I`m Alright Jack

Milliband Milliband Milliband, that’s all I ever hear, but I `ll tell you who will be calculating quietly . Jack (the survivor ) Straw .His teflon qualities are in sharp contrast to Brown`s current incarnation as Mr. Fly-paper and he is exactly what Labour deserve
He was the éminence grise chiefly responsible for the sagely counselling against a quick honeymoon election . No blame attached to him for the anti climax ,however , despite his pre election tub thumping about have-a -go-heroes at the Labour Party conference. Naturally he forgot to introduce any such legislation during his time as home secretary between 1997 ands 2001.
As a young man he was hired as an adviser by Barbara Castle for his “guile and low cunning”.He became fashionable Euro-sceptic left in the 1980s but turned into an ardent New labour cheerleader ‘when the mood shifted ‘. He made the case for an EU Constitution but bounced Blair into a referendum in April 2004 while Bambi was on vac.. When the French and Dutch voted against it he was so vilely gleeful Blair was supposed to have put the phone down with words “What a tart “
He invited the Islamist Muslim Council of Britain ( The MCB) and hung Denis Mc Shane out to dry when he suggested that Muslims had a responsibility to root out terrorists . Once again he shimmied out of trouble by objecting to Muslim women covering their faces in his surgery ‘when the mood shifted ‘. He was an implacable opponent of electoral reform dismissing Roy Jenkins’ proposals as “complex”. Latterly the alternative vote system was always his idea .
He was intimately connected with Iraq as Foreign Secretary but managed to send a memo suggesting that we should not join the Americans , it soon became less than entirely confidential .Yes he introduced the Freedom of information but has spent much of his time undermining its principle. He was a key figure in blocking the release of the sexed up dossier . He was campaign manager to Blair and the to Brown and now he is positioning himself as the ‘”Caretaker leader” showing ,in his insidious way, as little loyalty as Milliband , but retaining deniability as ever . This, when unlike the younger crew, he might have been expected to take some flak for the endless misjudgements this clown’s car of an administration has served up. Not he
Should Straw accept an interim role and then be oddly slow to relinquish it while the Labour attack team pick off his rivals no-one should be surprised . War , famine and flood pass over the land but whatever Armageddon befalls us , there will always be cockroaches .