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Jacqui Smith to resign as Home Secretary at reshuffle
Times Online ^
| 6/2/09
| Philippe Naughton and Philip Webster, Political Editor
Posted on 06/02/2009 10:57:13 AM PDT by BigEdLB
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, is to stand down from the Cabinet to focus her efforts on saving her Commons seat after bruising revelations over her parliamentary expenses.
A source close to Ms Smith said that she told Gordon Brown of her intention to resign two months ago amid a controversy over her second home claims. The source said that she had "hurt" by the controversy, which included the humiliation of having to refund taxpayers for two blue movies watched by her husband.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: homesecretary; michaelsavage
Ol' Savage has gotta be loving this!
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posted on
06/02/2009 10:57:13 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
To: BigEdLB
I hope Savage successfully sues her butt off.
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posted on
06/02/2009 10:58:39 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: BigEdLB
"If only I possessed this much experience and wisdom of a wise Latina..."
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posted on
06/02/2009 10:59:42 AM PDT
by
Lizavetta
(Politicians: When they're not lying, they're stealing.)
To: windcliff; onedoug
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posted on
06/02/2009 11:00:24 AM PDT
by
stylecouncilor
(The black man is keeping me down!)
To: BigEdLB
Ms Smith was the butt and cause of so many jokes
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posted on
06/02/2009 11:01:06 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now, NOW)
To: BigEdLB
omg... Michael Savage's stalker is getting the boot...
roflmao!!!
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posted on
06/02/2009 11:01:57 AM PDT
by
xtinct
("There's a sucker born every minute." P.T. Barnum)
To: BigEdLB
That's a shame. I liked Jacqueline Smith even more than I liked Farrah:
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posted on
06/02/2009 11:03:09 AM PDT
by
TurtleUp
(So this is how liberty dies - to thunderous applause!)
To: BigEdLB
I understand that Obama has offered her a job. He wants her to conjure up even more ways to continue his insults of the British.
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posted on
06/02/2009 11:10:05 AM PDT
by
CdMGuy
To: TurtleUp
Oh yeah!
But in the finals, I have Tanya Roberts eeking out a win over the lovely Jacqueline Smith.
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posted on
06/02/2009 11:11:32 AM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(Where can I take 'Austrian' lessons?)
To: TurtleUp
That photo makes the Mary Anne v. Ginger question trivial.
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posted on
06/02/2009 11:15:09 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: Paladin2
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posted on
06/02/2009 11:17:04 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: TurtleUp
LOL! That’s who I thought of, too. :)
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posted on
06/02/2009 11:24:48 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(my former tagline "We can, and we will prevail" doesn't fit with the usurper's goals.)
To: BigEdLB
Controversy over second home claims. Blue movies?
I think what this newspaper means to say is that she’s resigning in disgrace over her self-caused corruption scandal and her criminal fraud in trying to force taxpayers pay for her and her squeeze to watch porn.
In reality, the government is most likely cutting her loose to avoid having to pay for the defense of her civil suit by Savage. I hope he piles on and ruins her.
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posted on
06/02/2009 11:31:13 AM PDT
by
DPMD
(~)
To: Lizavetta
This ain’t no Charley’s Angel.
To: DPMD
And don’t forget the claim for the “bathplug”...
Can you believe it? A rich politician who refuses to pay for her own tiny rubber bathplug?
$5 ?
Or can you buy them at the 99 cent store ...?
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