action where fewer than 50% of Union members vote to take indus- trial action. They’ve already intro- duced plans to reduce the benefits cap, which will have a grievous im- pact on housing benefits claimants in London. £12 billion more in ben- efits cuts are on the way. Watch out for a boom in food banks. We ain’t seen nothing yet. A lot of people are going to suffer before Scotland finally escapes from the clutches of Cameron and Osborne.
Who’s going to listen to a politician who managed to preside over the loss of 97.5% of Labour’s Westminster seats? The rest of us are hoping the Smugurph can still repeat his vanishing trick with their Holyrood seats if he gets placed in pole position in Labour’s list vote for the 2016 Holyrood elections.
It’s his last hope of rescuing his career. If he does manage to pull the rabbit out of the hat, he’ll destroy what’s left of the Labour party in Scotland. But Jim thinks that’s a price worth paying. The Labour party in Scotland is so craven and spineless that they think it’s a price worth paying, too.
To be fair, ever since Jim went he’s been inundated with letters and message of support, thanking him for all his hard work and begging him to stay. It’s just that he hasn’t realised that they’re all coming from SNP sup- porters.
However Scotland is facing far bigger issues than the implosion of the Labour party. We’re facing an on- slaught of vicious legislation from the unelected and unelectable Tories. A party which enjoys an absolute majority in the House of Com- mons on a mere 25% of possible votes, and with less than 10% of the total possible Scottish vote, is introducing a bill to ban strike
Jim Murphy suffered the humiliating loss of his own seat. He presided over the most cataclysmic result for the Labour party in Scotland since 1918.
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While the Tories might be able to get their attacks on union rights passed into law and will gleefully attack the poor and vulnerable, they face more problems with their plans to abolish the Human Rights Act. The Act is written into devolution settlements in Scotland and Wales and forms an integral part of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland which was agreed by governments of the UK and the Irish Republic. The Scottish government has al- ready said that it would expect any move to abolish the Human Rights Act to be put to a vote in Holyrood - where it certainly will not pass. That means the only way the Tories can get their plans through Westminster will be to ride roughshod over the express will of the Scottish Parlia- ment.
A constitutional crisis is looming. It’s only going to end one way - with Scottish independence.
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