Bye bye Redditch, thank you for paying for my mortgage

If this is the best that Jaqui Smith can do then she is doomed to be an ex Labour MP at the next general election. Hope so!

Call me a cynic but....

Jacqui Smith - gimmicks? Jacqui Smith - trying to attract women's votes? Jacqui Smith - trying to save her own political neck?

The "Two" Home Secretary?

Fascinating how these government ministers organise their home lives, isn't it? According to this piece in the Mail on Sunday Jacqui Smith has managed to find a wonderful compromise.

Whatever the outcome of the next general election, and even if Ms Smith loses her Redditch seat, she (and her sister?) has done rather well in financial terms out of the taxpayer.

An assisted place for doomed Smith?

Mike Smithson has an alarming blog about the possibility that Jacqui Smith will be smuggled out of her doomed seat in Redditch to a safer place in Wolverhampton.

Why on earth would even the Labour Party want to keep her as an MP? If she is considered to be so talented by them then they really are desperate.

But we knew that, didn't we?

Silly cow!

That useless Jaqui Smith has been trying to convince the population of Manchester that ID cards will give them - and, in particular, young people - greater protection in the future. "The cards, which will contain details of a person's fingerprints, National Insurance number and address, will then be offered to the rest of the population from 2011."

No they won't. They will be a total waste of taxpayers' money and they will never happen anyway because there will not be a Labour government in 2011. In fact, Jacqui Smith will not be an MP at that time as she will have been kicked out of office on the back of the Brown implosion that is about to happen!

How to defend a wafer thin majority - Labour style

The Daily Telegraph reports that "A certain Richard Timney has taken to writing letters to his local newspaper, the Redditch Advertiser, extolling the virtues of the constituency MP, Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary. Mr Timney's epistolary forays also extend to defending controversial policies such as ID cards and to launching vigorous attacks on the Conservatives. Well, it's a free country and lively political letters are meat and drink to local newspapers.

"It's just that Mr Timney also happens to be not only the Home Secretary's husband, but also her £40,000 a year 'senior researcher/parliamentary assistant'. What a perfect parable of New Labour. It combines jobs for the boys with taxpayer-funded party propaganda, all conducted in a not entirely transparent way. Alastair Campbell would approve."

Couldn't have put it better myself - although I did point out back in July that she is unlikely to get re-elected.