Arrogant Tosser (16/04/15)



The Scottish Labour leader, Jim Murphy, has reacted badly to being thrown under the bus by his Labour colleagues in London after being put in his place over the need for future spending cuts.

In fact, Jim has lost the plot altogether if you ask me and is now on the defensive over the charge first raised by his predecessor, Johann Lamont, that Scottish Labour is treated like a branch office by Labour HQ in London.

Here's what Murphy had been saying to various newspapers to rebut the damaging 'branch office' allegation:     

“People can say that, but look ... the size of the budget is determined by the Labour party as a whole. How the money is spent in Scotland is a decision for the Scottish Labour party.

“When it comes to devolved policies on health and education, you’ll see in our manifesto later in the week just how we’ll spend this money. That’s a decision for the Scottish Labour party and no one else.”

But this is simply untrue, of course, because the decision on how public money is spent in Scotland is decided by the Scottish Parliament not by the Scottish Labour Party - and Jim Murphy is not even an MSP.

What an arrogant tosser.

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