There’s nothing the Nats wouldn’t do to give their independence obsession a little more airtime. They’ll take the publicity from wherever they can get it – and that includes the pro-Putin Russia Today programme. It has emerged that First Minister Humza Yousaf appeared on the controversial channel twice in the past, first in 2013 and then again in 2017, when he was transport minister, after the annexation of Crimea.
The SNP’s minister for Europe at the time, Yousaf talked in 2013 about how his party’s white paper on independence had helped people get ‘their questions answered’. ‘I’ve got no doubt at all the polls will continue in the trajectory that we continue to go up and the no campaign will continue to go down,’ he announced to the RT audience. Unfortunately for Yousaf, his predictions ended up falling more than a little short of the mark…
Not only did Yousaf get it wrong on independence, he also messed up his own numbers.
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