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I’m starting to feel a bit sorry for Yousef to be honest “So given that it’s likely that your party will be ending the Agreement anyway, I’ve decided to avoid weeks of speculation and we will bring it to a close now” *HEAD EXPLODING PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PETULENCE INTENSIFIES* Imagine what it was like day to day.

What’s the Green equivalent of Kremlinology? Tofuology? https://archive.is/2024.04.28-065614/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24283185.greens-state-civil-war-rebels-demand-harvie-slater-go/ The idea of Ross Greer as the hidden hand/vampire squid manipulator is very funny though. Yhere was a report somewhere that Salmond/_Regan have said they want an electoral pact where the SNP give Alba free run at some seats. Seems a non-starter for me but what do I know.

I went to a large tourist attraction a few years ago with my family. It was a kind of model village showing how people in the local area lived in years gone by, I think it’s called a living museum. One guy who was walking about had a t-shirt on that had a slogan on that I couldn’t quite recall, I think it said something like “Avoid me if humour easily offends you!”. There was another guy there who had a T shirt with the slogan - “Old: / Grumpy / Lefty “ I imagined that you could write a sitcom or at least a humorous play about the two of them becoming stuck in one of the exhibitions but it would doubtless be like them - boring, self absorbed and predictable.

Yep, they might even get up to 1.5%

An hour and 37 minutes left to resurrect Murdo’s credibility!

This made me very uncomfortable. I don’t want to be unkind to Gillian MacKay, events like this must be difficult. But there seems to be a massive outpouring of emotion over all this that’s seems out of kilter with what has happened.

I was going to post something about them demanding Nicola Sturgeon be expelled from the SNP as a joke but I honestly think that might be fairly realistic.

I remember during Covid Cosgrove wrote a column for the National about how much he loved watching the daily press conferences at the time because Sturgeon would "put the journalists in their place". he might have said Unionist journalists but I can't recall that level of detail. This was at a time that hundreds were dying every day in Scotland but the main thing for Stuart was that he could sit and watch people he hated being "put in their place". Complete self absorption.

Some quotes from Lorna Slater on Good Morning Scotland and on working with the Scottish Government again

Technically speaking, Yousaf doesn't have to resign if he loses the vote. He can just say "f**k it" and go on. Anas Sarwar has now lodged a motion of no confidence in the Scottish Government. Douglas Ross' motion is in Yousaf himself so if Yousaf resigns then the motion will be dropped.

Murdo Fraser tweeting that Yousaf will resign tomorrow, Neil Gray to take over. Whether Murdo Fraser tweeting something makes it more or less likely to be true, that's not for me to say.

Police Scotland need to get charges in against Nicola Sturgeon in the next few hours, just round it off.

I was thinking that - everyone assumes that all SNP MSPs will vote one way but will they? Matheson's punishement is due to be decided next week - I have no idea if he could be suspended from Parliament for a period of time. That could tip the balance. I think you might be right, Yousaf might resign.