Scottish Politics / Independence - Vol 12

So it turns out Ross Greer is a wee prick with a superiority complex.

Who in here hadn’t already made that observation.

I can't believe the race baiting grifter still hasn't turned it in.

The Greens fighting amongst themselves like rats in a sack. I always thought they were out of touch but this quote sums them up.

"The public will be shocked to learn this about the party,” one said. “Most think we’re this nice bunch."

Er.... Nope.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24283157.insid...

I mentioned yesterday that a fair few of us in here had predicted a year ago that Humza's demeanour would be the cause of his (fairly rapid) downfall and thus it has been so.

His soundbite this last week has been that he would come out of this 'fighting', but fighting has been his problem from day 1.

I said yesterday that Humza had no a conciliatory bone in his body, and that defined his very first day in office - being unable to find a way to accommodate his two leadership rivals in his first cabinet or wider executive thus immediately alienating the majority of SNP party members who had made either of those two rivals to Humza their first choice as leader.

He also made no apologies for the failings of his predecessor and instead made bold pronouncements that he would wholeheartedly and unquestioningly continue to pursue the arrangements and policies that had proven problematic for the previous incumbent (Bute House Agreement, GRR Supreme Court Appeal etc. etc.).

From an appalling starting point almost entirely of his own making he then proceeded to make things worse. His modus operandi when debating and when questioned was to continue to go all-guns-blazing to make grandiose attacks on ALL his opposition even if the question put to him didn't merit it, with his responses appearing overly aggressive and at the same time too obviously evasive, presenting an image of someone who is difficult to deal with regardless of what you were asking of him.

As political observers said - his (probably a bit too late) ditching of the Greens Marxists could have been the first step in a political recovery had he handled it differently, but the stoney faces of PeeWee and Big Bird leaving Bute House on Thursday morning told you everything about how the meeting went and spoke to the world about who now had the upper hand.

I also said it was ironic that Humza invoked Liz Truss this week at FMQs. Humza is objectively a worse politician than Truss IMO. Truss at least had a vision that in the right conditions and at a time when the appetite for it existed would have been welcome and could have succeeded, but she was naive to believe that she could just create those conditions and appetite in a matter of days. Humza on the other hand has nothing. He's the walking epitome of what I said all along the SNP is - a party of protest, not governance.

All he knows how to do is to protest and argue. In some ways he's an apt face to be the representative of the decline of the Scottish Nationalists.

Just catching up on the Debate but this is a great analysis in my humble opinion . As someone commented earlier it’s a pity some SNP diehards have apparently withdrawn their contributions to the thread . I for one am desperate to hear their comments on the present situation if only to hear where do they go from here

He's got part time shelf stacker written all over him. If he's strong enough to lift anything mind...

Rat.

Humza's own defence against criticism this week was to list the things his government had 'delivered' on including avoiding strike action in health and other public sectors and a council tax freeze.

Once again illustrating how SNP politics and more generally the politics of the left are weak and meaningless. Neither were achievements, they were just kneejerk raids on the public purse with no consideration of the consequences.

Humza's "delivery" on avoiding public sector strike action and his council tax freeze are having very obvious and apparent negative consequences on peoples' lives and jobs, with Glasgow City Council alone announcing massive cuts in workforce over the next three years, nearly 500 coming from just one sector alone.....

School staff set to lose jobs this month amid 'savage' education cuts

Here, throw another 150 on top of that....

Cuts to care services in Glasgow approved

SNP Slogan - Dole, Not Strikes!

ETA. I expect the response from an independence supporter would be something along the lines of "corrupt tory toffs......Boris Johnson....HS2"

Andrew Neil made an interesting point in that all the SG have done outside of the insane Green policies, is to throw money at broken systems, without realising that money doesn't fix them. Hence, the mess of health and education.

At least the former got some money thrown at it to avoid strikes, but there hasn't been any actual, you know, governance.