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    New SNP Leader...

    Humza Yousaf

    Currently making his acceptance speech and being heckled by a baby.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics...onal-party-snp

    Humza Yousaf has been elected the first minority ethnic leader of the Scottish National party after a tumultuous campaign that exposed deep divisions in the party that has dominated Scottish politics under his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon.

    He is almost certain to be confirmed as Scotland’s next first minister in a nominal vote at Holyrood on Tuesday.

    Yousaf, the current health secretary and by far the most experienced candidate after previously overseeing justice and transport portfolios, beat his centre-right rival, Kate Forbes, after a leadership contest prompted by Sturgeon’s shock resignation in February that has been framed as an existential battle over the future direction of the SNP.

    Yousaf, who had the support of most SNP MSPs and MPs, had promised to continue the centre-left, socially inclusive agenda that defined the Sturgeon era.

    But during the campaign he also said he would lead “as my own man” and distanced himself from key policies of his predecessor, including the plan to hold the next general election as a de facto referendum, and promised a more open style of government.

    In an interview published on Monday before the announcement, he vowed to hold an anti-poverty summit as his first act as first minister, where experts could discuss wealth taxes to fund support for poorer people, after figures last week showed child poverty in Scotland was at the same level as when the SNP first came to power in 2007.

    The announcement at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on Monday afternoon came after a fractious contest that has included deep policy divisions between candidates, unprecedented personal attacks and the resignation of the party’s chief executive and Sturgeon’s husband, Peter Murrell, after damaging revelations that the media had been fed false information about membership figures.

    The party revealed its membership had fallen from 104,000 to 72,000 since December 2021 after all three candidates, Yousaf, Forbes and the outlier Ash Regan, demanded transparency in how the vote was being run.
    Last edited by SueEllen; 27 March 2023, 13:14.
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

    #2
    so long as is in the Crocodile Dundee school of gender confirmation he should be ok!
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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      #3
      And he is in!

      how soon can we get an ethnic Minority leader in Stormont (well any leader) and a welsh speaking chap to replace that Drakeford in this racist country?
      Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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        #4
        52:48
        Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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          #5
          Originally posted by vetran View Post
          how soon can we get an ethnic Minority leader in Stormont (well any leader) ?
          Well, the DUP claim to be Ulster-Scots, and they are in the minority, but they are unelectable.
          …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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            #6
            Originally posted by vetran View Post
            ...this racist country?
            Scotland and Wales are not England. It's almost like the more racist the Tory snowflakes become, the more offended they are when other parts of the country make different choices.
            …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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              #7
              Originally posted by vetran View Post
              52:48
              So, a 100% mandate to leave the Union.
              …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                #8
                Originally posted by WTFH View Post

                Scotland and Wales are not England. It's almost like the more racist the Tory snowflakes become, the more offended they are when other parts of the country make different choices.
                Just a minor point that England (and the UK) already have an ethnic minority PM under a Tory government.
                Don't let the facts get in the way of your bias though.
                Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                Originally posted by vetran
                Urine is quite nourishing

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by WTFH View Post

                  Scotland and Wales are not England. It's almost like the more racist the Tory snowflakes become, the more offended they are when other parts of the country make different choices.
                  You seen Rishi Sunak?

                  2 out of the 4 prime ministers in the UK are from ethnic minorities, apologies lets have a couple more in our racist nation state!

                  Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by vetran View Post

                    You seen Rishi Sunak?

                    2 out of the 4 prime ministers in the UK are from ethnic minorities, apologies lets have a couple more in our racist nation state!
                    The most important question is - Is Humza Yousaf's wife richer than the King or is Humza Yousaf more like Sir Keir Starmer?
                    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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