October 2023 Ends on a Low Note for Humza Yousaf and the SNP.

October 2023. The Month Ends on A Low Note for Humza Yousaf and the SNP. 

First Minister Humza Yousaf seems to have convinced himself that he is some kind of international statesman on the world stage. Perhaps being interviewed by US magazines has gone to his head. Humza is now calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and actually seems to think that his voice will rank alongside national leaders and will convince the Israelis to stop bombing Gaza.

And Humza Yousaf continues to make noises about bringing thousands of Palestinian refugees to settle in Scotland. There are 2,500 'asylum-seekers' currently being housed in hotels and similar accommodation in Glasgow, the biggest concentration in a British city outside London.

So where are all those Palestinian's supposed to go?

SNP WOES CONTINUE....

SNP - another two defections from the SNP this time to Alex Salmond's Alba Party, during the conference for the Alba Party, Alex Salmond was able to declare that Ash Regan the MSP for Edinburgh East , and a former contender for SNP leader, was quitting to become the Alba Party's first sitting MSP. A day later she was joined by South Ayrshire councillor Chris Cullen, who also quit the SNP to join Alex Salmond's Alba Party.

Yet, another poke in the eye for Humza Yousaf, who tried to pretend to the press that Ash Regan leaving was no loss to the SNP and losing Chris Cullen was nothing significant. Well he would say that wouldn't he?

And also......

November gets off to a flying start with school strikes and closures across South-West Scotland.

The SNP are certainly doing a good job of running Scotland's education system.

Still Not Off the Hook

For all the posturing at the SNP conference in Aberdeen, and her blustering in the MSP chamber at Holyrood, Nicola Sturgeon is not off the hook yet.

There are still plenty of questions hanging over from her time as SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland; the Police Scotland investigation has not gone away yet; and now a whole stack of questions for her as the Covid official enquiry gets under way.

Where are all those WhatsApp messages ?

How come Nicola Sturgeon keeps insisting that all her official communications are going to be turned over to the inquiry but she stone-walls on questions about if some of her 'electronic messages' have been deleted?

Nicola Sturgeon needs to think hard. Trying to deflect public attention away by carefully stage managed reports on taking her driving test, will not wash with the people of Scotland.