Exciting! Keep it up, Craig!

Will you be having a presence outside as well as inside the event?

Have you thought about raising funds for a private prosecution?

Might be worth contacting the Public Law Project, I’m sure they’d be interested and would be the cheapest option.

http://www.publiclawproject.org.uk/index.html

Oh the joy on my face when he loses his seat… I’d better stock up on red wine for election night.

Straw had better practice keeping a stoic face on hearing that he has been defeated. I would advise him to see videos of Chris Patten in 1992 and Gerald Ford in 1976.

Don’t worry. After you vote the police will start enforcing the law.

/Laughs/

Should Straw lose his seat it is no guarantee that he will cease to serve in the government. Remind me again which constituency Peter Mandelson represents.

Michael Portillo, 1997.

There’s a link to some of your comments on Straw and treating in the post “who does the wolf love?” at http://freecommonwealth.blogspot.com/

Other bloggers may wish to link and comment on their blogs, if they haven’t already done so.

Vronsky

I remember that when Chris Patten lost he got a super consolation prize – governor-general of Hong Kong, feathered hat, twice the salary, the works. But the Tories had managed to scrape back into power. I don’t see Brown forming the next government, unless Nulab just beats the Tories in numbers of seats, and Clegg does a deal with them to get some share of power. If it happens (and it could, IMO) I wonder what consolation prize would be offered Straw. Here’s a guess – governor-general of Tristan da Cunha!

Why not begin a private prosecution?

I see that Phil Riley (election agent to Jack Straw) has put his views on this on the Blackburn Labour Party website:

http://wordpress.blackburnlabour.org/2010/05/grinding-his-axe-yet-more-sour-grapes-from-craig-murray/comment-page-1/#comment-51

Remember Staw’s statement during the Chilcot enquiry to Sir Michael Wood that he had “often been advised things were unlawful and gone ahead anyway and won in the courts” when he was home secretary.

Dear Craig

You have a mole.

Well done.

Soon you can form an intelligence service and get government contracts.

I would love to see Jack Straw lose the Blackburn seat.

Keep plugging away at it.

Yours sincerely

George Laird

The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

Reason:

Hey, that’s a good one – claim that any people at the banquet who were not party members were gate-crashers! I hadn’t thought of that.

“Should Straw lose his seat it is no guarantee that he will cease to serve in the government. Remind me again which constituency Peter Mandelson represents.”

In a previous post Craig claimed that the offence of treating sees offenders banned from both Houses of parliament, which would almost certainly end his government career.

If I were Jack Straw, I could also now claim that any people eating my curry were moles planted by disgruntled former government employees. It seems to me that the only way you’ll see Jack Straw slung out is if the voters do it.

“Should Straw lose his seat…”

Oh, you mean should he be beaten in the election.

Should this title be

Jack Straw Plans More Criminal Tricking and Treating

??

Go for it Craig.

Small pedantic point: it’s “flout” the law, not “flaunt”.

Don’t worry: Ted Heath famously made the same mistake if I remember correctly.

The Judge,

surely “Flout” and “Flaunt” both apply in the case of the Minister for Justice…

What a crock of SXXT. I said it before nothing would happen, it was a guess though and I was hoping that due to your profile the matter would be treated harshly. I cannot see the Police complaints changing that decision…can you? I admire your determination. Vote on past performance maybe? I cannot fathom why a muslim would vote for Straw,, trojan horse.

What happened to that DT journalist that was sniffing around?

Would have thought the DT would be interested in embarrassing Straw/NuLab.

Jack Straw… where to start, that’s the question? A great pile of bales of straw with Jack at the top perhaps as the main course? Now, that, I would argue, would be a real treat for so many of us. Jack Staw teated fairly at last; basted, trussed up and tasted.

Phil Riley invokes Bushra for doing the same, so everybody is at it huh?

Mr M @ 4:56

Craig mentioned in an earlier post that Bushra Irfan never did serve any food after being advised it would not be legal.

Phil Riley has no leg to stand on, as Bushra has not been doing it. She merely forgot to take it off her website due to the illness of her IT man who updates the website. She did not feed anybody once the election was called.

I’m living proof of that I must have lost at least a stone in a month.

Phil Riley has been warned by the police, he claims that this would anull the affidavit, this is not true, its stands in his own right.

We are off in a minute to see what he is doing, we know that food is being prepared and that the initial place was a dud, we know more than we will let anybody to believe and will have the evidence as it comes in.

Once the evidence is with us, we shall put it on to u-tube.

Hear hear, to the suggestion of a private prosecution!

Hey Ingo. It’s OK for Bushra to feed you. You are not a voter. Get stuck in to a plate of curry.

I am sure he is not the only one. In fact I think I witnessed a version of the same today by another MP. But how serious is this, I’d appreciate a reply by e mail.

It should be understood that the Lord “Postman” Patel here referred to is not the late and better know (Lord) Postman Patel of Patel Towers, whose views on Jack Straw were quite different from those of his undistinguished namesake:

http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2008/06/war-criminal-jack-straw-and.html

I am above the4 law little man!

I can feed as many people for votes as they do in Pakistan!

I am above the Law.

You will get no where by showing that it is illegal.

Jack Straw is the one who tells the Police and courts who to prosecute and for what.

Jack Straw is the judiciary, so how are you planning to get him to prosecute himself?

You best bet is to try and find out where the food came from, in the hope that it will be Harram.

I believe it is very likely to be Harram, because I don’t believe the type of people he has purchasing food are the types who would take Islamic dietary law or any law of God or man seriously.

The photos of Brown that appeared in the media after his bigot comment, seemed to me to be a morph of Brown’s face and Straw’s. Straw’s rat features adding smugness to Brown’s toad.

The problem with the Tories and New Labour is not in their own idiosyncratic vices, such as asset stripping and gravy-training, but in their refusal to reverse the Thatcher plan to run this country on Usury instead of sweat.

I am looking out of my back window onto two gardens, mine with rhubarb, spinach, apples trees coriander, potatoes and thirty other plants and my neighbour’s, who is in his eighties, who put down sodium chlorate last year because he couldn’t do the work any more.

Usury is the same as the poison Sodium Chlorate. After you apply it, you can’t take benefit from the soil for many years. All you can do is put down concrete slabs to stop the weeds.

Give me a party that will throw out Usury as a scheme for running the economy and which ceases finally raining down bombs on the world’s Muslims who have the right ideas, and I will give you a UK with a future.

Jack Straw lobbying/treating his Muslim constituents is no worse than New Labour eating from the hand of the Israeli lobby in parliament. Jack Straw is taking from the Usury bankers and giving to the Muslims.

Who’s buying is also selling. Muslims who participate in treating know full well the Islamic law on Usury, no taking and no giving. Receiving is the same as Paying.

Similarly, eating Jack Straw’s food is the same as Jack Straw eating food from the Israeli lobby. Any Muslim who participates in this type of politics has strayed well outside the boundary of Islam.

I hope the moles didn’t eat the poison while they were sat there.

My blood boils at unfair game. We learn GMTV will interview Nick Glegg in an attempt to explain why one should vote LibDem. This is on Tuesday night and on Wednesday night, the day before the General Election, they will interview David Cameron to explain why the Conservatives deserve power.

Subtle timing and subtle differences biased towards the Tories – Bad show.

Perhaps GMTV have forgotten the £2 million fine over its four year period of misconduct in viewer competitions imposed by media regulator Ofcom?

!ScouseBilly is back! Lo! Truly, The broad, dark wings of the Daily Telegraph are upon us!

‘Jack Straw’, are you Arsalan?

Arsalan/ Jack Straw, perhaps you might consider helping ScouseBilly with some technical information on how to make a good fish dish, so that such valuable and succulent information could be spread among the rightwingers of this wondrous land. The way to a Tory’s brain is through his stomach, as the gels do say say on Sloan Square.

‘It seems to me that the only way you’ll see Jack Straw slung out is if the voters do it.’

Well if he’s acting illegally treating his constituents, he’ll no doubt arrange for the votes to be manipulated.

Suhayl

Just curious, but don’t the gels on Sloan Square get their ille-gels to cook their fish for them, rather than risk breaking their nails? If so, you could get them to vote Lib Dem saying ‘The other Parties would deport your gels and then no more fishy parties for you, however fishy the Parties might be’.

Ruth

I understand that there was something fishy about the way postal or proxy votes were treated, but that Nulab wanted it that way because the fishiness favoured them.

Suhayl,

Thank you for your concern

However, I can knock up a pretty good bouillabaisse and last week cooked pulpo a la gallega fot the first time.

And fyi I may inhabit a DT blog from time to time but I am certainly no Tory – yuk, the thought of it….

Okay, ScouseBilly, as the best fishes often sing, roll on The Mersey, the Reds it is then (!)

“the best fishes often sing, roll on The Mersey,”

I read that as “the best fishes often sing rock and roll on the Mersey”. Ringo Starrfish ?

It’s Friday lunch-time and after a couple of Trammy’s and a handful of Solpadol my headache is now a dullness, my thoughts confused and my heart is missing beats.

The Tories have won, but have only 302 seats. Some Tory activists are cursing Francis Maude for not keeping a low profile and that ghastly women who had shreiked at Greg Barker for serious house flipping after he had cast his vote.

I struggle to comprehend and focus on the financial woes drifting out of Threadneedle street. I make out that stirling and gilts are being sold to the floor – a stern looking David Black tells us the pound will be de-valued by morning and guilt yields are on the launch pad.

We learn that Brown had successfully hidden the truth about our deficit, we have been borrowing £700 MILLION A DAY. Jack Straw has already told Brown he must quit after the results put Labour third in their worst performance since the second World War.

My mind is so foggy I am wondering if all this is a dream.

“That is completely insufficient when Straw did exactly the same thing, at the same venue, with the same main speakers and the same food, five years ago,”

Good Lord, the same food?!? Someone call Health and Safety!

Sickening to see Brown using a teenage girl’s tears for his campaign today as she broke down describing the slave wages her family has to live on, (working at the Treasury of all places!). He shamelessly took the opportunity to get all worked up and indignant about poverty and the minimum wage. So while MPs grow fat fiddling at the taxpayers’ expense, it turns out Westminster is one of the worst employers for everyone else – especially the department he ran for a decade. He’s had 13 years to do something about this for Christ’s sake, and just like his tardy lip-service conversion to the principle of electoral reform, we are supposed to believe he actually gives a damn. Has he forgotten who got rid of the 10% tax band? Mr End-to-the-cycle-of-boom-and-bust is relying on mass amnesia to get relected. He also warned against putting your cross next to a question mark on polling day – voting for an uncertainty. But in a multiple choice question, you’re better off taking a chance on an uncertainty than choosing the answer which experience has taught you is definitely wrong.

In the same news report, Clegg said we need to change Britain for good. He was referring to the electoral system at the time. I don’t know who came up with the LibDem slogan for this election, but “Change Britain for good!”, with it’s double entendre, would have been much better.

That should’ve been ‘re-elected’ of course.

If Straw is repeating the offence only a day or two after being given a formal warning by the police, it should’t be necessary to bring a private prosecution. They should throw the book at him.

Gyges,

” Why not begin a private prosecution?”

Sure – why not?

Further one could convene one’s own Commission of Inquiry with a panel of persons of high public repute and publish their findings.

Why not?

Some of our local Bees turned up tonight…

Some from as far away as Poland

But most within the typical Flying Distance of Your Average Bee

Now you may not understand the detail of how some of our bees want to get deep within

But One of Our Bees Has Got a Full Gig Down Her Local Pub

You have absolutely No Idea How Difficult This is to Achieve

Our Local Bee Has Already Played Across America

But we have Exceedingly High Standards

She didn’t Show all her Honey Tonight

She is Saving It Up For a Blistering Full Gig

She is 85 Years Old

Minus around 60 Years or So

I Reckon She Will Get Away With It…

But it is Really Tough

All The Old Farts Want To Hear All Right Now By Old Farts

She is Going To Turn Up and Do All Her Own Stuff

With Her Own Band

Will Anyone Turn Up?

Will The Pub Sell Enough Beer?

It is All Free Entry Where We Live in England

Do you have Similar Local Bees in California?

She has Already Done LA

Our Pubs in England Have All Standards

Yes Some of them have karaoke nights

Which if you want to sing in public is a great place to star

Learning to sing Well is INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT

And some of our English Pubs are more about Learning How to Play Musical Instruments…

And So Where We Live in England

When we have a Jam Night – which we do Regularly

We have all Levels of Talents

From Complete Beginners

To The Complete Opposite Extreme

But we always give the Most Encouragement To The Oldest Man or Woman Over The Age of 80

Who Gets Up On Stage And Does It Again

The second bunch of guys is not the under tens

And they can do it too….

No its the 12 year olds and the 13 year olds and the 14 year olds…

We Realise that when they get to 15, our Daughters The Same Age

Won’t Let Us Old Farts Go To Their Teenage Gigs

And I can understand that – because I can remember when I was 15

How Else Can We Encourage Our Young Talent To Develop Their Skills?

Give Them a Place To Play

Its Not Just Music

Its Everything

The Way Our Human Species Progresses Is To Provide Places and Spaces For Our Children

To Play

We Give Them The Freedom of PLAY

You Will Be Amazed What Our Children Can Achieve

If We Do Not Tell Them What To Do

Let Them Find It Themselves – Because Then They Own It – It is Their Own Original Idea

And Then Give Them All The Encouragement You Can

That is Leadership

Tony

I Will Re-inFORCE

The Fact That Although I Completely Believe in Democracy

I will Not Be Votong On Thursday

I am sat somewhere near the bottom of The Fasict Liberty Scale

That is Near Liberty

And Way To The LEFT Of All The People Standing For Election Where I Live

I will however be in Central London in Oxford Street later today

Tony

Warrior On The Edge Of Time

http://www.hawkwind.com/

We went to their Wedding

And although I had talked to Lemmy Before (who didn’t turn up)

I hadn’t actually spoken to Dave Brock before and shaken his hand

I spoke to Nik Turner and shook his hand much more recently

These Guys are My Heroes

They were always better Than PUnk Floyd

Tony

Well did you ever hear of such a thing happening before?!

Postal vote fraud: 50 criminal inquiries nationwide amid fears bogus voters could swing election

By Sam Greenhill and Tim Shipman

Last updated at 2:02 AM on 4th May 2010

Voter fraud could determine the outcome of the general election as evidence emerges of massive postal vote rigging.

Police have launched 50 criminal inquiries nationwide amid widespread cases of electoral rolls being packed with ‘bogus’ voters.

Officials report a flood of postal vote applications in marginal seats. With the outcome of the closest election in a generation hanging in the balance, a few thousand ‘stolen’ votes there could determine who wins the keys to Downing Street.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1271457/General-Election-2010-Postal-vote-fraud-amid-fears-bogus-voters-swing-election.html#ixzz0mwOLdTrr

Also Balls and Hain are recommending tactical voting to keep the Cameroons out.

Alfred -

The Postman Patel blog – originally called Postman Patel and His Dog Jack – was in fact named after Lord Adam Patel and his postal vote scam by its originator, the grat Eddie, sadly no longer with us. He was my agent in Blackburn when I stood against Jack Straw,

And don’t we all miss him.

http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2009/06/edward-teague-blogger-known-as-postman.html