Labour’s relentless pursuit of the cancelled Sheffield Forgemasters’ loan is finally paying dividends. The government maintain that the loan was cancelled because the directors did not want to reduce their shareholding. It has emerged that, possibly, the directors did in fact offer to reduce their equity – a point that Jack Straw attempted to make at yesterday’s dire PMQs. ...
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Spectator on 23rd Jul 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Jack Straw the Justice Secretary is planning to offer concessions to opponents of a Government plan to share personal data across the public sector.
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Telegraph on 24th Feb 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Jack Straw and this Labour Government has sold out the lives and livelihoods of the Falklands Islanders to Argentina. Jack Straw has made the sacrifices endured by British servicemen in the past as worthless as the Labour manifesto. The Labour Government have again committed treason.
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PJCJournal on 12th Dec 2008 (via thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk)
Jack Straw just made a most hypocritical statement in parliament in which he nobly said "I accept full responsibility" and then proceeded to claim he and the government had been perfect, but a lot of other people had been useless. He was talking of the brutal murders of French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez. Now we will never stop all murder. The killers did it, not Jack Straw. We will ...
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CraigMurray on 8th Jun 2009 (via craigmurray.org.uk)
Jack Straw pressed Nick Clegg on the government's decision to withdraw an £80m loan for the steel maker, Sheffield Forgemasters.
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BBCPolitics on 21st Jul 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
A fraudster who hacked into Jack Straw's constituency e-mail account then sent out an appeal for cash saying Jack was stranded in Nigeria. The e-mail said.... "I misplaced my wallet on my way to the hotel where my money and other valuable things were kept. "I would like you to assist me with a soft loan urgently to settle my hotel bills and get myself back home." One constituent is believed t...
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BobPiper on 24th Feb 2009 (via bobpiper.co.uk)
Gary Slapper - a Professor of Law at the Open University - has a superb guest column in the Times today, which, cooly and meticulously, takes Jack Straw to pieces over his nauseating decision to block the release of the minutes of cabinet discussions that preceded the invasion of Iraq… “Jack Straw, in ruling against the
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BackTowardsTheLocus on 26th Feb 2009 (via backtowardsthelocus.wordpress.com)
A heads-up via Carl: PA - Straw 'will veto" Iraq minutes: The Government will exercise veto powers to block publication of key Cabinet minutes under freedom of information laws, it has been announced. Justice Secretary Jack Straw said he could...
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Bloggerheads on 24th Feb 2009 (via bloggerheads.com)
While writing the previous post, I turned to the authority on such matters to check whether the term ‘asylum seeker’ is Unspeak*. In doing so I rediscovered this delightful anecdote from the two-fisted tales of Jack Straw MP. Jack Straw refused an Iraqi man’s asylum application in January 2001 on the grounds that he could be
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ChickenYoghurt on 11th Mar 2009 (via chickyog.net)
Iain Dale: So the Tories are backing the government’s plans for the Post Office and Jack Straw’s decision to block publication of the Iraq war cabinet minutes. It’s probably just as well I have been too busy today to do much blogging. Dizzy Thinks: I thought I would just pass a quick comment on Jack Straw’s
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 25th Feb 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
LABOUR'S former business ministers yesterday urged the government to reconsider the withdrawal of an £80 million loan to a company to make parts for the nuclear industry a
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Scotsman on 26th Jul 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
