{"id":4164,"date":"2015-05-14T17:42:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2015-05-14T17:42:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T16:42:17","slug":"in-extraordinary-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=4164","title":{"rendered":"In extraordinary times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ahead of a crucial executive meeting of Scottish Labour this Saturday morning (May 16), Unite has said that the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best chance of a recovery requires Jim Murphy doing the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098decent thing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and resigning his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a week where Scottish Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chief of Staff John McTernan and a small number of elected representatives moved publicly to lock-down debate on the ex-MP for East Renfrewshire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future, MSPs and trade unions have called for Murphy to resign for the future well-being of the party after the disastrous general election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite believes this will allow Scottish Labour the necessary breathing space to conduct essential policy and strategic reform, and to pursue a unified agenda going forward into 2016, while offsetting any fears over the distraction a fifth leadership race in seven years would create.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe only decent thing that Jim can do now is to resign and give deputy leader Kezia Dugdale a clear run at re-building and reforming Scottish Labour so it can avoid a constituency wipe-out in 2016,&#8221; commented Unite Scottish secretary Pat Rafferty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bJim has been at the nerve- centre of Scottish politics for a generation but he is synonymous with the past and after the general election catastrophe &#8211; Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worst performance in Scotland for nearly a century &#8211; he needs to go so we can look to the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese are extraordinary times for Scottish Labour requiring urgent measures, which is why, as the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rules permit, Kezia should now step-up to lead a process of recovery and reform that can restore stability and unity to Scottish Labour.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of a crucial executive meeting of Scottish Labour this Saturday morning (May 16), Unite has said that the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best chance of a recovery requires Jim Murphy doing the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098decent thing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and resigning his leadership. &nbsp; In a week where Scottish Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chief of Staff John McTernan and a small number of elected representatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Murphy should do \u00e2\u20ac\u0098decent thing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and resign","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}