Murphy becomes Scottish Secretary

East Renfrewshire MP Jim Murphy has been appointed as the new Scottish Secretary.

[Tom Paine]

Several years ago, as a student wanting to defend the right to a free education, I remember the depths to which this political parasite, Jim Murphy, as president of the National Union of Students, could sink. We heard rumours that he had been promised to represent a safe Labour seat if he towed the then government line of introducing student loans, rather than grants. This has all come true. He marched alongside student in Leeds who were supporting the right for poor and working class students to continue to receive grants, while at the same time he toured the country pushing union leaders to be "realistic" and move to support the idea of loans not grants. Murphy, you are nothing more than an obnoxious smelling substance that we scrape off our shoes once in a while. Unfortunately, you are in government, reinforcing the idea that our politicians are self-serving low-life. You should be ashamed of your self.

[Ninian Reid]

Tom Paine (& others in Ohio and elsewhere) will doubtless be enthralled to know that Scotland is on the move under the adept stewardship of First Minister Alex Salmond.For generations, the Scottish people have been caught in the vice-like grip of Labour miss-rule. That, though, is all going to change as the highly-effective SNP Government here in Edinburgh strives to take the country on the high road to Independence, completely by-passing Gordon Brown and his cronies on the low road to London.

[Highland Mary]

This has got to be the sickest joke yet.
Put simply, Labour are dead in the water. All this parasite will contribute to the people of Scotland will be lies. The great Ian Grey Leader of Scottish Labour has shown himself to be a total waste of Taxpayers money and yet this is the best man for the job (according to Labour). If that was the case, what if one of the other muppets had got the top job/
Scotland has seen a different road to travel. We've been down Labour's Pot-holed track and all we have to show for it is aches and pains of a failed new improved socialist ideology.