Cultured Views

We now have Porngate causing the latest outrage in the United Kingdom; the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, is in deep water – not over what her husband gets up to late at night so much – but for the fact that she has claimed what he does as an expense.

‘Mr Jacqui Smith’, aka Richard Timney, likes watching porno movies when nobody’s watching, and the trouble is Ms Smith has used her parliamentary expense account to claim the £20 back that her husband spent on his little habit.

So should she resign over all this…?

I don’t think resignation is called for because I reckon she is embarrassed enough about the fact that everyone now knows her husband has a penchant for those grubby movies. But she did effectively use taxpayers money to finance her husbands viewing habit. Consider this though – the public, who are fed up to the eyebrows with the reckless spending and claiming of these MP’s at a time when we cannot pay our mortgages, are learning in more detail just how much these MP’s get in claimable expenses.

Ms Smith alone last year claimed £135,000 for this and that – and that’s aside from her huge salary. What really galls me though is the fact that Mr Timney, her husband, is paid £20,000 of taxpayers money a year for acting as her Personal Assistant. Nice work if you can get it eh…?

And get this…last year she actually claimed 88p for a sink plug she had to buy – 88p!!! as if she could not afford to foot the cost of that herself. What else does she claim…botox, microdermabrasion, brazilians…? what a life.

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