There are plenty of valid criticisms to be made of the Labour leader, and many of them are why I didn't put him as my first preference when voting in the party's leadership contest.
"What I hope emerges from this is the creation of a common sense centre-left formation made of sensible Labour, the Lib Dems and indeed some Tories who don't like the direction of their party," he said.
In the OECD Jobs Study of 1995 a ranking was made of the extent of labour market regulations, in which the Netherlands scored worse than the United States, Britain, Denmark and Japan.
And it may help the Working Families Party, a progressive political party largely made up of labour unions, which already has more grassroots support than the fragmented Democrats.
For decades a "national camp" comprising the Likud and its allies was pitted against a "peace camp" made up of Labour and like-minded parties, including Israeli-Arab parties.
On Friday, it approached near farce, when members of the Labour Leave group, made up of Labour MPs and others on the left who want out, severed links with the Vote Leave campaign.
It was all so different on 13 December when a delighted Mr Murphy was made leader of Labour in Scotland, beating rivals Neil Findlay and Sarah Boyack with 55.77% of the vote.
African women "were made for labour: one of them can carry or haul as much as two men can do".
He was then dropped after allegations of misconduct were made to Labour's National Executive Committee.
David Axelrod, Labour's newly appointed senior strategist and Barack Obama's closest long-term political adviser, will make mobilisation of Labour's grassroots central to the election campaign, a senior Labour staffer who has worked for Obama has forecast.
