Humza Yousaf, a failed left-wing politician and former Scottish First Minister, has said he is considering leaving the UK with his family as a result of anti-immigration riots that have erupted in the UK over the past week.
Humza Yousaf, a member of the far-left Scottish National Party (SNP) and former First Minister of Scotland, said he doubted whether families would be able to “exist” in the UK. Unrest and violence erupted following a mass stabbing attack at a Taylor Swift children’s dance party in Southport last week, which left three girls dead and several others seriously injured.
There have been no riots in Scotland so far, but members of the Scottish Parliament Said News Agent Podcast: “It’s a strange feeling to have your very sense of belonging called into question.
“I am very Scottish – I was born in Scotland, grew up in Scotland, educated in Scotland, welcomed my third child in Scotland and was leader of the Scottish Government for just over a year.”
“But the truth is, I don’t know whether the future for me, my wife and our three children is going to be here in Scotland, or in the UK, or in Europe or the West, because I’ve always been really worried about the rise of Islamophobia.”
Yousaf further claimed that as a child he had criticised his father for retaining his Pakistani nationality after moving to the UK, possibly out of fear he might have to leave the country and flee to his home country, but now he no longer considered it an “absurd suggestion”.
In an interview translation: I have been honest: with the rise of the far right, I don’t know if my children are safe in the UK.
Every Muslim I know is asking the same question: does Britain have a future?
We need to confront the far right, we cannot let them win. pic.twitter.com/eXvsgez7A7
— Hamza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) August 6, 2024
The former Scottish First Minister, who would take on a role similar to that of a US governor, insisted he had no desire to leave Scotland and praised the country’s “strong history and tradition of multiculturalism”, pointing to his own experience as an elected leader and the rise of former chancellor Rishi Sunak and current London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
But Yousaf also accused other British politicians of stoking “Islamophobia” in the UK, naming Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and Reform MP Lee Anderson as key culprits.
The former Prime Minister claimed that Mr Farage has “demonised Muslims and immigrants for decades – he’s literally made a living off it”. Mr Yousaf also suggested the Brexit leader said all Muslims in the UK represent a “fifth column that is trying to kill us”. Given Mr Farage, this is somewhat unfair. I was speaking They were an extremist minority within the Muslim community, including some who volunteered to join the Islamic State, for example.
“When people talk about concerns about immigration, or legitimate concerns about immigration, they are attacking black people, Asian people and Muslims,” Yousaf argued.
“They’re not targeting Ukrainian refugees. They’re not targeting European migrants. We don’t want them to target anyone, but they’re targeting black people, Asian people, Muslim people.”
Yousaf himself has a history of making racist remarks. Notorious In 2020, amid the international Black Lives Matter riots, he spoke out in the Scottish Parliament about there being too many white people in positions of power in Scottish government and society.
Woke failure: Scotland’s left-wing leader receives more hate speech complaints than JK Rowling, police inundated with callshttps://t.co/K8hzNfPSFD
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) April 3, 2024
