LEADERSHIP: There will be a total collapse of electoral support, writes Jim Sillars

If the Scottish National Party elects John Swinney and, as hints indicate, again enters the “fantastical world view” of the Greens, as your leading article “Humza the Brief” accurately describes it, there will be a total collapse of electoral support. People in Scotland are “scunnered” (utterly fed up).

JIm Sillars – ‘Scotland needs a government anchored in reality’

They have had enough of the fixation on pronouns instead of learning in schools; of pretending men are women; of the absurdity of believing that a Highlander burning wood in a stove can save the planet while in China, India and elsewhere 1,400 coal-fired power stations are at full blast.

Scotland needs a government anchored in reality, one that is able to reverse the decline in education, not talking of but actually reforming the NHS, building homes and stimulating, not throttling, small businesses.

We need a leader to wipe clean the Sturgeon slate, someone intellectually equipped for the job, with a mind that can encompass other opinions, who is authentic and respected. I have just described Kate Forbes, pictured left.

Jim Sillars Former MP and deputy leader of the SNP; Edinburgh

Top picture: Humza Yousaf with Greens Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater.