Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I am no lover of Murphy, or of the Labour party in Scotland, but, I love Sturgeon, and her band of merry halfwits even less.
, I love Sturgeon, and her band of merry halfwits even less.
Have you been drinking?
That's not really an excuse to embarrass yourself by talking shite like 'SNSP'.
So you have been drinking? I'll leave you to it.
As I thought. You have no idea. The uninformed criticising the informed. How quaint.
Why not just admit that you cannot answer the question, through lack of knowledge?
Yes. The reason I have not answered your daft question is because I have not a clue of what I speak, while you, as you rightly point out, are 'the informed'. It has nothing to do with not wanting to enter into a debate with a swivel-eyed, old goat who bandies terms like 'national socialist' to refer to the SNP.
Kindly stop quoting my posts now, ta.
Ad hom = equals lost argument, hardly surprising as you launched in never thinking you might actually have to provide some evidence to back up your argument.
The only piece of non-restrictive legislation (that directly affects people), was those aged 16 and 17 being allowed to vote in the referendum. Even this deeply cynical ploy; an attempt to capitalise on the naivety of children, backfired.
The referendum was lost. Rejected by the people. It is time Sturgeon was forced to recognise this.
Hi Will.I'd rather there was a practical, analysis based discussion about Scotland's/Murphy's/Labour's/the SNP's/everyone else's political and electoral prospects.
The HeraldIn his first major speech since becoming leader, the East Renfrewshire MP will call for changes to the party's constitution to seal its autonomy from UK Labour and emphasise its commitment to campaigning "in the national interest of Scotland".
Symbolically, the new mission statement will be set out in clause four of Scottish Labour's constitution.
The move echoes Tony Blair's decision to scrap clause four of the UK party constitution, a step which ended its decades-old commitment to the nationalisation of industry and was seen as a vital step in the party's modernisation.
The new clause four will define Scottish Labour as a "patriotic party" whose values are rooted in "the ethics of Burns' poetry, the economic vision of New Lanark and the actions of the Highlanders who took on brutal landlords," Mr Murphy will tell supporters in Glasgow.
It will also confirm Scottish Labour's control over policy making, its commitment to a permanent Scottish Parliament and reaffirm its mission to create a fairer society.
In addition, the party will set out in black and white its belief in solidarity with people from the rest of the UK, insisting that "complements" putting Scotland first.
Mr Murphy aims to introduce the changes at the party's conference next Spring, exactly 20 years after Mr Blair ended the commitment to nationalisation.
The new leader will describe his reforms as the "biggest change in Scottish Labour's history," amounting to "the refounding and rebirth of our Scottish Labour Party".
He will tell party members: "This is a clause four moment for a different time and a different purpose.
"Tony Blair rewrote clause four of UK Labour to bring us closer to the centre of politics.
"I want to rewrite clause four of Scottish Labour to bring us closer to the centre of Scottish life."
He will add: "Today Scottish Labour's challenge is that some people feel they can't be Labour and make a patriotic choice.
"The change we need goes deeper than the leadership style of a new team.
"If this is to be a genuinely fresh start for our party we need to make more fundamental change."
Mr Murphy's reforms follow repeated polls showing the SNP are perceived as the party that best stands up for Scotland, a claim Nicola Sturgeon is set to highlight during the looming general election campaign.
Under previous leader Johann Lamont, Scottish Labour rarely made an issue of its patriotism, partly from a belief it could not hope to "out-Nat" the Nationalists.
Mr Murphy won the party leadership convincingly on Saturday, achieving a 55 per cent share of the vote.
In an interview yesterday, he said he would offer defeated rivals Neil Findlay and Sarah Boyack jobs when he comes to assemble his frontbench team for Holyrood later this week.
He also said he would look "way beyond Labour, way beyond the trade unions" to fill key roles in the party and would seek to recruit non-party figures and independence supporters to a new "Team Labour".
In comments that will fuel speculation about his future at Westminster, he said he was "not attracted" to serving as both an MP and MSP.
Mr Murphy confirmed he would seek to become an MSP in 2016, if not sooner, and said he will announce early next year whether he plans to stand in East Renfrewshire again in May's general election.
A poll at the weekend put the SNP 20 points ahead of Labour - on 47 per cent support to 27 per cent - in the race for Westminster seats.
Mr Murphy said he was confident and determined to hold onto Labour's 41 Scottish seats, but added: "It's feasible but it's tough.
Urging SNP and Lib Dem voters to back Labour, he added: "We can either protest against the Tories or we can replace the Tories."
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Will, the vacuum in Scottish Labour wasn't at the top. There's only a top.I was more interested in the organisational side. There's surely no way a new leader can be any more disorganised/chaotic than a leaderless vacuum for the SLP
the Scottish National Socialist Party
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from holding the balance in Westminster, which would be absolutely dreadful.
The SNSP lost the referendum, this needs to be hammered home.
... 'What can I not do that I could do before they were elected,
This comes back to something I was asking Quartz about in the big indy ref thread. He said that people had opined that the SNP wouldn't "accept the result" of the referendum. He wasn't able to answer what that meant. Sass belongs to that camp, too. The SNP should "accept the result".I'm pretty sure that Nicola Sturgeon is aware of the referendum result already.
... those aged 16 and 17 being allowed to vote in the referendum. Even this deeply cynical ploy; an attempt to capitalise on the naivety of children, backfired.
I would
So says the self-described Tory.Of the three, Murphy is the best candidate by a long shot.
You're out of date on that one. Sass left the actual Tories.So says the self-described Tory.
Looks like Murphy plans to try and cut the ties that bind between Slab and LabLondon.
WTF?"patriotic party"