Results tagged “Jacqui Smith” from Birmingham Mail - Is It Just Me

One of my contributors is complaining that our illustrious Two Homes Secretary is using the rules to line her own pocket when he is a pensioner living on much less than she is claiming for her second home.

This is a very negative way of looking at things and I think we should be grasping the opportunity Jacqui Smith has given the nation to save money.

Has anyone checked, for example, if her sister has any more spare bedrooms in her South London terrace? It might even be worthwhile to pay for a loft conversion or stick an extension on the back so that Gordon and Alastair can move in which will help the jobbing building industry and save on mileage for cabinet meetings.

Then we can either let Nos 10 and 11 Downing Street or flog 'em off for development. Think of all the luxury retirement apartments you could get in there. That in turn will help get the housing market moving.

See, with a bit a positive thinking what might at first seem morally questionable is in fact far reaching policy.

So the police are not going to investigate Lords flogging off amendments to the highest, or indeed any, bidder and the fact that one of the great ministries of state, the Home Office, is run from the back bedroom of a terraced house in South London is all perfectly above board . . . and presumably lodging.

I am sure that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be helping President Obama from her bedsit with a shared phone and bathroom somewhere in downtown Washington as I write.

So with MPS and the Lords controlling the switch, vote flogging and creative accounting on expenses has been given the green light.

But just in case you are starting to think MPs and Lords are beyond the law - which they make of course - try revealing any information that embarrasses the Government and see how quickly you get your collar felt - just ask Damian Green.