WHAT do Jim Murphy and David Mundell have in common?
Apart from occasionally sharing an Irn-Bru crate together during the referendum campaign, neither of them appear to be too proud of their political party.
It’s a long held practice, that if the leader of your political party is popular, you make sure you get as many pictures of them on your election leaflets as possible.
If their popularity is waning, then you don’t even mention them. There are very few leaflets in Scotland with Ed Miliband or David Cameron.
But what can it mean when the leader of Scottish Labour and the only Tory MP in Scotland not only don’t mention their leaders, but not even their parties?
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson yesterday tweeted a picture of Jim Murphy’s leaflet: “I get @JimForScotland leaving Miliband off his leaflet but why has he left off @scottishlabour? Not a single mention”. Very quickly it was pointed out to Davidson that Mundell had done the same thing.
A spokesperson for the SNP confirmed that all leaflets used by their candidates would mention their party’s name.
Kirsten Oswald, the SNP candidate in East Renfrewshire said: “It’s little wonder that Jim Murphy is embarrassed by Labour’s appalling record – but unfortunately for him, people in East Renfrewshire won’t soon forget or forgive the way his party worked hand in glove with the Tories during the referendum – and now find themselves on the same side of so many issues as Cameron and Osborne.
“David Mundell seems equally embarrassed of his own party.”
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