Hopefully we’ll now see a return to grown-up politics in Scotland
AT long last Humza Yousaf has seen through the electoral liability of the Greens, the party who put untried and untested puberty blockers for children ahead of environmental policies.
The Greens have been a disaster in government, failing the simple task of organising a recycling scheme and then trying to force homeowners into debt to pay for untried ground source heaters. Everything they have touched has been a disaster. Even last week Patrick Harvie was spouting off about the Cass Review and suggesting his opinion was more valid than that of experienced medical staff!
In supporting a no-confidence vote and the potential fall of Humza Yousaf and the Scottish Government will see Gillian Mackay’s abortion services safe zones bill will fall as well. I suspect the Greens will be hammered at the polls, especially after their petulant press conference at which they claimed everyone else is right wing – while joining the Tories in a vote of no confidence!
Hopefully this will see the demise of the Greens and that we will see a return to grown-up politics in Scotland.
Alex Beckett
Paisley
A VOTE of no confidence in the First Minister is the proposal from Scottish Conservatives amid the end of the power-sharing agreement at Holyrood.
This is unbelievable from the Conservative Party, a party that invented a whole new meaning for sleaze, lies and crashing the economy. Douglas Ross sat on the green benches at Westminster during the tumultuous reigns of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, the very ones who brought politics to a whole new depth, yet Mr Ross was loyal in his support, as were the other Conservative MPs in Scotland. And now he claims Humza Yousaf is “unfit for office”.
But it was not only the Conservatives who were taking potshots at the First Minister – all opposition parties were having their say. Yet we all remember the Conservatives’ coalition with the Lib/Dems at Westminster, which introduced tuition fees in England, against the Lib/Dems’ manifesto.
Moving to Labour and Anas Sarwar’s call for a Holyrood election now – I say, watch what you wish for Mr Sarwar, because with a Westminster election looming and no named Labour Candidates in some seats currently held by the Conservatives in Scotland, I am not sure your party would be ready for a Holyrood election.
In ending the Bute House Agreement’ Humza Yousaf has returned to the voters’ verdict – the SNP in government.
Catriona C Clark Banknock, Falkirk
THE only vote of no confidence I’d like to see is one where we the people have the opportunity to vote out people like Douglas Ross who has cold-heartedly stood by the UK Government’s support of Israel’s excessive force and the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Humza Yousaf is one of the few world leaders who has shown empathy for the Palestinians. And it’s not antisemitic to state the obvious. There is no excuse for Hamas’s actions on October 7, nor any whatsoever for Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist government.
Environmental issues will be much better budgeted for and targets more easily met when Scotland is independent and in full control of its trillion-pound economy. Is England fairing any better? It seems to me that the old ways are slow to move in the right direction in every corner of the world.
Instead of spending money fixing the planet, too many countries are spending billions on weapons of mass destruction, fossil fuels, and oil extraction. Do the powers that be worldwide not want things to change? Will it affect their shares and bank balances?
But Douglas Ross and his ilk only see an opportunity for their own ambitions with the usual political back-stabbing games that they don’t seem to realise the public are sick of listening to.
This type only change their tune when they realise public opinion
will see them ousted. We see this with Keir Starmer’s manipulation of the Westminster Speaker and calls for a temporary ceasefire. Palestine does not need a temporary ceasefire, it needs a permanent one and statehood.
Try thinking of someone other than yourselves, gentlemen. In fact, try thinking for yourselves.
R McCallum
North Ayrshire
ALEX Salmond suggests that, as a result of the SNP ending the Bute House Agreement, Ash Regan is the most powerful MSP in Holyrood.
That is only the case if, together with the Tories, Labour, LibDem and Greens, she votes that she has no confidence in the First Minister.
Are Alba seriously suggesting they would vote to bring down the SNP government in favour of the possibility of a Unionist one? Some commitment to the cause of independence.
David Howie Dunblane
HAVING read his latest letter (Apr 25), I hope that next time there is an SNP leadership contest, Brian Lawson will put his name forward as a candidate. His positivity, strategic insight, visionary thinking and obvious ability to act as a unifying force are precisely the qualities required to take the party forward towards independence! Alan Woodcock
Dundee