In my opinion Kate Forbes has the most potential and did the best initial statement. She realised that the public are watching so did not just try to appeal to SNP members. Humza seemed a bit wooden while Ash didn’t say anything about trying to bring more people from No to Yes.
Humza Yousaf was quite good at debating and defended himself and the SNP’s record well after an ill advised attempted attack by Forbes.
She went for the jugular and missed but I also think Forbes has the best chance of kicking some backsides at First Minister Questions. She has some fire in the belly.
Ash seems to want to spurn the Greens to have a minority government and work with Labour and the Tories, er… She seems to be the weakest and most inexperienced candidate despite doing the most talking about the urgency of independence.
If we vote for it we WILL get it so she is right about that but Forbes is also right that more people need to be convinced.
Humza appears to think that the UK Government would just ignore a plebiscite election which shows a lack of tactical nous. They would try to no doubt but if we pulled our MPs from Westminster they would then be forced to negotiate. They cannot pretend we consent to union if we have no MPs at Westminster and they can’t entirely ignore democratic election results either.
Free Scotland Now! 