Jim Murphy is new Scottish Labour leader.

[JTG]

Tories are vermin, but I have to admit them shouting out "SNP gain" every time a Scottish Labour MP gets up to speak is amusing.

Excellent trolling

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[brogdale]

Quality.

 

[danny la rouge]

"Jim Murphy, the Labour party leader in Scotland, owns a property bought with help from the taxpayer just two miles from the Palace of Westminster, which he let out. Over two years from 2012/13 he claimed £39,372 to rent another London flat for himself."

http://www.channel4.com/news/mps-expenses-46-claim-in-london-despite-owning-a-property

 

[weepiper]

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[Pickman's model]

the first time i met jim murphy he was president of nus scotland and he came to an nus london regional meeting - where we were expecting a member of the nus national executive - effectively to canvass support for the forthcoming nus conference at which he was elected president.

 

[treelover]

 

[weepiper]

graffitti in Partick

 

[danny la rouge]

Murphy hung out by Labour. (Scottish labour seats written off?)

 

[danny la rouge]

Murphy taking quite a bit of flak on this, and there was already speculation as to whether he'd still be leader for next year's Holyrood elections.

 

[danny la rouge]

So, Murphy's strategy was to say that a) Labour wasn't an austerity cuts party and b) even if it was, Scotland would be treated different.

Miliband, Balls and Ummuna say a) yes it is, and b) no it wouldn't.

So, what the Labour leadership has decided is that the press that Murphy's pronouncements have been getting in the South are jeopardising Labour's chances there, and that it is best just to cut their losses in Scotland. Murphy can be publicly humiliated, and Scottish Labour seats can be written off.

This is huge.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[weepiper]

The leader of the Scottish Labour Party needed a police escort to visit a steelworks in Fife today.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/po...ce-during-jim-murphy-s-visit-to-fife-1.863769

I'm not sure anyone outside of Scotland is really going to get the significance of that.

 

[starfish]

I don't think any of this is going to stop my mum from voting for him. My dad maybe.

 

[brogdale]

Captions?

 

[danny la rouge]

Captions?

Boy puts cap on cunt.

 

[brogdale]

Boy puts cap on cunt.

I was going to go for the more Dr Seuss themed 'the twat in the hat'...but I think you've just won the competition.

 

[xslavearcx]

Not looking good for Jim Murphy and Douglas Alexander holding onto their constituencies

http://news.stv.tv/scotland-decides...tituency-seat-according-to-new-ashcroft-poll/

 

[Pickman's model]

Not looking good for Jim Murphy and Douglas Alexander holding onto their constituencies

http://news.stv.tv/scotland-decides...tituency-seat-according-to-new-ashcroft-poll/

grand

 

[JTG]

45% - a losing total in a referendum but a handsome winning one under FPTP.

Alanis Morrisette could write a song about that

 

[weepiper]

You may like these Glaswegian responses to being offered a copy of the Scottish Labour manifesto

https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10152868226436939/

 

[xslavearcx]

Crossed a road twice this week to avoid labour peeps canvassing ...

 

[Tankus]

Not seen one yet ...or any posters

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I have to say The National is just as much a laughable propaganda rag as any other paper during election time.

 

[William of Walworth]

The leader of the Scottish Labour Party needed a police escort to visit a steelworks in Fife today.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/po...ce-during-jim-murphy-s-visit-to-fife-1.863769

I'm not sure anyone outside of Scotland is really going to get the significance of that.

I live near Port Talbot, and I exactly get your post.

I might gently suggest that some people who hate Labour to that level of Jim Murphy needing police protection in Scotland, have things slightly less in perspective than people in these parts of South Wales.

Who remember Thatcher better.

 

[weepiper]

I live near Port Talbot, and I exactly get your post.

I might gently suggest that some people who hate Labour to that level of Jim Murphy needing police protection in Scotland, have things slightly less in perspective than people in these parts of South Wales.

Who remember Thatcher better.

With respect, William, fuck off.

 

[William of Walworth]

Where's the respect there, exactly?

 

[weepiper]

Where's the respect there, exactly?

Well spotted.

Really, though, what response do you expect to your ill-informed holier-than-thou nonsense? You think we don't hate the Tories up here too?

 

[JTG]

I think maybe they're of the opinion that the Labour Party of 2015 is of slightly more relevance now than the political battlegrounds of the 1980s.

Btw, the Labour top brass back then were disgusting sell outs as well