Jim Murphy is new Scottish Labour leader.

[Sue]

So he's confirmed he's standing for Westminster again in May. How's this going to pan out? Is he going to do the double (something he previously wasn't keen on) or is there going to be a by election in East Renfrewshire in 2016?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-30934929

 

[danny la rouge]

Whatever it is he does, the media will be sure to tell us how clever it was., and how it was exactly the right thing to do. And then wipe their chins.

 

[Sue]

Yep. Keeping his options open just in case or 'I can do both because it's the Scottish Parliament and being an MSP/First Minister'll be a piece of piss because I'm dead good and used to a *proper* parliament.'

(I could be projecting given I can't stand the man but...)

 

[weepiper]

I will laugh if he loses his seat. LAUGH.

 

[Sue]

I will laugh if he loses his seat. LAUGH.

I don't think you'd be laughing alone...

 

[DexterTCN]

I will laugh if he loses his seat. LAUGH.

I'm sniggering just thinking about it. Make or break for him politically, surely. Not losing his seat but a bad result would see him getting thrown overboard by his bosses, most likely.

 

[The Boy]

I will laugh if he loses his seat. LAUGH.

As funny as that would be, I can't see it.

 

[weepiper]

As funny as that would be, I can't see it.

Yeah I know, but don't harsh my vibe, man.

 

[geminisnake]

As funny as that would be, I can't see it.

But we have hope over fear And until May I will hope

 

[19sixtysix]

Need someone notable and left wing to put up against him. Maybe Dennis Canavan could be persuaded to stand.

 

[The Boy]

Yeah I know, but don't harsh my vibe, man.

Sorry, bruh

 

[19sixtysix]

Murphy's campaign might be quite hard to get over the "I only want to sit in this job till I get a seat as an MSP now give us yer votes muppets" In fact I can see this poster all over east refrewshire.

 

[xslavearcx]

Need someone notable and left wing to put up against him. Maybe Dennis Canavan could be persuaded to stand.

Don't think any left wing candidate would get much votes in East Renfrewshire sadly - remember that it took jim Murphy the quintessence of new labour to transition that seat from Tory to labour...

 

[nino_savatte]

Scottish Labour didn't so much as shoot themselves in the foot when they elected Murphy as leader. They took out an Uzi, emptied the clip and shot their foot into a bloody stump.

 

[Celyn]

Don't think any left wing candidate would get much votes in East Renfrewshire sadly - remember that it took jim Murphy the quintessence of new labour to transition that seat from Tory to labour...

Also, wasn't the Tory M.P.for Eastwood, Allan (or poss.Alan) Stewart turning into a bit of an embarrassment, he and his not-old enough son waving shotguns around 'cos they disagreed with the M77 protest at Pollok? Some sort of "breakdown" then retired, and after that Kim Murphy won the seat for "Labour".

 

[Celyn]

Jim, not Kim, and pickaxe + air pistols rather than shotgun.

 

[xslavearcx]

Forgot about that but yes I think that was a pretty significant contributing factor...

 

[treelover]

Jim Murphy and Gordon Brown will on Monday pledge that a Labour government would radically extend Scotland’s powers over welfare, following speculation that Brown is to take a prominent role in his party’s general election campaign in the hope of repeating the success of his last-minute intervention in the independence referendum.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/02/labour-scotland-jim-murphy-gordon-brown

Has Murphy had a damascene conversion or is it he will just will do anything to get into power?, this man as a New Labour Employment Secretary was one of the key architects of the Employment Support Allowance(ESA) and the abolishment of Incapacity Benefit and now he is claiming that benefits in Scotland are too low and in some cases will need to be topped up and a more benign regime put in place.

 

[gosub]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/gen...wn-Higher-Scottish-benefits-are-Vow-Plus.html

 

[DotCommunist]

Has Murphy had a damascene conversion or is it he will just will do anything to get into power?, this man as a New Labour Employment Secretary was one of the key architects of the Employment Support Allowance(ESA) and the abolishment of Incapacity Benefit and now he is claiming that benefits in Scotland are too low and in some cases will need to be topped up and a more benign regime put in place.

the second one. The futures not looking great for slab and he's desperately trying to sell himself as a non-blairite old labour man.

 

[xslavearcx]

More substance less blairite rebranding excercises by Jim Murphy

http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobil...ry-to-turn-labour-into-party-of-yes.117966622

 

[danny la rouge]

Labour's naked class politics: we're a party of the wealthy.

"Middle-class voters in some of Scotland’s most prosperous constituencies could rescue Ed Miliband and improve his chances of making it to Downing Street, according to unpublished doorstep canvassing revealed to The Independent."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...er-ed-miliband-a-route-to-no-10-10057853.html

 

[Pickman's model]

jim murphy in still a cunt shocker

 

[danny la rouge]

jim murphy in still a cunt shocker

How are you parsing that sentence?

 

[William of Walworth]

Independent in highly dubious, statistically iffy, spin recycling, shite reporting shocker?

The standard of both poll reporting and political reporting (for all over the UK I mean, not just about Scotland) is truly horrendous in terms of wildly over-simplifying things. So what else is new etc.

For Scotland alone, some of the spin overinflates the SNP's strength, other reports claim too much for Labour. I suggest cautious scepticism about all claims.

 

[danny la rouge]

Independent in highly dubious, statistically iffy, spin recycling, shite reporting shocker?

The standard of both poll reporting and political reporting (for all over the UK I mean, not just about Scotland) is truly horrendous in terms of wildly over-simplifying things. So what else is new etc.

For Scotland alone, some of the spin overinflates the SNP's strength, other reports claim too much for Labour. I suggest cautious scepticism about all claims.

Yeah, that's part of the story: the Independent at best swallowing Labour's comfort polling whole, at worst swallowing a made up lie.

But the more striking part is Labour openly positioning itself as a party of the wealthy middle class.

 

[Pickman's model]

I will laugh if he loses his seat. LAUGH.

jelly and ice cream for the day, having a party when murphy falls in the shit

 

[Pickman's model]

How are you parsing that sentence?

it's not a sentence: no verb. i thought someone of your pedant skils would have seen that.

 

[danny la rouge]

it's not a sentence: no verb. i thought someone of your pedant skils would have seen that.

I did, but in the spirit of no-regrets, left it.

In the spirit of rueing-the-day, I now regret my decision.

 

[danny la rouge]

Want Labour? Vote Tory.

Or something.