How the SNP ended the Year 2023: A BM Scotland Perspective.

 How the SNP Ended the Year 2023: - A British Movement (Scotland) Perspective

2023 Was Not A Successful Year For First Minister Humza Yousaf. The ongoing questions about his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon, her husband and other senior SNP financial officials rumble on. The disastrous SNP handling of the Scottish economy, failing state of NHS Scotland, poor showing of Scotland's education system, the worst levels of drug related deaths in western Europe and the SNP obsession with Scottish independence.

The old year ended with continuing questions about the internal workings of the SNP, with the whole tangle web of issues around SNP finances, funds and donations during the leadership of Nicola Sturgeon. The Police Scotland investigation into Nicola Sturgeon, her husband and some of his key associates has not gone away.

The current First Minister, Humza Yousaf continues to embarrass himself and the SNP with his 'international statesman'  posturing and more questions emerge about his past failings as an SNP minister, especially his dismal track record when he was Scottish health secretary.

The laughable idea of establishing an exclusively 'Scottish', that is SNP controlled embassy in the USA. Fair enough that the Scottish government maintains a number of overseas offices dedicated to promoting tourism, Scottish produce and whisky exports, but seriously an 'embassy'?

The Scottish government maintains a total of  seven offices in seven countries including a Trade and Investment office in Ottawa, Canada and an 'EU Office' in Brussels. One of the larger 'trade and investment' offices has a full time paid staff team which is 20 strong.

 The SNP government actually has a budget of £6 million per year to fund the offices in Canada, USA, China, Germany, France, Belgium (Brussels) and Ireland. The office in Brussels alone costs the Scottish government £2.5 million per year.

Meanwhile Another Old Funding Question Has Surfaced To Haunt Humza Yousaf

SNP government grants to the Scottish Islamic Foundation.

Now documents have surfaced from as far back as 2008, with questions around Humza Yousaf and £405,000 grants to the Scottish Islamic Foundation. Back in the distant years when Alex Salmond was in charge of the SNP, it seems that questions were being asked about substantial government grants of funding going to the Scottish Islamic Foundation. Even more so given that one of the SI Foundation directors at the time was none other than a certain Mr Humza Yousaf. Also one of the other senior SI Foundation officials was his cousin Osama Saeed, and it turns out that Osama Saeed was an 'advisor. to the SNP leadership before standing as an SNP election candidate in 2010. More documents relating to funding grants to the Scottish Islamic Foundation are yet to be made public, but at least they were not buying camper vans!

Most mainstream media political commentators are now predicting a collapse in support for the Scottish National Party at the next General Election.  However Scottish voters would do well to remember the the SNP marched into power on the back of the loss of support across Scotland for the Labour Party, and the Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and his Scottish Labour colleague Anas Sarwar are building their hopes on a resurgence of support from Scottish voters. They are hoping that the old dissatisfaction with Labour will have been forgotten.

As this website has said many times before, Scottish voters need to be careful what they wish for when they vote. It could be that they replace one second generation Pakistani immigrant as First Minister with another - swapping Humza Yousaf for Anas Sarwar.

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