And so it has seemed, with Humza Calamity Yousaf’s tenure of office.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/23898683.sturgeon-hero-covid-can-turn/?ref=rss

HUMZA Yousaf’s family have arrived back in Scotland after weeks trapped in Gaza.

Source: https://www.thenational.scot/news/23902858.humza-yousafs-family-return-scotland-weeks-trapped-gaza/?ref=rss

Humza Yousaf’s first Programme for Government focused on tackling the “scourge of poverty” – which is of course what his administration should be prioritising.

Source: https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/scotland-is-held-back-by-two-failing-governments-ian-murray-4283065

Humza Yousaf’s latest plan to break up the UK is condemned as neither ‘credible or realistic’.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12524705/Humzas-latest-wheeze-break-UK-condemned-not-credible-one-senior-MPs.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

In a blow to Yousaf’s efforts at unity, she turned him down and will return to the backbenches.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/the-headache-inducing-in-tray-facing-scotlands-new-leader-humza-yousaf-snp-kate-forbes-scottish-government-sturgeon-administration-independence-drug-death-capital/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndica

Initially viewing Humza Yousaf’s inaugural First Minister’s Questions, the West Kilbride group were cleared from the gallery alongside others after protesters disrupted proceedings.

Source: https://www.largsandmillportnews.com/news/23425495.humza-yousaf-first-minister-meets-west-kilbride-snp-group-holyrood/?ref=rss

Ms Sturgeon yesterday said she commended Mr Yousaf’s plans, adding they struck ‘the right balance between building on progress and breaking new ground’.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12489253/STURGEONS-MEA-CULPA-Former-Minister-admits-share-blame-polarisation-Scottish-politics.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Now the horror of increasing duty for the first time in a decade was top of the agenda for Mr Yousaf’s first meeting with the Prime Minister.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/23476905.need-serious-talk-north-sea/?ref=rss

Rachael Hamilton, a Scottish Conservative MSP, said: “Nothing better illustrates Humza Yousaf’s misguided priorities than wasting a huge chunk of the final week of the parliamentary term on an independence debate.

Source: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/msps-debate-scottish-independence-again-30331440

That could alienate the Greens as well as many of Mr Yousaf’s other colleagues.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23416108.tom-gordon-onwards-downwards-humza-yousaf/?ref=rss

“These shocking delays are a direct result of dire workforce planning by successive SNP health secretaries and the failure of Humza Yousaf’s flimsy NHS recovery plan.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23845349.numbers-waiting-half-day-scottish-e-worst-since-may/?ref=rss

Yousaf’s alternative, floated in June, was that an undefined “win” would give “democratic effect” to independence.

Source: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousafs-support-minority-labour-30667454

Yousaf’s tactics are therefore an example of “protodiplomacy” – a prototype for Scottish international diplomacy.

Source: https://theconversation.com/humza-yousaf-how-to-understand-the-first-ministers-spat-with-david-cameron-over-his-cop28-meeting-with-the-turkish-president-219788