SNP leader Humza Yousaf may be leading his party towards electoral disaster, but Time magazine sees that as no reason not to put him on the cover and laud him as a “next generation leader”. The Telegraph has more.
Humza Yousaf may have endured a nightmare start to his tenure as First Minister thanks to the arrest of Nicola Sturgeon and support for the SNP ebbing away in the polls.
But Time magazine has featured Mr. Yousaf on its front cover, lauding him as one of a new generation of “trailblazers shaping the future”.
The American magazine’s new edition calls him “the new face of Scotland” and lists the 38-year-old among its “rising stars”, noting he is the first First Minister from an ethnic minority background.
Among the other “next generation leaders” featured in the magazine were actress Florence Pugh, racing driver Jamie Chadwick, drag queen Pattie Gonia and Ghanaian visual artist Prince Gyasi.
Mr. Yousaf getting his picture on the front of Time is a major publicity coup for the First Minister as he has a much lower profile outside Scotland than Ms. Sturgeon.
However, the magazine’s choice of cover raised eyebrows at the Scottish Parliament, especially as it appeared only hours before an expected Labour victory in his first electoral test as SNP leader.
Irony is dead, says the Spectator, noting that Time praises Yousaf “for his age and ethnicity rather than, er, any substantive achievements from 11 years in public office”.
The choice is all the more remarkable, “given that the magazine acknowledges his disastrous record”. Time notes how under Yousaf “the SNP has been plagued by an ongoing police investigation into its finances; internal divisions; and uncertainty over how to achieve its overriding objective: for Scotland to end its centuries-old union.” It adds that:
On the economy, health care, education and more, Scotland is faring poorly. Tens of thousands of Scots are languishing on waiting lists to receive treatment from the National Health Service. Scotland’s drug-related deaths, while on the decline, remain the worst in the U.K. and Europe. Its schools are lagging behind the rest of Britain, too. Other issues, such as disruptions to ferry services affecting Scottish island communities, continue to fester.
So he’s a disaster, but at least he’s young(ish) and not white. I guess that’s what the Left calls progress.
Both the Telegraph and Spectator coverage of this bizarre, woke pick from the U.S magazine are worth reading in full.
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LOL! Surely this makes him eligible for next years Nobel Prize…??
No, too early for that. He hasn’t caused enough needless suffering yet.
He’s got time…LOL!!
Well he’s definitely on time!
Time waits for ‘no man’.
Head of the UN, or WHO, and maybe UN ambassador for women?
He couldn’t explain the trend of excess deaths either. Is that what qualifies for next-gen?
That + being a Muslim + a socialist + a gender confused half wit + devoid of critical thinking skills + anti white racism + net zero fascism +.. + … + …..+
Everything once valued has been intentionally debased to mean nothing.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984
This article is concerning and I’d have scoffed at it a few years back but going by the numbers of illegal incomers and all of the video footage of them landing on Europe’s shores ( as well as being hoovered up by NGO ships and dumped in Italy, in some lame pretext of a humanitarian effort as opposed to trafficking ) I think the Left are just now being more blatant about their intentions at eradicating us natives. I mean, they could stop this at any time if they chose to but the point is it’s proven without doubt that this is all a deliberate long-term plan. Yes, we’re talking about ‘the great replacement’ once again, in particular with a focus on ”cross-breeding”.
”The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said that “immigration could put an end to the European Union”, only to later add that due to demographic suicide Europe needs more immigration. Borrell said: “The demographic evolution of Europe shows that we need new blood and it does not appear that this blood comes from our ability to procreate.”
12.000 “new blood” persona just landed in Lampedusa, Italy.
Personally I have nothing in common – which does not mean that I have anything against – with Moroccans, with Tunisians, with Algerians, with Nigerians (perhaps only a bit with the latter half-Christians). Nor with the Libyans or the Malians. I have a lot to share, however, with the Irish, the Welsh, the Latvians, distant but still closer than the Senegalese, and I have a lot in common with the Jews… and with those who have the same roots of my culture and identity.
The use of biological language by Borrell’s left is interesting (“new blood”). For the Socialist Party in power in Spain, immigration is an “important opportunity for cross-breeding”.
The European Union has plans for how to “rejuvenate” the continent’s rural areas through immigration from the Third World. And if the UN speaks of “replacement migration”, UNESCO advocates the mixing of cultures to put an end to racism.
The historian of ideas Pierre-André Taguieff, once a point of reference for the anti-racist left and today a conservative thinker, wrote of this “mixophilic dogmatism”. According to Taguieff, it is “a new political religion” seen as “an ethnocide” associated with the “immigrationist and Islamophile discourse” and the “project of erasure and of origins and identities”.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377944
“When I was a Revolutionary Marxist, we were all in favour of as much immigration as possible. It wasn’t because we liked immigrants, but because we didn’t like Britain. We saw immigrants – from anywhere – as allies against the staid, settled, conservative society that our country still was at the end of the Sixties. Also, we liked to feel oh, so superior to the bewildered people – usually in the poorest parts of Britain – who found their neighbourhoods suddenly transformed into supposedly “vibrant communities”. If they dared to express the mildest objections, we called them bigots.
When we graduated and began to earn serious money, we generally headed for expensive London enclaves and became extremely choosy about where our children went to school, a choice we happily denied the urban poor, the ones we sneered at as “racists”. What did we know, or care, of the great silent revolution which even then was beginning to transform the lives of the British poor?
To us, it meant patriotism and tradition could always be derided as “racist”. And it also meant cheap servants for the rich new middle-class, for the first time since 1939, as well as cheap restaurants and – later on – cheap builders and plumbers working off the books. It wasn’t our wages that were depressed, or our work that was priced out of the market. Immigrants didn’t do the sort of jobs we did.
They were no threat to us. The only threat might have come from the aggrieved British people, but we could always stifle their protests by suggesting that they were modern-day fascists. I have learned since what a spiteful, self-righteous, snobbish and arrogant person I was (and most of my revolutionary comrades were, too).”
Peter Hitchens
20min of Laurence Fox catching us up on what’s happened to him;
https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1709991743775531184
A dodgier portrait photo would be hard to find ! A worthless soulless racist sh1thouse of the highest order ! He hates us so he’ll go right to the top
One wonders if he is one of Uncle Klaus’ numerous, young global leaders.
Well TIME also had Osama Bin Laden on the cover and Fauci and Zelensky as Man of the Year – so perhaps someone in the editing team has a great sense of humour. One can but hope…
Just think, if he was homosexual he would have ticked another box.