The SNP's unity has always been mainly focused on independence. If they ever get it, the party will break up because of big differences in all other fields.

Honestly the SNP have been skating on the independence argument for way to long now. Scotland seriously needs to start demanding a higher level of competence from it's politicians. We need politicians who can either exploit our position within the UK better and prove the benefits we get out of it, or build a much stronger country before even thinking of independence so it's not half arsed and screws everyone over.

As a Canadian I watch the SNP story with fascination as it mirrors our own Québec (Patri Québécois, Bloc Québécois) story. These types of parties are generally united only by their quest for independence. As such their base runs from the far left to the far right on all other issues. The feuding is inevitable especially when the main goal is only a distant dream.

I do feel another reason is that Scots realise that the SNP are unable to do much in the UK Parliament. Their main policy is Scottish independence, something they’ve been unable to accomplish in the UK government. I wouldn’t be surprised if the SNP still remains as the largest party in the Scottish Parliament, as they have a lot more power and can pass (generally) popular policies.

I feel like you were repeating the same information quite often in this video

The SNP and Tories made the same mistake by putting an unelected minority in charge.

Is Yousaf actually popular at all in Scotland? He seems thoroughly unpleasant, authoritarian and lacks charisma

He seems more concerned with Gaza than Glasgow. Classic "look over there!" tactic of a useless populist politician

There is a race to the bottom and Labour are coming out the better of the major options in all races, by virtue of taking the lift instead of hurling themselves down the shaft.

Politicians need to be constantly scrutinized. It's guaranteed that there is fraud going on at all times. If it's not being found then the overseers are not in place or are complicit.

Standard example of one party being in power for too long and depending on a single leader

There is one critical difference between the SNP and the Tories. Starmer has moved Labour policy to appeal to Tory voters but he has done nothing to appeal to SNP supporters. So any surge in Scottish Labour MPs is likely to ge short lived.

Does campaign fraud by Tories (or vote leave in 2016) get even remotely the same level of scrutiny and consequences the SNP have faced for what is, at the national level, pocket change?

dont ignore the fact that hamza yousaf said scotland is too white. great move, big brain

Is it cultural appropriation when he wears tartan?

As a Scot, it baffles me how badly the SNP fucked up, they were praised for years when the tories across the border could barely run the UK, all the SNP had to do was not fuck it up and yet they did. we were given such a good opportunity to leave

Firstly, the SNP have actually been in power in Scotland since 2007, not 2011 as your intro stated Secondly, I know there are some parallels between the Conservatives in the UK, and the SNP in Scotland. However - the polls are consistent in the UK showing Labour about 20 points ahead. In Scotland, where there is much less polling, they show SNP / Labour about neck and neck. I would suggest thats actually pretty good for the SNP, considering all the other factos in play - and is VERY different to where the Conservatives position in the UK. Lastly, getting 25 seats as the MRP poll suggests, out of the 57 seats in Scotland is certainly a big drop from what the SNP currently hold, but it is still a big proportion of Scottish seats - and a much higher number than the SNP ever got prior to 2015.

Yousaf is an awful politician

The infighting is not too bad. Forbes was a popular and competent finance minister. Yusuf is seen by a lot of members as incompetent. That was the main dividing point rather than ideology like the Tories. Competence vs incompetence. The SNP members are generally on the same page politically apart from a few outliers like Forbes and Cherry. I think most of the big hitters in the party saw the election as a poison chalice as due to the fallout of the police investigation and Labour getting popular the next election was always going to be bad. For example, I've had people say to me that we have to vote Labour to remove the Tories in Westminster..which could lead to more Tories in Westminster as the SNP and Labour split the votes in seats the Tories could never have won normally. So Forbes only did well because of the lack of ability of the other candidates. Nobody decent wanted the role. A better analogy would be May and the Tories rather than Johnson and partygate. After the election, Yusuf will be blamed and Forbes will hardly figure in the consequent leadership race where someone like Flynn will win in a landslide. Then the party will be fully behind the leadership.

I just feel bad for Scotland at this point. Even compared to the rest of the UK right now, the situation seems uniquely hopeless.

1:34 it’s graphics like this that are the reason I watch TLDR

They are just so boring. No new policies, no vision, they just moan on about independence and things they accomplished like 15 years ago constantly. If they had an ambitious agenda and energy to actually make the country a better place I would be much more inclined to vote for them.

Not arrested. questioned and released without charge.

Love how you feel the need for a video when in reality the picture for the video explained everything

Get rid of Sheik Humza and his clan . There is no SNP now, only the Scottish Hamas party

think it also important to say practically no one likes Humza Yousaf. I live in an area that has changed from SNP to Conservative to SNP, and even people who didn't vote for SNP usually say they like Nicola Sturgeon or that she gives good speeches or something along those lines. However, I've not heard anything good about Humza Yousaf even from SNP supporters, quite frankly its always been negative if something is spoken about him.

Who could of predicted putting a Muslim in charge would back fire?

This analysis misses the fact that Scottish people especially the young hate the Tory’s. Over a decade if Tory’s leadership made us give up on uk politics and thus snp popularity. Downfall of the Tory’s make the Scottish have some hope in uk politics

SNP are starting to dwindle in Scotland. Humza doesn’t have the strong leadership that Sturgeon and Salmond did. Personally, Forbes would have been a breath of fresh air for the party. I don’t agree with her views but she had a much better idea of how to govern. They’ve taken their eye off the ball with other polices in Scotland which is causing people to feel frustrated with the current government. Weird how they criticise about the tories all the time but their current situation mirrors theirs just now…

Humza being leader of the SNP is just the cherry ontop of this disaster.

Maybe Because no body has heard of the clan Yousaf ,and then the Nicola Sturgeon Money Scandal :

I'm not a fan of SNP but polling numbers inside their swing value can not be seen as overtaking. Poll swing values don't ever go below 5 points, so Labour and SNP are definitely still inside the margin and it's way too close to say labour are ahead in polls.

Humza the Racist was the worst thing to happen to the SNP. Kate Forbes should have won

Get them out now the bloody lot of them 😡😡😡😡😡

This investigation should have been done by an outside police force.

The SNP and Tories both have leaders that have been foisted on the people. I don't know who is less popular either, Sunak or Yousaf.

Why is Kate Forbes even in the SNP, besides the independence issue? She sounds like a radical Tory... actually no, she sounds like an American Republican, seriously who is still discussing pre-marital sex in Western-Europe????

TLDR's Scottish coverage is always lacklustre, and very rarely takes into account the nuance of Scottish politics, and will almost always miss out very important details.

The SNP is the textbook definition of complacency and inaction.

The SNP need to go! Use your vote!

Sorry - not an SNP supporter by any means ideologically - but I have to question the narrative being spun here. The Telegraph? The Sun? The Spectator? Seriously, @TLDR News hardly unbiased journalism/polling with regards to Scottish politics and independence in particular here. Why not just ask an angel whether Satan is a bad guy? I think there is a less out of touch way of viewing what is happening in Scotland at the moment . The SNP have done incredibly well in Scottish politics for a decade now: so, yes, it is likely the only way for them to go is down. However, to suppose some major collapse is on its way I think would be extraordinary. If you are a independence supporter - whether you are left leaning or a Tartan Tory - they are the only real option come General Election time. Additionally, I don't see a huge mass of left leaning Scottish voters switching their SNP votes to Labour when Stammer is widely seen as red-Tory Blair 2.0 (now available without any added charisma!!!). If anything, Stammer/Labours Westminster success at the next GE would probably a bit of an asset to the SNP in the long term: trying to garner support from English wet/moderate Torys will likely alienate traditional Scottish Labour voters over time, whilst simultaneously helping split a pro-union vote in Scotland between Labour and the Conservatives. Both those factors potentially strengthen SNP support and weaken Labour support in Scotland as they put Labour in a difficult position of being a pro-unionist party, with English-Tory-voter-friendly policies, that is simultaneously reluctant to be seen by Scottish voters as in bed with the Tory's or stoke the prevalent perception that the Labour party is now just "Conservative-lite." Such a paradoxical position gifts the SNP with an easy foil to contrast themselves against to the average Joe on the street, even with quite moderate centre left policies.

Il still vote for them. Not necessarily about independence. I like their policies.

Looking up from England, SNP still better

As the main man Humza once said, there are too many white people in Scotland

Also using the sun as a reference point is low.

...Boris exploited English nationalism in England, and Sturgeon exploited Scottish nationalism in Scotland. That period of divisionist politics is slowly coming to an end.

First rate reporting! 👍😎

The SNP are the nightmare that Scotland avoided having.

It’s odd that polling done by Ipsos Mori in Scotland is completely different.

I m surprised SNP are even polling as high as they are

snp are toast.

So anti snp press keeps reporting it huh.... funny that

Single party in power politics has failed. We need more coalitions, where these back door cooperation deals can be more in the light, and where fraud and other issues can be punished with a lack of support from other parties.

I suspect that the SNP is struggling with the transition from a small party to a large one. Their structures, and certainly their governance, were fine when they were a small tightly-knit team who campaigned. Being a party of power means being transparent and accountable.

Because they are a shower of chancers.

Yousaf 52%, Forbes 48% - it's the magic numbers again!

Pretty difficult to say that you are a national party when part of your leadership (Yousaf) is a) not really a proper Scottish person and b) seems more concerned with Gaza than Glasgow.

They were not arrested if they were not jailed this is not true and the police have let them go

Bring back little Jimmy kranky x 33

Shady Forces second album was great.

£700k compared to the billions in fake PPE contracts. 😂

as a scot i have always got the impression that the smp where in power because of two things Nickola sturgeon and the possibility of independence they have never been particularly competent but people overlooked it because they perceived them as fighting against the bad decisions coming from down south but now there only fighting themselves and the poles reflect this

Good.

Latest opinion poll puts the SNP 1 point ahead of Labour if anyone is interested.

It's interesting that you did not mention their incompentent management of Scottish affairs as a reason for their unpopularity. Education, drug and alcohol abuse, crime and healthcare have all become worse under their rule, even more than in the rest of the UK.

Can't believe there are still people going on about 'sex is for marriage'... Were they living under a rock for these past 50 years? Do they also campaign against divorce, and want women at home? Ffs get rid of them, it's not the 50s anymore.

The SNP didn't come to power in 2011; they won a majority. They came to power in 2007.

how many caseworkers have millbank central office the green ink brigade got on this topic. while the snp may seem in the doldrums making the split as nasty as posdible it just speeds it up. not that im advocating violence but who knows what hotheads will get upto.

SNP have cost more than money for Scotland

They can colaps all the way to hell and remain there.

So if companies are selling your personal data from data breaches, that's handling stolen goods & they should be prosecuted.

When are we arresting rishi and Boris

They should’ve went with Kate Forbes

It does rather show the desperation that the tories have of trying to destroy the SNP and Scottish Independence that they have to resort to trying to undermine them at every possibility, and use their media to repeat the message. Have the tories nothing positive to offer the People of Scotland? We never did hear about the "many benefits of the union" that Cameron was going to publish a list of pre-Indyref 1...... still waiting.....

Wait… have Labour overtaken the SNP in the polls???

1:46 "a second independence investigation" ahem.

Another problem with SNP is they seem more preoccupied with Gazan and Pakistani interests than of the Scot's 😂😂

Oh the telegraph says so, then it must be true. .... a tory rag

The problem for SNP is that even though they have hade power for long they have nothing to show for it. Scotland is arguably further away from independence today than 10 year's ago. That is the problem

No fish at the top.

SNP crooks OUT! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧

England managed to take down SNP

References Sun, Daily Mail, really ?

Kate Forbes is so cringe omg

“Raised for a 2nd Scottish investigation” Sigh

England, North Ireland, Scotland all hot with big headlines recently. Most of them altogether bad. What is going on in bobby Wales?

It seems like the Scottish independence debate has matured beyond the SNP. For the first time ever, support for independence leads support for the SNP - they have successfully transformed Scottish politics for a generation by solidifying half the electorate into the pro-Indy camp over the course of their 17 years in government. If you judge the SNP’s success on their turning the dial on independence they have made great strides, while fallen short of actually securing it. While the SNP will certainly still be a significant player in shaping the debate and progressing the independence campaigns, there is scope now for that movement to diversify and evolve. It was always lazy to equate support for independence with support for the SNP and vice versa. It is especially so now.

Do not mistake the SNPs troubles as an indicator that the desire for independence in Scotland is waning!

The idea we have politicians in the 21st century who oppose same sex marriage actually terrifies me a bit. I thought we’d moved past that and we all agreed it was insane we weren’t doing it before

the snp record of delivery in Scotland, is not great (I lived here since 1972) snp, a one trick pony (independence), who is now a geriatric ready to be made into dog food and long bolted from the stable

He’s not Scottish

Better together was the promise in 2014 and things got worse... the SNP will keep winning untill Scotland finally gets out.

Things started unravelling for the SNP much earlier. They have been under performing in government almost all along. It was just that their novelty and public good will gave them a breathing space from closer scrutiny and their PR machine was working well. They are now back in the political pack, where they should have been all along. All geggy and no trews?

You know, I like your approach, like a little goldfish who forgets everything that happened a month ago. "Politicians probably extracted a lot of money from people under false motivations, but it was a year ago so why do people still remember it and care?" As long as people with this approach continue to vote and elect the same corrupt politicians, there will never be any real, positive change.

I’d like to add that a referendum doomed both the SNP and conservatives. For the SNP it was the Scottish independence referendum that backfired and ever since have been campaigning for another one, but let’s be honest at this point it’ll never happen. And for the tories it was Brexit and how they have handled it quite terribly leading to their popularity destruction. (I’m an American, so I apologize if anything I say is incorrect.)

News to me and most other Scots recent Polls all suggest a clear SNP majority

Honestly, no tears shed for the collapse of the SNP 😂

Why no mention in the video of Yusuf's rabid racist speeches or his authoritarian policies that almost managed to be forced through? Where are the reports of his unapologetic vastly unpopular actions, like taking the oath in his language? Now that he's party leader those issues are even more important to people, as they should be! This guy should have been immediately ousted after his "white, white, white" rant in Parliament. Instead, not one person of those MSPs rose up to challenge him. Sad.

I think if the SNP won independence for Scotland it'd be the death of them as a party. A friend of mine got involved in Scottish politics after his master's degree he moved to Scotland and worked for the labour party. He, normally a quiet unassuming individual, got quite angry when pontificating on the SNP's record of dismal achievement in government. Record drug deaths was his starting point for a diatribe on how they should be ashamed of still being a one policy party whilst being the party of government in Scotland.

Really? Wait and see how many seats SNP win at the General Election. Don't be fooled by Polls based on UK Labour Vs the Tories in England. That is irrelevant in Scotland. Even if Labour double their seats in Scotland that will only be 4! SNP are on for 50+ out of 56