The Scottish Greens are revolting

[ArabellaScott]

https://news.stv.tv/politics/furious-lgbt-scottish-greens-say-party-could-leave-government-over-nhs-puberty-blockers-pause

At least, the Rainbow Greens are!

There's a petition for the Greens to leave Government, if anyone finds it please post the link or how to find it!

No! He made his choices. He overestimated his ability and was promoted way above his level. He also doesn't give a shit about women.

Unless they've actually eaten someone's Tunnocks hamster live on air, I mean something totally egregiously unforgivable, I confess to also feeling sorry for cornered politicians. Only fleetingly, and irrationally, but there is an awareness that they're human too. Yes yes I know they don't deserve any sympathy, but there ya go...

Desperate to sound relevant and interesting and to be in with the followers of the currently fashionable fad.

'The Scottish Labour Party has upped the ante and tabled a motion of no confidence in the entire Scottish government.

The party leader Anas Sarwar says removing First Minister Humza Yousaf alone will not be enough.

He says: “We need to get rid of the entire SNP government which has left almost 1 in 6 Scots on an NHS waiting list, public finances in chaos and public services at breaking point.

“The people of Scotland deserve a fresh start – this can only come with a Scottish election.”

Motions of no confidence require the signatures of at least 25 MSPs to be debated.'

Wowser going for it

Scottish politics: the binfire of the vanities.

Ding ding, round 1! All gloves are off!

Burn, baby burn. What an implosion.

Whoa

🔥

Here we go…

If Humza resigns then the next FM has to be voted for by the whole Scottish Parliament. It is not simply a matter of the largest party appointing a leader and that leader being the FM.

From the beeb live coverage:

' It’s by no means clear that Labour has the votes to bring down the entire Scottish government.

Much will depend on whether the Greens would be willing to reject the government in which they served, rather than just the first minister who sacked them.

But were the Scottish government to lose a no confidence vote it would be legally obliged to resign.

An election isn’t automatic in those circumstances. The Scottish Parliament would have 28 days to elect a new first minister. That could well prove impossible and lead to the dissolution of parliament with voters going to the polls.

Another option is that MSPs could vote for an early election with a two-thirds majority. However getting 84 MSPs to agree about anything in the current political turmoil might be challenging.'

I think I need new specs but I read that as "non-sensical labias" and nearly spat my coffee out 😂

Maybe that's what it means to be non-binary: to have a non-sensical labia....

So how come Humza was an SNP vote? Because they had a majority while powersharing w Greens?

Ah, I see. SNP vote followed by parliament vote.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/28/new-snp-leader-humza-yousaf-voted-in-scotland-first-minister

Scottish politics is not my strong point. If there is a vote of no confidence in the Government and it forces an election, presumably that would mean the potential of 2 elections in Scotland this year as I thought that a General Election, when called, has to take place everywhere?

Would it not be a huge risk of causing apathy amongst voters if they are forced to go to the polls twice in a year? That's a dangerous game for Labour to play.

Or is it a case that Labour are hoping they might be able to form a minority government in Scotland, which could mean another alliance with the Rainbow Loons...

He got the Greens vote. The other parties voted for their own leaders. Presumably you just need the biggest vote so the Greens voting for him where neither here not there. In theory the other parties could have voted against him in favour of a single different candidate but that was exceedingly unlikely

If there is a vote of no confidence in the Government and it forces an election

Has a vote of no confidence in the Government been placed? I thought there was just one for Humza?

Labour have now tabled an additional vonc in the government.

😂😂

Good to know. Unlike the recent string of party elected Tory PMs.

Co-pilot gives me

You definitely win the thread with this

I do like the thread title too and the dual meaning. 🤭 Well done Arabella. 👏

Apologies if I’m repeating what someone has already posted but I’m relishing Ash Regan's retweet of JKR….

This is just so embarrassing. Humza is going to grovel to the greens!!!

Telegraph:

Yousaf will go back to Greens to ‘try to change their minds’, says SNP’s Westminster leaderHumza Yousaf will attempt to persuade the Scottish Greens to change their minds over a no confidence vote in a desperate attempt to cling on as First Minister.
Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s Westminster leader, said this morning that he expected Mr Yousaf to approach the party he abruptly dumped from government just 24 hours earlier when he tore up their coalition deal.