree such an arrangement [with that one msp]” according to their sources.

   That will be the end of him and its not super clear who else could find a majority. The only way I can see it is to get that woman who lost to Hamza last time in place and make a razor thin majority. None of the other parties are at all likely to want to help them.

   But I don’t know if she’d be able to actually command support in her own party. And any further losses of msps collapses the government again, likely terminally. That seems unlikely to last the 2 years still on the clock.

10. Yousaf likely just furiously penning another speech ready for how it is “institutionally racist” for people to vote no confidence against him

11. Can the non-Tory parties stop embarrassing themselves FOR FIVE MINUTES.

12. Humza is the best politician in Britain and would make a fantastic Prime Minister. The Green Party in Scotland are nothing more than Tory lap dogs as their union with the Tory party motion will show.

13. Is collapse really the right word to use or is it sawing off the branch you’re sitting on?

14. It looks like Labour is going to try equating the antics in Scotland this week with the antics of the Tories in Westminister to ask why the Tories are ok with one but not the other.

    Could be that the SNP breaking down leaves the Tories under real pressure to set the GE date. Which is interesting considering the strange (accidental? leaky? purposeful?) set of hints Tory mps have dropped about the Summer recently.

15. Wow isn’t it cool that the entire political balance of Scotland depends on a single-issue gender lunatic?

16. Its pretty funny though because he comes across as a smarmy prick who thinks he’s smarter than the rest of the electorate.

    Doesn’t look so smart now after essentially ensuring he resigns from the role.

17. This is called karma for being a racist that got away with it cos of his skin colour