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Jacqui Smith (the Home Secretary) Buys Porn Movie on Government Expenses
The Home Secretary is facing an uncertain future this morning after it emerged that her House of Commons expense account was used to purchase pornography.
It turns out that it was her husband, Richard Timney, who bought the films and Jacqui Smith put them through expenses ‘mistakenly’.
In fact, they were part of a TV bundle that routinely goes through Smith’s expenses. It also included viewings of Ocean’s 13 and Surf’s Up. Even though MPs can only claim expenses on items and services used ‘wholly, exclusively and necessarily’ for the purposes of work.
Richard Timney and Jacqui Smith (image: Mail Online)
Conservative leader David Cameron says that it alone is not a resignation issue, but it’s not the first time that the Home Secretary has hit the controversy headlines.
- Smith is being investigated by the Commissioner for Parliamentary Standards after it emerged that she claims £116,000 in second home allowances for the family seat in Redditch, while ‘renting’ a room from her sister in London, which apparently makes that her main home.
- It was Smith who published those ‘dodgy’ knife crime figures.
- In December 2008 she ignored scientific advice from her most senior advisor, Professor David Nutt, to downgrade ecstasy from a class A to a class B drug, and was accused of making a political decision (rather than the right one), then went on to bully Nutt into apologising for his comments – comments that followed scientific evaluation.
- On the day that she was appointed head of a new government review of UK Drugs Strategy, it emerged that she had smoked cannabis a number of times at Oxford. She reversed the reclassification cannabis as class C, returning it to class B this year.
- In December, it emerged that her husband (Richard Timney again) was the author behind a series of letters to a newspaper praising Smith, although he failed to reveal his identity in any of them.
- Smith said she wasn’t and should not have been told about the impending arrest of Conservative MP Damian Green (November 2008), who had publicised documents that were embarrassing to her department. Her position was attacked on both sides of the House and she was accused of ‘wilful ignorance’.
- It was Smith who introduced the 42-days-without-charge terror laws, told Londoners that she didn’t feel safe on the capital’s streets, authorised police to restrict journalistic photography and told us that the ‘majority’ of Britons are in favour of ID cards, when in fact all evidence shows overwhelming opposition.
- Last but not least, Smith pays her husband £40,000 a year in taxpayers’ money to be a Parliamentary aide. And to raise the kids.
How many times do you have to cheat in an exam, lie to the teachers or spit in canteen food to get detention?
It’s time the Home Secretary was sent Home.
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