Voices: Humza Yousaf won’t be the last leader to be forced to the brink by impossible promises
I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. Neil Kinnock’s words echo down the decades: “You start with far-fetched resolutions,” he said, confronting the Trotskyists who ran Liverpool. “They are then pickled,” he said, and you end, in words that Labour modernisers recite as a creed, “in the grotesque chaos”.
In Militant’s case, the chaos meant a council run in the name of the workers hiring taxis to hand out redundancy notices. In the Scottish National Party’s case, it may mean the premature end of its government in Edinburgh after 17 years.
Humza Yousaf, the first minister, , and the SNP is desperate to
