Everybody knows Swinney is a caretaker, whether he says it or not. Nobody except a guy approaching retirement would want to be leader while the Murrel Fraud situation hangs over the party.
This was expected. She will get a position in the cabinet and will likely run for leadership when Swinney takes a hammering in 2026.
Happy days!
Oh no, anyway.
Interested in what Swinney’s offered her. As Forbes was keen to have a heavy hitter in Rural Affairs and considers herself such, maybe it’s that?
Presumably she’ll be the Finance Secretary again then
So it wasn’t working with Humza as the perfect continuity person after NS (as he started he was) so now it will be Swinney as the next NS continuity FM. What an utter crap political situation we have in Scotland. It’s as bad at Westminster
So it’s just an SNP coronation then? We at least need an election now.
Seems like they agreed another contested leadership contest wouldn’t be very helpful. I imagine Swinney will largely skate by unchallenged now.
Phew.
A bit sad- No Gael has led Scotland in 300 years, and the next gaelic speaking leader before that was about 500 years ago.
Still, good news for the Union, Swinney, while more competent than hopeless Humza, is a charisma vacuum.
Good luck to him, hopefully he amends some of his predecessors divisive and controversial legislation.
He has some experience of running a minority administration, so might be able to forge more of consensus- presumably he won’t try the Yousaf approach of alienate and insult every other leader and then wonder why they won’t step in and help.
I wonder what Swinney offered her?
Thank god
She’ll be back
Forbes, with her neoliberal tendencies, isn’t the alternative to Sturgeonism the SNP needs and besides she would have lasted as long as leader as it took for the opposition to organize another VONC in the government. That’s simply the reality of the SNP’s structural reliance on the Greens.
There’d be another vote of no confidence in the minority government, but this time the greens wouldn’t abstain, and it’d be over.
Not many people like conservatives with a big or small c in Scotlands cities, might be a leader when they’re not a minority government, but she had no chance unless backed by Labour or the Tories, and we know the former is looking for any excuse for another election.
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Everybody knows Swinney is a caretaker, whether he says it or not. Nobody except a guy approaching retirement would want to be leader while the Murrel Fraud situation hangs over the party.
This was expected. She will get a position in the cabinet and will likely run for leadership when Swinney takes a hammering in 2026.
Happy days!
Oh no, anyway.
Interested in what Swinney’s offered her. As Forbes was keen to have a heavy hitter in Rural Affairs and considers herself such, maybe it’s that?
Presumably she’ll be the Finance Secretary again then
So it wasn’t working with Humza as the perfect continuity person after NS (as he started he was) so now it will be Swinney as the next NS continuity FM. What an utter crap political situation we have in Scotland. It’s as bad at Westminster
So it’s just an SNP coronation then? We at least need an election now.
Seems like they agreed another contested leadership contest wouldn’t be very helpful. I imagine Swinney will largely skate by unchallenged now.
Phew.
A bit sad- No Gael has led Scotland in 300 years, and the next gaelic speaking leader before that was about 500 years ago.
Still, good news for the Union, Swinney, while more competent than hopeless Humza, is a charisma vacuum.
Good luck to him, hopefully he amends some of his predecessors divisive and controversial legislation.
He has some experience of running a minority administration, so might be able to forge more of consensus- presumably he won’t try the Yousaf approach of alienate and insult every other leader and then wonder why they won’t step in and help.
I wonder what Swinney offered her?
Thank god
She’ll be back
Forbes, with her neoliberal tendencies, isn’t the alternative to Sturgeonism the SNP needs and besides she would have lasted as long as leader as it took for the opposition to organize another VONC in the government. That’s simply the reality of the SNP’s structural reliance on the Greens.
There’d be another vote of no confidence in the minority government, but this time the greens wouldn’t abstain, and it’d be over.
Not many people like conservatives with a big or small c in Scotlands cities, might be a leader when they’re not a minority government, but she had no chance unless backed by Labour or the Tories, and we know the former is looking for any excuse for another election.