Humza Yousaf’s incompetence will only help the SNP sink faster

Just don’t call him ‘Useless’. Humza Yousaf’s sister, Faiza, told STV last week of her shock and anger at hearing a hospital porter use the First Minister of Scotland’s ubiquitous soubriquet. Well, she’d better get used to it. Once an image is established in the public mind it’s hard to get rid of it. And it has to be said that his recent performance has been less than entirely useful. 

It’s not entirely his fault, I accept that. Yousaf is burdened by the legacy of the nationalist duopoly, Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell, which seems to have run the SNP with all the due diligence of a car boot sale. But having the leader of the party, and one of its longest-serving ministers, seemingly so remote that he didn’t know that the party’s auditors, Johnston Carmichael, had resigned six months ago, and that the party had not been able to find any other accountancy firm willing to validate their finances, is ignorance of a pretty high order.