It has been a huge honour to serve in government under a coalition last term that has delivered a stable budget and legislation that empowers the people of Scotland. I thank Model-Willem for their service as a cabinet member and the Scottish Conservatives Leader, and have deep gratitude to all my colleagues in government both from my own party such as LightningMinion and SomeBritishDude, as well as those from the tories for their role in serving the public last parliamentary term in government. I also commend my predecessors in the role of First Minister who also served this term for their duties fullfilled to the people of Scotland and thank the people of Scotland for giving us the chance to serve you.

Following the vote in the Scottish Parliament on the matter of a new First Minister and government, I wish Scubaguy the very best of luck and look forward to working with him as Scotland's next First Minister, now just awaiting the official confirmation of the confidence Holyrood has placed in him.

• Model-Eddy, First Minister of Scotland (Acting)

Meta: I tried to post this well before Scuba was confirmed and unfortunately have only just been granted perms here again. So chronologically and canonically for all intents and purposes this was posted before Scuba posted his post :)