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    Nostradamous wrote:
    Jack does have his faults you know,ok he haslearnt that this an easy safe seat,abd he has become complacent,basically takes things for granted,but i would love to know thw real reasons he bucked thenational trend,but that is not what i an more bothered about here,i am more bothered about his quote after the election result was announced nationally,and he actually wanted Brown to stay in office as it hisconstitutional right,well Jack it doesnt surprise that democracy does NOT come into your thinking when t goeas against YOUR party thinking. But at last democracy as broken out in Westminster The party who won more votes and more seats have gained power,albiet with a coalition from the N Clegg Liberals but this is the way forward this is the progression that the country should and will follow,now that MPs Like J straw do not carry the same power or enellected spin doctors have spun there last lie,this firs past thepost system is finished,PR coalition is without doubt the way forward,and maybe Jack will stand down in the next election and allow a Blackburn born asain to stand in his place.
    But Nostradamous there is not to be be a referendum on PR.
    Despite going on and on and on about how important PR was, Clegg capitulated to his Tory master and ditched this 'line in the sand' policy.
    PR seems as far away as ever."
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Jack Straw rules himself out of Labour leadership contest

NOT IN RUNNING: Blackburn MP Jack Straw NOT IN RUNNING: Blackburn MP Jack Straw

BLACKBURN MP Jack Straw has repeated that he will not be running in the leadership contest.

Mr Straw told the Lancashire Telegraph on Friday night: “I am not a candidate for the leadership.”

And this morning he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ”I’ve had my 13th year on the front bench, 23 years since I was first elected to the shadow cabinet, so I’ve had a good innings.

“No one can persuade me.”

He said he was not backing any particular candidate and would wait for the hustings to see the arguments being made “for the future of the Labour Party”.

He said: “We lost the election in England, not elsewhere, amongst so-called decent hard-working families who felt, especially working-class people, disconnected from the Labour Party.

”We’ve done a great deal, as it were, for that group in terms of social welfare, education and so on, but they felt this argument about fairness quite strongly, particularly with respect to immigration and benefits.”

But Mr Straw said Labour is in “much better spirits and heart as a parliamentary party and in terms of numbers than ever I anticipated”.

David Miliband has emerged as early favourite to take over from Gordon Brown as the next Labour leader.

Mr Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary, is the front-runner in the Labour leadership contest with the bookmakers Paddy Power, William Hill and Ladbrokes.

Paddy Power are offering odds of 4/6 on Mr Miliband with Schools Secretary Ed Balls, a close ally of Mr Brown, close behind.

Mr Balls is backed into 6/1 from 16/1, to be new leader.

Who do you think should be next Labour leader? Add your comments below.

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