NEW SNP leader Humza Yousaf failed in every job he has held in government.
He seems overwhelmingly likely now to fail the Scottish people while also failing to secure independence.
His mentor Nicola Sturgeon achieved next to nothing in her career beyond occasional poll success.
Her “continuity candidate” may fail even at that.
When Mr Yousaf was transport minister the trains were never on time.
When he was justice secretary the police were stretched to breaking point.
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At health, he presided over record waiting times.
Those aren’t our damning verdicts, true though they are.
They’re those of Kate Forbes, his senior SNP colleague and almost certainly a better bet as leader.
They are an indictment too, of course, of Sturgeon’s abysmal performance as First Minister.
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Both Labour and the Tories are likely to profit from facing such a gaffe-prone lightweight as SNP chief.
And those of us who value our United Kingdom should be delighted.
While we congratulate the youngest, and first ethnic minority, politician to lead Scotland, nationalists should really be in despair.
Sturgeon ran independence into a brick wall at the Supreme Court, then blew up her career over trans rights.
Yousaf looks ready to do much the same.
Train wreck
IF you were having a house built, the price unaccountably doubled and you were told it would probably never be habitable you’d sue the builder and the architect.
But when it’s taxpayers’ money being hurled into the bottomless pit of HS2’s Euston station it doesn’t seem to count.
The project is cheerfully put on ice, after £2billion has been blown, and a minister glibly admits that with the total now forecast to hit £5billion it may never be London’s HS2 terminus at all.
We cannot recall an infrastructure fiasco this big.
HS2 was sold as the jewel in the crown of our transport system.
It is a ruinous national disgrace for which no one seems to be carrying the can.
Toxic mob
LET us congratulate Keir Starmer for finally ending Corbyn’s Labour career. Seems like only yesterday he was campaigning to put the demented anti-Semitic crank in No10.
But when Starmer’s spokesman says Labour is “unrecognisable” now from the 2019 party they are flat-out wrong.
A year ago 11 of Corbyn’s Labour pals signed a sick “Stop The War” petition which talked up Russia’s alleged grievances, said arming Ukraine “served no purpose”, blamed Nato aggression and accused Britain of “sabre-rattling”.
Where are those clowns — including Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Richard Burgon — now?
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Still there, biding their time, on Starmer’s benches.
A braver leader would purge the lot.
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