For years, the ravages of the Scottish Government’s failures have not shown up in the Nationalists’ polling. But the spell has broken.
What party leader doesn’t know it needed a £100,000 loan – and what spouse doesn’t know their partner made one?
Yousaf’s critics already did not lack for boldness, and they will now be empowered to mount further assaults on Sturgeon’s allies and legacy.
Out of step on economics, slated for her religious views, and running against the hierarchy’s anointed candidate, she took 48 per cent of the vote.
It’s remarkable the Nationalist hierarchy thought it could get away with not saying how many eligible voters there were in the leadership contest.
A litany of domestic failures and the murky state of SNP finances are all possible factors. But his shattering the illusion that the Tories could not win a constitutional fight seems to have tipped the balance.
So far public opinion has failed to rally behind the First Minister on either the constitutional principle or the substance of the s35 row.
The Scottish Conservatives claim that £1.5 million of public money has been spent trying to build the SNP’s case for independence.
Also: having missed his self-imposed deadline of October 28th, Heaton-Harris changes the law to push Stormont vote back to April.
Why has neither he nor Heaton-Harris pushed back against Sinn Fein’s nonsensical claims about ‘joint authority’ with Dublin?
Cutting the 45p rate puts fresh pressure on the SNP’s revenue-hostile policies; spending cuts will squeeze their budgets again.
A judge-led enquiry into the ferry scandal and a unified national census are obvious starting points.
With traditional cluelessness, Westminster devolved planning policy without a carve-out for vital national infrastructure projects.
Even official papers struggle to justify the SNP’s scheme; an accelerated booster programme is much the wiser course.
Instead, the Scottish Government’s review into the high-profile mishandling of a sex offender remains shrouded in secrecy.