Humza Yousaf was a new kind of woke politician, mixing ethno-nationalism with radical progressive ideology - a particularly toxic grievance-mongering brew. Let's hope his spectacular fall from grace serves as a warning to others not to go anywhere near this lethal cocktail again.

The anatomy of our state strangulation

“The British state is failing. So let’s reduce public sector numbers and regulations back to 2020 levels and set a medium term goal of turning the bureaucratic clock back to the Millennium”, writes Ewen Stewart

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Indeed.
Have Labour yet admitted the VAT effect on specialist arts schools – ballet, theatre, music, cathedral choir? If parents can't afford the VAT, are arts-gifted children just leaving? Are cathedral school choirs just closing? And what about low-fee schools like IGS Durham?

Humza Yousaf hasn't gone, he's only announced he's going; it shouldn't be for him to determine the process. Without a vacancy the 28-day period to form a new Scot Gov hasn't yet started. The VoNC in the Scot Gov should go ahead to provide the earliest opportunity for an election.

ps. this is silly way of looking at things, but if you regard higher revenues from customs duties as a ' #Brexit bonanza' then the UK is the real winner here.

(we now keep all of the revenue from tariffs on third countries, whereas previously we had to remit about 3/4 to the EU)

Humza wanted a Tory-free Scotland. Tories got a Humza-free Scotland.

Let's face it, Humza Yousaf has, true to form, behaved rashly and without a thought-through plan. He reminds me of Sonny Corleone driving off raging, wanting to look the big boss by exacting revenge, only to bring about his own demise at the tollbooth...

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How would Machiavelli approach Humza Yousaf's no confidence vote?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
“Subtlety’s not Yousaf’s thing; he's rash, cocky, prone to get excited if not raging & unable to read a room” – my latest The Scotsman column
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How would Machiavelli approach Yousaf's vote?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
“Subtlety’s not Yousaf’s thing; he's rash, cocky, prone to get excited if not raging & unable to read a room, whereas his predecessor could read a library in an evening” my latest

This deserves some dissecting, as the degree of chutzpah going on here may well be missed by those who have not been following Mr Cole-Hamilton's behaviour closely in recent years. Long🧵just for all the evidence, but feel free to skip straight to the last tweet for the point.

A hypocrite and an imbecile take CO2 creating, aviation fuel using, pollution making, long distance jet flights to show how much they worry about CO2 creating, aviation fuel using, pollution making, long distance jet flights damaging the planet

#OBINGO #OLAMMY

Don't expect Rachel Reeves to learn anything from the SNP's disastrous rule

“Rachel Reeves must learn the lesson of talented higher earners escaping Scotland so the brain drain does not infect the whole UK” writes Brian Monteith Brian Monteith in The Telegraph bit.ly/4ddNuqx

Eric Smith Brian Monteith Yep and as we learned in the 70s , it doesn't work 🙄

“The Treasury study found the changes introduced in 2018/19 led to 1,030 higher earners moving south, losing Scotland £61m of tax receipts that year.
While the analysis could not find “reliable evidence of a change in net cross-border migration” for those paying the SNP’s new

Don't expect Rachel Reeves to learn anything from the SNP's disastrous rule

“Amusingly, it was revealed in January some 300 Scottish civil servants actually live in England to avoid high Scottish taxes” My latest column in The Telegraph bit.ly/4ddNuqx

Is it a record? FIVE myths about UK trade and agriculture appear in one FT article globalbritain.co.uk/is-it-a-record…

Serica Energy, one of Britain’s top 10 oil producers, is looking to invest in Norway instead of Britain

'UK politics is going to drive oil and gas investment overseas, and it will take with it jobs, tax revenues & energy security,' said Chairman David Latin.

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