John Swinney 'best person we have' to take over as first minister - SNP Westminster leader
Former SNP leader John Swinney is the "best person we have" to take over as first minister after Humza Yousaf quit, Stephen Flynn, the SNP's Westminster leader, tells Sky News.
"These are serious times, serious times deserve serious politicians and they don't get much more serious than John Swinney," he says.
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“Best person we have “….that’s the problem right there .
@david-ky7rt
Ай бұрын
My daughter could run the SNP better than that TOOL Sweeney and she is only 7 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@chriswinter6672
Ай бұрын
Let's hope she gets the chance.
Swinney, the best person we have. H,ha,ha,ha. Oh, I've just fell off the chair laughing.
Let the public decide instead of another Sturgeon muppet.
@dougcop7253
Ай бұрын
It is a fixed-term parliament read the Scotland Act, educate yourself and stop listening to the BBC and Unionist so-called politicians did Wales let the people decide when the picked a new leader
Best they have just about sums up the total ineptitude in the SNP
Sums up the quality within the SNP.
@josiewallace7968
Ай бұрын
If tired old John Swinney is the best they can do then they are screwed
@chriswinter6672
Ай бұрын
Sums it down.
If Swinney is the best they have the SNP have no hope and by extension Scotland if we have to rely on Swinney and Flynn.
Swiney ? Sturgeons nodding dog. 🤔
Nope, not Swinney. We need Kate Forbes to give us a common sense moral backbone again. Rid this country of stupid unworkable laws.
@Gozzillacia
Ай бұрын
has she said what she will do about Humza's gag on the Scottish people - will she repeal his illiberal laws that have made us Scots the least free people in the UK let alone Europe?
@coops1962
Ай бұрын
I agree get Kate in to take control
@scotmacc
Ай бұрын
That's because none of Humza's frontbenchers are interested. Mr redact, John Swinney is a cry of desperation.
@robertcrowther6134
Ай бұрын
Swinney is too mired in the Sturgeon debacle vote Swinney get more of the same old school. Time for a c lear out,plus did Swinney not recently talk of standing down so what's changed
@20storiesunder
Ай бұрын
Forbes is hated by half the country, wouldn't work
should have picked kate forbes in the first place last year
@20storiesunder
Ай бұрын
Forbes is hated by half the country, wouldn't work
Should be an election , neither England or Scotland has had FM/PM elected by the people's mandate in a while rather both countries have had leaders "crowned" over the last two or three premiers , a situation that doesn't exactly scream democracy
Swinney was the leader once before, SNP voters should remember that before they give the buffoon another go. 😂😂😂
@simoncook8455
Ай бұрын
He is certainly not a buffoon but would not excite the Scottish electorate, Kate Forbes however would.
Why did swinney,not go for it the last time,when sturgeon step down,another one from her nest
"Progressive Tax System' ... its certainly different!
John swinney is the best they have? That's a terrifying thought. Never seen a more incompetent and out of touch politician, than John swinney.
@user-he8qx5nv7y
Ай бұрын
Really never?
@eckie4679
Ай бұрын
Much better than Truss, BoJo or Sunak though
@TalibanAtrocities
Ай бұрын
If he was the best they had, why did we get the terrorist funder 🤔🤔
@ElmugreTV
Ай бұрын
@@eckie4679 thats like comparing shits
@user-ol2gs7cu5c
Ай бұрын
@@eckie4679who have what exactly to do with SCOTTISH politics? 🤔
His opening statement left him with zero credibility…
Just goes to show how little talent there is in Scotland. Swinney is not the answer ... just the lowest common denominator.
@lindamillar2505
Ай бұрын
So true
@sheilastirling5635
Ай бұрын
How patronising! Best educated country in Europe, with the best universities, free for all our young Scots 👍Why should we not manage our own finances rather than a neighbour managing them for us !
If Swinney is the best the SNP has, the rest of them are despicable. And Freeport Forbes needs to crawl back into her burrow.
Elmer Fudd is really pitching john swindle. Another joker that has been sacked more times than a king edward.
@johnbhoy2489
Ай бұрын
A fanny calling anyone a fudd
@craigham93
Ай бұрын
@@johnbhoy2489 pin drop
Stephen Flynn obviously doesn't want to lose a very well paid job by telling the truth about Humza John Sweeny and Nicola Sturgeon Give the Scottish people the right to vote for the next first minister
Yeah look at NHS schools,and drugs
@dougcop7253
Ай бұрын
Yes it is a lot better than the other home nations and PS drugs are not devolved to Scotland
@Calcearius
Ай бұрын
@@dougcop7253 Drug addiction is a health issue which is devolved. Shame the SNP shut down all the rehabs.
@sheilastirling5635
Ай бұрын
Drugs are a reserved power of Westminster
Swinney? surely a joke?
The SNP cult is failing, and it's wonderful to see. Let's hope we see some positive change in Scotland after 17 yrs of chaos and managed decline!
Stephen Flynn has to "own" his advice to Humza Yousaf to sack the Greens, he got it wrong. The SNP have to appeal to the Scottish electorate not just to the "comfortable slipper" old guard in the Scottish National Party. Kate Forbes is the only person that can re-invigorate the party and give Scottish politics the direction it needs.
Its time for a Scottish Election. Clearly things have changed dramatically from what people may have voted for at the last round.
The best they have!!! Well that pretty much speaks volumes, doesn’t it. The devolved administration who have carried out more 3 point turns than a driving test centre.
Sorry, but Swinney oversaw all of the previous ruinous SNP seventeen years, and is equally as culpable as all other supporters. Scotland has seen the light and want a better future, without the obsessive, divisive, independence fiasco!
@Harrier_DuBois
Ай бұрын
Tory c
@alasdairfinlayson
Ай бұрын
@@Harrier_DuBois never voted Tory in my life, Scottish born and bred. Born a citizen of the two greatest countries in the world, and don't like SNP trying to bully me out of that. The Scottish people are tired of paying the price for the obsessive wrong belief of the SNP that independence will make things better for Scotland. They won't. It'll make it infinitely worse in every aspect. The SNP hierarchy know that, and have cleverly manoeuvred themselves out of the equation over the last few years, rather than face the music. Think about that.
Absolutely f*cking ridiculous.
Scotland needs an election. Why has it been tough for Flynn, he is in Westminster. Anyone who thinks thst Yusef did a good job has not been living on Scotland.
@lindamillar2505
Ай бұрын
Correct
'best person we have' sounds like a reluctant admission, the remainder of the SNP cabal will be delighted.
Flynn another clown 🤡
Integrity! 😂 Hamza Useless?
no getting a new leader of the SNP is like putting a plaster on a open wound, what we need is a new party running Scotland! The SNP are done . Let’s have a Scottish general election.!
@dougcop7253
Ай бұрын
Read the Scotland Act and educate yourself by the way DID WALES have a general election so they could have a new leader
Just call an election and let the people decide. Times up for the SNP and there woke mantra 🏴
Shows how bad SNP are if the failed John Swinney is the best they have 😅 he’s serious, seriously bad
He looks like every other scot politician. Do they make these people in a factory.
If we increase the number of people who vote for the SNP, we will return more MEPs. My god, this man has cracked it.
One rule for me, one rule for thee on getting another new leader 🤣
Swinney is a good cure for insomnia!.
1:16 don't stammer over saying his name lol
Let them explain the increasing surveillance, the shrinking of our foodstuffs but increase the price and the mass immigration policy that we the public didnt want or ask for.
This is wonderful news for Scottish Independence. Remember William Wallace was a reluctant leader. Onwards to Freedom!🏴
Poor uncle fester has lost a lot of weight !!!
#StillYes #StillScottish #StillSNP
@pinkpyjamas-ey6rw
Ай бұрын
Not for me, thanks.
@Calcearius
Ай бұрын
#StillThickAsMince
@nanunanu8745
Ай бұрын
Not a cult though...
No! NO!
Swivel swinney the snake
@viewer.123
Ай бұрын
Crikey, here we go. More name calling and less critical analysis
If in doubt play safe and appeal to (buy off) your hardcore supporters.
This is the SNP's last chance to get it right, before the next election. Who they choose will set the tone, and ultimately will decide whether they march forward championing the Scottish people: or simply sink into the centralist, low achieving, gender beguiled Sturgeon mediocrity that we have sadly become used to.
Another 'proven winner'?
Green jobs ?
Kate Forbes was the only choice and snp fucked it
What a load of Tosh
Another Pratt
Really the best person to take over what a shower of bellends
Muppet show .......Oh Dear, not exactly new blood is it.... same old same old same old the same old record playing again.... we are all tired of this SNP same old story in Scotland...
Oh dear……
@pinkpyjamas-ey6rw
Ай бұрын
I know....the Clueless SNP.
@dougcop7253
Ай бұрын
@@pinkpyjamas-ey6rw look at the state of the UK 14 years what a mess
Hey uncle fester is still talking shyte !!
Not John Sweeny he has been first minister and failed He is also pals with Nicola Sturgeon not a good look This guy is talking rubbish he is obviously a friend of John and Nicola We need fresh eyes in Holyrood John Sweeney hasnt got fresh eyes he see things the same as Nicola Bring on Kate 🎉
We want a Contest, not a Coronation. Joanna Cherry is absolutely correct in her tweet. NOT Swine-y; he's tired, had his chance and has too many personal distractions. And certainly not this clown here.
Also...is that a Hugo Boss suit he has on? Take a close look......Schutzstaffel in the making?
Wow swinney a failed politician just call for an election
Sorry no Scotland, uk and me need a snp. That unloved and election please lord.
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@ElmugreTV
Ай бұрын
Cool story bro.
Humza was better than John but Stephen managed to get him and the Greens out. Not as clever as he thinks.
Cancel Cancel Culture
KATE FORBES for First Minister of Scotland INDEPENDENCE for SCOTLAND
Surely there are rats and mice in Scotland?
Serious liar
😂😂😂 Stephen Flynn is John Swinneys lover!
The Mupoet party
Any Christian is the best person we have. Only a Christian.
@RSD763
Ай бұрын
It will be another Muslim when Labour get in, must be some kind of Jockholm Syndrome. Vote Reform UK
@aklim4
Ай бұрын
Islamophobia 🤦🏽♀️
@Durka-Durka01
Ай бұрын
@@aklim4 durka, durka!