Jacqui Smith clearly deserves to be embarrassed of the newspaper revelations concerning the private TV viewing habits of her husband. For a politician who wants to snoop into the private lives of ordinary Britons, it’s gives me pleasure that for once her private life has been exposed.

It is a scandal that British politicians have continued to milk the expenses system at a time when the general public have been forced to cut back on their essentials. Yet despite all the public (and media) indignation over this, there has not been any serious attempt by the government to either reforming the system or scrapping it altogether.

Although Ms Smith has been caught up in the expenses row, she should not resign over this… she should go for being arguably the moment illiberal and authoritarian Home secretary of current times. Not a day goes by without her making public announcements about non-existent terror threats and plans to impose laws which, if not opposed, will make it harder for people to escape from the database state.

It is clear that the good electors of Redditch may have been very embarrassed by their local MP’s appalling actions. Her record should be enough for her to be booted out at the next general election.

Sorry Polly Toynbee of The Guardian, but unlike you, most people in Britain think most politicians are corrupt…. and the Smith debacle is the latest in one long, long, long line of examples.

When I read this at The Guardian, my jaw dropped… literally.

Roger Cohen, columnist for the New York Times, has praised our embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown for, in his words, “… that he gave perhaps the best political speech of his life”, referring to his star turn in the United States Congress. With examples, Cohen believes that US President Barack Obama can learn a lot from Brown’s experiences on how to be a leader.

Mr Cohen, what on earth are you going on about? If  Obama had followed Brown’s policies, the US would go down the same economic mire that Britain is engaged in right now. It was Brown’s record as Chancellor that put the country in this state. Most people know that when British Prime Ministers get into bother at home, they tend to travel abroad. We are desperate to see the back of him… and the present government.

Obama- and America- doesn’t need to learn from him…. it has to be the other way round.

“BETRAYED BY THIS LABOUR GOVERNMENT!”

“Britain on Thursday approved the visit to the country of Hizbullah official Ibrahim Moussawi to address a seminar on political Islam at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.”

“If you want the attention of this government, you need to threaten public disorder-and worse- on a huge scale”

David T, of Harry’s Place, quoting The Jerusalem Post, yesterday.

Now:

“VOTE LABOUR!”

“Islamic fanatic Ibrahim Moussawi was today denied a visa to enter Britain. Jacqui Smith has ruled the spokesman for the terrorist organisation Hizbullah should not be allowed to travel here- despite him making at least two previous visits to the UK on her watch.”

“It looks very much as if domestic policy has trumped the FCO (Foreign and Commonweath Office). And a good thing too.”

David T, of Harry’s Place, quoting the Daily Mail online, today.

YOU HYPOCRITICAL CENSOR!

Thousands attend murder protests (BBC News)

“They have come to show solidarity, I believe with, the police and to send a very clear message out to the people who killed Constable Stephen Carroll and the two soldiers that they do not represent them.”

-Police Inspector John Burrows.

Enough said.