Quote of the day – Scotland isn’t Slovenia

Jim MurphyJim Murphy in an interview with the Spectator:

“He’s the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and he shouldn’t behave like a foreign visiting dignitary when he goes to Scotland…he comes up and he stands in front of a British flag and a Scottish flag as if he is visiting Slovenia. Scotland is not bloody Slovenia.”

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