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.”
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.
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.
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