Scotland’s Humza Yousaf faces plummeting popularity and mounting criticism over his ill-received hate crime laws, casting shade over the SNP’s electoral prospects and his own political future. The Telegraphhas more.
Even among SNP voters, more people believe the First Minister is doing a bad job of running Scotland than those who think he is doing a good job, the survey by polling company Norstat showed.
It is the first such survey carried out since the introduction of the laws that Mr. Yousaf steered through Holyrood as Justice Secretary and which came into force earlier this month.
The controversial legislation is widely seen to have been botched by the SNP Government, with an appeal to the public to report all instances of “hate” leading to more than 7,000 reports in the first week.
Fewer than 4% of the reports were assessed as actual crimes.
The findings showed that among all Scots, Mr. Yousaf now has an approval rating of minus 32, putting him just three points ahead of Rishi Sunak. It amounts to a 15-point drop for Mr. Yousaf since the previous survey carried out in January.
Even among those who voted SNP at the last General Election, just 29% believe Mr. Yousaf is doing a good job, compared with 36% who think he has been poor in office.
This resulted in a score of minus seven among SNP voters, down from plus 14 in January. …
Polls suggest Labour has overtaken the SNP in Scotland in voting intentions for the General Election.
A recent seat-by-seat poll by YouGov predicted that Labour was on course to win 28 Scottish seats, compared with one in 2019, while the SNP’s tally would fall from 48 to 19.
Such a disastrous result, should it be replicated in the General Election, would inevitably lead to calls for Mr. Yousaf to stand down.
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For all the bluster and arguments played out by Mr Sarwar’s Labour in Holyrood, they’ve continually supported every Bill put forward by the SNP, including the hated GRR Bill and the detested Hate Crime Bill, as far as I can see it would be a case of out of the frying pan etc…Tories are the only party consistently on the side of common sense and the Union of the UK.
I didn’t realise until reading your comment that the Tory party in Scotland is the only one actually led by an Indigenous Scot.
Scottish voters are left with a bizarre choice between Labour led by a Pakistani Muslim, the SNP led by another Pakistani Muslim, and the Tories led by an actual Scot.
It’s just unbelievable how no one is mentioning the Elephant in the Room: that somehow Indian Subcontinentals have been manoeuvred into the leadership posts of Scotland, Ireland and the UK (and Portugal, while Wales is now ruled by an African from Zambia), and Pakistani Muslims manoeuvred into the leadership posts of two of the three main political parties in Scotland. All by the usual Globalist trick of making them “deputy leaders” before forcing the leaders and all other candidates to step down, just like Sunak became PM without a single vote by Tory Party members.
Just like Biden said before choosing Indian-African Kackling Kamala as his running mate, the he was “just a place-holder for disadvantaged minorities”, ready to step down for them.
SNP party members in a three way fight in a timescale shortened from 3 months to just over 4 weeks! ps for the avoidance of any doubt I’m not, and never have been, an snp member.
Everything the SNP do is a botch up. ——-They remind me of one of those desert cactus that flowers about once every 90 years, live for 9 days then are never seen again for another 84 years when conditions are just right. ——-The conditions for this silly SNP government occurred when New Labour under Blair and Brown turned into closet Tories and the Scots en masse turned to the only other bunch of socialists available. —The SNP——–People believed their “We want to be an Independent country within the EU” paradoxical nonsense. Somehow Scots (not me ofcourse) were hoodwinked into thinking that laws made in Brussels, a Central Bank in Frankfurt, and Euros in their wallets could be classed as “Independence”—- What fools. ——Try looking up the dictionary where it says “Independence—Free from the authority or jurisdiction of others”. In the EU there is no such thing. ——–But then once they were elected they proceeded to make a total hash of everything. Education went downhill, they wanted to spy on children in the illegal Named Person Scheme, they teamed up with the anti capitalist Greens with the intention of impoverishing us by getting rid of fossil fuels, and in particular gas central heating, which in a very cold place like Scotland is essential for standard of living. Then we had all the gender crap. We see now where Sturgeon ended up. —In Hiding. Now we have this blundering buffoon trying to tell us what we can say in our own living rooms. —–GFY
Blair and Brown were never closet Tories. That’s a stupid comment. Read, ‘The Abolition of Britain’, by Peter Hitchens, and you’ll find out exactly what they are.
“Closet Tories” is just a term I use for Blairs New Labour who realised they had to shift far away from the left to get elected. They therefore moved from left to right hence “Closet Tories”. It is just me being cynical. It is not meant to be some definitive term. ——–PS I have listened to Peter Hitchens, but I also listen plenty of others. Hitchens argues (and I agree with him) that Britain has thrown away “all its gifts” —Very True. ——-I would be interested in your opinion of Yousaf and SNP though as that is really what this article is about.
Bliar & Brown were Red Tories just as the Tories are Blue Labour. The Limp Dims are Red/Yellow Cowards. Together they form the Uniparty that has ruled for a century and ruined the UK in a myriad of ways.
Mix red, blue and yellow and the result is a sickening sludgy colour.
Liar Bliar and Gormless Brown f*****d up the UK in so many ways, I can’t list them all. The horrible irony is that they damaged Scotland most of all, the country of their birth or family origin.
Whatever else happens in the next GE, I hope the Scottish people smash the snp into the kind of political wilderness from which they will never recover; or better still, into oblivion.
It wouldn’t be good news but Labour would benefit from the SNP having already introduced some very unpopular policies with a selection of other 2030 proposals in the pipeline. I can’t see Labour undoing any of them because they seem to align with Labour and Conservative (no matter how much they claim otherwise).
Geoff Cox
1 year ago
Of course Humza Yousaf does not answer to the electorate – he obviously has other masters. But maybe he has overstepped the mark and a lobby group can be formed to repeal this law – and all other forms of hate speech law.
The Tories have had 14 years to repeal Bliar & Harbitch’s stupid hate laws but they have failed to do it, showing their important role in keeping the Uniparty in power. If Labour hadn’t passed those laws, Cameron& Clegg, Cameron solo, Theresa May, Boris, *Truss or *Sunak would have.
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Humza is totally amazing, the best thing to happen to Scotland since Kilts!
How can anyone not have noticed what he was like?
Labour would probably be as bad or worse
Possibly worse.
It is hard to imaging worse but at least they won’t be campaigning day and night for “Independence”
For all the bluster and arguments played out by Mr Sarwar’s Labour in Holyrood, they’ve continually supported every Bill put forward by the SNP, including the hated GRR Bill and the detested Hate Crime Bill, as far as I can see it would be a case of out of the frying pan etc…Tories are the only party consistently on the side of common sense and the Union of the UK.
I didn’t realise until reading your comment that the Tory party in Scotland is the only one actually led by an Indigenous Scot.
Scottish voters are left with a bizarre choice between Labour led by a Pakistani Muslim, the SNP led by another Pakistani Muslim, and the Tories led by an actual Scot.
It’s just unbelievable how no one is mentioning the Elephant in the Room: that somehow Indian Subcontinentals have been manoeuvred into the leadership posts of Scotland, Ireland and the UK (and Portugal, while Wales is now ruled by an African from Zambia), and Pakistani Muslims manoeuvred into the leadership posts of two of the three main political parties in Scotland. All by the usual Globalist trick of making them “deputy leaders” before forcing the leaders and all other candidates to step down, just like Sunak became PM without a single vote by Tory Party members.
Just like Biden said before choosing Indian-African Kackling Kamala as his running mate, the he was “just a place-holder for disadvantaged minorities”, ready to step down for them.
Who elected him and why?
He inherited the position from the wee Jimmy Krankie. Who voted for her and why? Who knows…
SNP party members in a three way fight in a timescale shortened from 3 months to just over 4 weeks! ps for the avoidance of any doubt I’m not, and never have been, an snp member.
You deserve a tribute for never having been an snp member. Too many Scots have swallowed garbage for me to ever feel comfortable in Scotland again.
Kate Forbes, the candidate who appeared to easily be most representative of Scotland, lost by a small margin.
Everything the SNP do is a botch up. ——-They remind me of one of those desert cactus that flowers about once every 90 years, live for 9 days then are never seen again for another 84 years when conditions are just right. ——-The conditions for this silly SNP government occurred when New Labour under Blair and Brown turned into closet Tories and the Scots en masse turned to the only other bunch of socialists available. —The SNP——–People believed their “We want to be an Independent country within the EU” paradoxical nonsense. Somehow Scots (not me ofcourse) were hoodwinked into thinking that laws made in Brussels, a Central Bank in Frankfurt, and Euros in their wallets could be classed as “Independence”—- What fools. ——Try looking up the dictionary where it says “Independence—Free from the authority or jurisdiction of others”. In the EU there is no such thing. ——–But then once they were elected they proceeded to make a total hash of everything. Education went downhill, they wanted to spy on children in the illegal Named Person Scheme, they teamed up with the anti capitalist Greens with the intention of impoverishing us by getting rid of fossil fuels, and in particular gas central heating, which in a very cold place like Scotland is essential for standard of living. Then we had all the gender crap. We see now where Sturgeon ended up. —In Hiding. Now we have this blundering buffoon trying to tell us what we can say in our own living rooms. —–GFY
Blair and Brown were never closet Tories. That’s a stupid comment. Read, ‘The Abolition of Britain’, by Peter Hitchens, and you’ll find out exactly what they are.
“Closet Tories” is just a term I use for Blairs New Labour who realised they had to shift far away from the left to get elected. They therefore moved from left to right hence “Closet Tories”. It is just me being cynical. It is not meant to be some definitive term. ——–PS I have listened to Peter Hitchens, but I also listen plenty of others. Hitchens argues (and I agree with him) that Britain has thrown away “all its gifts” —Very True. ——-I would be interested in your opinion of Yousaf and SNP though as that is really what this article is about.
Bliar & Brown were Red Tories just as the Tories are Blue Labour. The Limp Dims are Red/Yellow Cowards. Together they form the Uniparty that has ruled for a century and ruined the UK in a myriad of ways.
Mix red, blue and yellow and the result is a sickening sludgy colour.
Liar Bliar and Gormless Brown f*****d up the UK in so many ways, I can’t list them all. The horrible irony is that they damaged Scotland most of all, the country of their birth or family origin.
Whatever else happens in the next GE, I hope the Scottish people smash the snp into the kind of political wilderness from which they will never recover; or better still, into oblivion.
Plunging Popularity !!
he surely never ever had any !!! Chunt !!
I can’t for the life of me see why it’s good news that Labour might win 28 Scottish seats.
It wouldn’t be good news but Labour would benefit from the SNP having already introduced some very unpopular policies with a selection of other 2030 proposals in the pipeline. I can’t see Labour undoing any of them because they seem to align with Labour and Conservative (no matter how much they claim otherwise).
Of course Humza Yousaf does not answer to the electorate – he obviously has other masters. But maybe he has overstepped the mark and a lobby group can be formed to repeal this law – and all other forms of hate speech law.
The Tories have had 14 years to repeal Bliar & Harbitch’s stupid hate laws but they have failed to do it, showing their important role in keeping the Uniparty in power. If Labour hadn’t passed those laws, Cameron& Clegg, Cameron solo, Theresa May, Boris, *Truss or *Sunak would have.
** If they’d had time.