Socialist Outlook

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Will Blackburn leave Straw in the wind?

· Socialist Outlook no. 45, May 2001 · 262 words

April 24 saw the largest banner of the Lancashire Socialist Alliance, to launch cicchion campaiga candidate Jim Nichol.

Contesting the Blackburn seat against Home Secretary, Jack Straw, Jim puts us in an DOS HOR with record as a civil rights lawyer, representing those The main focus of the campaign will obviously be the treatment of asylum seekers well as the off of BlacKouts council SCI vices, both of which have been raised through a town leafleting Mr Nichol said: "As a lawyer for 17 years I have been involved in cases involving people who have been wrongly convicted, such as the Carl Bridgewater case, the M50 case, and the M25 case. Every day I represent people with no money and no power.

"All this has made me especially indignant about people who blame the less ortunate for what's wrong Straw and his ministers follow the Tory line on immievery time they build a prison for children or pass a law to make criminals out of deople who support dissiincensed."

Nichol received local and month for his most recent case, when he succeeded in having the murder convicAccrington-born Peter Fell quashed in the ppeal cour 'he meetin managed to £1000 towards mous donation or the 1300 crous donation for the deposit i came Nicholson from the nensation he reccived tor "Look at the mess on the doesn't always. abour take them back into PUDHIC Caesaer standing to give everyone who feels the same indignasomething they believe in."

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