'Three Jobs' Murphy (03/03/15)

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Just the other day Jim 'Two Jobs' Murphy confirmed his intention to stand in May's general election to the Westminster Parliament.

But now it seems that Jim might have to be accorded a new moniker of 'Three Jobs' Murphy as the Labour leader is refusing to confirm that he will have to resign his Eastwood seat if he wins in May 2015, but goes on to win a seat in the elections to the Scottish Parliament in 2016.

Now Jim has to stand and win a Holyrood seat in 2016 to fulfil his declared ambition of becoming Scotland's First Minister, but the Labour leader has a problem because he would be a member of the Scottish and Westminster Parliaments at the same time.

The obvious thing for Jim to do would have been to stand down from Westminster in May so that he could have concentrated on his biggest job at the moment which is trying to revive the Labour Party's fortunes north of the border. 

By not making this obvious and selfless move, Labour is signalling that without Jim's personal following the party may well lose its Eastwood seat which, arguably, is not natural Labour territory.

On the other hand if Jim says he is only going to stay on at Westminster for a year until he wins a seat and becomes a Holyrood MSP in 2016, the voters of Eastwood are hardly likely to be impressed by someone who, politically speaking, is 'here today and gone tomorrow'.   

So Jim is on the horns of a very Scottish dilemma although if you ask me he's made the worst possible choice because 'Three Jobs' Murphy sends out all the wrong messages and makes the Labour Party look like a bunch of hypocrites.

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