Sturgeon’s arrest could prompt electoral carnage
Just when Humza Yousaf had been hoping for a calmer period and a reset in his party’s fortunes, the SNP soap opera intensifies.
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Just when Humza Yousaf had been hoping for a calmer period and a reset in his party’s fortunes, the SNP soap opera intensifies.
A party renowned for its discipline and its iron centralised control has collapsed so spectacularly and so rapidly.
Without a history of success in three major government briefs, you have to wonder whether Yousaf has been set up to fail, and fail spectacularly.
Nicola Sturgeon’s departure has left Scottish nationalism with a major problem. Her leadership was based on the cult of her personality and without her, the party is a hollow husk.
Rebellious Westminster SNP MPs are too divided and Scottish MSPs too supine to affect a coup against the moribund First Minister. That leaves the public.
The perpetual promise of independence can’t mask a leader and government in chaos and decline.
Expect plenty more deflection, indignation, avoidance, and bluff in another year of inertia in Scottish politics.
The Labour vote is rising in Scotland, and defiance within the SNP is growing. It is now a matter not of if but when Sturgeon leaves.
The SNP now sees the solution to its woes as raising the emotional temperature rather than the rationality of the political argument.
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