Mark E. Smith of post-punk band The Fall was asked in Saturday’s Guardian what his ideal fancy dress kit would be. The gnarled Mancunian responded: “A Jack Straw outfit, including voice and face.” Conversely, Scrapbook would be fascinated to hear what a Jack Straw punk band would sound like. Perhaps some form of role-swapping TV documentary is [...]
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C4 "Come Dine With Me" contestant stood against Jack Straw for BNP
Kicking back with a cold one yesterday to watch his favourite TV show (Come Dine With Me), Jack Straw may have recognised one of the contestants. A star of the East Lancashire edition of the fly-on-the-wall cookery programme, “old-fashioned plumber” Nick Holt is in fact one of the region’s most notorious BNP activists and stood [...]
He's All Right Jack: nonchalant debating style for Straw in final despatch box exchanges
Yesterday’s debate in the House of Commons on the Parliamentary Voting and Constituencies Bill found Jack Straw on fine form. In what was one of his final performances at the despatch box the man presently styled as “Shadow Deputy Prime Minister” has clearly checked out. While accepting an intervention it was unclear whether he was [...]
Shadow Cabinet update: Alan Johnson to run
Former Home Secretary Alan Johnson has declared he is to run for the Shadow Cabinet in the forthcoming elections. It had previously been thought that Mr. Johnson would follow top-cabinet colleagues like Alastair Darling and Jack Straw in stepping back from the political front line. Johnson’s decision could potentially scupper the Shadow Cabinet plans of [...]
Jack Straw to declare for David Miliband in Labour leadership contest
UPDATE 21:40 The Guardian have the story, with quotes from Straw: “[David Miliband] has the strength and the depth to stand up to David Cameron at prime minister’s questions week after week, and he can stand up for the people who will be most badly hit in our communities by the policies of this Con/LibDem [...]
The best campaign ever (as endorsed by Craig Murray)
The former British ambassador and connoisseur of Tashkent strip clubs Craig Murray famously stood against Jack Straw in the 2005 general election. Apparently still consumed with bitterness towards his former boss, Murray again weighed into the recent contest in Blackburn, backing an apparently “credible and impressive” independent candidate and even travelling to Lancashire to speak at an election event. [...]
Kamikaze independent candidates (episode one)
It’s probably quicker and easier to burn that £500, but many with more money than sense prefer to blow the money on a deposit in order to humiliate themselves as hopeless independent candidates.* In the run up to the general election Scrapbook will be paying tribute to these kamikaze politicos with this irregular feature. The man [...]
Yet more lies? Did Nick Griffin's father really serve in WWII?
One of the only punches Nick Griffin managed to land on the other Question Time panellists was something of a low blow. While his father saw service as a Spitfire engineer in World War II, Jack Straw’s old man was a conscientious objector. The Suffolk Evening Star carried an interview with Edgar Griffin yesterday, detailing his two years [...]
