Is the SNP on the verge of collapse? | LBC
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2024
- The Scottish Greens will not support First Minister Humza Yousaf in a confidence vote next week after their power-sharing deal with the SNP collapsed, the party has said.
Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf called an emergency meeting of his Cabinet on Thursday morning amid mounting tensions between the two parties.
Yousaf's political future now hangs in the balance as he relies on Alex Salmond's Alba Party for a single vote to see him through the no-confidence vote.
In this video, Andrew Marr puts Alex Salmond on the spot: will the Alba Party decide to save the Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf in next week's no-confidence vote?
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Sorry to say he shouldn't have been in the first place
It says something about other SNP MP’s that they had confidence in Humza Yousaf, in the first place. The people of Scotland deserve better.
Given who he was up against in the leadership race it could have been worse... let that sink in.
The SNP need to fall back and regroup, they're going to get enough votes to be the primary oposition after the election but they're in no state to lead.
Yes , that’s the scary thing
@BoreoffNow
So did elements of the royal family 80+ years ago... got any valid points to make?
@BoreoffNow
Godwin's law kid...
You lost the argument the moment you mentioned an irrelevance from the better part of a century ago.
"Royals didn’t plan to work with the Nazis"
Never heard of Edward VIII then?
If you're going to apply Godwin's law at least get it right.
Like I said, any valid points to make?
@BoreoffNowyou obviously don't do research
Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yusuf are the best assets of British Unionism .
🤦♂️ don’t think so
What do you know, you can’t even get his name right.
Looking back at history the reason why they joined the Union was because they put themselves so hard into debt and needed a bail out, but I wouldn’t even trust Westminster to look after my right arm without seeing it on the black market the next day.
I agree. As someone desperate to get the sour faced Scotch out of the Union we need a useful Scotch person to lead the rest of the lemmings out..😅
@@billdoor3140 That’s some substandard trolling there. Try harder.
He's not on the same planet yousef. Cookoo!
Please stop asking Salmond about anything.
I mean come on.... putting him in charge.. what did they expect
It's about time us, the Scottish people, get rid of the SNP and slimy politicians/ex politicians like Alex Salmond.
And replace them with who exactly?
@@MontyCantsin5 Yer Maw.
But you're only speaking for approx. half the country. you do know that don't you ?
@@colinbrown7305: Try again.
@@MontyCantsin5 looks like it's the SNP who are going to have to "try again".
Humza Useless is Scotlands version of Liz Truss
What a moronic comparison. 😂
No he's not he's a Hamas stooge. At least Truss's heart is in the right place. Don't vote Tory or Labour. Reform is the only political hope.
Humza’s self belief has always outweighed his actual ability in post and we’re seeing this now at its most detrimental to the SNP. Sad. They had more potential than this but chose to focus on chastisement of swathes of the Scottish public instead. Too many independence supporters are now fed up of what they see as SNP vanity projects in place of real pursuit of independence.
Typical muslim when he got in power, whybwe don't need them in these lands
Pandering to foreigners who are associated with Hamas shows how much he thought he had us all fooled
We don't want independence, thanks.
Yes, never mix your ambitions with your capabilities - of which Dumza had none
15+ wasted years and now a £20 BILLION budget deficit has probably set Independence back 20 years / If ever.
P45 WHITE
😂😂😂
Maybe he'll ask for his to be printed on BROWN paper?
😂😂😂
Nice one old bean!
Alex has been at the pies. Jesus.
Have you seen Sturgeon and Murrell lately?
@@user-ho4rv6kg8u I have, they are not in his league. The guy looks like Jabba the Hutt, he never was what you would call svelte but he has now gone full bloater, you never go full bloater.
Hea in his 60s, I'll be aiming to eat just as many pies at that age.
@@grant1133 By the looks of him that’s an awful lot of pies, if he keeps that up he won’t see 70, it will be suicide by pie.
Pies or not Alex has more political savvy than the twerps in charge at the moment.
Remove him and Sunak and the wee tin can
@MightyCherub777no he wants deporting.....
I think we can assume that Alba will throw their lot in with the SNP and pick up a ministerial post in the interim. Alba has no incentive to have an election.
There won't be an election as a result of this vote
Apart from the chance to gain more seats from SNP........
Yeah I'd agree that Alba has the potential to gain seats if the usual SNP base feels SNP no longer represents them. Labour will most certainly want it as a sort of "pre-GE test" of labour support up here in 2024.
Perfectly put....I was going to say it's beyond Alex Salmond's wildest dreams but he must have known it was possible with the way the numbers added up and the incompetence of the people concerned.
@@user-ho4rv6kg8u That is why they attack SNP at every opportunity. They differ little from unionism in their dogma.
As a Muslim I mistakenly had high hopes for Hamza Yusuf. But the reason he got the job is because Sturgeon knew about the dodgy deals and financial impropriety. Then we had this lunatic Hate Crime bill. Not to mention a fixation with promoting transgender weirdness and mental health craziness. Independence is a dead duck. Identity politics is a dead end....
The hate bill literally just brought the law to the same place as England and Wales. Too many mugs in this country that believe nonsense.
I hope so, it’s time to get rid of Humza
Whoever that is.
@@tatata1543 Ooops spelling mistake 🤭I will correct it 👍
@@munchkintheoneandonly9253 It makes it look as if you have no idea what you are talking about. I bet you’re not even Scottish.
@@tatata1543Humza is that you? 👀
@@tatata1543
Hopefully Humza doesn't survive the no confidence vote. Scotland should not be goverend by his kind.
And Salmond wanted to save him . What an erse. There’s enough hot air comes out of this guy to keep all the wind farms in Scotland Birling 24/7
I don't have faith that the SNP can recover while being the party in charge.
They need to be humbled and brought back to reality.
They have gotten far to comfortable with their position and far to many politicians clearly feel far to entitled.
We need a party that will focus on our nations needs first right now, infrastructure and education, health and a long list of things not being dealt with while the pursue the absolute insanity that is identity politics.
It was inevitable this would happen the snp have shot themselves in the foot before him
😂😂😂😂
Get him out!
Who could've seen this coming when Yousef became first minister? Thats right EVERYBODY.
Alba, you have my vote. Common sense issues, the pursuit of independence & the protection of women's & young girls. NHS funding, education & the environment. Let's get back to work in Scotland.
The snp wiz fine before sturgeon & the latest mess
Alba would take a long time,snp need to focus on what matters to there voters,independence.
They don’t have mine
If Humza goes people will say Islamophobia. Infact, Humza himself will probably say racism.
Doesn't matter what people say we are in need of a strong government who are VOTED for. SNP out
It doesnt matter, Scotland is not an Islamic country. He is incompetent!
No one will care
Are they going to say that the only way we can avoid being accused of Islamophobia is to vote for any and all Islamic politicians?
Islamophobia is what gets one voted "in" south of the border
What about the £750,000
He sent to Gaza ?
He should have sent 7 billion
How much did the UK send?
Give Gaza money all they use it for is to build tunnels and buy missiles..
@@farookpatel1376 what, to line the pockets of the Hamas millionaires?
🥴
Don't forget the 300k to charity his sister is a ceo, 250k to charity his cousin is a ceo
Labour and their ‘policies’ have always attracted the flies!
I thought the snp had spent the money for independence on motorhomes etc .
Operation Branchform?
Yes
There is MORE to "the money problems"
than a motorhome in
The SNP majority Devolved Government of Scotland !
Independence 😂, look at the state of what the SNP with the power they’ve got ffs
If it cheers you up South of Border no better… moved south 9 yr ago… it’s lacking too…
You mean the most number of doctors/dentists/nurses, no strikes, shortest waiting times….whats not like and the union gives us what…..bumper bonuses to rishi and his pals
Abolishing a jury in certain trials. Widely opposed by the Scottish legal community. Very little news about it in the rest of the UK.
@@scottmarriott1185aye but those drs& dentists are hopeless 3rd world drs that are utterly inept, you’re in for a shock of you go to a hospital
Independence has nothing to do with the SNP. It's about Scotland getting whatever government we choose 100% of the time. The SNP will cease to exist after independence is achieved, they are the means to independence not the end goal. Such a strange argument to use.
Here's hoping!
Get Humza and SNP out
And replace them with which party?
@@MontyCantsin5
Labour, bit of a forgone conclusion...
The Lib Dems are irrelevant.
The Greens are irrelevant.
The Tories are going to go extinct.
Alba are too few in number to matter.
No matter what happens the SNP will still be the dominant voice in oposition post election.
Anybody apart from SNP
Sorry and the Green Party
@@richardebsworth8845
Disappearing comments...
The SNP are at most going to be reduced to the majority of the opposition. Scotland is a two horse race between Labour and the SNP, get used to it.
You just know that count dankula is laughing
He's toast!
Made using white bread 😂
Salmond? Looks more like an egg to me.
Yousaf? Looks like a frying pan made of butter: useless.
Have you forgot about the Hate crime law Alex?
I don't think Ash Regan is the critical vote Salmond is suggesting - there are plenty of people in the SNP who are unlikely to vote to support Yousaf and want him out.
Why haven't labour removed Starmer in all this time, that man is atrociously evil.
Tell me (c) hunt havr you visited the planet earth recently
“Atrociously evil” 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
This is about the SNP not Labour.
Hamza totally useless.
SNP are stuck, they all hate Forbes and crazies want another nic.
Bring back nic 😂
Humzas next speech ..The lord president...GREEN! , the Lord justice Clark ...GREEN , every high court judge ...GREEN .
Finally, it is evident that the supposed first minister lacks an appreciation for the Scottish people and holds disdain towards our cherished history.
Salmond calling for Yousaf to drop "policies that divide Scottish people and instead focus upon independence" like ah yes that famously non-divisive issue
Every single policy any party has is 100% divisive. No population agrees on the same issue ever.
Yep. The only thing that referendum achieved was to split the country down the middle, and we're still living with the consequences. Now everything is seen through a constitutional lens, and the "parliament" we have is incapable of governing in the interest of the people.
As a nation, we appear to have reverted to type. At heart, we seem to be a tribal, sectarian people who waste precious time and energy constantly feuding instead of working to make our lives better. Meanwhile, our NHS is on its knees, our once-proud education system is going down the toilet, and the drug death problem worsens daily.
Seventeen years in office, and the party in power have achieved precisely nothing. Instead, they use the executive to draft laws that openly attack the people they are supposed to be working for (the "secterian singing" law; the "named persons" scheme; the latest "hate speech" legislation).
The party in charge are dangerous authoritarian ideologues and need to be voted out as soon as possible.
@@snapsnappist4529 The UK has always been tribal and the majority of Scots do not want to be in the unfair ununited Kingdom. It's our choice and the English people do not get a say in the matter. Scotland is its peoples, not Englands.
@@-sly-Critique Okay, MacGlashan.🤣
@@snapsnappist4529 while i agree with most of this, drugs isnt a devolved issue, regardless of who is in power in the scottish parliment they can do nothing on it without westminster voting it through first. Scotland is powerless on this policy, as shown when the SNP did ask for consumption rooms which have been successful in portugal, the conservatives didnt even entertain it saying the current policy was the way to move forward.
WELLDONE THE REAL SCOTS
Humza Useless is treading water.
I hope when he goes he takes his hate crime law with him😡
Holyrood was never regarded as a particularly competent legislature and Salmond is still pretty slimy. As for uniting Scotland? How are they going to do that by promoting separation from the UK which isn't some hugely popular position?
That guy is on his way to the job centre, about time to.
Dumped the Greens just at the wrong time.
We need to get rid of hate crime laws that's what made him comit political suicide.
You started the rot salmon
Never saw this coming ahahahaha 😂.
You mean there were some people who had confidence in Ham Useless.
The SNP previously led by Alec Salmond is currently hopeless. Scotland desperately needs a return to sanity. Remember this is all part of the war criminal Blair's legacy!
How is Scottish uselessness linked to Tony Blair and the perfectly justified invasion of Iraq?
Gerard Phillips salmond is going to end your joke of a UK
And who do you class as sane please don't say starmer
Get rid of snp and that sammond get him out of Scotland he thinks he's gonna waltz back in its his fault that snp ruined Scotland
I do love how long the media can talk about the glass shards on the floor still wondering if the bottle is broken?
the point of SNP was independence, but the referendum was a failure. there is no point in SNP anymore, and the crash is coming no matter who is the FM.
We have a government, lets never hold another election...
That Kent Humza will be sitting on a comfy pension too😡
What a complete waste of money and time this all is. I speak as someone who joined the SNP in the wake of Brexit but gave up my membership recently because it's all just so petty. I'm really very fed up with politics. Barely an effective person among the whole lot of them from left to right.
Hope not, he's absolute comedy gold😂😂 So funny seeing someone so incompetent and out of his depth.
The leader of the SNP puts the ordinary Scottish resident as last priority - thats the problem.
If Hamzar was a horse, the hood would be out and the glue factory would be waiting a delivery
Here lies the problem for both the SNP and the Alba parties. We voted to stay in the UK, move on, and deal with the important issues, Scots are fed up with this one issue agenda. Ridiculous!!!
Looks like you won’t be staying in the uk for as long as you hope.
The SNP didn’t really have any policies except to oppose or attempt the polar opposite of anything from Westminster. Absolute time wasters
How many NHS strikes have there been in Scotland? Surely ensuring that there weren't strikes is the opposite of wasting time?
@@PorthLlwyd how many drug deaths in Scotland? Highest in Europe? Scotland also declining in education standards according to PISA rankings
@@markgt894 drug deaths are a legacy of manufacturing decline and poverty. What's your solution? What powers are available in Holyrood to solve it?
Remember COViD? PISA ratings from 2022 highly skew the ratings. Wales also had poor ratings. Again this comes down to poverty.
SNP are blinded by independence but let’s be totally honest here the polar opposite of anything from Westminster has to be an improvement.
The SNP were voted in because of their policies, not independence. Many people voted them and didn’t support independence. They’ve changed though, as parties do, and become a shitshow, focusing on policies influenced by culture wars, rather than important social policies; free tuition fees, free prescriptions etc. (which most people in Scotland are grateful for)
What's the point in being an independent country if you don't have freedom of speech ? I think the SNP need to get their priorities in order !!
The two aren’t linked. North Korea is an independent country and clearly there isn’t freedom of speech. Your comment isn’t logical.
@@col.hertford9855 OK... What I'm trying to say is what is more important, being free of the United Kingdom or being free to speak your mind ?
@AaRr-bn3xx: Gaining Scottish independence. Your second point is a daft comparison.
@@AaRr-bn3xx I’m saying they are completely separate questions and not at all linked.
@@MontyCantsin5 they seem to conflate sovereignty and freedom of speech. One does not guarantee the other. What a weird take 😂
"Scottish Independence " under the rule of the EU .
How did that work for Greece PMSL.
“Independence” has been declined by Westminster and is not on any agenda. The Scottish parliament has to start delivering on the issues that actually matter and only when they have demonstrated that capability shoulda any party consider independence.
How many NHS strikes have there been in Scotland? Is that an example of delivering on the issues that matter?
Are you OK with westminster not delivering
Humza the brief bye bye 😅
We live in hope Alex 🤞
I don't want Independence Salmond has a bad track record
Janet dewarf I don't care what you want Independence is coming England are going down get use to it
It showed great Scottish sense of humour to elect a useless as their leader. Brilliant
What a Wally😂Will never vote SNP AGAIN!
And not a mention about the controversial Hate Crimes Act from Salmond! Very disappointing to say the least!
They don't call him Dumza for no reason.
Out, out out
Salmond is simply playing his part as a very skilled politician keeping himself in the public eye and in what passes for gainful employment. Remember that Alba is still committed to the lunacy of Scottish independence.
Electric pic the only lunacy is being in a fraud of a union with England
tories stil have high votes, whos voting them?
Primarily middle class voters in the borders and rural areas of Aberdeenshire and Moray.
People who don’t want change or people with no brain cells. Voting for a tory is like selling your soul to the devil.
more people than the SNP will have you believe
Private donor's funnelled from India through Sunak's back door and so the last piece of the jigsaw emerges sadly at the decimation of the entire electoral system! Now the picture is revealed at the destitution of others!
He can’t even make a decent job of resigning.
How can the snp be a serious party now
Cut that thread. He was NOT VOTED by the Scottish people. Get him out to somewhere more 'brown' as we are too 'white'. I'm mixed race Scottish and HE OFFENDS ME.
You offend me and I m black
SUNAK was not voted in by the English people , I am ENGLISH " SCOTTISH " I will still vote for SNP.
SNP were 25% ahead in the polls 2019 , now just 2% ahead of labour , the Tory’s nowhere ….. SNP will lose half there seats
Let's head back to a UK government 😊
Scots should be given a vote on the future of Holyrood not independence.
Yousaf is a total liability for the SNP. If he stays, the SNP will take a thumping at local and national elections.
Get the clown show SNP out asap.
Then send in the other clowns .
Nah.
Hate to break it to you, but they're not going anywhere. Theres to much support for independence for them to fall much below largest force in the oposition. Even if (when) Labour win the SNP will still overshadow every other party by a wide margin.
Give Labour a few years to p!ss people off and the SNP will have regrouped.
It shows how bad useless is that sleepy cuddles can take the high ground.
Alex Salmond holding the keys to the SNP future. Meanwhile Nicola sees her husband charged. And waits to see if she shares the same fate.
Aslong as wee salmond tell his alba party to vote no confidence its sorted
SNP clearly shows how go woke go broke applies to politics too.
Ironic considering the Greens wanted to pull out due to trans rights and climate targets 🤔🧐
If it actually applied to anything at all, there would be no need for the phrase.
@@simonkapadia7582
Except the phrase exist precisely because it does happen... he's divided his own base.
Devolution was the worst thing that ever happened to Scotland. They can handle power responsibly!
why does an economy as small as scotlands need its own government
Funny well it's bigger economy than the rest of the UK
@@mmcc5846 you think Scotland has a bigger economy than the rest of the uk?
'Humza the Brief'. That's got a ring to it 😂
Can we do this in Westminster yet?
An unelected PM (both by the electorate and his own party) gets to decide the election date by asking an unelected head of state to call one.
Surely this is dictatorship.
We don’t elect a pm we elect mps from parties and the winning parties leader becomes the prime minister. That’s how our political system works, maybe vote for a political party that advocates reform to the political system? If a political party was in power that you supported you probably wouldn’t have the same issue you have with unelected prime ministers. I agree that Rishi needs to go tho
It's just your ignorance of the constitution. A) No PM in modern times is unelected, they are constituency MPs elected by voters. B) Leaders of parties are precisely that, they are subject to a leadership process determined by their party. C) The Prime minister is the person who holds the confidence of Parliament, meaning they are able to maintain majority support either through their party, or through an arrangement, whether that is for minimal support (as with the DUP in May's time) or through coalition (2010-2015).
And we *can* have a vote of no confidence in the Westminster Parliament. But the current PM has a majority, so it's not going to happen unless it is via a confidence motion within his party, which can happen, but would likely result in a new leader of the same Parliamentary majority, which you would then erroneously claim was unelected.
Get a basic education in how your own country works before opining on it. I realise there is little to no education in our education system, but make a basic effort for your own betterment.
Just get him out of scotland
Yousaf is just way too arrogant. He has forgotten that the SNP is a party for the people of Scotland by the people of Scotland. He as ticked everyone of by his own deluded self interests.
But would he lie to save his skin ?
Stephen `Flynn trying to say the WM arm of the SNP due to the WM election this year
All Humza did was call the Greens bluff about their threat to leave the Bute House agreement.... Alex agreed to the need for a section 30 order.
Who better to ask about failure than a failure .
70000000 and all we get as leaders are things like this.
I’ve no love for Salmond, a game player who puts politics above actual governance but in fairness he talks almost complete sense here: the SNP and Yousaf in particular, have sacrificed competence and proper governance for a pathetic agenda on gender identity, ‘hate crime’ and supporting Hamas, none of which is in the public interest and is of no benefit for the Scottish electorate.
I watched Humza in a one hour interview last week where the word drugs was unbelievably not mentioned once, shocking considering Scotland is the drug death capital of Europe. Don't start me on Education,Health and Economy which have also hit record performance lows under our pathetic SNP government.
Sounds like the host is saying Aliba party rather than Alba party 😅
"We'll see over the next few days if he has the political skill to get out of it" - so he's gone then?
Us Scottish ppl didn't vote for Humza, do we not get a say these days. We're the voters not SNP. We scottish deserve better than what we have been given as a country. We deserve someone who cares about our country as well as the ppl here in Scotland.
question is ? ...............how do people like him get there in the first place.........???!!!