“I will dedicate every waking moment to serving you, the people of Scotland.” That was the pledge given, one year ago, by Humza Yousaf on becoming First Minister of Scotland. Even by the standards of mendacious politicians, that was a false manifesto. Substitute “Gaza” for Scotland, or some miniscule woke minority, and those words might have some credibility; but by any rational, objective yardstick, that pledge has been extravagantly dishonoured.
Yousaf, now universally known as “Useless”, is a living reproach to those hubristic Scots who rashly asserted they could not experience worse governance than that of Nicola Sturgeon. His now inevitable fall is just the overture to the more extensive Götterdämmerung of Scottish nationalism. The SNP has been in power for longer than the Conservatives at Westminster – 17 years – and that long hegemony by what amounted to a one-party state has inflicted irreparable damage on Scottish education, healthcare, infrastructure, the economy and personal freedom.
