A fierce new critic of the SNP has burst onto the Scottish political scene. This acid-tongued detractor describes Humza Yousaf’s deputy Shona Robison as ‘a bit of a cold fish’, ‘like an automaton’ and ‘painful to listen to’, and says Angus Robertson’s promotion to the Scottish cabinet meant ‘the ego has landed’.
Who is this merciless mocker of the Nationalists? Step forward, Elena Whitham, SNP MSP and Scottish government drugs minister. Whitham, who recently called for the decriminalisation of all drugs, is splashed across the front page of today’s Daily Record.
The paper has acquired her contributions to a WhatsApp group of SNP politicians. In addition to making known her feelings about Robison and Robertson, Whitham lashes the party’s response to a sexual harassment allegation against MP Patrick Grady, demanding to know ‘why didn’t we act’ and ‘why are we supporting Grady’.
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