Finally seeing what we all saw when he masterfully politically outmanoeuvred himself into a checkmate position.
Leaving Swinney or Robertson to preside over your Kate Forbes v Gilruth/Gray/McAllan/Insert SNP establishment candidate slugfest in which Forbes inevitably wins and then engulfs the party and parliament into further chaos as no one will support them in Holyrood and her own party will struggle to support her as leader.
Glorious.
Next week gonna be crazy
Welcome Kate Forbes, new FM of Scotland.
As a queer dude, I’m legitimately pretty afraid of Forbes getting in. We don’t need to legitimise those kinds of views.
*“Humza knows what’s best for the country and the party. He is first party activist and a party man, and that’s why he knows it’s time for someone else.”*
And this is one major reason for his downfall. Activist as opposed to leader. And an activist for personal causes which have no bearing on Scotland’s interests.
Oh well. Never mind. He will now have plenty of time to pursue foreign affairs and assist his brother-in-law with his criminal trial.
his resignation speech will probably be ‘you white bastards are all racist so i’m off offski’.
Tories, nats ran by a wee free fundamentalist (Forbes), an utterly uninspiring Starmer led Labour Party, etc.
Spoilt for choice in the GE this year. /s
EDIT: Not an endorsement of Humza, he’s failed his way upwards. But folk are kidding themselves on if they think a Tartan Tory is suddenly going to change their fortunes.
Swinny as interim? You cant be serious. The reasons he is leaving next election hasnt changed, why would he give himself such a headache.
Love the “give it to Swinney until the end of the season” vibes.
Greens will most likely abstain on the labour motion now, I suspect.
What the actual fucking fuck did he think would happen?
Hes such a twonk. Its like a curb your enthusiasm episode.
Incredible legacy
Fuckity bye…
Now that he’ll have more free time I wonder if he’ll watch Shogun and completely not understand all the sneaky (and non-sneaky) politicking in it.
If this _was_ Shogun the entire University of Glasgow politics department would resign, having clearly taught him nothing
What an astounding tale for Humza Yousaf.
He was always someone I wanted to like. But he did everything possible to make that not happen. Somehow he’s fumbled this as well, sleepwalking into a first ministership and probably opposition where he could just have sat and shouted for free money.
I’m honestly glad he’s out. The party might actually do better without him. Frankly anyone close to Sturgeon should have been out on their arse ages ago.
Can’t wait for the day these backward/ inward looking idiots aren’t in government anymore.
Just a fading bad memory.
Interesting, that would make Humza the second-shortest serving FM, beating out McLeish by just under 20 days. Obviously not counting Jim Wallace who served as interim on two occasions.
I’m still astounded by how much of an own-goal this was. Had he shown just a little spine to half a dozen of his backbenchers he could have been FM until the general election at least.
What a fucking waste of time
What a shit leader he was.
I cannot wait to see the faces of the FMs back office tomorrow morning.
Only mere weeks ago they were describing him as an astute, politically savvy, operator.
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Finally seeing what we all saw when he masterfully politically outmanoeuvred himself into a checkmate position.
Leaving Swinney or Robertson to preside over your Kate Forbes v Gilruth/Gray/McAllan/Insert SNP establishment candidate slugfest in which Forbes inevitably wins and then engulfs the party and parliament into further chaos as no one will support them in Holyrood and her own party will struggle to support her as leader.
Glorious.
Next week gonna be crazy
Welcome Kate Forbes, new FM of Scotland.
As a queer dude, I’m legitimately pretty afraid of Forbes getting in. We don’t need to legitimise those kinds of views.
*“Humza knows what’s best for the country and the party. He is first party activist and a party man, and that’s why he knows it’s time for someone else.”*
And this is one major reason for his downfall. Activist as opposed to leader. And an activist for personal causes which have no bearing on Scotland’s interests.
Oh well. Never mind. He will now have plenty of time to pursue foreign affairs and assist his brother-in-law with his criminal trial.
his resignation speech will probably be ‘you white bastards are all racist so i’m off offski’.
Tories, nats ran by a wee free fundamentalist (Forbes), an utterly uninspiring Starmer led Labour Party, etc.
Spoilt for choice in the GE this year. /s
EDIT: Not an endorsement of Humza, he’s failed his way upwards. But folk are kidding themselves on if they think a Tartan Tory is suddenly going to change their fortunes.
Swinny as interim? You cant be serious. The reasons he is leaving next election hasnt changed, why would he give himself such a headache.
Love the “give it to Swinney until the end of the season” vibes.
Greens will most likely abstain on the labour motion now, I suspect.
What the actual fucking fuck did he think would happen?
Hes such a twonk. Its like a curb your enthusiasm episode.
Incredible legacy
Fuckity bye…
Now that he’ll have more free time I wonder if he’ll watch Shogun and completely not understand all the sneaky (and non-sneaky) politicking in it.
If this _was_ Shogun the entire University of Glasgow politics department would resign, having clearly taught him nothing
What an astounding tale for Humza Yousaf.
He was always someone I wanted to like. But he did everything possible to make that not happen. Somehow he’s fumbled this as well, sleepwalking into a first ministership and probably opposition where he could just have sat and shouted for free money.
I’m honestly glad he’s out. The party might actually do better without him. Frankly anyone close to Sturgeon should have been out on their arse ages ago.
Can’t wait for the day these backward/ inward looking idiots aren’t in government anymore.
Just a fading bad memory.
Interesting, that would make Humza the second-shortest serving FM, beating out McLeish by just under 20 days. Obviously not counting Jim Wallace who served as interim on two occasions.
I’m still astounded by how much of an own-goal this was. Had he shown just a little spine to half a dozen of his backbenchers he could have been FM until the general election at least.
What a fucking waste of time
What a shit leader he was.
I cannot wait to see the faces of the FMs back office tomorrow morning.
Only mere weeks ago they were describing him as an astute, politically savvy, operator.
RMS Titantic seems less of a disaster right now.