Forbes obvious choice to be FM

IT WAS once said that all political careers end in failure. For Humza Yousaf that rule can be extended – his started and progressed in failure also.

Yousaf failed at transport, justice and health – it was easily foreseeable he lacked the necessary skills to be an effective leader.

He was very much the “continuity” candidate for the Sturgeon faction. As such he had every advantage as the SNP was infested with Sturgeon loyalists and cronies. Yousaf was easily manipulated as he lacked the necessary intellectual curiosity to be his own man.

He started his leadership bid by praising Peter Murrell as a “proven winner” and resisting attempts to have him resign as SNP chief executive.

Later he described the

Bute House Agreement with the Greens as “worth its weight in gold”, all before unceremoniously dumping them two days later.

There was not the first clue about how to achieve Scottish independence. Yousaf was reduced to pathetically begging the Westminster colonial overlords for “permission” to hold an independence plebiscite.

Westminster sneered and Yousaf then came up with some incomprehensible nonsense. He could not clarify what would constitute a mandate – a majority of seats (which would involve a plurality) or more than 50% of the votes cast.

Nobody actually believed this was anything other than a gimmick to harvest votes.

Yousaf made no attempt to reach out to his defeated opponents after his victory. Instead it was rule by faction.

Sturgeon was brought down by a mixture of arrogance and complacency. Her exit was very much precipitated by the

Adam Graham affair. Yousaf’s demise is directly related to his response to the Cass Review.

The public is overwhelmingly opposed to gender ideology. Yet the Sturgeon faction insisted on implementing it come what may. They smeared all opposition as “far-right” “transphobic” and “bigots”.

This poison was prioritised over everything else. The

SNP under previous leaders permitted a diversity of opinion – under Sturgeon this was eliminated.

Talent and dissent were ruthlessly eliminated. Murrell selected candidates who were loyal and unquestioning to his wife. Now this same faction is attempting to shoehorn in another one of their puppets which will end in disaster. The opposition parties do not want Kate Forbes to be the next FM.

She is the only candidate who has even a shred of credibility – her religious views are of no relevance.