Oh dear... Jacqui Smith claims for husband's porno movies on expenses...

[Djmiles]

Is that true?

G20 exempt from smoking ban - Yahoo! News UK

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

But there you are this is just another case of 4 legs good 2 legs better from the pigs in charge......................like the temporary suspension of the smoking ban for the G20 delegates. We must be mad.

Is it because they dont want them having a fag huddled together on the pavement outside the building or it might be cold and raining ?

 

[cunning fergus]

I guess there may not be any second hand smoke, as I understand them politicians dont inhale.

Anyway the way forward for the smoking classes appears to be for them to agree to a 'summit' of some kind which will be held in an agreeable pub/working mens club this clearly satisfies the criteria for an exemption to the prevailing law.

If only this was made clear 18 months ago maybe there would be a few more pubs about?

 

[Twinkle Toes]

New Labour: same old vile professional politicos with their snouts in the trough, more like. I wouldn't be suprised to hear that The Very Righteous Hazel Blears makes a packet as a Dominatrix on the side, quite frankly..

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Its embarrassing for the bloke and if he was going to watch some porn why bother with the sky " adult " films. I paid £ 5 for one and you were lucky to see a flash of a breast , soft, soft, soft

 

[User removed 4]

Its not the just the porn films , its all the other stuff that we have paid for such as televisions , fitting out her kitchen etc at her "second" home thats so infuriating, its fraud plain and simple, she along with all the other thieves should be prosecuted.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Feel sorry for the bloke personally, he gets caught out having a "menagé a un" a year ago whilst his po faced missus is away...next thing he has to face the news cameras "I am sorry I had a wank last year, I am a wanker, sorry I am a wanker"..We all know that feeling, its twenty past 11, everyones asleep, you have the remote control...

 

[trueblue]

Listening to Radio 5 just now, you'd think nobody had ever had a shuffle in this country. It's unbelievable. Surely the point is that the Home Secretary was asking the taxpayer to stump up for her telly costs, and yet more people seem to be morally outraged that her husband may have had a quick one off the wrist while she was away. You'd think the sky was going to fall in.

Amd to make it even worse, the phone-in is hosted by that wanker Nicky Campbell... oh the irony...

 

[Tricky Dicky]

The Very Righteous Hazel Blears makes a packet as a Dominatrix on the side, quite frankly..

Thank you for that - I now have an image in my mind that I could have done without on this sunny Monday morning.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Thank you for that - I now have an image in my mind that I could have done without on this sunny Monday morning.

Sorry hon. I thought I'd share that truly horrible thought with you all - in a desperate bid to rid myself of it.

It hasn't worked.

 

[Hannibal smith]

But, how does one mistakenly put their internet bill through their work finances? Either her husband (who works for her putting in expenses claims) is thoroughly inept and should be fired, or he is abusing the system and should be fired.

At our place it works like this. I can claim half the costs of my internet provider through my work expenses if I work from home at anytime during the month. I assume this works the same way in that if JS has worked from home she can claim some or all of her home broadband costs.

The point is that (a) mine is only a fiver a month so I don’t bother for £2.50 - Are the smiths that hard up they have to claim these things or more likely does the expense system pay everything they put through so they can take the p!ss? (b) If I was stupid enough to buy one of these on Sky I wouldn’t put the claim anywhere near my expenses account and (c) Can he not google it for free?

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

The whole MPs Expenses lark is frankly completley farcical. The complete system stinks and needs a radical overhaul.

IMO their Salaries should be about three times what they get now, (they are actually pretty low when compared to some Industrialists etc ) and from that they pay everything - no expenses, no second home allowance, no free porn etc.

If we paid them a good Salary it also might attract some decent people into Politics and not some of the fools that are now in the House of Commons (on all sides)

 

[Tricky Dicky]

The whole MPs Expenses lark is frankly completley farcical. The complete system stinks and needs a radical overhaul.

IMO their Salaries should be about three times what they get now, (they are actually pretty low when compared to some Industrialists etc ) and from that they pay everything - no expenses, no second home allowance, no free porn etc.

If we paid them a good Salary it also might attract some decent people into Politics and not some of the fools that are now in the House of Commons (on all sides)

.... and no employing family and friends unless they are comsumately qualified to do the job. it all stinks of sleeze and corruption at the moment.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Ahhhhhh. The perfect Sunday morning news story.

Pure entertainment.

 

[Acker79]

At our place it works like this. I can claim half the costs of my internet provider through my work expenses if I work from home at anytime during the month. I assume this works the same way in that if JS has worked from home she can claim some or all of her home broadband costs.

The point is that (a) mine is only a fiver a month so I don’t bother for £2.50 - Are the smiths that hard up they have to claim these things or more likely does the expense system pay everything they put through so they can take the p!ss? (b) If I was stupid enough to buy one of these on Sky I wouldn’t put the claim anywhere near my expenses account and (c) Can he not google it for free?

Sorry, meant TV bill. At the time I didn't realise they were virgin media customers, and that the internet and TV bill would be together. But still, where I work the accountant scours over every bill and receipt. Everything that is put through is checked thoroughly. And he isn't sorting through bills that list any porn he has bought. And this is with the business's money, not the public's.

Mr Smith is either careless and doesn't pay attention to what he is claiming for, which is a disgusting lack of respect for the taxpayers, or he is willing to sneak anything through that he can ("got to include the water bill because I had a cup of tea while working on the computer", "can't run a computer without electricity", "Needed to build an extension to house a home office, that spare room upstairs might be needed one day...") which is a complete abuse of the system.

Either way, he shouldn't be in the job, but sadly, I suspect the Smiths areen't the only family in westminster to do this.

 

[strings]

Either way, he shouldn't be in the job, but sadly, I suspect the Smiths areen't the only family in westminster to do this.

Remember last summer... Conservative MP got caught by the papers for paying his student son to be his research for him. The son never did the research, just picked up his substantial pocket money at the expense of the taxpayer.

I suspect that expenses abuses are a deeply-seated problem within the House of Commons on all sides of the house.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

It seems to me that the main problem with all this is that whoever it is who has to authorise these expenses doesn't seem to bother to check anything.

Just another example of Government irresponsibility when it comes to spending the taxpayer's money

 

[The Large One]

The whole MPs Expenses lark is frankly completley farcical. The complete system stinks and needs a radical overhaul.

IMO their Salaries should be about three times what they get now, (they are actually pretty low when compared to some Industrialists etc ) and from that they pay everything - no expenses, no second home allowance, no free porn etc.

If we paid them a good Salary it also might attract some decent people into Politics and not some of the fools that are now in the House of Commons (on all sides)

Nice idea in principle, but putting them on a good salary will not make them any less greedy. If there's something they can claim for, they will.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I suspect that expenses abuses are a deeply-seated problem within the House of Commons on all sides of the house.

Of course it is - that is why it is not the politicians who are either telling what is going on not making a fuss. We can only conclude it is rife.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

The best bit though is the husband. All we need now is the titles of the films he watched. Life won't be the same for him again.