BMScotland: BM Scotland: Scots Need to be Careful What They Wish For - the SNP is in decline but Scottish Labour is on a come-back.

Scots Need to be Careful What They Wish For - the SNP is in decline but Scottish Labour is on a come-back.

It would be a huge mistake to swap the Labour Party for the SNP, to replace Humza Yousaf with Anas Sarwar as First Minister. As soon as the official survey results showed that support for the SNP was fading away, Sir Keir Starmer arrived in Scotland to gleefully support Anas Sarwar and to pose for the press, announcing to anyone who would listen, that the Labour Party is staging a big comeback in Scotland and will not only flood Holyrood with new Labour MSP's, but will capture enough seats in Scotland at the General Election to hold the balance of power at Westminster.

That outlook should make any true Scot groan in despair.

IS THIS REALLY THE FACE OF SCOTLAND'S FUTURE?

Not so popular these days - 'Useless' Humza Yousaf - are his days as Scotland's First Minister draining away as support for the SNP declines?

SNP popularity ratings are in free fall

Latest poll rating - Nicola Sturgeon approval ratings have dropped below zero into minus points - last count she was at minus 18. On Monday June 19th Sturgeon returned to her home address in Glasgow after hiding away for a week after being arrested and questioned by police for hours. Nicola Sturgeon posed on her driveway for the press and answered easy questions from the assembled journalists to repeat her mantra, "I have done nothing wrong". Time will tell.

Meanwhile back at Bute House and at SNP head office in Edinburgh

Poor old Humza 'Useless' Yousaf is not doing much better as his ratings are in the minus rankings too. So it is away to Dundee to convince the SNP faithful and any sympathetic journalists in attendance that he is the one to set out the SNP formula for achieving the second independence referendum that Nicola Sturgeon singularly failed to achieve.

DUNDEE SNP CONFERENCE

Still chasing the fantasy of Scottish independence.

The SNP campaign for Scottish independence and breaking up the Union of Great Britain is still lingering around. Too many years of SNP propaganda still has too many Scots thinking that Scotland could go it alone and survive as an 'independent nation' back in the European Union.

Now Humza Yousaf will make his play and try to convince those SNP die-hards that it can be done, ignoring all the past failures to achieve the fantasy.

This blogger is old enough to remember the SNP campaign literature of the 1970's and 1980's claiming that, "It's Scotland's Oil!" But Humza Yousaf has now turned his back on all that because the SNP now believes that oil is bad ! And the SNP needs to keep the Scottish Greens as allies in Holyrood, so oil and gas exploration and related jobs are out. Wonder how those ideas sell in Aberdeen and on Shetland?

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