Elgin reacts to FM resignation
Elgin reacts to the news of First Minister Humza Yousaf's resignation.
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00:00 The only thing that is yes and no is that he's resigned.
00:04 You are, but I don't think he'd duffer to think that.
00:09 But no, I mean, I'm not a big fan of his.
00:12 He hasn't done very well in his last posts, as he's been helping the rest of them.
00:18 I mean, he didn't do very well.
00:20 Do you think it was either hard act to follow Nicholas Sturgeon then?
00:24 How do you think he's done?
00:26 I don't think many folk have followed Nicholas Sturgeon enough.
00:30 I really like how that thing happened with her husband, but
00:34 Nicholas Sturgeon was, I think, she did very well when she was in.
00:40 And as you say, it's a hard act to follow.
00:44 What do you reckon now? Any idea about who should be the next leader?
00:49 I don't think it came, anyway.
00:51 Maybe the last time it stood against him, last time, I had it still in the SNP.
00:56 The one from Northwoods, up north.
00:59 So he comes across quite well.
01:02 But I think an out-and-out can't run up to me.
01:09 There's nobody sticks out.
01:11 People prefer who they used to be, I think.
01:13 Some of them just end up with themselves.
01:16 Forget they're elected to serve the people.
01:19 That's a problem.
01:21 We're all going to end up with ourselves.
01:23 But if there's no-one with me,
01:25 I'm not going to be sure who's going to get in.
01:29 He, as far as I think, he jumped in before the Greens dumped him, basically.
01:35 You think?
01:36 Yeah, because the Greens were talking last week about having a meeting to leave.
01:41 So he's jumped in on that day and binned them off before they'd binned them off.
01:48 The other way.
01:49 So that's what I think.
01:51 What do you think of the job he's done over the last 18 months?
01:56 I think he's done not too bad for what he had left before the carry-ons that's in the SNP just now.
02:03 So he's tried, but it's not to be.
02:06 Have you got any thoughts about what's happened next?
02:08 Who would you like to lead?
02:11 The way they're all going just now, none of them.
02:13 Are you surprised?
02:15 A little bit, to be fair.
02:17 I didn't think he was going to step down, if I'm being honest.
02:20 No.
02:21 Part of it doesn't surprise me, because it seems like the sort of thing that happens now,
02:26 is somebody gets told off, and then the answer is, "I'm not here anymore."
02:33 What do you think of the job he's done over the last 18 months?
02:39 So-so.
02:41 I don't think there were as many people that could have done better.
02:44 But at the same time, there is things he could have done better, but then that's politicians to a T.
02:50 Right.
02:51 What do you think-- I mean, have you got any views on who should take over now?
02:55 Anybody but Douglas Ross, to be fair.
02:58 No, I don't know, because I don't know enough about the SNP, their current lineup,
03:03 as to who would theoretically be throwing their name in.
03:07 But overall, somebody that's going to listen, hopefully.
03:12 No.
03:14 No. Why not?
03:16 Because he had no choice, because the arithmetic didn't add up.
03:22 How do you think he's done over the last 18 months?
03:25 Not well.
03:27 In what sense?
03:30 Everything he's done has gone badly.
03:36 Any views on who should take-- what should happen now, who should take over?
03:43 I think it's now for the SNP to elect a new leader.
03:47 And I suspect that leader will be supported at least by the Greens,
03:51 which will give them the ability to appoint that person as the first minister.
03:57 OK.
03:59 Thank you very much. That's absolutely brilliant.