ICTChris

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.

Surely there is no way Regan would've got that motion passed. I was just typing out that there's no way Yousaf would've ended the Bute House Agreement over that but everyone seems to have gone tonto so maybe that was it. Anyway, Ash Regan's list of demands should be a hoot.

The BBC summary on their website has mentioned a couple of times that the Cass Review, on gender related healthcare for children and young people in NHS England, is a factor in the break but I haven't heard anyone actually say that in any of the statements, which I admittedly haven't listened to start to finish. Is there any indication that the Cass Review, and more specifically the NHS Scotland response to it, is a factor in what's happened today? I can't see any but it's there on the BBC site, or it certainly was there.

They seem to have gone full "AND NOW WE MOVE ON TO LIARS".