Kier Starmer Is Probably The most luckiest Person to be Alive right Now......Partygate, Truss Debacle, Sturgeon resigning and In general the Implosion of Tories and SNP

I can't believe how naïve Humza has been with this whole fiasco

"My resignation letter... WHITE!" hahahah

‘We’ve had vicious first ministers, and we’ve had idiot first ministers, but I don’t know if we’ve ever been cursed with a vicious idiot first minister’

It's strange to me that people keep talking about what a nice guy he is, when his public persona seems to be so combative that it makes enemies out of potential allies.

It's a shame he went out this way rather than be truly exposed to the electorate at large.

How do people like this even get into such a position? I've seen many incompetent politicians flail around the UK in the last few years, but this Huzma guy is also so damn unlikable it's a wonder he ever got to be a face of anything.

Last week: stand fast This week: underestimated. SNP made history nonetheless, which managed to push the Greens to side with the Tories…

His paycheck: “hwyte!”

Remember his ludicrous rant about whites?

Kate Forbes didn't actually vote against gay marriage as she was on maternity leave during the time the vote took place. however, she did say in an interview that she would've voted against it if she had the chance to.

Paper, white. Milk, white. Snow, white. Chalk, white.

You've only got Yousaf to blame mate!

He hasn’t resigned! He has merely announced his intention to resign.

The 28 days limit as stated is wrong. Hamsa Usef is remaining as first minister until the SNP elect a successor. He will then resign as first minister and the Parliament will have 28 days from his actual resignation to confirm his successor or someone else as first minister. If they can't manage to confirm a successor within 28 days of his actual resignation then there would be an election.

He is not cut out for politics.Too big a chip on his shoulder.Glad he.s gone.

Solid video, just got a few corrections: - The co-leaders of the Scottish Greens did not 'sit in cabinet' in any meaningful way; they attended meetings of the cabinet twice a year and served as regular Junior Ministers otherwise. - The Scottish Greens did not say they would support both votes of no confidence. The Greens did make clear that they had lost confidence in Humza Yousaf, and would vote to oust him. However, they said they would support the government in the Scottish Labour vote of no confidence, as they maintain confidence in the SNP government as a whole. - There is no time-limit with regards to the SNP electing a new leader. Humza Yousaf has not formally resigned, he has announced his intention to resign - effective once the party has selected a successor. - The quote about Kate Forbes calling for the Scottish Greens to embrace her was taken out of context, and she certainly did not call for them to support her as "First Minister" - she has not announced her intention to stand as leader. - Kate Forbes did not vote against same-sex marriage - she was not even a Member of the Scottish Parliament at the time. She simply stated that, as the vote was a vote of conscience and MSPs were encouraged to vote in accordance with their beliefs and values, she would have voted against it due to her religious beliefs. Edit: - Saying Kate Forbes is 'opposed' to the Gender Recognition Reform Bill is fairly disingenuous too, she supports it in principle and said she would contest the UK government blocking it. Now that its been upheld by a court to be illegal, she supports amending it into a passable state so that it can actually be enacted.

Liz Truss: "I'm a fighter, not a quitter." Liz Truss: "I quit." Humza Yousaf: "I'm won't resign." Humza Yousaf: "I resign."

The Greens are quite easily the specciest party theres ever been

I Love How People Think That The SNP is Independence >>> They're NOT>>>>> They Are A Party That Represents Independence But Not The Independence Movement The Movement Will Long Continue well After Any Political Party Regardless Of who They Are.

What about him being racist and against freedom of speach

Humza Yousaf is on his way out, and that's "ALL WHITE!!!" by me 😉

This is why you don't burn bridges in politics.

The surrender flag I'm waving: WHITE!

Humility goes a long way and he didn't have any. Just a massive ego.

People deserve better from all in power.

Thank you for having a thumbnail that's not clickbait.

Hopefully Scotland can get a prime minister that actually loves his country, its history and its citizens

An inadequate account of the Humza debacle: 1. The trigger of the crisis was the publication of the Cass Report, which was repudiated by Green minister Patrick Harvie. The SNP cautiously accepted the Cass Report or at least did not oppose it, and some Health Authorities paused the prescription of puberty blockers to new patients. This led to calls by the LGBTQ+ group within the Scottish Greens for a vote to leave the Bute House Agreement. Harvie's rejection of the Cass Report led to the proposal of a no confidence motion by Ash Regan, against minister Harvie, which would probably have passed. Only later was the situation compounded by the SNP's abandonment of the climate targets, which caused further ructions within the Scottish Greens, and pushed Humza, ably advised and cajoled by MP Stephen Flynn, to dump the Greens before they dumped the SNP. 2. The 28-day period for the nomination of a new candidate for First Minister by the SNP has not been triggered because Humza has only resigned as SNP leader, but not as First Minister. He stated in his speech that he will only resign as FM once the SNP have chosen a new leader. Only then will the 28-day period be triggered. 3. Next time check your facts.

SNP collapse as First Minster resigns. Drama. Conservative PMs resignations, er 5 is it? It's a Tuesday.

He's not *technically* resigned as FM yet, so the countdown hasn't started yet

There’s an error in this video. The 28 day window only opens when Yousaf actually resigns. He has not yet done so, he has merely signalled his intention to resign, thus the 28 day clock is not yet ticking. Therefore there is no hurry for the SNP leadership contest, which is a problem because it could drag on for months….

0:23 This deserves more attention. I and many others are absolutely sick of politicians and leaders claiming they will not do something, only to do a 180 mere days later. We saw it countless times with Boris and then Truss, and now with Yousaf. It completely undermines public trust in politics at a time when most people see them as crooks and liars already.

Glad to hear it, anyone that is unelected and that outwardly racist shouldn't be allowed to pass laws. Imagine if a Scottish person went to Pakistan and said there were way too many Pakistanis in government and leadership?

"Nicola Sturgeon" The world: "Ah yes. Her". "Humza Yousaf" The world: "Who?"

SNP in the mud!

The 28 day timer doesn't begin until Yousaf resigns as First Minister, which he says he won't do until a new leader is chosen, so a longer timetable is possible

White stand, white tie

Moral of the story : Don't knife the people who you need to stay in power in the front

Glad that traitor is gone, any one in the party is better than him.

Fair play to him - he realised his time had run out, and unlike a couple of Westminster leaders, didn't wait to be pushed. And his resignation speech was fairly dignified. He wasn't a brilliant first minister, though.

Sarwar did his own *white " speech.

just a little note that the Additional Member System isnt a true proportiontional representation system, as it still has a seperate FPTP list for consituency msp candidates, and an STV-like system for regional party members

Wow! The dude comes in and f's everything up, then dips.

Just be aware his replacement will probably be worse

Humza only stood down as SNP Leader. Listen to what he actually said. The process of selecting a new first minister does not trigger till he resigns as first minister. He is still first minister until some other useless crud is foisted on us. Grrrrrrrrrr

never say never , someone needed to tell Humza

Victory for free speech.

The fact that the former Scottish Green leader Robin Harper has disowned the party should show you what a loony party its become.

"First ever Scottish parliament elections", since 300 years ago... Take note of the number of Scottish seats at current British parliament!

* laughs in Count Dankula *

Hanzah did many incredible things. He managed to get the tories and greens to agree on something

The coalition (agreement) collapsed, not the SNP.

1:22 AMS (which is the voting system that Scotland uses) isn't fully proportional, it's a hybrid system (so this means that only part of it is proportional)

Hooray!

So Forbes is not in the Greens' favor in spite of the opportunity that she presents for a break with the SNP’s Piscatorial past.

With the amount of lies the SNP have told over the years, as soon as I heard that he'd say he wouldn't resign I started counting the hours until he did. I didn't have to count very high 😆

NBT. This is the problem with what are, basically, single issue parties.

The fact of the matter is - because of Brexit - Scotland’s politics will never sort itself out until we are allowed indyref2. We don’t need independence but, because we voted against Brexit in Scotland and our main reason for staying in the UK has been taken away, we are entitled to and need another opportunity to vote for independence. If Westminster doesn’t allow another indyref Scotland is no more than an English occupation.

The unfortunate thing is that no matter how bad the SNP are at governing Scotland the moment the electioneering begins all they need to do is trot out the “Independence” thing and the “Braveheart Brigade”, those who believe in an independent Scotland regardless of the cost to the Scottish people, immediately forget just how bad the SNP have been in the past and vote for them.

Glad that it’s now been mentioned that the Scottish parliament isn’t designed for a majority. Thank you for checking comments.

What now? Scotland rejoices....

I love his speech because he basically tells Scotland he is untrustworthy. Hopefully they will realise the rest of his party are the same.

A little song for you when it's time , Have yousaf a merry little Christmas

How have we went from a likely hung parliament in the immediate aftermath of Party Gate, arrived at Labour probably winning as well as they did in 1997? I know that it is said that a week is a long time in politics, but that is quite the turn around.

What now? Make it a national holiday of celebration.

The wake up call for SNP supporters realising that we’re not this bastion sensible politics and that we just got lucky with a not terrible leader in sturgeon is amazing. It’s almost as if our lot are just as incompetent as Westminster and we’re not special, nor able to govern ourselves

correction the Scottish greens were going to leave the Scottish government because NHS Scotland decided not to allow any new patients on the NHS for puberty blocker. This was based on the recent Cass report. The members called an annual general meeting after this announcement where they were going to discuss leaving the government. It was not about the Scottish government decision to drop 2030 emissions target. 😂😂😂😂

Excellent. He was such an Ahole of a politician.

The SNP should expire itself. No good comes from this party!

Those green MSPs are list MSPs not electoral, constituency MSPs and have no electoral legitimacy, Now what does that say.

Very helpful thank you. er maybe Alex Salmond?

At least he managed to not get put in a bin crying in the thumbnail

He spurned his partner, and then expected them to just go along with it. He probably considers it all a success since he managed to effectively bring back anti-blasphemy laws with the hate-crime legislation.

i wonder if the scottish nationalist party will finally get a scottish national as a leader

We will always look back on this time as the time that the SNP put a Disney villain in charge.

The only SNP member I could support seems to be Kate Forbes

I think it would be good to have a government that isn´t pro-independence for a while. It´s frankly the only thing keeping the SNP together. I don´t like New Labour much and I hate the Tories, if Galloway stands, I might give him a vote, or if a Corbynite party started in Scotland, but I´m well and truly sick of the SNP blaming literally everything on England, it´s a pretty poor excuse when you´ve been in office for nearly 20 years.

Could you do a review on the Cass Report please.

That's one gone. Keep going there are a lot to get through...

You've got some things wrong, Alba Party can also prop up an SNP government, with Ash Reagan's vote if they can't agree a powersharing deal with the greens this would level the government vopposition to 64 v 64 with the presiding officer then settling for the status quo. It's also entirely possible that if say Kate Forbes was to become the SNP leader she could strike a deal with either the Lib Dems who hold Orkney and Shetland or Scottish Labour/Conservatives MSP's to back her too. John Swinney is likely to be the only popular candidate that would back a return to a power share with the greens if he was to become leader again. The biggest questions lie if it's someone else becomes leader, say Stephen Flynn the curent SNP leader at westminster who would likely seek a return to the bute house agreement with the greens too if he decides to go for SNP leader. There are a number of back bencher names also being touted who are less well known than these three who depending on the "side" of the SNP party they come from may look to strike agreements with any of the other parties depending on where they stand on the more social-consevative or social-lib side opf the party.

Imagine if the Brexit vote happened before the Scottish vote on independence. Most likely Scotland would be independent had Brexit been ahead of it because the whole point of them staying was the hassle of rejoining the EU. And with them independent & in the EU still Scotland would have someone better than Yousaf leading the SNP

I’m still surprised how we are governed by caricature people. The are unfit to govern a corner shop not to be politicians

Wait. So, in Scottish parly, a replacement FM needs to have the support of the majority of the house?

Honest question from an outsider: Was it only because of The Greens or is there more to the story? Other reports suggest several issues. Did the latest Hate Crime Act have no impact at all? I just wondered because - as an outsider - it is hard to get the full picture and I wonder if TLDR is leaving things out here?

You have this wrong he has not resigned yet he has given notice that he will once a new leader is selected. It is a sneaky move to circumvent the 28 day notice.

So political parties that run on a platform environmental conservation don't like it when you do not try to help the environment.

Gosh. I thought this was a Hamas story from the headline.

I may be wrong here but the way I read it was that he only announced his intention to resign. He didn’t actually resign. That means the 28 day process doesn’t begin until he officially resigns

Do not let the door hit you.

P45...White...

Deport the Greens!!!

You just have the love the casual racism coming from our fellow English speakers. God damn, the Republicans really havea firm grip on culture war topics.

Breaks my heart. Really. I not being sarcastic or anything....

Put it simply. British politics isn't worth the paper it's written on...

At this point the Scottish First Minister position looks to have something of a curse about it. No 1 Donald Dewar ran into health issues in less than 2 years and died following a fall. No 2 Henry McLeish had to resign over getting his finances in a muddle - seems small beer in retrospect. No3 Jack McConnell . Kirtsy Wark's holiday companion. No4 Alex Salmond lost a referendum and chanced his arm once too often. No 5 Nikla - guilty of picking an odd husband. No6 Hamza rocketed up and fell to earth like a cheap firework.

The PR system is designed to avoid majorities, NOT just large majorities.

Humza Useless. What an utter dud.

It’s an age old question… Are the greens the dumbest party of all time?

The SNP does not have to find a new leader in 28 days as Yousaf has not resigned the FM yet