The public disgust at the Stygian Stables that is Parliament, has propelled Jack Straw (is this a bit of panic methinks) to rush through Legislation to flush the House of Lords through, of convicted criminals, tax evaders and corrupt peers that frame our Laws. We need a Constitutional Court to deal with the House of Commons as well.
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LookingForAVoice on 1st Feb 2009 (via lookingforavoice.blogspot.com)
Punishing criminals must be the main factor in guiding sentencing policy Jack Straw will say in a speech as he admits that the Government has too often concentrated on the needs of offenders.
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Telegraph on 27th Oct 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Up to 1000 criminals including murderers and rapists who should have been recalled to prison are still at large Jack Straw the Justice Secretary has admitted.
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Telegraph on 7th Jul 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Tax exiles and convicted criminals are set to be stripped of their peerages under Government plans to clean up the House of Lords. The whole point of appointing people for life is so that they can’t be removed. Once you can remove them then you compromise the very independence that they were appointed to have. Jack Straw,
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TimWorstall on 2nd Feb 2009 (via timworstall.com)
Jack Straw denies that he had any foreknowledge of the arrest of Damian Green. Jack Straw denied directly to the BBC in the documentary "The Ambassador's Last Stand", and denied to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, that he had any part in the false accusatins laid against me or in my removal as Ambassador for raising human rights concerns. Yet, as detailed in Murder in Samarkand...
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CraigMurray on 29th Nov 2008 (via craigmurray.org.uk)
JUSTICE Secretary Jack Straw has defied calls by the mother of James Bulger to release more details about why her son's killer is back in prison.
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Scotsman on 9th Mar 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Jack Straw the Justice Secretary broke the party funding law he wrote by failing to declare a £3000 donation from an energy company a Commons investigation has found.
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Telegraph on 23rd Jan 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Police officers would "rather stay in the warm police station" than snare criminals, the Justice Secretary has said.
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Telegraph on 31st Dec 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Ever since Gordon Brown brought back the spin-meisters behind the Blair years we have started to see the same tortured doublespeak from Government. Yesterday, Jack Straw - our "Justice" Secretary - said he was sick of the criminal justice lobby putting the rights of criminals ahead of their victims. This was unusual to say the least seeing as how Jack Straw has been to the fore in promoting ...
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ATangledWeb on 28th Oct 2008 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)
Tens of thousands of prisoners, including thousands of violent thugs, have been paid more than £2million to be released early from prison, Justice Secretary Jack Straw has admitted.
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Telegraph on 27th Jun 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Labour has demanded to know whether the Home Office knows the whereabouts of foreign national criminals awaiting deportation.
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BBCPolitics on 19th Dec 2011 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
