Strath MSP rallies the troops for fight against ‘grubby’ Tory move
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Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch MSP Kate Forbes has announced that she will back Humza Yousaf in next week’s no-confidence vote.
Writing in The National, Ms Forbes (SNP) blasted the Conservatives for reaching for the ‘grubby political cliche’ of such a vote and called upon her own party to support the First Minister.
“It is easy to be loyal to a party when times are good and the party is ahead in the polls,” she writes. “But you find out what real leadership is – and what real loyalty looks like – when times are tougher and that is why I will back the SNP and the First Minister through next week’s fight and I urge everyone in our party and everyone who cares about Scotland to do the same.”
She states: “How we ended up here should be a matter of embarrassment for every parliamentarian in every party.
“Yes, the Government and the nation missed climate change targets which, if anything, have been criticised for being over-ambitious. We put our hands up as a SNP government with our partners the Scottish Greens. Right now we should all be sitting down to agree a workable plan to achieve them.
“But instead of working a way forward, the Tories reach for the grubby political cliche of a confidence vote and, as ever, when the Tories build a bandwagon the Scottish Labour Party runs alongside to hop on.
“Instead of this frenzy of political folly that leaves the people we serve cold, it is time to pause and reflect. I cannot think of one of us who has earned the respect of the public this week. It is time we started to do that.”
We do that by getting back to the people’s priorities. The lives of the people who cast votes are more important than the careers of the people they cast them for.
“So I am backing the SNP to build the economy that will create the wealth we can use to make Scotland a better place.”
