https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-twist/
*But there was one interesting line in his farewell speech.
The Scottish Greens made abundantly plain over the weekend that any idea of supporting a government led by Yousaf was out of the question, and that their future backing for the SNP was conditional on it being led by someone they approved of.
But Yousaf said that rather than stand down and let the Deputy FM, Shona Robison take charge of the country for a few weeks or months while the SNP choose a successor, he would remain in office until the process was concluded.
This may be simply because nobody in Scotland would trust Robison with hot liquids, but it’s nevertheless a significant step, because it means that when Labour’s confidence motion comes before the Holyrood chamber later this week, it’ll be a confidence motion in a government led by Humza Yousaf.
And that of course means that the Greens either have to do a simply COLOSSAL u-turn on everything they’ve been saying since last Thursday, or they still have to vote with Labour and bring the government down.
That isn’t what they wanted. They wanted to spend the next two years with the SNP dancing on a string, unable to do anything that the Greens didn’t like for fear of being immediately defenestrated. They wanted to effectively control the SNP by having a veto on who got to be the party’s leader.
They CAN still do that, by abstaining on the vote, but they’ll look utterly ridiculous. And of course, that’s never been much of a problem for them, so it may well happen. But in the only tiny example of ever having some spine during his time in Bute House, Yousaf has gone out by tossing a hand grenade over his shoulder in their direction and leaving them to deal with it.*