Jacqui Smith to resign

[likesfish]

think the last nice ones were in the 60s when they made it more or less legal to be gay and stopped hanging people.
since then its been knee jerk after knee jerk
can't reintroduce torture and capital punishment so just have to talk more and more tough.
One day we will have a home secretary waving a gun about foaming at the mouth and screaming I am the law

 

[Wolveryeti]

This has literally made my day.

I hope the taxpayers alliance nail her too.

 

[DotCommunist]

This has literally made my day.

I hope the taxpayers alliance nail her too.

It's almost as good as the time Jack Straws kid got sold weed by a reporter.

 

[JHE]

She's stepping down to spend more time with her husband's pornography.

 

[kropotkin]

The taxpayers alliance are scumbags

 

[Wolveryeti]

The taxpayers alliance are scumbags

Even scumbags can get things right sometimes.

 

[London_Calling]

Craig Murray, the Britain's former ambassador to Uzbekistan and long-time critic of the government's record on human rights, said on his blog: "Jacqui Smith has thrown in the towel: given her husband's viewing habits, I do hope she washed it first..."

 

[danny la rouge]

BBC is back on the story:



Home secretary 'set to step down'

 

[kropotkin]

 

[danny la rouge]

Bunch of pussies.

 

[trevhagl]

If she does go whats the betting she'll be kicked upstairs?

upstairs to wank her bloke off now he can't get free porn?

 

[The39thStep]

aah, its now 'is to step down' - aka 'is to avoid being pushed'

Hardly news, everyone knew it was going to happen

Thank heavens you knew. The timing certainly caught me out. I felt sure she wouldn't last the pace but as Butchers says seems a daft time to announce this.Seems like they have conceeded the Euro and Council election results.

 

[trevhagl]

No more of the Jacq Boot eh.

Such a shame.

they'll sharp get another right wing lunatic to enforce the police state

 

[The39thStep]

I'd do it anyday. I'd start by legalising the 'erb. Then declare the ID card thing scrapped and then maybe a national holiday after the Glasto weekend, all before lunch as well.

Meanwhile most working class communities would rather see a policeman.

 

[cesare]

I can't imagine she has too many fans after the Christopher Galley incident ... leaked information again

 

[Nemo]

I wonder if number 11 leaked this to take the heat off the lobotomised badger.

 

[treelover]

Do people think the odious Purnell will get promoted? surely he only appears 'dynamic' because the the majority of the PLP etc is so supine or even desires to kick the unemployed, etc when they are down.

 

[weltweit]

Will she wont she? Who knows ..

But then it will be

meet the new boss, just the same as the old boss!

 

[SpookyFrank]

Do people think the odious Purnell will get promoted? surely he only appears 'dynamic' because the the majority of the PLP etc is so supine or even desires to kick the unemployed, etc when they are down.

Given the last few home secretaries we've had Purnell is an ideal choice. Assuming the actual antichrist is unavailable that is.

 

[Brainaddict]

Will she wont she? Who knows ..

But then it will be

meet the new boss, just the same as the old boss!

This is, unfortunately, true.

Still, it would be a stone-hearted human being who couldn't get at least a little jolt of pleasure from the end of JS's career. And some might feel a veritable surge of pleasure at the thought that justice has been done to the arbiter of justice.

Bye Jacqi. Fuck off. Don't come back.

 

[Brainaddict]

Given the last few home secretaries we've had Purnell is an ideal choice. Assuming the actual antichrist is unavailable that is.

I heard he was busy. Being pope.

I like the Daily Mash's description of Purnell:

James Purnell: If it looks like a junior salesman and sounds like a junior salesman, you call it what it is.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/polit...are-about-in-labour's-civil-war-200905041739/

 

[jæd]

Bye Jacqi. Fuck off. Don't come back.

Best bit of news all day. The nasty pekenese (as in dog) faced bitch is gone. Or perhaps the best bit of news this year so far. Only if Brown went it would be better...

 

[belboid]

Thank heavens you knew. The timing certainly caught me out. I felt sure she wouldn't last the pace but as Butchers says seems a daft time to announce this.Seems like they have conceeded the Euro and Council election results.

no one has 'announced' this tho, its a rather embarassing leak. The fact that brown was about to dump has been common knowledge, even amongst those who eschews anything not 'local'.

It is, however, pretty much a concesson of appalling defeat.

 

[The39thStep]

no one has 'announced' this tho, its a rather embarassing leak. The fact that brown was about to dump has been common knowledge, even amongst those who eschews anything not 'local'.

It is, however, pretty much a concesson of appalling defeat.

Again thank heavens you are so much in the know about New Labour.

 

[_angel_]

Given the last few home secretaries we've had Purnell is an ideal choice. Assuming the actual antichrist is unavailable that is.

Absolutely everyone hates him. Not just people who don't like the idea of the sick being kicked about.

Here in the Guardian he proposes funding for political parties.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/29/parliament-reform-a-new-politics

 

[The39thStep]

William Hills have closed the books : Ed Balls 2/1 favourite, with Alan Johnson at 6/1, James Purnell 9/1 and Shaun Woodward 10/1.

Which poses the question about who will replace Darling , whose position is seemingly untenable with the expenses issue, as Balls was the favourite for that post as well.

Johnson must be planing his leadership campaign.

 

[belboid]

Again thank heavens you are so much in the know about New Labour.

try reading steptoe, its astonishing what you can find out

 

[goebfwai]

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Why do Home Secretaries turn into such monsters?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...cretaries-turn-into-such-monsters-986861.html

 

[The39thStep]

try reading steptoe, its astonishing what you can find out

Thanks for the advice hippy

 

[London_Calling]

Which poses the question about who will replace Darling , whose position is seemingly untenable with the expenses issue, as Balls was the favourite for that post as well.

Darling only goes if he is willing to go, and it seems unlikely he does.

Brown cannot shuffle him against his will.