Take a bow Humza Yousaf. Just two months after his government opted out of a UK-mainland-wide ban on XL American bully dogs, SNP ministers have today caved in and admitted defeat. Yousaf threw in the towel today at First Ministers’ Questions, telling MSPs that – surprise, surprise – Holyrood will now ‘in essence replicate’ UK legislation banning XL bully dogs without a licence. And to think he could have saved himself eight weeks of hassle. According to the flailing First Minister:
What has become clear, I’m afraid in the last few weeks, is we have seen a flow of XL bully dogs coming to Scotland, a number of people coming to Scotland to bring XL bully dogs here to the country. As such, we will give further details to members of the Scottish Parliament through a parliamentary statement if the Parliamentary Bureau agrees next week.
Gee, if only someone could have seen that coming.
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