Jack Straw: 'I'm going to stand at the next General Election' (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Pack it in, Straw. You're nothing but a political disease.

Standing again! What a disaster. He's finished as a politician. All he's doing is stoking up his pension. Give up and let the next generation have a go.

Cue the music and sing, " Time to . . . say goddbye "

so jack - just so i understand the invasion of iraq was to make the middle east a more stable place????

i must have misunderstood - i thought it was to uncover and destroy those invisible weapons of mass destruction.

great how the likes of straw like to try and rewrite history.

I hope UKIP have a good candidate for Blackburn.

"Our Jack's" Worst Moments Part 2 ...In my view ......

A ) Together with Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell, being part of the Labour heirarchy / Government, which officially "doctored" the Iraq WMD Dossier ( and which indirectly led to the suicide of Dr David Kelly), thereby lying to the British public and to Parliament and together with George Bush launching an illegal invasion of Iraq totally unsupported by the United Nations. And in contravention of every international law.

B) Inviting at great financial cost to the residents of Blackburn and Lancashire , the US Politician Condoleeza Rice, to Blackburn. This visit served no useful purpose whatsoever, made no noticeable difference , achieved no obvious objective .. except it enabled "Our Jack" to show off on the national and international stage and to curry favour with the Bush administration.

In my opinion this is the true and lasting political legacy of "Our Jack".

UKIP is coming to oust you out of your seat the people of Britain are sick and fed up of Labour, Condems not doing what the people of this country want, less immigration, a bigger stance in Europe, it is time to go, what have you ever done for Blackburn Jack apart from confuse the public with it's one way system, people of Britain take note it is time to change!!!!!!!!

I think Jack is ace and would make a good PM. UKIP is just like Lib Dem but with no spine and lacking direction. Another party formed to keep dole monkeys in work. Jack for PM.
Blinding

Good grief, doesn't he know when to quit while he was ahead?
Is the Labour Party that hard up for candidates that we have to suffer Jack again?
Trust me, this is not going to end well...

Someone once said, I forget who, that if the Labour Party put a monkey up for election, the party faithful would vote for it. Given Jack's track record, this can no longer be the case.

Retire with grace Jack, rather than face the ignominy of deselection. Ask Kate Hollern to stand, as she is bit famous on the internet.
Type Kate Hol into google, see what I mean.

I was actually thinking of promoting her to Europe but, needs must, she'll have to do for Blackburn. I could really see her, no nonsense approach to politics, being a force to be reckoned with in Parliament.
If ever we had someone capable of throwing a shoe at the LibDem leader, my money is on her.

Go on Kate, clog that Clegg, you know you want to..

Not a day goes by . . .

. . . without a news headline or television programme proving the world has gone totally mad. One day last week I caught just by chance an interview with Tony Blair. Sun tanned, looking extremely wealthy, smiling broadly as normally is the case while doing his back street salesman routine yet again. Admitting that all the wars that he had helped start abroad had not succeeded. But decisions were difficult and it takes time to bring about success he went on to say.

If there was a case for testing supposed leaders for insanity then what more proof would you ever need!

Now we have his Iraq war helper Jack Straw: “I think I am going to stand at the next General Election in 2015. “Provided I am fit and healthy in mind and body.”

Provided he is fit and healthy in mind and body? The insane stick together like glue. Their singular self centred confidence in themselves against all that they have done does nor fare well for their sanity. But after what these two supposed leaders and others have done what more would you ever need for making supposed leaders take insanity tests!

A donkey could have become an MP in Blackburn provided it was waving a red flag as those years after Barbara Castle has proven. Just take a walk around Blackburn to see what he has done!

Most comments here have him summed up. The M65 would have happened anyway. I cannot think how Blackburn has made any progress down to this man. In fact probably the reverse, due to his fence sitting and his weary opportunistic drivel

Our main shop in our new shopping centre is "Primark" that says it all for me.
Blackburn my home town of sixty years is a dump and its mainly down to our local MP and the Labour Party.

Lets hope UKIP do get in and give the voters what they actually want.

I'm only going to vote for a party who will hold an independent public inquiry into the 7th July 2005 London Bombings.

My problem is, Jack and others of his ilk are not really labour people. People refer back to Blair and Brown as a labour government. They were the best Tories the labour party ever had. The last government was not a labour government. Jack has always been opportunistic. He patronised the Asian community who kept him in parliament for years. unfortunately his decision to stand again will cost the party dearly. We need a proper party that represents ordinary peoples views and will look out for us.

Sorry, Jack, but at almost seventy by the time of the General Election it is really time to ask yourself - 'For the good of the party, constituency and young people who are more than willing to take my place, isn't it time I retired gracefully?' You have worked hard and there comes a time when it's time to go.

shytalk says...

I hope UKIP have a good candidate for Blackburn.

I just hope that UKIP, have candidates in every town and city in the UK.
If anyone out there, wishes to get this Country back on track and you are political minded, then put yourself in the running. become a UKIP, candidate today.!!! It could well be, our last chance.

Jack Straw: 'I'm going to stand at the next General Election'

Oh marvelous, As if life isn't hard enough!

Better the devil we know? And he is the devil, whose attack is psychological but no less powerful for that.

Jack Straw: 'I'm going to stand at the next General Election'

Hurrah, he realises job in politics isn't done until those weapons of mass destruction are finally found. You keep looking, Jack, you keep looking.

"Bringing the M65 to Blackburn in 1990 and linking the town and East Lancashire to the motorway network."

Have you got any researchers at your paper?

The M65 was connected to the national motorway network in 1997. The rest of it was gradually built during the 1980s.

UKIP

UKIP

UKIP

Would Barbara Castle kept quiet about the questionable evidence over the Iraq war? Would she allowed our local hospital to be brought to it's knees over PFI payments?

The town has slipped into the top ten most deprived places in England under your watch.

Not a good legacy is it straw?

he can stand all he likes, doesn't mean he'll get any votes!

frank wrote:
he can stand all he likes, doesn't mean he'll get any votes!

Unfortunately one thing he can rely on is votes. However, I feel that his voters may soon start up their own party as there are many towns and cities where they will be able to win seats. Jacks imported voters may actually be the downfall of the Labour party.

ukip for me jack

hasslem hasslem wrote:
so jack - just so i understand the invasion of iraq was to make the middle east a more stable place????

i must have misunderstood - i thought it was to uncover and destroy those invisible weapons of mass destruction.

great how the likes of straw like to try and rewrite history.

Even John Prescott now says invading Iraq was a mistake!!!!!!

“Most people think my big mistake was supporting the Iraq war, but while I regret the loss of life involved, I don’t regret the fall of Saddam. Had he still been there, Iraq would have been a killing field and the Middle East an even more unstable place."

Iraq will forever remain a killing field due to the amount of Depleted Uranium expended there and mixed with the sand becoming airborne and affecting areas beyond the Iraq borders. The same applies to Afghanistan and the purpose is to lay down enough DU to permanently destabilise and reduce the populations there as well.

Type "depleted uranium iraq ongoing deaths" into your Search engine to see the full extent of Messrs. Bush/Blair/Straw/Cam
pbell et al legacy

burnleyglentoran wrote:
UKIP

UKIP

UKIP

UKIP is the political equivilant of horsemeat. Its in your lasagne but it shouldn't be. Pretending its something it isn't
UKIP is full of dole monkeys who will say anything to get your vote. The shapeshifters lack any real beef content. You are far better off with Jack who is 100% real beefcake. If a job needs doing, and decisions need making, then he's not afraid to make them. Iraq was neccessary otherwise Sadam would have continued genocide against his own people. Can't wait till Jack is leader we would have already been in Syria to oust another set of surrender monkeys who like to kill their own.
I don't know, sometimes some of you **** lack spine and hide behind legislation, turning a blind eye to genocide to score political points. The little people in the world arena need someone with big boots to stand up for their rights. That person is Jack Strawdog.
Jack for PM, he's like Arnie and Rambo rolled into one. Lets kick some more arse. WMD? does anybody really care? its keeping the economy afloat shooting all these bullets. We've never had such a sustained period of World peace. Jack would bring even more peace with him.
Jack Strawdog World Peacemaker.

Noiticer wrote:
Sorry, Jack, but at almost seventy by the time of the General Election it is really time to ask yourself - 'For the good of the party, constituency and young people who are more than willing to take my place, isn't it time I retired gracefully?' You have worked hard and there comes a time when it's time to go.

Worked hard at wrecking a once-great country, along with his Marxist Labour cronies, which he has succeeded at - for now.

As people wake up to the fact that democracy in the UK is an illusion and the treasonous LibLabCon organisations represent just one political party with 3 heads, they will turn to UKIP. If UKIP gain power (which I doubt the totalitarian Establishment will ever allow via the ballot box) people will then quickly realise they are not the answer to Britain's ills. They will then have to take things into their own hands.

thermio wrote:

frank wrote:
he can stand all he likes, doesn't mean he'll get any votes!

Unfortunately one thing he can rely on is votes. However, I feel that his voters may soon start up their own party as there are many towns and cities where they will be able to win seats. Jacks imported voters may actually be the downfall of the Labour party.

Downfall of the whole country more like.

M Foster wrote:

Noiticer wrote: Sorry, Jack, but at almost seventy by the time of the General Election it is really time to ask yourself - 'For the good of the party, constituency and young people who are more than willing to take my place, isn't it time I retired gracefully?' You have worked hard and there comes a time when it's time to go.

Worked hard at wrecking a once-great country, along with his Marxist Labour cronies, which he has succeeded at - for now. As people wake up to the fact that democracy in the UK is an illusion and the treasonous LibLabCon organisations represent just one political party with 3 heads, they will turn to UKIP. If UKIP gain power (which I doubt the totalitarian Establishment will ever allow via the ballot box) people will then quickly realise they are not the answer to Britain's ills. They will then have to take things into their own hands.

Surely the sale of our nationalised industry; such as our water, gas, electric, trains, telephone system, Royal Ordnance Factories, British Steel ect by Maggie Thatcher was the real start of our down fall.

The capitalists (including new liebour) sold us out and it's the capitalists who are blaming everybody else but themselves.

jack daniels wrote:

M Foster wrote:

Noiticer wrote: Sorry, Jack, but at almost seventy by the time of the General Election it is really time to ask yourself - 'For the good of the party, constituency and young people who are more than willing to take my place, isn't it time I retired gracefully?' You have worked hard and there comes a time when it's time to go.

Worked hard at wrecking a once-great country, along with his Marxist Labour cronies, which he has succeeded at - for now. As people wake up to the fact that democracy in the UK is an illusion and the treasonous LibLabCon organisations represent just one political party with 3 heads, they will turn to UKIP. If UKIP gain power (which I doubt the totalitarian Establishment will ever allow via the ballot box) people will then quickly realise they are not the answer to Britain's ills. They will then have to take things into their own hands.

Surely the sale of our nationalised industry; such as our water, gas, electric, trains, telephone system, Royal Ordnance Factories, British Steel ect by Maggie Thatcher was the real start of our down fall.

The capitalists (including new liebour) sold us out and it's the capitalists who are blaming everybody else but themselves.

Very true.

We've been shafted hard by both the blues and the reds.

Capitalism works - or at least nothing else seems to - be it can't be rampant.

It was the policies under Thatcher where the vultures in the city, with zero morals, were first allowed access to normal people's finances. And it was those same vultures, encouraged and rewarded by Gordon Brown, who continued the rape of ordinary people's money. With no one protecting the common man, and no one punishing any wrong doing.

Capitalism can't be given to criminals without morals. It's probably the biggest reason the world is currently a mess.

It's probably my biggest reason for supporting the Lib Dems. They were the ones calling for something to happen. Unfortunately their cries went unheard in a sea of spin.

ford10 wrote:
UKIP is coming to oust you out of your seat the people of Britain are sick and fed up of Labour, Condems not doing what the people of this country want, less immigration, a bigger stance in Europe, it is time to go, what have you ever done for Blackburn Jack apart from confuse the public with it's one way system, people of Britain take note it is time to change!!!!!!!!

The system's bust. No question.

Voting for a single issue party however won't solve things. Especially when that party is solely about division.

Like it or not, UKIP are the BNP in a pin-striped suit.

Jack Herer wrote:

jack daniels wrote:

M Foster wrote:

Noiticer wrote: Sorry, Jack, but at almost seventy by the time of the General Election it is really time to ask yourself - 'For the good of the party, constituency and young people who are more than willing to take my place, isn't it time I retired gracefully?' You have worked hard and there comes a time when it's time to go.

Worked hard at wrecking a once-great country, along with his Marxist Labour cronies, which he has succeeded at - for now. As people wake up to the fact that democracy in the UK is an illusion and the treasonous LibLabCon organisations represent just one political party with 3 heads, they will turn to UKIP. If UKIP gain power (which I doubt the totalitarian Establishment will ever allow via the ballot box) people will then quickly realise they are not the answer to Britain's ills. They will then have to take things into their own hands.

Surely the sale of our nationalised industry; such as our water, gas, electric, trains, telephone system, Royal Ordnance Factories, British Steel ect by Maggie Thatcher was the real start of our down fall. The capitalists (including new liebour) sold us out and it's the capitalists who are blaming everybody else but themselves.

Very true. We've been shafted hard by both the blues and the reds. Capitalism works - or at least nothing else seems to - be it can't be rampant. It was the policies under Thatcher where the vultures in the city, with zero morals, were first allowed access to normal people's finances. And it was those same vultures, encouraged and rewarded by Gordon Brown, who continued the rape of ordinary people's money. With no one protecting the common man, and no one punishing any wrong doing. Capitalism can't be given to criminals without morals. It's probably the biggest reason the world is currently a mess. It's probably my biggest reason for supporting the Lib Dems. They were the ones calling for something to happen. Unfortunately their cries went unheard in a sea of spin.

I voted Lib Dem too but their desire for power at any price, getting into bed with the Tories, has left me with a taste in my mouth which will never go.

P.S you're bob -on about the UKip too.

Jack Herer wrote:

ford10 wrote:
UKIP is coming to oust you out of your seat the people of Britain are sick and fed up of Labour, Condems not doing what the people of this country want, less immigration, a bigger stance in Europe, it is time to go, what have you ever done for Blackburn Jack apart from confuse the public with it's one way system, people of Britain take note it is time to change!!!!!!!!

The system's bust. No question.

Voting for a single issue party however won't solve things. Especially when that party is solely about division.

Like it or not, UKIP are the BNP in a pin-striped suit.

Yes, but who do you vote for these days.

The blue or the red Tories?

No wonder people don’t vote any more!