Friday, 30 October 2009

"I am a Disgrace" - Jacqui

Question Time last night was
popcorn worthy
for Jacqui fans. Remember what happened to Nick Griffin last week? Well basically everyone's favourite over-promoted trougher had a similar, and equally deserved, pasting:
Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has accepted that she was "disgraced" by the scandal surrounding her expense claims.

Asked on BBC's Question Time, whether the expenses scandal had left her disgraced, Ms Smith said: "Yes, I have been, it’s obvious, and I made an apology to Parliament."
She went on to say;
"I don’t think people who have been disgraced should go to the House of Lords, but more importantly we need to put the system right."
before meekly suggesting that she didn't want to go into the Lords anyway, despite being almost guaranteed to lose her seat at the next election. A bit like muttering "shit party anyway" after a door-whore has made it perfectly clear that your name is very much not on the list and that you are very much not coming in. It was a shame nobody on the panel, or even Dimbleby himself, was quick enough to ask whether she supported the elevation of the disgraced Michael Martin to the Lords. A golden opportunity missed.

Jacqui should be going to prison not the upper chamber. While it is unlikely she will go down, she is most definitely nearly out of all our lives come May. John Sergeant hit the nail on the head with his priceless intervention:
"It is a puzzle to people, when you’re asked where your home was, and you were Home Secretary, and you didn’t seem to give the right answer", he said, provoking cheers from the audience.

He went on: "Was it a complicated question, that you therefore genuinely got wrong and took advice on? When someone says, ‘Where’s your home?’, I can answer that pretty quickly."
Just pay the money back and all this could go away.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Look.
I'm not a big fan of Jacqui Smith.
And, it can be fun to throw rotten fruit at her while she's in the stocks.
But....
She's had some punishment and humiliation already.
What stinks and still stinks is the hiding of the home flippers. The issue wasn't raised on QT and the Kelly report seems to be conspiring to protect some of the BIGGEST crooks.
Are these the 'too big to fails' of our stinky parliament?

Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs
said...

"...to ask whether she supported the elevation of the disgraced Michael Martin to the Lords.

That would have been a great question, but unlikely to have been permitted to be released on the final edit.

Tom
said...

It's a shame they couldn't have had her on the shame show as Griffin. Two lynchings for the price of one!

tris
said...

Anon... she's still made off with about a million of our pounds. She has been humiliated, but she deserves to be. If no one had found her out she would still be home secretary of England and she would still be troughing it big time.

I bet she wanted a seat in the Lords and it will hurt like hell that she won't get it... tough.

If she had lied and cheated like that and been a chavette from an estate hen she'd be in a cell by now. Not in a job that pays £65ooo a year and has still great perks.

Sorry. No sypathy for any of them at all. They are a bunch of immoral troughing pigs and they should be inside!

Any Colour but Brown said...

"Anonymous
Look.
I'm not a big fan of Jacqui Smith.
And, it can be fun to throw rotten fruit at her while she's in the stocks.
But....
She's had some punishment and humiliation already."
But she hasn't paid back the money that she swindled, has she? She hasn't been charged with fraud, as she should be, has she?. No, so let's not drop it yet.

"What stinks and still stinks is the hiding of the home flippers. The issue wasn't raised on QT and the Kelly report seems to be conspiring to protect some of the BIGGEST crooks.
Are these the 'too big to fails' of our stinky parliament?"

You mean like Alistair Darling and the Cooper/Balls? Coooper/Balls flipped 3 times in 24 months - and received warnings from the fees office that their expenses were too high. Why are they not behind bars?

Anonymous said...

Check out this verdict on the Question Time last night, its quite different and good:

https://takeonpolitics.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/question-time-29th-october/

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