So Now Humza Yousaf Wants to Flood Scotland with Refugees from the Gaza Strip.

 So Now Humza Yousaf Wants to Flood Scotland with Refugees from the Gaza Strip.

In his own words to the SNP conference in Aberdeen.....

"There are currently around one million people displaced within the Gaza Strip. I am therefore today calling on the international community to commit to a worldwide refugee programme for the people of Gaza.

"I am calling on the UK government to take two urgent steps.

"Firstly, they should immediately begin work on the creation of a refugee resettlement scheme for those in Gaza who want to, and are able to, leave.

"And when they do so, Scotland is willing to be the first country in the UK to offer safety and sanctuary to those caught up in these terrible attacks."

What a surprise that Humza Yousaf, himself a second generation Pakistani immigrant should propose to bring untold numbers of Palestinian refugees to Scotland. No doubt as a practising Muslim he will welcome so may of his co-religionists, think of all the new mosques that will need to be built.

So if Humza Yousaf gets his way, where exactly in Scotland are these refugees going to settle, live and establish 'new lives'?   

Given that Scotland's total population at the last census was roughly five and a half   million in total  the impact of so many 'new Scots' from the Middle East will have a major impact on Scotland's ethnic makeup, Scottish culture, Scotland's dominant religion and eventually Scottish politics. Given that most of Scotland's current population is concentrated across the cities and towns of the Central Belt; no less than three and a half million people.

Where is the First Minister of Scotland going to house, provide medical care, social care, education,    jobs for these refugees?  In the Central Belt towns and cities?  Just in greater Glasgow?  Or spread them out ?  Where in Perth and Kinross or Aberdeenshire?  Angus and the West Coast ?  How about Inverness and along the towns of the Moray Firth?

Given the state of Scotland's economy, NHS Scotland, the entire social welfare system in Scotland, and not forgetting the current turmoil in Scotland's schools and education system, how exactly does this social justice warrior First Minister propose to provide for these refugees? 

A as a final point here; how can anyone in the ranks of the SNP describe themselves as a 'Scottish Nationalist' when the party is led by a second generation Pakistani immigrant who wants to flood Scotland with Muslim refugees from the Middle East?

It was bad enough when the Scottish Government under Nicola Sturgeon imported thousands of 'asylum-seekers' and 'refugees' from Syria and elsewhere, but now?

AND THE SNP MEMBERSHIP HAVE LEARNED NOTHING THIS YEAR!

Nicola Sturgeon Gets Rockstar Welcome At SNP Conference – But Denies Overshadowing Humza Yousaf

Was this genuine emotion or just playing to her captive audience of adoring fans?

SNP on the back foot after the Rutherglen & Hamilton West by-election - and facing defections.

 The SNP is on the back foot after the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election and now has suffered its first defection by an SNP Westminster MP.

Above: How the Scottish First Minister likes to present himself, a recent issue of the American publication 'Time magazine'. Humza Yousaf displays himself as a statesman and postures to a US readership as "a trailblazer shaping the future".

Obviously 'Time magazine' did not spend too much time looking at his dismal record as an SNP minister over recent years, why else do his opponents call him "Useless Yousaf"?

In a few days time SNP leader Humza Yousaf is due to strut his stuff before the SNP Annual Conference in Aberdeen and the situation he is to present to the SNP faithful  is not exactly rosy.

The SNP were hammered by Scottish Labour in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, losing the seat by more than a 20% swing to Labour. So bad was this political rout for the SNP that one SNP insider stated that the party had been "skelped", and admitted that members were quitting the SNP because they disagreed with much of its 'radical social agenda' on matters such as gender and education.

The SNP share of the vote in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by election went into free-fall, but the Labour Party victory was not as great as the Labour publicity machine presents - the number of voters who did not take part was significant.

Add to that the very surprising news that one of the SNP's Westminster MP's has quit the party and of all choices she has joined the Conservative Party.

Lisa Cameron, who until this week was the SNP Member of Parliament for the seat of East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow, left the SNP to join the Conservatives because she had suffered months at the hands of what she called, "the toxic and bullying culture" of the SNP group at Westminster, because she spoke out against the party line on the behaviour and SNP party line on SNP MP Patrick Grady.

So much for internal solidarity in the SNP.

It will be interesting to hear how SNP leader Humza Yousaf explains all that and more to the audience at Aberdeen.

Pictured above: Humza Yousaf as he likes to think of himself, and desperately wants the Scottish electorate to think of him as a serious, professional politician.

IF ONLY THE REALITY MATCHED THE GLOSSY PRESENTATION.

And What About Israel  and the Conflict in the Gaza Strip?

It seems the Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf has a card in that game too.

It seems that the Scottish First Minister has family members caught up in the siege of the Gaza Strip, and the pending bombing offensive and ground attack by Israeli forces. Humza Yousaf has been quick to tell the media about his wife's family members, her mother and brother, who are trapped in the Palestinian enclave. His brother in law. Mohammed, is doctor working at a hospital in Gaza, and his wife's parents made the trip out to Gaza to visit him and other family members last week. That has to be a serious error of timing.

As a Muslim, Humza Yousaf is deeply concerned for the people of Gaza facing the onslaught by the military might of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), and he has stated that, "The world can't sit back and witness the obliteration of 2.2 million people."

A fair comment, the mass destruction of Gaza and its population is a pending humanitarian disaster, but the Scottish First Minister needs to think about his statements because the bulk of the British political mainstream, especially the government are standing in solidarity with Israel and any expressions of sympathy or support for the Palestinians will be held under great suspicion.

BM Scotland wonders if the SNP conference in Aberdeen will display the Israeli flag in solidarity?