Moral Hazard
Jacqui Smith, the UK’s Home Secretary and whose primary qualification for government (alongside keeping the twins in plain sight in the Mother of Parliaments) is that she has said “yes” to every socialist initiative ever proposed, has been enjoying the perks of office with her husband.
After watching a couple of pornos at home, Jacqui submitted the bill for the television package as an expenses claim, God love her.
That’s pretty hard to beat as a sign of the contempt with which politicians treat the electorate.
And for all those who think of Brits as a sexually repressed people, here’s this week’s other sex scandal – a drunken + videotaped + adulterous affair in the House of Commons.
Naughty, naughty!
March 29th, 2009 at 18:03
Gordon Brown looks really scary in that picture.
March 29th, 2009 at 18:05
Maria,
If you think that one’s scary, then look at the photo linked to through the word “weirdo” in this post:
http://trackacrat.com/2009/03/05/yes-that-is-whence-i-descended/
March 30th, 2009 at 06:53
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March 30th, 2009 at 07:08
The news has been focussing on totally the wrong issue here. The issue is NOT what the films cost, or when they were watched. The issue is what the titles of the films were. The public needs to know.