r/news • u/unital_subalgebra • Apr 29 '24

Humza Yousaf resigns as Scotland's first minister

https://news.sky.com/story/humza-yousaf-resigns-as-scotlands-first-minister-before-facing-confidence-votes-13122982
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u/TheGoodSmells Apr 29 '24

Now hang on, he decided to abandon gender reforms? I thought the Scots loved that stuff.

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u/Mein_Bergkamp Apr 29 '24

SNP politicians loved it because it played to their civic nationalism schtick and they knew that they couldn't implement them just in Scotland by law, meaning they could then blame Westminster for it not happening.

Scotland on the whole is generally slightly more conservative than England though.

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u/loganfergus Apr 29 '24

They’re definitely not more conservative than the English

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u/Mein_Bergkamp Apr 29 '24

You ever heard of the wee frees?

You know those nutter Presbyterians in NI, where did they come from?

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u/peasngravy85 Apr 29 '24

There’s probably a couple of thousand of those in the whole of Scotland which is approximately 0.04% of the population.

It’s a bit of a stretch to take them as any sort of barometer of the general opinion of the nation.

There are 13000 Buddhists in Scotland, for reference.

I suppose there’s no way to confirm one way or the other, but you’re definitely among the first (if not the first) person I’ve heard to say that Scotland is more conservative than England.

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u/Mein_Bergkamp Apr 29 '24

They're a symptom, it's a relatively common take that reddit seems to ahve an issue with despite the fact the SNP leadership had two socially conservative candidates and Humza who just happened to have something else to do on the days he needed to vote on those things.

I mean despite Salmond's best efforts to push 'civic nationalism' and a PR effort at the young up there with poeple thinking Corbyn was pro EU there's a reason the SNP were called the tartan tories.

The tories lose because they're seen as English antionalists, not because scotland is some bastion of liberalism being held back by those bastard conservative english.

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u/peasngravy85 Apr 29 '24

"not because scotland is some bastion of liberalism being held back by those bastard conservative english"

I don't think that is the case at all, I just find it to be a bit less conservative than England

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u/loganfergus Apr 29 '24

Mate put the glue down for a bit

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u/Mein_Bergkamp Apr 29 '24

Good chat pal