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The SNP’s relentless stupidity

Nobody had a good word to say about Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf’s tenure when he announced his resignation earlier this week. There was some muttering about him meaning well, but nothing on anything doing well. Largely because there is nothing. The kind would say that the last few weeks’ disasters – caused by Yousaf falling out with his coalition partners, the Green Party, triggering a vote of no confidence – were not really his fault.

Nicola Sturgeon made the terrible decision to hitch the SNP’s political wagon to the Greens. Most of the awful policies their influence pushed – self-ID, the hate-crime bill, rent

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