Jim Murphy held a street rally in Edinburgh today. Given many of the election events from the main parties have been behind closed doors, the Scottish Labour leader deserves credit for pitching up right outside the Scottish National Gallery and standing for about an hour in a space where real genuine members of the public were walking.
He was, of course, protected by a rubber ring of activists wearing T-shirts with key Scottish Labour pledges on it, such as ending exploitative zero hours contracts and lowering tuition fees. They had placards with #toriesout splashed across them.
And given the rally was secret and only advertised to the media before it happened, there wasn’t much of an opportunity for real genuine members of the public to plan to pop by and ask questions. A few passersby shouted: one called Murphy a ‘fucking bastard’ as he walked to his van parked nearby and another yelled ‘Red Tories out!’ as she crossed the road during another photocall on the steps of the gallery.
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