As you may have guessed, I'm interested. 

*knows EC to well to already know this*  

Here it comes....extra budget in July. I'm not gonna take a guess at who will lose out 

Yep, it's a stone blind certainty the poor will get hammered 

Jim Murphy resigned

Another one bites the dust 

I’m sure it was rumoured that Murphy had some involvement in the resignation of predecessor, Johann Lamont.

Is Kezia Dugdale his likely successor?

Not yet he hasn't!

Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy announces he is to resign next month despite narrowly surviving a vote of no confidence.

Six months ago Jim Murphy was elected leader of the Scottish Labour Party, and he had big ambitions.

He would oversee the re-election of Scotland's 41 Labour MPs, he would win a seat at the 2016 Holyrood election and he would become the next first minister of Scotland.

But the plan has not worked out.

At last week's general election, Mr Murphy was one of the defeated candidates as Labour lost 40 Westminster seats to the Scottish National Party.

Jim Murphy was my MP for 18 years. He was a good MP and served the community well. He worked his socks off for the No Thanks campaign during the referendum, and I am sad that things have ended like this for him - and I'm not even a Labour voter.

yep.. I hope the one sticking the knives in his back isn't his successor.

Me too!

Chuka's gone and I'm rather pleased.  I'm not pleased that his personal affairs rather than his politics have been the reason he pulled out of the race. 

I'm really worried about the Labour Party with these candidates.  The only one who doesn't look like a Blairite is Andy Burnham.  If Ed Miliband were to offer his services again, the Labour Party should take him up on his offer.

Mucho Kudos to Ed for standing up to Murdoch and having a vague faint whiff of the left wing about him. I fear that we are going to have another bunch of "we can run a monetarist capitalist system favouring multinationals better than the Tories" regime.

I can just to say remember studying Kondratiev (or Kondratieff depending on one's spelling) and his waves/cycles. We may be approaching his post beneficial deflation winter. It will really mess up the Tories and we need to ready with an alternative.

According to The Telegraph Burnham has Charlie Falconer running his campaign.

I saw Andy Burnham this morning being interview by Andrew Marr and I thought he came across well, seemed to have been thinking about his approach and what he considers the issues are. I could see him as party leader and depending on how things work out a potential PM - however there is plenty of talking and water to flow under that bridge.

The next person who uses the term "metropolitan elite" I swear I'll put my foot through the telly box.

Metr......nah don't want to be a destroyer telly boxes 

Read Liz Kendall's speech and I wouldn't cross the street to vote for a Labour Party led by such a waste of space. 

Reading her comments was just like reading a column by Dan Hodges, the Torygraph's pet Miliband bashing hack.  According to Liz, almost all Labour's policies were a bit rubbish and the Tories' policies absolutely fine.  If she thinks that why doesn't she just join the Tories?

Couldn't have anything to do with losing her safe Leicester seat if she wore a blue rosette! ?

Owen Jones saying it like it is, as usual!

I'm off to see him in September, I think he's brilliant...hope he decides to become a politician, we need people with his spirit and sense of fairness in government 

Couldn't agree more.  People like Liz Kendall think the Labour party solely exists to provide them with connections and a cosy career. 

She is everything that is wrong with the Labour party today 

To me, it's just like they're doing a job interview, not for Labour, but for the Tory media.  Going over the heads of Labour voters and members, who they don't think matter, and telling the Tory press exactly what it wants to hear so they might win their approval. What's the point if in winning their approval the jettison everything that makes Labour, Labour.

exactly and they haven't the sense to see why the SNP swept Scotland, we need a party with different values and spirit, not to jog along with with the tories to please the 80% Tory backed press. 

Hmmmm, interesting

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/...-BBkf1kn?ocid=TSHDHP

TBF Potato headed Bobby entered into an agreement with Murdoch, hence his support for the nationalist cause!

So the government is going to introduce a *one nation strategy* 

Forgive me for being sceptical but does that include...

the sick?

the poor?

the old?

the people who are on zero hour contracts that make the unemployment figures look good?

And myriads of other people who are gonna get hammered under this lot?

I think not 

Not to mention the Unions who this government will introduce legislation again, according to several news channels...

For those of you who voted this lot in I hope you are satisfied and hope the changes affect you more than the rest of us....

I voted Labour as I have always done, even though I knew they where a disjointed party and will be for some years to come now...

I could not find it in my heart to vote for another party...

Tories...never after the Thatcher years...

UKIP...never in my lifetime...

Lib Dems...wouldn't trust them as far as I could toss an elephant...

Enough and probably to much said but that's me...time to cease my political rhetoric and move on to more happier threads...

As one of those voters I will wait until I actually see what they are going to do Moonie ....not just the rhetoric  

Fair enough Bazzy 

Just my own personal view. Wouldn't want to alienate my lovely and most cherished friends

I voted Tory but got a labour candidate in my local seat.. so if Labour aren't the overall winners blame labour voters not  voting to get enough of their candidates in to form a  Majority, don't blame Tory voters .......

I'm thinking of changing my nationality.   Every day I cringe more and more at their school trip antics..