Priests and Nuns (@al)

' I think the main course here is the double standards. Like a pri*st doing it with a n*n after a sermon.'

Bearing in mind her legislation, I suspect Jacqui considers herself a nun. Her views with regard to s*x certainly seem Victorian and worse, so would match. However, it would appear her husband is a little more 'broad minded'.

Personally, I would allow the expenses claim anyway. Having s*x with Jacqui would count as cruel and degrading treatment and probably violates the Geneva Convention on torture. So, it really counts as medical treatment on the NHS for having normal s*xual needs.

I say, let her stay.

Now she's been exposed as a hypocrite, she's less likely to be allowed to cause any harm.

Get rid of her now, and they might replace her with the even less competent McNutty.

Let her stay, at least until they've liberated the monsters under McNutty's bed as well.

@"livid and shocked"

Good point. Give the man a hardcorez

psych 101

I think this explains a lot.

She put out for her hubby - he spanks the monkey to pr0n - she decides all men are therefore sex-crazed deviants because they want it more than once a year and are therefore a danger to women, children, society or whatever and starts drafting "extreme pr0n laws"...

Her whole anti-porn stance comes from her own mental/sexual hang-ups... this wouldn't surprise me in the least.

And of course, her whole moral crusade is "for the greater good", what matter that the casualties along the way are freedom and justice. The NuLab manifesto reads like an excerpt from "Mein Kampf" - meh.

Jaquie smith should get fired

Not with reference specifically to this; she's fucked up so many times in the past anyway. She's a complete fucking moron.

@John et al

You have to SEARCH to find something more serious and damn disgusting that these parasites have done or are responsible for? On any given day/month/year? Wow...! Maybe you shouldn't be looking to the BBC or mainstream newspapers for your information! No offence meant, but really.

I agree wholeheartedly that this, whilst beautifully ironic and delicious, is not important at all - but see how much excitement, chatter and indignation it generates amongst the flock. I assure you she couldn't give a f*ck about what the little people think about this story, if it's even true. There are MANY other things she would much rather we weren't discussing.

This will make no difference to her career whatsoever.

Is he being serious?

Gordon Brown has said Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's use of Commons expenses for two adult films watched by her husband should be a "personal matter"

Gordie old mate, it was a personal matter right up to the point we had to pay for it.

And up to the point that your Home Secretary with the support of your government decided that the British public's 'personal matters' are actually a matter for government to poke their noses into.

This wouldn't have caused half the splash it has if there wasn't for the moralistic posing by the Government to stir up the Mail readers. Paying back the tenner is a small hit on the wallet and in more permissive times the cash would come out of her wages and she'd walk away embarrassed but politically intact. Because the government has set itself up as moral arbiters they better make sure they are perfect or get a proper job.

I wonder whether John's duties as part of 'running the office' is filling in the expenses claims (and hiding the receipts)?

@Thinking Outside the Box

Although you may be on to something I suspect (with a degree of cynicism) that actually the main reason "Call me Dave" isn't complaining too loudly is because he at the very least strongly suspects that many or all of his own MPs are abusing the expenses system at least as badly.

If he says nothing, or supports this as a non-resignation event then if labour make a big thing about Tory expenses then labour will just look petty, childish and like they are trying to either legitimise their theft of public money because "everyone else does it" or they are trying to bury the story rather than address it.

Also, as the party in power, if Labour go after the Tories without the Tories starting it then it will also look like they (Labour) knew what was going on, knew it was not really acceptable but let it continue in order to feather their own nests.

What is the issue ?

The fact that her husband has been watching smutty films is not the issue,

that is something between him & her - it could make their relationship better or worse. It is not something that we need to know.

The real issue is that she was claiming for something that was nothing to do with her parliamentary job. If she had claimed for her husband watching Bambi she should be thoroughly censured. Just repaying the claim is not good enough. If I were to lie to the Inland Revenue and the find out, they won't just ask me to repay what I hid from them, they will impose a penalty of up to 100%.

MPs caught cooking the books should face the same penalties as the rest of us.

Having said that: I do find the anti smut campaigner hoisted by her own petard very funny.

It couldn't have happened to a nicer person

Wicked.

Let's all help Ms Smiff along here. I'm about to print off a car sticker which says

IT'S SOOOOO HARD FOR JACQUI SMIFF

But her "main" residence is he sister's house...

Wasn't whacki recently protesting that she spent "most" of her time living at her sister's place?

If so why is she claiming internet OR tv at her "weekend" residence?

Sorry if someone has already said this, but

Hehe.

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Haha.

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Hahaha.

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BBWWWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

HAHAh

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haha

Seriously though, shouldn't our ministers resign due to their incompetence rather than these silly tabloid issues?

hehe

pffffHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Perhaps...

...If she spent a bit more time looking after her husbands needs and a bit less trying to f**k the rest of us he wouldn't have to rely on shite pay-per-view porn?

Wacky

So can we now look forward to her being referred to "Wack-off" Jacky

Will there now be a box on all our tax forms to we can claim a tax exemption for grumble flicks?

It's totally lame of her to blame her husband for this. But then what else would we expect from this government. If anything goes wrong - quick find someone else to blame.

I remember years ago chatting to a bloke in a video rental store about "adult" and "below the counter tapes". He was saying that most of them were rented out by women during the day.

This all makes her a smut peddler

selling porn to government, she is obviously delusional, one moment cracking down on the smut Peddlers and the next peddling the smut herself.

As to domestic violence, the description of how she treated her husband, and the fact he has taken the can for this points to something even more sinister, I hope he wasn't hit or had to endure verbal or physical violence from Jacqui.

@Just a thought, but....

Interesting thought, also if memory serves, if someone reports it to the police, even if he doesn't they're still supposed to pursue the case and seen as she admited it on TV...

Missed the obvious excuse

Should of claimed it was research....

Am I the only one scared that this woman could end up as PM. Conservatives should win the next election hands down, by the time the election after that rolls round the global recession will be over and they will win another term. Next election and cracks are starting to show but Labour have yet to find anyone with any personality to challange. After that election though cameron steps down wanting to leave at the top (and more importantaly knows there is a shit storm on the way) and someone who has zero chance of winning the next election gets made party leader and our PM. Labour see this is their best chance of winning but dont want to take any risks and need a dead cert, they think about going the obama route but dont want to scare middle england so instead decide a woman is the best bet to secure votes. And thats how Jacqui Smith ends up as PM

bashing the bishop

Must say the photos of the tosser show him looking decidedly peeky - too much bashing or a sleepless night worrying about the prospects of him remaining attached to his testicles? Maybe both - the logic being: give'em one last going over before punishment is enacted.

I for one will be keeping an eye on la Smith's earings to see if she gets a new pair in the near future.

I expect she is suitably vengeful, the cheating harridan.

Can we work out the titles?

The BBC tantalises us with the news that Virgin's porno pipes delivered the movies on 6 and 8 April 2008 at £5 a time. Is there any hope of narrowing down what sort of filth gets Mr. Home Secretary going?

And surely a Playmobil reconstruction of salient plot points for those of us who don't subscribe to Beardie muck is in order?

Pulitzer winning journalism here

The Telegraph has deployed its formidable resources to determine that Virgin were satisfying the Home Secretary's husband with "Raw Meat 3" and "By Special Request".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/5072701/Jacqui-Smith-under-pressure-over-husbands-adult-film-expense-claims.html

Any of the Reg's readers able to tell us more about these epic titles - especially "Raw Meat 3"? Does it achieve the tricky task of being a good third movie in the series - which is hard to pull off [snigger] - Jaws 3D, Rocky 3 and Return of the Jedi all failed to keep the high standards of their predecessors.

@Yet Blunkett can bed-hop and the boys go "yeah, respect!"

Yeah but he isnt the one preaching that We shouldnt bed hop

We're up to our ears in gloaters here.

"Can I come in for a gloat?" they shout.

We shout back "Oh you heartless gloaters!"

Tell you what - I will believe you are not a gloater if you can just tell me.... Which expenses DIDN'T she fiddle?

@eddy ito

wanksacked?

could be reused for anyone losing their job for prOn related reasons.

(OK I know it hasn't happened yet but having the PM say he's right behind her it can't be long)

More joy

http://oldrightie.blogspot.com/2009/03/home-secretary-does-expenses.html

BTW, is this the most rapidly commented El Reg item ever? Must be in the running...