Alba’s Ash will be worse than Greens

Humza Yousaf now has the Greens, Tories and Labour baying for his blood. Ironically, his only way to survive this onslaught may be to either barter an agreement with one of his assailants or convince the lone outrider for alex Salmond’s alba Party, ash Regan, that he didn’t really mean she was ‘no great loss’ when she defected from the SNP.

It is concerning the alba Party, with no directly elected mSPs, could determine our fate.

It was bad enough to see the Green Party given an effective veto over the largest party, but to see a similar situation created by the elevation of ash Regan, who no longer represents the politics of those who elected her, to a position with more influence than a First minister is a damning indictment of devolution.

GRAHAM WYLLIE, Greengairs, Lanarkshire.

aS Humza Yousaf continues on his downward spiral of political destruction, the Scottish electorate is facing the possibility of our future being determined by an mSP, described by the First minister as ‘not a particularly great loss’ when she defected to alba.

Not only that, as part of her campaign to be elected as First minister she actually touted the idea of installing an ‘Independence Thermometer’ to assess progress towards breaking up the union. God help us all.

BOB IRVINE, Edinburgh.

So there’s a vote coming up and Humza Yousaf is posting pictures of himself on social media and striding around building sites in a hard hat looking purposeful.

I have news for Yousaf. It’s going to take much more adroit manoeuvring than some clichéd PR spin to keep his job.

MARTIN REDFERN, Melrose, Roxburghshire.

WILY alex Salmond and his only mSP, ash Regan, may save Humza Yousaf’s bacon by keeping him in power and allowing him to win a confidence vote by the slimmest of margins. I doubt that will satisfy voters. We need an immediate Holyrood election so the people can have their own confidence vote on the SNP government.

WILLIAM LONESKIE, Lauder, Berwickshire.