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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Scotland set to appoint first Muslim leader Humza Yousaf


theVibes.com:

Scotland set to appoint first Muslim leader Humza Yousaf


NHS reform, EU re-entry among priorities, pledges 37-year-old



After becoming the first Muslim to be appointed to the Scottish administration in 2012, Humza Yousaf has also served as the country’s transport minister and international development minister before he became health secretary in 2021, The Independent reports. – Bernama pic, March 27, 2023


KUALA LUMPUR – With Britain appointing its first Hindu prime minister, Rishi Sunak, last year, Scotland is now set to have a Muslim as its First Minister.


According to reports, the country’s Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has won the Scottish National Party leadership contest and is set to replace Nicola Sturgeon.

According to CNN, the 37-year-old won 52% of votes in the recent party polls after pledging to seek Scottish independence, tackle rising costs of living, and to rejoin the European Union, among others.

“I will be a First Minister for all of Scotland. I will work every minute of every day to earn and to re-earn your respect and your trust,” Humza said in his acceptance speech.

“My immediate priority will be to continue to protect every Scot as far as we possibly can from the harm inflicted by the cost-of-living crisis, to recover and reform our NHS and other vital public services, (and) to support our well-being economy to improve the life chances of people right across this country.”

Humza’s victory in the polls comes after a five-week-long battle with contestants Ash Regan and Kate Forbes, following Sturgeon’s resignation announcement in February this year.

Per a BBC report, Scottish opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer, of the Labour party, congratulated Humza on the victory, calling the appointment of a first First Minister of an ethnic minority background “a significant moment for Scotland”.

Another report by The Independent noted that Humza is the son of immigrants who moved to Glasgow in the 1960s. His father is from Pakistan while his mother was born into a South Asian family in Kenya.

Humza, who studied politics at the University of Glasgow, told a press conference in February that his grandfather came to Scotland from a small Pakistani town in the sixties, with little command of the English language.

After becoming the first Muslim to be appointed to the Scottish administration in 2012, Humza has also served as the country’s transport minister and international development minister before he became health secretary in 2021, The Independent reported. – The Vibes, March 27, 2023

4 comments:

  1. It has often been remarked that the "Sub-Continent" types , for various reasons fit very well into Anglo Saxon societies, including prominent leadership positions.

    A number of CEOs of the largest US Corporations are also of Sub-Continent roots, as well a 2024 Presidential Candidate who was an Ambassador to UN and former elected Governor of a Southern State. If you understand the "whiteness" of that Statez that was quite an achievement

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  2. One thing is very sure that these orang putih wannabes would definitely be more 'orang-putih-ish' than the real one!

    The circle is almost completed.

    Ireland, England & Scotland all have Indian bloodline PM. No Welsh link - wakakaka could be bcoz both speak with diversely tongue twisting accent!

    A payback for the 400yr of India colonism - in reverse!

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  3. A truly outstanding achievement by a anak pendatang completely immersed in the host society, without the tiresome demands for vernacular education unlike the anak pendatangs in Malaysia

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    1. Yaloh, along the way forgetting about who he was!

      Likening to u - a melayu palsu terlampau melayu!

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