SNP power sharing with Greens collapses - Yousaf resigning as First Minister

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Humza Yousaf faces no-confidence vote after 'terminating' Bute House Agreement

Labour and Liberal Democrats to back Tory motion - but Greens have refused to comment.
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There's going to be a vote of no confidence on Hamza Yousaf next week now.

Not really a shock if the opposition vote for it, but Patrick Harvie, co-Leader of the Scottish Greens has apparently also said he'll back it, so it could genuinely pass.
 
SNP 63

Conservatives 31
Labour 22
Liberal Democrats 4
- 57

With the swing being:

Scottish Greens 7
Alba 1
- 8

So if all the Greens and Alba vote for the VofNC it'll pass.

Depends just how angry the Greens are, and whether the SNP can bribe Ash Regan to vote in support.
 
clublandrefugee said:
What's the implications of this

And if the no confidence vote passes
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He ‘should’ resign and they vote for a new leader, but he could be the only candidate anyway.

There’s no chance of the other parties forming a coalition so they’ll run a minority government until the election.
 
Wonder if any of his own party vote to boot him out, he only scraped into the position by a couple of percent.
 
gravy173 said:
He’s shown spectacularly poor judgement in how this has played out. No attempts made to build bridges and work with others, just lived off the recent history or large majorities and rode roughshod over anyone he could have tried to work with.
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Spot on. Arrogance personified.
 
Was always going to be a Poison Chalice after wee Jimmy Krankie ( notice that Jimmy and Nicola have never been sighted together at the same time)

Most of the policies coming out of the government were really crackpot stuff thanks in part to the Greens. It was never going to sit well with the electorate or the chamber... couple that with WJK and her hubby's alleged activities with funds and it was a perfect storm.

I wonder if Kate Forbes will go for it again?
 
Whilst not anywhere near as bad as Westminster, Scottish politics is not exactly squeaky clean and well run is it?
 
I think that'll delay any Sunak decision for the foreseeable, he's got a political distraction that's not of his own making.
 
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