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Blackburn MP Jack Straw is honoured by the Turkish government (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Blackburn MP Jack Straw is honoured by the Turkish government
4:44pm Tuesday 23rd October 2012 in News
By Bill Jacobs, Local government reporter
Jack Straw receives his honour in Turkey
Jack Straw has been given one of Turkey’s highest awards for being ‘a politician who approaches the Islamic world and Muslim societies with sincerity and friendship’.
He flew to Turkish capital Ankara to receive the country’s highest order available to individuals who are not heads of state.
The citation for the Order of the Republic or Turkey made by President Abdullah Gul highlights the Blackburn MP and former Foreign Secretary’s commitment to multi-culturalism.
He praised Mr Straw for his role in issues such as the British military’s position in Iraq and Afghanistan, highly controversial issues in the Islamic world.
President Gul said he hoped the award would be a ‘strong symbol of the longstanding friendship’ between Britain and Turkey and its peoples.
Mr Straw said: “I am delighted and honoured to receive this award. Turkey is a vital country to Europe and the modern world.”
Giving Mr Straw the award, President Gul said: “I am especially honoured to present to my very close friend Jack, the Order of the Republic which is the highest order presented to persons other than heads of state.
“In our generation, Jack Straw is one of those few politicians who embodies the qualities of a statesman.
“He has valued multi-culturalism throughout his political career and is a politicians who approaches the Islamic world and Muslim societies with sincerity and friendship.
“The key to his popularity in his constituency of Blackburn lies in these very qualities.
“Jack is a democrat with a conscience of the kind greatly and collectively needed in Europe in order to fight against racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.”
President Gul praised Mr Straw as being a ‘friend to Turkey and the Turkish people’ and highlighted his efforts to bring Turkey into the European Union and supporting the case of the Turkish Cypriots.
Comments(13)
peely
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7:39pm Tue 23 Oct 12
speaks the facts
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7:40pm Tue 23 Oct 12
Yet we don't get a vote to come out of the e u .
Pan-cake
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8:32pm Tue 23 Oct 12
modan
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9:02pm Tue 23 Oct 12
on money and European fundings.Blackburn now got a University Centre,New Super Hospital,funding for more Housing ,roads,.Many World Leaders came to Blackburn for a visit while he was a Foreign Secretary.He put Blackburn on World Map.The two people who did a lot for Blackburn. Jack Straw MP and late Jack Walker,both these men deserve some recognition for their hard work for Blackburn.I hope Jack Straw receives a Knighthood and a place in House Of Lord when Jack decides to retire.Both Jacks deserves a freedom of the town of Blackburn and Statues of Late Jac Walker and Jack Straw MP should have a statues be placed in Blackburn Town Centre.Finally Jack Straw is of Jewish background and has worked hard to promote racial equality and worked hard to promote peace, social and economic justice for all races in this country.
Monkey. Bucket
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10:09pm Tue 23 Oct 12
modan wrote:Oh dear, a straw o phile!! This man is a complete tosser, took his books on display in whs smiths today from the window and put it in the crime section. Didnt go down well? Straw deserves fcuk all, what has he really done for blackburn? Apart from making a complete **** of himself with the yank bird at t'rovers?
Jack Straw MP of Blackburn has been an MP for Blackburn since 1979 ,he has been MP for over 33 years.He was a Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary in Tony Blair Government. He is still Tony Blair's best friend.He has served Blackburn well bringing investments in Blackburn,regenerati
on money and European fundings.Blackburn now got a University Centre,New Super Hospital,funding for more Housing ,roads,.Many World Leaders came to Blackburn for a visit while he was a Foreign Secretary.He put Blackburn on World Map.The two people who did a lot for Blackburn. Jack Straw MP and late Jack Walker,both these men deserve some recognition for their hard work for Blackburn.I hope Jack Straw receives a Knighthood and a place in House Of Lord when Jack decides to retire.Both Jacks deserves a freedom of the town of Blackburn and Statues of Late Jac Walker and Jack Straw MP should have a statues be placed in Blackburn Town Centre.Finally Jack Straw is of Jewish background and has worked hard to promote racial equality and worked hard to promote peace, social and economic justice for all races in this country.
When will blackburn wake up and say we dont want a southern tosser,like straw, to be our mp and lets make it a local issue
Straw = tosser
spike t
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10:20pm Tue 23 Oct 12
Far East Calling
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8:06am Wed 24 Oct 12
Plasticbertrand
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9:15am Wed 24 Oct 12
jack denials
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10:25am Wed 24 Oct 12
Monkey. Bucket wrote:Six years ago this month Jack Straw argued his case for urging Muslim women who attend his MP's surgery to remove their hijab. He said that he wanted to start a debate. In this, at least, he was successful.
modan wrote:Oh dear, a straw o phile!! This man is a complete tosser, took his books on display in whs smiths today from the window and put it in the crime section. Didnt go down well? Straw deserves fcuk all, what has he really done for blackburn? Apart from making a complete **** of himself with the yank bird at t'rovers?
Jack Straw MP of Blackburn has been an MP for Blackburn since 1979 ,he has been MP for over 33 years.He was a Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary in Tony Blair Government. He is still Tony Blair's best friend.He has served Blackburn well bringing investments in Blackburn,regenerati
on money and European fundings.Blackburn now got a University Centre,New Super Hospital,funding for more Housing ,roads,.Many World Leaders came to Blackburn for a visit while he was a Foreign Secretary.He put Blackburn on World Map.The two people who did a lot for Blackburn. Jack Straw MP and late Jack Walker,both these men deserve some recognition for their hard work for Blackburn.I hope Jack Straw receives a Knighthood and a place in House Of Lord when Jack decides to retire.Both Jacks deserves a freedom of the town of Blackburn and Statues of Late Jac Walker and Jack Straw MP should have a statues be placed in Blackburn Town Centre.Finally Jack Straw is of Jewish background and has worked hard to promote racial equality and worked hard to promote peace, social and economic justice for all races in this country.
When will blackburn wake up and say we dont want a southern tosser,like straw, to be our mp and lets make it a local issue
Straw = tosser
And so Muslim women passed, in the public imagination, from being actually among the group most likely to be racially attacked to ostensibly being a primary cause of social strife – roaming the land in search of white teenagers to physically harass. This inturn gave way to racists, being able to justify their racism as rightful. since New Labour's politics enabled the far right, it is in no position to disable it. Those far right groups and political parties are bottom feeders. But the system is rotting from the head down.
On the other hand, you also got to remember that one of the leading fathers of New Labour, marginalised the white working class by standing "shoulder to shoulder" with minority groups in Blackburn, Northwest and across the world.
Assuming they had nowhere else to go, a s**t load of the white working class found their way into the arms of the far right.
While Jack Straw recognised that racism is a problem, it never seemed to occur to him that anti-racism might be the solution.
What he really did was back both sides and leave them in the creek. Never the less, this should not obscure some of the positive things Jack Straw and Labour has done for Blackburn.
lowpolo2202
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2:44pm Wed 24 Oct 12
modan
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7:04pm Wed 24 Oct 12
on,Manchester and Liverpoo are red through and through.Jack has served Blackburn well and has worked hard for the town and the people of Blackburn.While he was a Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary under Tony Blair government he has put the town on the map along with late Jack Walker with his investment in Blackburn Rovers FC. Jack Walker MP has brought lot of investment in this town like the Super Hospital,University Centre, Roads,Health Centres,new hosing estates, etc etc.The Tories invest in their own safe seats around the country ,the tories neglected town like Blackburn when they were in power.It was 18 years of Maggie Thatcher Government did nothing for Blackburn.Unemployme
nt was high,roads,houses,to
wn centre and Hospital,college were all crumbling under Thatcher Government.When the Labour came in power in 1997 thats when more and more investment came to Blackburn.While Late Jack Walker invested his vast fortune into his beloved Blackburn Rovers FC .People of Blackburn have short memories it was the Tory Government of 1979 to 1997 that destroyed Blackburn town.It was the Walker family sold this great club to Venkys of India.Many top British Companies are owned by the Indians,British Steel,Land Rover/Jaguar,Tetley Tea,Northern Foods and many more,Britains Richest man is a Indian Laxmi Mittal the man who owns the largest Steel companies around world.Many Asian own business in Blackburn/Darwen,lik
e Accrol Papers,Bestway Cash and Carry ltd,Euro Garages,Star Tissues ltd,New Looks,Poundstrechers , B&N and many more.
ToffeeGuy
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10:42pm Sat 27 Oct 12
spike t says...
6:23pm Tue 23 Oct 12