hampden_loon2878 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Tbh murphy is the only one who i dint want to get the job as imo he can re energise scottish labour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86glebestreet Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Tbh murphy is the only one who i dint want to get the job as imo he can re energise scottish labour He is a f Anny, he couldn't re- energise a can of red bull Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwta2007.com Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Scottish Labour vote for their Branch convener. They willingly choose the Tory collaborator, Murphy. I knew those photos of him, shoulder to shoulder, with his East Ren Tory chums would come in handy...... Cannae wait to hear Murphy at FMQ's wae Nicola......oh.........wait.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Scottish Labour vote for their Branch convener. They willingly choose the Tory collaborator, Murphy. I knew those photos of him, shoulder to shoulder, with his East Ren Tory chums would come in handy...... Cannae wait to hear Murphy at FMQ's wae Nicola......oh.........wait.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred_Zeppelin Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Heard a good one on Twitter "He's just a pound shop Tony Blair". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padre Andrew Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 This one is better if you put a big question mark after each name. The caption in the middle gives you your answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clyde1998 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 @patrickharvie: I'd like to offer my congratulations to Jim Murphy, and my commiserations to the Scottish Labour Party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuNsTeR Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 @patrickharvie: I'd like to offer my congratulations to Jim Murphy, and my commiserations to the Scottish Labour Party. Class Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hertsscot Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Five Live 6.30 news just referred to Murphy as the leader of the No campaign in Scotland - ffs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 As someone better than me put it, Murphy is one of the biggest problems of Scottish Labour and they have just elected him as leader - you could not make it up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark frae Crieff Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clyde1998 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 The SNP aim to make Scottish history, while Labour aim to make Scotland history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hampden_loon2878 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Underestimate jim murphy if you want, i just hope it doesn't come beck to bite us, i don't rate him what so ever and don't like what he stands for.The question is whether he can convince disillusioned labour supporters that he can do a reasonable job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 It could quite easily work against Murphy in that he may now get found out for what he is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armchair Bob Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 It could quite easily work against Murphy in that he may now get found out for what he is Not if the BBC and daily record have anything to do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 (edited) Not if the BBC and daily record have anything to do with it. True Here is a little insight into the delusion of the Labour party Alan Johnson on the Andrew Marr show said that this is great news for the Labour Party then went on to say that since Donald Dewar there has been nobody of that stature to lead Scottish Labour and in Murphy they have that. Now lets think about Donald Dewar, Jack McConnell and Henry McLeish for example As far as i am aware 1.6 million Scottish voters did not utterly despise these people not to mention a good number of their own party (see how some of the parliamentarians voted in the leadership election and the upcoming resignations) So pray tell how this can be good for the Labour party ? Also as we all know the referendum has made Scotland politically aware which will very much work against Murphy Edited December 14, 2014 by Ally Bongo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flora MaDonald Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Just watched him on State Broadcaster1. Total phuqqing love in with him and Brewer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northernscum Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Just watched him on State Broadcaster1. Total phuqqing love in with him and Brewer. How many times did he use his new buzzword - "Patriotism"? He seems to love that word all of a sudden. Maybe he should learn the meaning of another word - Irony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khana Lagur Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 Is that background pic a chameleon? Or a snake? Or a lizard? Whatever it is, it's is a nice subtle metaphor for Murphy. Well done Sunday Herald. Aside from that, I think it would be very foolish of the SNP not to respond to Murphy for what he claims he now is, rather than what his past indicates he (possibly) is. We're not fighting an election based on the past, so that's not a valid footing to go into battle on. If he remains a Blairite at heart people will see through any pretence otherwise. If he has had a left wing epiphany then the SNP (and other lefty parties) have to base their strategy accordingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 At least the SNP can now play the man rather than the ball which is what the other side did with Salmond for so long This time though the SNP have plenty ammo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuNsTeR Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 imagine Skeletor in a live TV debate with Nicola during the General Election .... she will murder him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jockodile Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Nicola will have a harder time than Alex did with JL. but im confident she has enough in the locker to deal with Murphy in First ministers questions when the time comes. Main concern is the media loving him. Ideally ge would be dumped in may and face a wilderness year until SP election. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnie x Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Reasonable chance we will have an unemployed leader of the Scottish branch shortly. Punted out in May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Is that background pic a chameleon? Or a snake? Or a lizard? Whatever it is, it's is a nice subtle metaphor for Murphy. Well done Sunday Herald. Maybe it's a representation of a dinosaur? But surely premature to write the guy off. He was recently part of a winning campaign and Labour have not lost any actual Westminster seat for a long time. If he continues to receive such positive press it could be like Blair all over again - the electoral success bit, not the betrayal of the working class bit. As for the Sunday Herald, I haven't seen enough of it recently to judge. But isn't it in danger of preaching to the converted? The clever trick the Scotsman and other papers pull off is to appear in principle politically neutral, draw readers in, and then subtly or not so subtly work their influence in to the tone, text and imagery on the inside. To convince unionists or Labour supporters that Murphy is a dinosaur surely needs to draw them in, rather than starting out by portraying him as a scary lizard? I may have missed it, but did the Scotsman or Record ever caricature Sturgeon so blatantly, to turn off half their potential readership? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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