The taxpayers love it, really ...

The peer informally known as “Barrenness Udder” initially appeared to have escaped from charges of milking the taxpayer. In a display of asininity remarkable even for him, the perpetually useless Keir Starmer has declared that guidance issued by the Clerk of the Parliaments – guidance, mind! – rendered the law irrelevant. If anyone else ran their own company, they could simply write “guidance” that defrauding customers and suppliers was perfectly acceptable behaviour, and the towering intellect of Keir Starmer would regard that as sufficient to make a successful prosecution unlikely.

It is hard to conceive how someone with the intellectual gifts that Keir Starmer possesses manages to remember to breathe without assistance.

It does really make me wonder what on Earth you have to do to be prosecuted nowadays:

Mr Starmer said in the course of the Scotland Yard investigation, evidence had been obtained from her neighbours in Maidstone and from companies supplying utility services, such as water, gas and electricity.

So, it was pretty clear that she was never there. And yet this is not actually enough to press charges.

I do so hope that if I ever transgress, Mr Starmer gets to decide my fate.

Milking the taxpayer is a post from: Anna Raccoon

What other explanation can there be for his decision to download adult movies on pay-per-view cable TV, to be watched in Ms Smith’s ‘second home’ in Redditch, and then allow his wife to claim the cost back from the tax payers?

What could be more damaging to Ms Smith’s political credibility than to find that the tax payer must cough up for second rate explicit porn to keep her ‘parliamentary advisor’ – aka her husband – amused, whilst she is holed up in her sister’s back bedroom?

Ms Smith was said to be ‘mortified’ today after she was forced to offer a humiliating apology over the expenses claim.

The Home Secretary said she ‘mistakenly’ submitted an expenses claim which included five pay-per-view films, including two adult movies which were viewed at her family home in her Redditch constituency.

The relationship between Ms Smith and her husband was said by Government insiders to be ‘very difficult,’ but stressed that the couple were still together.

Still together? Just as well – we wouldn’t want the tax payer to be paying for a ‘blue movie venue’ when the Minister involved no longer even visits the house, would we?

Tory MP Mark Field said:

‘The entire Commons allowance system is now indefensible. It’s one thing to make dubious claims on the location of your second home but for the husband of a Home Secretary to be claiming for pornographic TV is completely beyond the pale.

‘It’s no good Gordon Brown promising an inquiry at some point in the future. This must be reformed now.’

Is Jacqui Smith’s husband a secret Conservative? is a post from: Anna Raccoon