Tacqui Smith

[bigbadwolf]

Did you lot see the news this morning? Our home secretary used public funds to support her and her partners porn habit. I'm personally very proud of her and glad to see she's doing her bit to keep the British end up.

[SeanMacGabhann]

The link

Ah yes, porn with all the porn taken out - as Bill Hicks said, I'm not sure plot and dialogue are enough to carry these things on their own

Still - the Mail once again getting it's prurient kicks describing what the channels advertise (and not complaining about what they don't deliver )

Liking the Tacqui thing tho BBW

[Mikecg]

Nothing surprises me anymore but at the very least the Labour part haven't promoted an anti sleaze campaign good old JS nothing wrong with a bit of smut and debauchery. no wonder if I was stuck with an ugly old hag like her I'd need some PBP (porn before passion) as well.

[cdonline]

Don't know about you, but I feel a bit sorry for the silly cow.

She's obviously married to a bit of a cheapskate, stuck up North, with only his knuckles and a mouse for company. Couldn't he tune into BBC Parliament to see his Nunhead beau and knock one out?

Bring back the Tories and some proper scandel, rather than this scrapping the bottom of the barrel for any bit of tittle tattle. oh sorry, it did cost the tax payer a few pound.

[Andystar]

i loved the bit where she said that she wasn't home when they were downloaded & that she only lives with her husband...

why do they get a tv subscription allowance- absolutely crazy

also, why would u want to watch oceans 13 twice..??

[BigPhil]

The channels you get on the virgin deal are rubbish anyway. far better to get the Canal + on satellite. Quality apparently!!

[Huguenot]

I'm loving Tacqui too. It needs to stick.

Also agreeing with cdonline. Apart from Tories.

[tommy]

True that its more embarrasing to admit watching "Oceans 13" (twice) rather than porn - but its another nail in the expenses gravy train

Time for a complete overhaul

[macroban]

There are lots of photos of Jacqui Smith in the newspapers. She's still an attractive young woman. Not tacky at all. You should all just hope you look that good when you reach 58.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Listening to BBC London this morning where it was embarrasing to hear the presenters giggle like a pair of adolescent school-kids. For the whole show. Then Paul Ross got on his moral high-horse and said he himself had NEVER watched one because he considered them "juvenile". Then went back to giggling like a child

To be sure a large part of the industry is explotative and populated with spivs and dangerous men. But then so is the clothing industry.

And to listen to so many people say they "never watch" it (in the same way that when google street view came out last week everyone was outraged on behalf of the man coming out of the sex shop) - when it is clearly pretty much a huge percentage of the population. You don't drive several industries (and the fact that you enjoy a video/DVD player and using the internet is largely down to the success of porn driving them) on the back of a few sad men in raincoats

At least MPs expenses get published online from July - so from that angle we look to be covered

[SeanMacGabhann]

PS to above - I'm not defending the industry in it's current state btw. Just wanted to make that clear. The clothing industry comparison is possibly glib as well but the more I find out about the reality for many participants at the coalface in both, the more I want to have them talked about

[louisiana]

So Tacqui, little miss 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear': just what were the titles of the films claimed for? I think we should be told (given that we have paid for them).

[bigbadwolf]

"Diane Abbot and the temple of Poon"

"Heeseltine in a house of commoners cum bath 7"

[SeanMacGabhann]

well we haven't have we? And it really isn't any of our business

But you could always look up the schedules of the various channels on Virgin On-Demand for possibilities.

[Mick Mac]

cdonline Wrote:

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> She's obviously married to a bit of a cheapskate,

> stuck up North, with only his knuckles and a mouse

> for company. Couldn't he tune into BBC Parliament

> to see his Nunhead beau and knock one out?

I think its very noble of her husband to take the rap for this and save the career of his MP wifey - I heard that it was in fact he who was not around that weekend and it was she who was at home with only a ____________ and a mouse for company.

Lets play Tacqui Blankety Blank.

[bigbadwolf]

I know that one of the title's was "Who's nailin Palin".

[louisiana]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> >

> well we haven't have we?

She says we have. And she says that she's paying the money back.

And it really isn't any

> of our business

How so?

[louisiana]

It is getting to be a bit of a pattern, this 'women in power let down in public by sleazy partners'.

[mockney piers]

I'm not keen on fisking at the best of times, but sometimes, if it's a long post that needs to be addressed on a point by point basis; but seriously Louisiana do you have to fisk everything?

It was just one short sentence!

Couldn't that have just read:

"Well Jacquie says we have paid for it, and she says that she's paying the money back.

But how can you say it's none of our business?"

So much more conversational.

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As for your latter point, each of the recent cases the women in question have all been stained with their own sleaze and dubious self-interest, often following the letter (juuust) but never the spirit of the rules.

They've all also threatened to bin their men which doesn't say much about their personal integrity either does it.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I'm saying it's none of our business because it's prurient. If the films were all Ocean's 13 and Finding Nemo etc this wouldn't even be in the news. The only reason it's in the news is the tee-hee factor. It's cringey

A claim was mistakenly submitted, the claims dept caught it and rejected it. It was all dealt with privately as it should be. The fact that someone then leaked so we the public could go "ooh which one???" is a bit embarassing. Let's say you find out which titles - then what?

[louisiana]

On your last point, Mockney... Jowell has parked hubby until she gets de-selected or voted out. I notice he's still living at the - other - matrimonial home. And no divorce from what I've seen. So she hasn't exactly binned him.

Smoke and mirrors.

[mockney piers]

I did use the word 'threaten', and that sounds like binning in everything but name as divorce wouldn't look good electorally (goodness knows why in this day and age), so no smell of roses there either.

[louisiana]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> I'm not keen on fisking at the best of times, but

> sometimes, if it's a long post that needs to be

> addressed on a point by point basis; but seriously

> Louisiana do you have to fisk everything?

> It was just one short sentence!

>

> Couldn't that have just read:

>

> "Well Jacquie says we have paid for it, and she

> says that she's paying the money back.

> But how can you say it's none of our business?"

>

> So much more conversational.

Mockney...

I have a business to run, the kitchen is being ripped out as I speak, calls to clients, John Lewis, electrician, tile people to get though, seven separate deliveries of mountains of stuff (filling half garden right now), dealing with NGO board stuff, with three different depts of HMRC etc. Multi-tasking. As we women do. So morse code is as much as I can manage, as ever.

[louisiana]

AKA Fiskette :)

[mockney piers]

Touch? ;-)