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Jim Murphy

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Jim Murphy

@glasgowmurphy

Personal account of Rt Hon. Jim Murphy, CEO @ArdenStrategies and lots of other things.

London and Scotland

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Joined April 2009

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Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Jul 8, 2024
🧵What does it feel like to be elected as a new MP as part of a landslide victory? Here are 17 lessons and tips for the new MPs arriving in Westminster today, based on my memories of being elected unexpectedly for the first time in that 1997 win.
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Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Dec 14, 2021
“ Hello, this is @PippaCrerar calling, I just wanted to ask you about…” must be the most terrifying sound in all of British politics right now.
Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Mar 27, 2024
Congratulations to Humza Yousaf on his first anniversary as First Minister. A 🧵 of his most significant achievements to date. He is the only SNP First Minister not to have been arrested. Ends.
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Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Mar 3, 2023
I've known Sue Gray for over 20 yrs. She has served dozens of Tory, Labour and Lib Dem ministers & 7 PMs. None of us would ever have had the slightest sense of Sue's personal opinions or politics. To suggest otherwise now, reflects badly on her critics rather than on her.
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Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Aug 15, 2021
I remember being six hours into my holiday in Spain when Russia and Georgia’s 2008 war began. I was FCO minister for Europe. Gordon Brown rightly had me back at my desk that same day.
Lewis Goodall
@lewis_goodall
Aug 15, 2021
Former Labour Defence Secretary and Director General of NATO George Robertson not holding back about Dominic Raab being on holiday. Says “It is stunning....The horrors unfolding with every minute demand focussed attention from the top.”
Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Mar 28, 2021
It takes a special brand of duplicitous cynicism to know that you could have given a laptop to every single pupil in Scotland during the pandemic, but hold off doing so just so that you can announce it as an election pledge.
Nicola Sturgeon
@NicolaSturgeon
Mar 28, 2021
🗳 👩‍💻 If ⁦@theSNP⁩ is re-elected in May, we will make sure every school pupil from P1 to S6 gets a laptop, Chromebook or tablet. In the digital age this should be as automatic as being given jotters and pencils was in years gone by. #BothVotesSNP dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/n…
Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Aug 31, 2022
No-one loves Scotland quite as much as those celebrity Scots who don’t live here. I wonder if the bins get emptied in Hollywood.
Sam Taylor
@staylorish
Aug 29, 2022
“My country has to be free.” “Anybody who comes here sees the difference between the north and the south.” “Country first. Not politics. Country first.” Sturgeon then bemoans the fact that Brian Cox sees this so much more clearly from New York than people who live in Scotland.
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Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Sep 18, 2021
Happier times from 2014. Remembered today.
Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
May 23, 2022
🧵This week Nicola Sturgeon will become Scotland’s longest serving First Minister – 7 years, 6 months & 6 days. Long enough for anyone to radically reshape a nation. There will always be highs and lows in any govt, but let’s analyse whether her time has seen fundamental change 1/
Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Feb 21, 2024
So Parliament agreed to everything that the SNP wanted on Gaza and yet they respond with fury. ‘Yes, it’s a ceasefire but it’s not an SNP ceasefire’, seems to be their tortuous position. It’s almost as if their motion was motivated by something else entirely.
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Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Aug 10, 2018
I’ve paid for a full-page ad in this week’s Jewish Telegraph. It’s an apology to the Jewish Community about the actions of the Labour Party’s leadership. JM
Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Jul 13, 2024
Like lots of racism, their defence will be it’s all ‘harmless fun’. But a better test of whether this is racist is to swap ‘sponging English’ with Irish, or Pakistani, or migrants. This isn’t their fabled joyful civic nationalism. It’s racism.
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Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Dec 11, 2018
I’m standing at bus stop in central London and just overheard 3 men arguing with one another. I turned around when one called the other a c**t. It was only then that I noticed it was 3 Tory MPs going ‘blue on blue’. I’m not so sure that this Brexit thing is going to end well.
Jim Murphy
@glasgowmurphy
Apr 7, 2023
For years, a particular brand of English progressive has fetishised the SNP. This, despite rising poverty, secrecy and polarisation in Scotland. After the events of past month surely that fetish can now be buried in a tented garden just outside of Glasgow.
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