Yousaf out - we can safely blame the association with the greens AKA hate laws, and trans agenda, for SNP collapse

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https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/scotlands-yousaf-set-resign-first-minister-uk-media-say-2024-04-29/

@Dineasair that's beautiful.

For a whole country to be held in sway to a party that only a tiny fraction of the population voted for is outrageous.

@Dineasair
You may be fuelled by cups of tea, and you may be only one tiny cog in a giant machine bursting with tiny cogs, but your voice and your vote count just as much as even the largest of cogs. Its all the little cogs that form the frame that supports the giant cogs like JKR. Without the little cogs, there is no place for the big cogs.
You are right about women warriors. Attacking women's and children's rights is the act of fools, and it never ends well for the attacker. Humza being a perfect example, the First Minister of Scotland being forced to resign because of his self indenture to gender greens being shattered by The Cass Report.

And while a route through this week’s motion of no confidence was absolutely possible, I am not willing to trade my values and principles, or do deals with whoever simply for retaining power.

This implies he wasn't willing to accept Ash Regan/Alba's terms. Since Regan kept specifics out of her demands and simply asked him for progress on independence and to uphold women's and children's rights, I'd very much like a journalist to ask him to confirm which of these are against his principles.

Ironically because he would not have survived votes of no confidence because he actually did the right thing for once by ending the travesty with the Greens.

But will the travesty of the Greens continue? Aren’t they going to be sat there all smug turning their noses up at any prospective leader that doesn’t wave the pink and blue flag?

That will probably depend on the second no confidence vote, on the Scottish Government. If the SNP lose that the honourable follow up is a Holyrood election.

Because the greens had called an EGM to vote on ending the agreement, and the feeling was they would probably vote to do that. So the SNP decided the optics were better if they ditched the greens before the greens ditched them.

..and thanks too to Elaine Miller for pointing out how terrifying a bunch of women saying 'oh d'ya bloody think so..' can be.

Plus whenever I hear about her I remember to do my exercises, it's a win-win.

I do think that gender issues are a part of this, but it’s worth pointing out that the key focus of the green revolt was about the SNP ditching the climate change targets - despite what you would guess from the leadership and the loudest voices in the party, a concern for the environment is still the driving force for a lot of the membership.

For sure the SNP and the greens have made themselves unattractive to a lot of voters through gender issues but it’s not the only or even the main issue, just as it wasn’t the main issue in Sturgeon’s resignation.

I do think that there will be pressure to find someone less fanatical about gender issues to take over, and that labour will be more hesitant about gender woo, so that’s a big win.

If the SNP can get a government together, they will need non-SNP votes to get anything through parliament, and in most cases this will only come from the greens. So yes, they are still likely to have some power.

I'm 'monitoring' [sounds so much better than sitting in front of the TV with a cuppa] the Sky and BBC coverage, and there's barely a mention of the pastel-blue-and-white-striped elephant in the room in the assessment of what went wrong.
He referred to having 'underestimated the hurt' caused by his decision to end the power sharing arrangement - Green hurt feelings, presumably? They've been acting very hard done-by. Interesting that in his emotional resignation moment, he seems to still care about the Greens' hurt feelings more than anybody else's.

Ash Regan on now being very statespersonlike, speaking apparently more in sorrow than in anger [nice touch, Ash!]about HY's choice of resignation over talking to her and Alba..

If we had first past the post as in Westminster, the SNP would have a massive majority and would be able to do whatever they want. PR is fairer and generally results in more balanced politics, although in this particular situation it does give a disproportionately big voice to some more than extreme voices. The minority partner does not have a lot of power, as can be seen in the total failure of the greens to do anything in line with green politics in the current government. Probably the greens are amplifying the gender woo in the government but it’s really the SNP who are driving it.

The trigger was the rainbow greens calling for an EGM over the cass review. Not the climate targets.

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The EGM was about both and it wasn’t just the rainbow greens who called for it. See, e.g., this article: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24283157.inside-story-green-rebels-want-rid-leadership/ about how concern over the climate change issues is driving the revolt in the greens.

I’m not sure he really cares about any of it - I think his concern about hurt green feelings is damage limitation. The SNP need the greens to vote through anything they want to get through parliament and they’ve seriously pissed them off. So he needs to say enough for Patrick Harvie et al to continue to support him without losing the support of their party. It’s all just politics.

No that's a rewriting of history. The rainbow greens triggered the EGM.

I thought this was interesting by Wings

https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-twist/

Thank you, well said, nothing has made me prouder than being a part of the resistance. It’s so hard when even the ones that I’m fighting for are being fooled by this, heartbreaking, but that won’t stop me.

Oh no! I forgot to include Elaine Miller, one of the fiercest warriors we have, we owe her so much too, sorry Elaine, I
love you and your awesome Merkin ❤️

It wasn’t just the rainbow greens. They did call for an EGM but so did other people in the party who were motivated by the climate issue. I’m not trying to deny that gender issues weren’t an important factor of that this isn’t fantastic news for us, but I’m not sure it’s helpful to overstate how much gender issues are driving all of this. It’s part of a bigger picture.

Thanks, I forgot to include the awesome Elaine Miller and her fabulous merkin 🤦‍♀️

Thanks, I wish I hadn’t I missed Elaine Miller though 🤦‍♀️

Aye, wish I had noticed she wasn’t included in the final post, she’s amazing and we owe her so much.