Scotland’s Free Speech Hating First Minister Resigns Before Being Ousted
Reminder: While it’s good to be rid of this loon from the world stage, the next one could be worse.
The last time we reported on Humza Yousaf at Legal Insurrection was in 2021, and he was the Scottish National Party (SNP) Justice Minister pushing hard for a highly oppressive piece of “hate crime” legislation.
Subsequently, after rising in the ranks of woke Europoliticians and cutting a deal with the Scottish Green Party, Yousaf became First Minister.
Until today, after the Greens bailed on him.
Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf resigned on Monday after the collapse of his power-sharing agreement with the country’s Green Party.
Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Yousaf was facing a vote of no confidence that he was not expected to survive, after he broke off the agreement with the Green Party last week.
“In ending the Bute House agreement in the manner I did, I clearly underestimated the level of hurt and upset I caused Green colleagues. For a minority government to be able to govern effectively and efficiently, trust in working with the opposition is clearly fundamental,” he said in a press conference Monday.
He said he had “concluded that repairing relationships across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the helm,” adding he was not “willing to trade my values and principles or deals with whoever simply for retaining power.”
Ran the government with as much grace and ability https://t.co/7WJ8AfYXeW
— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) April 29, 2024
It appears Yousaf enjoyed the position of First Minister so much that he was disinclined to press for the suicidal “climate crisis” legislation the Greens demanded…but no sensible Scottish person wanted.
Scottish Green members furious that his government had dumped its key climate change target had been scheduled to vote next month on whether they wanted to remain in coalition.
Pressed on whether he had acted because it was “better to do the breaking up than be dumped”, Mr Yousaf smirked as he replied: “I wouldn’t know, personally, I have to say.”
Four days later he held another press conference at his official Bute House residence, this time to announce his resignation, as his hubris and an astonishing political miscalculation combined to end his short tenure as First Minister.
It’s hard to stress what a media lovefest Yousaf enjoyed at the beginning of his time in office. This glowing report from Time Magazine is a pitch-perfect example of the press he enjoyed simply because he wasn’t a white man.
On the afternoon of March 28, Humza Yousaf entered Bute House, the four-story Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh that serves as the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland. Earlier that day, he had been formally elected to that position by his peers in the Scottish Parliament, making him the first Muslim politician ever elected to lead a Western democracy, as well as the first non-white and youngest Scottish leader.
He gazed up at a series of six portraits hanging in the stairwell and took in the enormity of his achievement. The first was of Donald Dewar, who became the nation’s inaugural First Minister in 1999 when the Scottish Parliament was created; the fifth showed Yousaf’s predecessor, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s longest serving leader. The final portrait, of a grinning young man wearing a tartan tie, was his own.
“I really stand out because I look different,” Yousaf, 38, recalls when we meet nearby five months later at his office in St Andrew’s House, the headquarters of the Scottish government, for his first major interview with foreign media.
Scotland’s 2021 bill became law and went into effect this April 1st. There were 4,000 calls for Yousaf’s arrest after a particularly nasty race-based tirade in the Scottish Parliament.
Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf described @jk_rowling’s tweets as “offensive and upsetting.”
Scotland passed a “hate speech” bill and on the first day received over 4,000 complaints.
The majority of them were reportedly about Humza’s anti-white racist comments.
Is this… pic.twitter.com/86my178ffT
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 4, 2024
While it’s good to eliminate this loon from the world stage, the next one could be worse.
Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross urged the next First Minister to ‘abandon the nationalist obsession with independence and focus solely on Scotland’s top priorities, such as creating jobs and improving our ailing public services’. But polling guru Sir John Curtice warned that the opposition parties have been ‘too successful’ by forcing Mr Yousaf out of office.
‘The problem with bringing down a weak leader is that you then create the possibility that what replaces him is better than what was there before,’ he added.
Hopefully, Scottish voters learned valuable lessons. But for now, let’s all savor the karma.
This is perfection. https://t.co/1HIOSIEoEP
— Neil Oliver (@thecoastguy) April 28, 2024
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Not to worry, the leftists will still win a huge majority in the next election by voting Labour instead of SNP (which will still get twice as many votes as the Conservatives)
The Scots have been drinking WAY too much Green Kool-Aid. Are there any adults left there?
Are there any Scots left there?
If you mean Scots of the caliber of Sir Alfred Watson-Watt, or Faraday (I think a Scot), or some of their great warriors, they are gone.
Either their children left, or, with socialism, are now just submissive, “sir may I have another”, quivering snivelers waiting for the next dole cheque.
There are more people of Scottish ancestry in the US than in Scotland. Same with Canada.
As Grandpa Angus used to say, all the good Scots left.
No true Scotsmen…
Ok. This puke resigns. That changes what exactly in the law?
Scottish Minister Humza McYousaf ? I don’t think he’s Scottish.
He resigned you say? Reliable sources reveal that he’s needed elsewhere. Protesters at Columbia University are in urgent need of a new leader.
This dope is as Scottish as vile Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are American. All are parasitic and self-serving Muslim supremacists and Islamofascists who emigrated from Islamic countries that have been impoverished, oppressed and devastated by that supremacist and totalitarian ideology’s intrinsic and immutable pathologies, settling in and exploiting western, secular democracies’ peace, stability and prosperity, while still promoting the ideology that caused them to flee their native lands.
Yes. And while enjoying our freedoms and prosperity they seek to limit our rights of free speech to protect Islam or Allah from any public criticism. Our dhimmi politicians would bend over backwards to avoid antagonizing them for fear of the violence implicit in the dogma.
Humza Yousaf. A fine old Scottish family.
Yes, raised on the knees of freedom-loving Scots, instilled with the proud traditions of the country. A real fighter for traditional Scottish values!
DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH!!!
He’s been playing bagpipes on the top of the minaret since he was a little boy. Bowing down to Mecca five times a day and kicking up his kilt on Ramadan, he’s as Scottish as they come.
Scotland has been flushing itself down the civilization toilet for too long. Its government needs a complete enema. Where is ‘William Wallace’ when they need him?
The First Minister of Gaza finally does something beneficial for the people of Scotland by fucking off
He was Humza Yousaf o’ the clan Yousaf.
Only there IS no ‘clan Yousaf’ Because he was no true Scotsman. Not at all.
Does no one see the problem?
On the afternoon of March 28, Humza Yousaf entered Bute House, the four-story Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh that serves as the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland. Earlier that day, he had been formally elected to that position by his peers in the Scottish Parliament
He wasn’t elected by the Scottish people.
He got into Parliament elected by the muzzie people who’ve overrun the district he represents.
And then he got elected by members of the party that panders to such overrunning.
The Scottish people then have these folk plooped in front of them like turds in a puchbowl they’re all expected to drink happily from.
And it’s happened in England and Ireland as well- you’re never voting for your leaders, you’re voting for parties. But worse, you do it by voting for your local chap, who you might even know–you got no say about everyone else voting for THEIR local chaps–and your party can be good for you, but still be overrun.
Here’s a clue– if your country is about 90% white, and somehow you wind up with a ‘leader’ whose platform was how much they hate white people, you’re overrun.
Abolish the parliamentary system. Let people vote for their reps and their leaders directly
So I wonder if JK Rowling would take his position if it were offered.
“I really stand out because I look different,”
The motto of tattoo and piercing outlets everywhere.
If only the UK had heeded Churchill’s warnings about Islam…
Enoch Powell expressed similar concerns.