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(Photograph: Scottish Government, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)

Presumably saving all their bangs for the impending war between Israel and Hamas, the SNP conference in Aberdeen ended with the usual whimper about seeking independence if they had a mandate to do so. This is the safest promise that could be made, akin to Wales declaring war on the United States…if it had a mandate. Like a landed fish, twitching and gasping its last, the SNP is surely finished.

Having reached the height of their popularity under the last but one leader Alex Salmond, they were then taken over by Nicola Sturgeon (he/him) and went into decline. People began to see them for what they were: national socialists with a free speech curtailing agenda, and a rampant xenophobia where ‘the English’ were concerned. Accusations of corruption emerged, Nicola and her husband were arrested, and their remarkably modest house on the outskirts of Glasgow was wreathed in police incident tape and gazebos. Some say that the money they allegedly embezzled was spent on a massive mobile home. Here at The New Conservative, we do not speculate.

Finally, when the normally fluent and eloquent Sturgeon got into a tongue twister over convicted sex offender Adam Graham (he/her), who was assigned initially to a women’s prison (under the name Isla Bryson), and then to a men’s prison, poor old Nicola lost the plot. She was completely humiliated, and she had to go.

The SNP then continued to hammer nails into its own coffin; a remarkable feat given that it is already inside it, and ensured its demise by electing the kilted Koranist, the mullah from Maryhill Humza Yousaf, who had already managed in his time as health minister to lower Scottish life expectancy, which is now nearly three years less than it is in England. Instead of seeing sense and reversing or attenuating the ongoing SNP programme to destroy Scotland, he doubled down on it. Now the SNP will pay the price.

Who could ever have predicted, in the racist hell hole that is the United Kingdom, that we could have a Pakistani First Minister of Scotland (in addition to a co-religionist in charge of London), with two Home Secretaries and now a Prime Minister of South Asian origin? Of course, three of these south of the border are the ‘wrong kind of Asians’ (i.e., Tories), and one is clearly insane.

But Yousaf is different – he is dangerous. He has demonstrable links to Hamas, the terrorists (there, I’ve said it) who slaughtered over 1000 Israelis recently; his wife has close family links in Gaza, and his parents have already taken to the streets to protest about Israeli retaliation. We may not all approve of Israel’s proposed use of overwhelming force against the population of Gaza, and we should respect people’s rights to protest (peacefully), but it is crystal clear where Yousaf’s sympathies lie.

Yousaf, after initial criticism of his failure to do so, has condemned the Hamas attack, but had previously called for an arms embargo on Israel. An Israel unable to defend itself would not exist for very long. It is just possible that he sees himself as the leader of a besieged country bordered by a hostile state, where power really lies elsewhere. He undoubtedly thinks that throwing off the English yoke will liberate Scotland and bring prosperity and freedom to all. Then again, if you believe women can have penises and men need tampons, you’ll believe anything.

Scotland is neither besieged nor bordered by a hostile country. However, there is one way that the Israel-Gaza analogy applies. In the same way as the Israelis switched off the power to Gaza with devastating effect, if England decided to derail the gravy train of the Barnett formula—which ensures that vast amounts of English taxpayers’ money ends up in Scottish pockets—then Scotland would be begging to be invaded.

Roger Watson is a retired academic, editor and writer. He is a columnist with Unity News Network and writes regularly for a range of conservative journals including The Salisbury Review and The European Conservative. He has travelled and worked extensively in the Far East and the Middle East. He lives in Kingston upon Hull, UK.

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