The ThunderDragon: Jacqui Smith

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08 March 2008

I'm Not Gonna Pay For An ID Card

The very idea of ID cards is bad enough. But that we would actually have to pay to give the government all of our personal details out of our own pockets just adds insult to injury.

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, promised that 80 per cent of Britons would have a biometric identity card within nine years.
The Home Office is planning to charge £30 for a stand-alone card, and about £93 for a combined passport and ID card. (The Times)

I don't want an ID card. My life is more than can be summed up in just a magnetic strip. And there is no fucking chance that I will pay them to have one.

So long as there is any compulsion in any way to have an ID card, it should be completely and entirely free, including no tax levy to pay for it "indirectly". If they want me to have an ID card, the very least they can do is pay for it out of their own wallets, because there is sure as hell no way that I am.

ID cards are pointless and intrusive. At the very least, I will not be forced in to paying for one.

20 January 2008

Home Secretary Scared Of Walking The Streets Alone

When the Home Secretary says that she wouldn't feel safe walking around London on her own at midnight, she replied:

Well, no, but I don’t think I’d ever have done. You know, I would never have done that, at any point during my life... I just don’t think that’s a thing that people do, is it, really?

And she says this just after claiming that the streets at night are safer after ten years of Labour government. This demonstrates both that she can't really believe that labour have made the streets safer and that she is completely removed from the real life circumstances which cause some people to have to do things which they wouldn't choose to - like walk the streets at night.

Since 46% of Londoners said they don't feel safe in the neighbourhoods at night, and that there has been a 21% rise in in violent crime nationally among 10 to 17-year-olds in three years shows that Labour have failed to do anything about increasing law and order in the past decade.

Image hat-tip: Curly's Corner Shop

14 November 2007

Double The Number Of Illegals!

Not just 5,000, but 10,000 illegal immigrants are employed in the security industry. Double the number suggested before. So the Home Office is twice as abysmal as I thought.

It's just not good enough.

Especially not when they knew about this issue back in July!

The Home Office isn't fit for purpose, and it is seeming increasingly likely that neither is the Home Secretary.

13 November 2007

Jacqui's Spinning

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, put spin before the safety of the public. Despite knowing about illegal immigrants being employed by the Home Office - as security staff, of all things - in July she did nothing. Well, nothing to protect us anyway. She was far too busy spinning to save herself. In August, a Home Office memo read:

The Home Secretary has seen your submission of today's date ... She agrees with you that this is not ready for public announcement yet.

So she knew, but did nothing about it.

How can they possibly justify knowing about it in July, yet doing nothing about it until November - five months later?

Can the first female Home Secretary survive much longer, or will David Davis claim yet another Home Secretary scalp for his collection?

30 October 2007

Jacqui Smith Says Sorry

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has apologised for misleading the British people:

Of course it is bad that these figures are wrong and ministers have apologised for that, I am sorry about that.
But the important point is that actually there are 2.7 million more jobs in this country than there were in 1997.
That's more jobs, yes, that have been filled by those that have come from abroad, but many more jobs that have been filled by UK nationals, and vacancies still out there for UK nationals.

Truly a shocking thing to hear from a Labour minister. Well, until she undermined it by continuing to speak after the first sentence.

But the most important thing is: did she show off her tits whilst making this faux apology?

10 October 2007

Obsessed With Jacqui's Tits?

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's, that is. She is complaining about journalists being "obsessed" with her cleavage and has told them "to get over themselves". She says:

Honestly, the morning when I made the statement to the House about the terror incidents that I had faced on my first weekend... funnily enough the main thing on my mind when I got up was not: 'Is my top too low cut or not?'
I'm going to carry on concentrating on protecting the country's borders, securing us from counter terror and bringing down crime.
And I will try and think a bit about my clothes alongside that, but it is not my top priority and nor should it be for those journalists who have been obsessed with it. (BBC)

I think it is you who needs to get over yourself, Jacqui. Why would anyone be obsessed by your cleavage? You're not exactly the most attractive woman in the world ["face like a horses arse" is one way of describing it...], and your breasts are hardly huge. And neither are you exactly the first woman to be in high ministerial office in Britain - and they managed to get by without claiming that journalists were obsessed with their tits.

So why would anyone be especially interested in your cleavage? The sort of cleavage in that I will be posting tomorrow or regularly at display over at Theo Spark's, yes, but yours? Not a chance.

Source: BBC

26 August 2007

Gun Control

There is no doubt that David Davis has scored a significant goal against Home Secretary Jacqui Smith with this open letter [extract below]:

Dear Jacqui,

We are all concerned at the rising tide of violent crime that has manifested itself this week in a spate of shocking killings, including the tragic death of young Rhys Jones. You told GMTV this morning that “statistics aren’t a help but gun crime is down”. That is an extraordinary claim.

According to Home Office figures, gun crime (excluding air weapons) has almost doubled since Labour took office. The annual crime figures, released by the Home Office in July, suggest a 13% decrease on the previous year, which neglects the 18% increase in firearm homicides.

However, perhaps most telling is the massive increase in gun violence, disclosed on 25 January of this year (Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence 2005-06, Home Office). Buried at page 36 . . . we find [that] . . . gun-related killings and injuries (excluding airguns) have increased by over fourfold since 1998.

In light of this information, your claim that gun crime is down is both inaccurate and misleading. One clear fact on gun-related violence is that if you don’t count it, you won’t be able to tackle it. Your predecessors opted for spin over substance. I hope that is a path you will avoid and would be grateful for an explanation of what action you plan.

Yours sincerely,

David Davis

There is just nothing I can add except to say go and read Dizzy's post on the issue and watch this amusing video: Labour: Tough on crime, tough on manipulating the statistics of crime.

Video hat-tip: Daily Referendum
Source: The Times

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