An anti-nationalist campaign group reckons Unionists and those who oppose the SNP should want Humza Yousaf to become First Minister – because he is so bad at his job. The health secretary has been accused of “failing upward” in his career, having made the jump from the transport brief to justice before moving into his current role. Despite his high-profile positions in government, he is widely seen as a poor operator. However, he remains the favourite to take over from Nicola Sturgeon with him seen as the current incumbent’s preferred successor. And that should be cause for celebration according to The Majority, a group that has become known for its opposition to the SNP and Scexit. But The Majority reckons Mr Yousaf could wreck the nationalist movement completely. They said: “If Humza Yousaf is elected first minister he will keep Sturgeon’s disastrous and disliked Gender Reform Bill in front of the public for the next year by engaging in a desperate, futile fight with the UK Government over Section 35. “Every fake transgender prisoner will be kept on the front pages. He will keep the extremist anti-business and anti-common-sense Greens like Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie in government, annoying the majority of Scots, including the majority of SNP members, with their unworkable and expensive, twisted priorities until eventually he fires them. “And that’s before we even get to his history of incompetent governance. None of this gets him or the SNP any closer to their dream of breaking up the UK. “The raging bin fire he creates should put people off Scottish nationalism for decades, if not forever. But in the end, it doesn’t matter who wins, the party will be split.” Mr Yousaf has faced a tough few days on the campaign trail after Alex Salmond said he asked to skip a key vote on same-sex marriage, backing up a claim made by former MSP Alex Neil. He spent Friday at Arbroath admitting he will use taxpayer cash to arm SNP activists with ‘facts’ to try and win independence. The Majority – made up of husband and wife team Mark and Mary Devlin – was responsible for electric billboards in Glasgow and Edinburgh which called for Nicola Sturgeon to resign last month. And less than a week later she did just that.
Mar 2023. The Scottish Leadership Election
