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Hello and welcome to the special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by two of our regular colonists

Ian McWerter and John Ferry.

Now I should set the outset that today is the spectator reader summer tea party

so there might be a bit of a hubbub in the background here when I'm talking to these two gentlemen.

The topic of today's discussion is Thomas Eusef's first 100 days in office

which was marked on Friday. John first of all how do you think the first 100 days have gone?

So I think the first 100 days overall no one's going to look at it and view it as being successful

for Hamza Eusef. But then when you look at why that says I don't necessarily think that you can

it's necessarily anything to do with what Hamza has or hasn't done himself.

I think there are structural circumstances around his position.

You're starting the position of his party which meant that it was inevitable that his first 100

days were going to be pretty much disastrous and there's probably two elements of that.

One is the poison chalice that he inherited from the party with police investigations and so on

that you know that was never going to play out particularly well for whoever came second

CK Minions leader at this point whether that was Kate Forbes or Hamza or someone else and then

another reason is there's probably a bigger structural change happening which is the waning of

populism in Scotland, the waning of nationalist populism which I think is there's a general feeling

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