Blue movies on expenses: How Jacqui Smith's husband watched pornographic movies... paid for by the taxpayer

Blue movies on expenses: How Jacqui Smith's husband watched pornographic movies... paid for by the taxpayer
Mail Online
By Christopher Leake And Brendan Carlin
Last updated at 2:41 AM on 29th March 2009

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s political future was in jeopardy tonight after it was revealed that her husband used her Commons expenses allowance to pay to watch pornographic films.

Richard Timney, who works as Ms Smith’s Commons adviser, used part of the Minister’s second-homes allowance to pay for the blue movies he watched on a subscription television channel.

The relationship between Ms Smith and her husband was said by Government insiders to be ‘very difficult,’ but stressed that the couple were still together.

It is understood that Mr Timney had been watching explicit adult movies on channels broadcast on the Virgin Media cable TV service.

The scandal revolves around an invoice on which Mr Timney is believed to have made the expenses claims. Subscribers to the service can access X-rated films on the Playboy Channel, the Adult Channel and Television X for around £11 a month. It is also possible to order adult channels on a pay-per-night basis for £5.

Tory MP Philip Davies said last night that if the porn-movie claims were true, the Home Secretary would have to resign.

‘Claiming that her sister’s back bedroom is her main home is one thing but this could push her over the cliff. It is surely not legitimate to use Commons’ second-home allowances to buy blue movies. If this is true, I cannot see how she can survive.’ 

The revelation comes as The Mail on Sunday launches a petition to demand a full enquiry into MPs' expenses.

Perhaps he was working-in-hand?

I picked this story up from Guido Fawkes post on Nigel Griffiths failed attempt to gag The News of the World. 



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The question is: If the Bankers are the Fat Cats, are MP's their Kittens?

The question is: If the Bankers are the Fat Cats, are MP's their Kittens?

From The Times
March 23, 2009
Bankers head for No 10 to fix financial world
Suzy Jagger and Francis Elliott

Some of the world’s most powerful banking executives will meet Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling tomorrow to discuss how the global financial system can be repaired.

Among those at the meeting at No 10 will be Bill Winters, the co-head of investment banking at JP Morgan Chase, and either Josef Ackermann, the chairman of Deutsche Bank,or his chief operating officer, Hermann-Josef Lamberti.

The Prime Minister and the Chancellor will show the bankers detailed drafts of proposals that the Government will present at the G20 meeting in London on April 2. Mr Brown’s priorities for banking reform are to stabilise the financial sector, help lenders to purge their books of toxic debt, repair their balance sheets with new capital and build a regulatory structure that would prevent a rerun of the current financial crisis.

His plans include forcing hedge funds to disclose investments and trading positions so that the risks can be assessed.

Bankers head for No 10 to fix financial world - Times Online


Or is it just all of that cream...

From Times Online
March 23, 2009
Tony McNulty 'may have to repay' some of £60,000 home claim, amid talk of inquiry


The Times

or are they just into fat pussies?

From the News of The World

A SENIOR Labour MP cheated on his wife in a midnight sex romp INSIDE the House of Commons.

Former minister Nigel Griffiths, a close friend of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, cavorted with a naked brunette in his Parliamentary office on Remembrance Day.

Then the shamed MP, 53, LIED about the shock breach of Commons Rules of Conduct, branding our story “outrageous.” Now he stands accused of bringing the House into disrepute.

News of the World

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Circuses 'short of UK performers'

Circuses 'short of UK performers'

Clowns protest outside Parliament




On the day when our Clown-in-Residence is off learning a few new slight of hand tricks and jumping through a few more hoops whilst paying homage to his masters,





a massive clown deficit in the UK has emerged.



A few pegs short of a Big Top!

But on the positive side Tractor production is up year-on-year and now our shops have as many as 20 steaks, each.

From the BBC

British circus clowns are in short supply, MPs were told

Britain is suffering a shortage of home grown clowns and acrobats, MPs on the home affairs committee have been told.

Malcolm Clay, of the Association of Circus Proprietors of Great Britain, said they needed to recruit performers from China and Eastern Europe.

But they feared the new points-based migration system, which starts next month, is not ready and Embassy staff have not been properly trained.

Mr Clay was giving evidence to the home affairs committee.


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