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Don't Mess With Savage! U.K. Home Secretary Quits
wnd.com ^ | June 02, 2009 | staff

Posted on 06/02/2009 5:03:58 PM PDT by kellynla

In the wake of scandal over personal use of taxpayer funds and her controversial ban of talk-radio host Michael Savage, British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith will resign, according to the London Telegraph.

Smith has indicated she will step down when Prime Minister Gordon Brown reshuffles his Cabinet after this week's local and European elections, the British paper said today.

The Telegraph noted Smith faced humiliation over her husband's submission of a receipt to the House of Commons for watching adult films. She also claimed her family home as a second home under the Parliament members' allowances plan while staying with her sister in London. In addition, she allegedly charged a number of personal items as office expenses.

But on a BBC radio program today featuring Savage, a barrage of callers reflected public anger over Smith's surprising decision last month to ban the popular American talk host from entry into the United Kingdom along with murderers and terrorists.

Savage said the morning show had planned to take callers for only five minutes, but the segment went on for 30 minutes as phone lines lit up. Callers included a Muslim who said he was opposed to Smith's ban of Savage.

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As WND reported, the talk host hired lawyers in London last month to issue a defamation complaint against Smith.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: jacquismith; michaelsavage; michaelweiner
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1 posted on 06/02/2009 5:03:58 PM PDT by kellynla
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To: 09Patriot; abigail2; Baron OBeef Dip; BellStar; b4its2late; Blue Turtle; BootsOfEscaping; ...

Pinging the INFIDELS


2 posted on 06/02/2009 5:05:24 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are soooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: kellynla

bookmark


3 posted on 06/02/2009 5:06:08 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: kellynla; MadIvan
t on a BBC radio program today featuring Savage, a barrage of callers reflected public anger over Smith's surprising decision last month to ban the popular American talk host from entry into the United Kingdom along with murderers and terrorists.

Britannia may not yet be lost!!!!

4 posted on 06/02/2009 5:08:52 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|"AlsoSprachTelethustra"-NonValueAdded|Lk21:36|FireTheLiar)
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To: kellynla

Sorry, no. She stepped down over the expense scandal. The British are too far gone down the progressive spiral to care about their loss of freedom.


5 posted on 06/02/2009 5:09:41 PM PDT by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: kellynla

too funny.


6 posted on 06/02/2009 5:10:26 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: kellynla

There are some, maybe many, Britons with a sense of the rightness of Western Civilization and who are ready to resist the onslaught of both rampant PC and even more rampant Islam.

Now and then they are victorious.


7 posted on 06/02/2009 5:10:39 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: eclecticEel
Sorry, no. She stepped down over the expense scandal

If so, a pity then. We have a potential expense scandal here, but so far only the WSJ (AFAIK) has picked up on it. What an opportunity to clean house...

8 posted on 06/02/2009 5:12:46 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|"AlsoSprachTelethustra"-NonValueAdded|Lk21:36|FireTheLiar)
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To: eclecticEel

Sounds like she had bigger problems than Savage.


9 posted on 06/02/2009 5:14:48 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: eclecticEel
Smith faced humiliation over her husband's submission of a receipt to the House of Commons for watching adult films

All work and no play was making Jacqui a dull girl?

You just can't make this stuff up, you really can't. :-))

10 posted on 06/02/2009 5:14:49 PM PDT by colorado tanker ("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
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To: kellynla

I wonder is this will also end her plans for a “civilian security force”?


11 posted on 06/02/2009 5:16:01 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: rockabyebaby

Thanks for da ping!


12 posted on 06/02/2009 5:17:16 PM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: kellynla

If this means Weiner is free to leave our country, I’m all for it.


13 posted on 06/02/2009 5:17:52 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: colorado tanker
The Telegraph noted Smith faced humiliation over her husband's submission of a receipt to the House of Commons for watching adult films.

Is the humiliation over getting caught, or *ahem* not being sufficiently interesting to hubby?

14 posted on 06/02/2009 5:19:58 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd: ON)
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LOL!


15 posted on 06/02/2009 5:26:38 PM PDT by colorado tanker ("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
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To: humblegunner

LOL


16 posted on 06/02/2009 5:45:15 PM PDT by rom (Obama '12 slogan: Let's keep on hopin'!)
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To: kellynla

Savage was hung out to dry by the US government. One would think that at least one congressman would step forward to object to the censorship of Mr. Savage.


17 posted on 06/02/2009 5:46:26 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Freedom's Precious Metals: Gold, Silver and Lead))
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Levin as a guest? Are you crazy?
Nealz Nuze | June 1, 2009 | Neal Boortz
Posted on 06/02/2009 4:30:09 PM PDT by EveningStar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2263320/posts

Why have you never seen Mark Levin interviewed on any major television network? Levin, as you know, wrote an amazingly successful book entitled “Liberty and Tyranny.”


18 posted on 06/02/2009 6:09:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: kellynla
Don't forget Geert Wilders being sent back after he was invited to speak to parliment.
19 posted on 06/02/2009 6:40:16 PM PDT by Nateman (Obama happens.)
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To: Neoliberalnot
If you ask me, he should make it HURT, that is, first get his name off the list.

And THEN, find a way to support Redditch, Worcestershire, UK Conservative politician KAREN LUMLEY, who will face off with this Smith individual in her district in the summer of 2010. I dont think that US citizens can donate to her campaign, but maybe there is a way to support her, with volunteer work, something as a way to knock Jacqui Smith out of Parliament all together.

Here is where you do not only level the playing field and right previous wrongs, but you set an example so that the lously lib b*stard red diaper doper babies never again come after a Conservative US Political Radio Commentator and Host in conspiracy with the Obama Administration as they did in this case. They must be taught a Transatlantic Lesson.


20 posted on 06/02/2009 11:15:54 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo ("North Korea would NEVER try this stuff were BUSH still prez" is a line of crap. They DID!)
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