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Home Secretary faces the music
Nicholas Cecil, Chief Political Correspondent20 Apr 2009
THE Home Secretary was due to face the Commons today as she battles to hold on to her job.
Jacqui Smith has been accused of "running scared" for planning to restrict her statement to an update on the anti-terror raids brought forward after former assistant Met commissioner Bob Quick was photographed with a secret document about the operation. Ms Smith is expected to be reluctant to discuss the arrest of Tory immigration spokesman Damian Green.
Her position has been dealt a blow following the Crown Prosecution Service's decision not to prosecute Mr Green over information leaks.
Reader views (6)
She's got skin like a Rhino! As have all the Nuliebor cabinet.
- Dee Jay, Fleet Hampshire, 20/04/2009 14:00
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The music I would like to see tacky Jacqui facing is that of her claims for a second home allowance when she in fact sleeps in her sister's spare room a couple of night a week. I was outraged to learn that she also employs a cleaner at tax payers' expense when we are already paying her husband £40,000 p.a. for his role as housekeeper in her "second" home.
- R.F., Yorks, UK, 20/04/2009 12:30
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Good, let her face the music, the quicker the better. She should then 'Tap Dance' her way out of the Home Office before she and her closet Marxist friends reduces that organisation to a 'Fred Karnos Army' laughing stock, if she has not done so already.
New Labour seem to be so unfortunate with the long line of ex-Home Secretaries who have come and gone. Miss Smith will be no different. Keep up the good work Smiffy, no doubt you will receive your little bit of ZaNuLab heaven when the time comes when you lot are booted into the long grass.
- Uncle Vanya, East Anglia Area UK, 20/04/2009 12:08
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Don't just focus on Bob Quick, a member of the Management Board of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as Commissioner for "Specialist Operations" which included leading the anti-terror operations on a national level, look at those who went before him in that role;
-Andy Hayman
-John McDowell
-Pete Clarke
Each of them left early, under a cloud, after an abundance of gaffes, mistakes and errors of judgement, exactly like their boss, Sir Ian Blair, and all on her watch.
Take all that into consideration when assessing the performance of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, and the police service is just one part of her brief!
- Manny Goldstein, London, UK, 20/04/2009 12:07
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The ONLY matters which MISS PIGGY SMIFF has addressed since she entered the Home Office, is her obscene expenses claims - for PORNOGRAPHY, A BATHPLUG AND GBP40,000 p.a. for her husband. To say nothing of stating that her FIRST HOME is supposedly her SECOND HOME, when, clearly, all she ever did was doss down in the spare room at her sister's home in London on a couple of nights each week.
THE WOMAN IS A WALKING DISASTER. JOE PUBLIC DESERVES SOMEONE BETTER AS HOME SECRETARY - NOT SOME TWO-FACED BATTLEAXE, who could not care less if Joe Public dropped dead today.
- Reuben Camara, Morecambe UK, 20/04/2009 11:28
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Is she still there ? It is frightening to think they cannot find a replacement.
- Michael, Kensington, UK, 20/04/2009 11:10
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