There needs to be a Holyrood Election but not for Independence for Democracy

Hypocrisy can be an own goal – I appreciate that UK voters don’t elect a Prime Minister directly. There also isn’t any requirement for a Prime Minister to have won a general election as a party leader before they come into the office, or to stay in office.

Voters elect a Member of Parliament (MP) to represent their constituency. Prime Ministers are officially appointed by the King (unelected) and stay in office as long as they can command the confidence of the House of Commons (or until the next election).

This is usually the MP who leads the party with the most seats in the House of Commons, or who can unite a coalition of MPs or parties into a working majority as we saw with Cameron in 2010.

Roughly 200,000 Tory Party members inflicted Teresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak on Scotland. On each occasion, I called for a General Election for the simple reason that members of the Tory Party and Tory MPs should not get to choose who the Prime Minister is and who gets to be our colonial master.

However, the battle to become Scotland’s next first minister will not be decided by voters as a whole either. Rather, it will be determined by the choice made by members of the SNP, who, according to one recent estimate, now number just under 80,000 people. That is not good enough either. John Swinney last year demanded a General Election be called when Truss (the disaster) and Sunak were fighting it out. We are all still paying and will be for a long time, for the disaster that was Truss.

Likewise, Scotland cannot afford the disaster that could be Humza Yousaf if he were to win the leadership of the SNP and be voted by MSPs as First Minister, I feel the same about Forbes and Regan. I also didn’t agree when Nicola Sturgeon was anointed SNP leader after Alex Salmond resigned in 2014, Sturgeon’s record since that coronation just shows how we cannot trust members, or elected representatives, to impose leaders on our colony.

The Conservative Party has to realise itself that it is no longer fit to govern and the people of this country must be given the chance decide on the way we are governed moving forward

Scottish Deputy First Minister John Swinney

It is for the voters to decide who forms the government, even in as flawed a system as colonial UK, the same has to apply to Scotland, even with all the risk that entails regarding the possibility of a unionist Holyrood due to the mismanagement of Sturgeon and the SNP/Scottish Greens. Democracy, even one as shit as ours, matters.