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Jacqui Smith

Two loos, two jags, two homes, two women, two chins……

May 9, 2009

A provocative farce of unremitting horror, the finale can not come soon enough. The script is packed with devious manoeuvres and well-honed fiddles.  646 fine actors, under the parliamentary fees office inventive direction, execute slapstick accounts and deliver receipts with near-perfect timing. But the onslaught of escalating troughing seems to grow more desperate as the [...]

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There is a case for full disclosure by any public body of any document … which would shed light on the disaster and its aftermath.

April 19, 2009

Andy Burnham was not talking about the disaster in Downing Street, but of the Hillsborough disaster. Today, instead of sitting on a sofa with her husband watching a movie or two, Jacqui Smith was hard at work, trying to garner some good publicity before being grilled tomorrow in the  House of Commons over the bungled [...]

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Is Jacqui Smith’s husband a secret Conservative?

March 29, 2009

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 [...]

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Putting the boot in.

March 27, 2009

Jacqui Smith’s heart must have beat a little faster this week, when news reached her of the advances in the science of Internet censorship made in Germany. 11 German detectives descended on the home of Theodor Reppe, in the name of ‘discovery of evidence of distribution of pornographic material’. Without informing Theodor of his rights, [...]

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Storm in a Double DD cup………

March 27, 2009

Jacqui Smith has been working hard on her campaign to ‘End Violence Against Women And Girls’. The declared Home Office strategy is to tackle attitudes that may uphold violence against women in order to help women and girls feel safer. A key element must be to see women and girls as fellow human beings rather [...]

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The ‘Chav it all’ society……

February 24, 2009

Large numbers of police forces are planning to cut thousands of officers despite the threat of a recession-driven surge in crime and disorder. Representatives from dozens of police forces contacted by The Times last night gave a grim picture of falling numbers and “significant and painful” cuts. Who will benefit from this? Only the feckless, [...]

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