Yousaf resigns - what next?
Photo: BBC No-one can deny that Scottish politics has been interesting in the last week or so. As Harold Wilson once remarked, "a week in politics is a long time". A lot has changed in that time. So much so that I intended to write a very different blogpost this morning considering the options open to Humza Yousaf - but his sudden resignation as SNP leader put paid to that idea. Fundamentally, the situation was created by the First Minister overreaching himself in terminating the Bute House Agreement. It's difficult to see why he felt he needed to do this when it may have been easier to allow the Greens to make their own decision about the future of the relationship. I also don't understand why Mr Yousaf failed to see the inevitable political consequences and that his survival would become dependent on conditional support from the likes of Alba and Ash Regan, something he is clearly unwilling to countenance. Basic arithmetic should have told him this exercise was frau
