For the Good of the Yes Movement, Yousaf and Co Must Go – NOW.

To many of us, the idea of the SNP being given an electoral kicking is a welcome one. They’ve lost focus, they’ve lost direction and they’ve lost the faith of the wider Yes movement. The problem is that if they lose the next Scottish election they lose Holyrood, and by the presently tenuous extension, so does the Yes movement. Our own Parliament will revert to a pro-British Nationalist one.

The idea that a period out of office will allow them to clear out the dead wood and come back next time, better, fitter and more capable, is akin to the same delusion football supporters embrace when they are staring relegation in the face. Some teams, like Dundee United may bounce back at the first go, but for every Dundee United there’s an Airdrieonians, a Partick Thistle, a Raith Rovers or a Dunfermline, who suddenly find their season in the seaside leagues becomes their permanent residence. And sometimes, one bad season follows another, until you are but a distant memory.

The Independence movement needs the SNP to change the manager NOW, before the humiliation of relegation, before the infighting and bickering destroys them, and takes us with it in the process.