Hacker's mum to stand against Jack Straw for the General Election !!!

[Doggy Styles]

But surely that is a measure of how much people WANT you to do the job. If you are a proven security risk then you CAN'T take the job??

You mean like members of the IRA?

No, if she's voted in, she gets the job.

[minestrone]

Surely she can't take the job??? I would have thought she would have had to be DV cleared or something and as she is directly and highly visibly related to a know threat to a nations security she is hardly gonna get this..

IMO get her to crawl back under her stone, stop wasting everyones time/money and try and keep her kids in check. No time for this at all sorry.

There are current serving MPs that have admitted to being in the IRA.

edit: Doggy got there first

[Doggy Styles]

I thought the main point of voting for her is to highlight the inequity of our treaty with the USA - after 9/11 our government agreed to deport felons there on demand, but there was no reciprocal agreement.

Another good reason is to give our self-styled Justice Minister a kicking.

All in all, she's worthy of a vote.

[expat]

I thought the main point of voting for her is to highlight the inequity of our treaty with the USA - after 9/11 our government agreed to deport felons there on demand, but there was no reciprocal agreement.

Another good reason is to give our self-styled Justice Minister a kicking.

All in all, she's worthy of a vote.

I have AFAIR detested every Labour Home Secretary since Roy Jenkins. A slap in the chops for any of them is a blow for democracy IMHO.

(And yes I know he's justice minister now, do we have that on our list of oxymoron phrases?)

BTW I think that our two governments drew up a reciprocal treaty, but the US legislature refused to ratify it because they wouldn't subject their citizens to it. Ours ratified it without hesitation. That's why it works only one way.

Which shows that either our politicians are even more venal than the Americans' politicians, or that we voters don't slap them in the chops with relish nearly enough.