Humza Yousaf on Tory Covid rulebreaking, in June: “They are literally mocking us. People had to miss funerals of loved ones, all the while, Johnson and many of his Tory Party colleagues thought the rules didn’t apply to them.

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2. I imagine it’ll be like their “zero tolerance policy” on sleaze, except when it’s someone like Grady.

   Or all the screaming about how a new party leader should trigger an election because they are unelected, except when their party changes leader.

   Or how disgusting it is when MPs make hundreds of thousands from second jobs, just not for their leader in Westminster doing exactly the same thing.

   Or how ministers who lie to parliament should resign, unless you’re Michael Matheson.

   There are plenty more of these….

   The party is loaded with hypocrites, made worse by the fact they constantly try to play the moral superiority card.

   Edit: Typos. On mobile.

3. Fair to say Labour variously supporting Austerity, Rwanda and actual Margaret Thatcher over the last 48 hours has illicited an absolutely incredible response/meltdown.

4. “Thought” like past tense? Cos I’m pretty certain the tense is very much present.

5. I’m all for condemning Yousaf if it turns out that he was rule breaking.

   But these threads (and the general discourse in the Daily Mail rumour article Reddit comments) are getting ridiculous with the blanket assumption that it _must_ be him and it _must_ be true.

   A reminder that the only actual sources of this entire rumour is one random tweet and **The Daily Mail** who published an article where **they didn’t name anybody**.

   Are we seriously already digging up random Yousaf covid statements and posting threads criticising him based on them, based on an unsourced, devoid of detail DAILY MAIL ARTICLE?

6. These words will come back to haunt him and it will be very funny indeed.

7. The British people do not give a flying fuck about Covid rule breakers as long as they have Strictly Come Prancing and Let’s Feed Celebs Money in Jungle they are more than happy.

8. Irrelevant to the topic at hand but we need to get that racist fuck Yousaf well the fuck away from holding any sort of office here.

9. Yousaf actually produced a lot of content like this during the pandemic.

   [For instance, he and the MP for Airdrie and Shotts filmed a video together thanking NHS workers for the sacrifices they’d made during the pandemic.](https://youtu.be/kIb-IZ0GfdE?si=hUOEgbpOMBAACEAF)

10. _If_ true, that lockdown rules were broken for an affair, then the politicians involved should absolutely resign.

    And _if_ it turns out to be the FM, then he needs to resign, and I think an early Holyrood election should be called (regardless of Holyrood rules). As I’ve said before, changing leader once without an election is palatable (every party has done this) – but twice in the same parliamentary period? That is difficult to justify.

11. When the affair was alleged to have happened, was it at a time when there was no mixing of households?

    If so, it warrants punishment.

    If not, it may not.

    Remember, folks, there was a time when it was ok if members of two households were allowed to mingle if everyone was symptom-free.

    Scotland also had separate guidelines from rUK, so judging Conservative MPs and SNP MSPs by the same standards may not be the best course of action.

    But, again, if rules were broken then there should be punishments.