“Don’t know where he got that idea from”: Jim Murphy’s top Twitter Blatter banter

Election, resignation, self-deprecation.

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Jim Murphy, voted leader of Scottish Labour last December only to resign after the election, has some sympathy with Sepp Blatter, the Fifa chief who’s standing down after his re-election last week.

Winning a crucial internal vote and then resigning. Don’t know where Blatter got that idea from…

— Jim Murphy (@JimForScotland) June 2, 2015

Let’s hope Blatter doesn’t take another British politician’s lead and un-resign any time soon…

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