Did Humza Yousaf think it through? When he decided, late on Wednesday night, to pull the plug on the Green-SNP coalition arrangement, did he game-out the consequences? That is the question political Scotland is asking this morning as Yousaf’s job hangs, by common agreement, in the balance 24 hours after he unilaterally ended the Bute House cooperation agreement.
So Humza Yousaf could possibly live to fight another day
Did he consider the possibility that, by dumping his Green coalition partners so abruptly, he was likely to hand the fate of his administration, effectively, to Alex Salmond, leader of the breakaway Alba party and one of his greatest political foes? For that seems to be what has happened. Salmond is smirking fit to burst.
The Scottish Greens decided in their fury last night to vote with the Scottish Conservatives in next week’s motion of no confidence in Humza Yousaf. Since they’d just accused Yousaf of being a prisoner of the right this didn’t make a lot of ideological sense.
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