Why Guido is Giving £5,000 to Bring Jacqui to Justice
On the weekend Jacqui Smith gave an interview where she said “I became the poster girl for the expenses scandal.” She personifies the excesses of expensegate not just because she was the first that the public found out about, but because she was one of the worst. We found out that taxpayers paid for her husband’s porno thrills and almost everything else, literally including the kitchen sink, right down to her 88p bath plug.
She resigned as a result in disgrace. That can not be the end of it. She claimed over £100,000 in expenses on the basis that a room in her sister’s house was her “main residence” and her family home was her “second home”. For years politicians have been spitting in our faces with this kind of blatant milking of the expense system. They can not be allowed to walk away with our money unpunished.
The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics, a pressure group that Guido helped set-up, is gathering evidence for a case. The police have indicated that they are not going to investigate Jacqui Smith, who as Home Secretary was at one time responsible for the administration of law enforcement. Led by Chris Galley* the Sunlight Centre is planning to bring a private prosecution. The key factor under the rules for determining “main residence” is where she spent most of her nights. Chris Galley worked in her private office with access to her diary.
The law firm hired by Sunlight to represent the public interest says that it could cost up to £100,000 to bring Jacqui to justice. Yesterday Guido gave Sunlight £5,000 to get them started. Everyday some 50,000 people come to this site to read tales of snouts in the trough and expense milking by politicians, if only a small percentage of you give £10 or £20 we can get Jacqui in front of a jury. You can make your donation online here. What did she used to say about ID cards? If she has done nothing wrong, she has nothing to fear…
*Chris Galley is better known as the Home Office mole. What he did took courage and cost him his career. Having met him I can say he is someone made of the right stuff with a moral compass. Don’t forget, he blew the whistle on Home Office lying.
I’m in, donation will be made this evening. £10 for the pleasure of having a rant here is a small price to pay.
Well done G
“won” of the worst? Tut, Guido – the agreeable vin du pays must be kicking in early.
Very impressed Guido. Am I right in thinking it’s tax deductible? Can’t do anything like that much, but will raid my little piggy to see what may be available.
fucking unelievable innit?
jacqui ’soapy tit-wank’ smith’s husband was caught with his trousers down wanking off over pay-per-view porn at the taxpayers expense.
did she resign at the time? course she didn’t the fucking whore!
but she did later decide to resign and the reason she gave was -
HER HUSBAND WANKING OFF TO PAY-PER-VIEW PORN!
FUCK OFF YOU C’UNT WHAT A LOAD OF FUCKING BULLSHIT!
the real reason jacqui smith resigned was because she thought it would take her out of the frame and that she would then be less likely to face fraud charges.
what a deceitful thieving fraudster, eh?
what a fucking c’unt.
note to jacqui smith: you criminally minded fucking thief, you should be jailed you fraudster.
I am sure you will make lots of new friends when you are sent down.
fnaar fnaar.
better pack your tooth brush.
and strap-on.
I am willing to hold the video camera.
Has the Wanker resigned his post in the constituency? I think we need to be told.
Mean bastard, I;m in for £20 quid Guido
I’m in!
Can we also try and impeach Gordon Brown??
£10 on its way. Can I claim it on expenses?
I’m worried this might fall at the first hurdle. I thought Ministers were *required* to designate somewhere in London as their primary residence (because that’s where they were expected to spend most of their time). We may not like the rules, but if that is what they were, Jacqui is probably home and dry.
It will be up to the complainants to PROVE that she stayed more nights in her constituency than at her sister’s house. That will be almost impossible. Gossip from neighbours will not stand up in court.
True, there needs to be a prima facie case at the close of the prosecution case or it will be thrown out by the Judge, the Defendant will not have to give evidence and a Jury cannot convict. However documentary evidence if any may be sufficient to establish such a case.
Telephone records would help. Can a private prosecutor issue a sub poena?
She had an official car and driver. It would be interesting to see (from the vehicle log) how many mornings the driver picked her up from her sister’s and compare this with the number of official pick-ups (or travel expenses claims) from Redditch. Also, to account for any missing nights, as her where else she stayed.
AS Home Secretary – the Police overtime records for 24/7 protection will be ALL the proof required to demonstrate how much time she really spent at her sister’s address.
Also the law allows the Attorney General to step in and close down a private prosecution if (for example) he or she doesn’t consider it to be “in the public interest”.
Knowing this lot I wouldn’t be surprised if that happens. Bastards.
Let the wanking commence.
Isn’t the man who ran her diary the chap bringing the case?
She could have designated the grace and favour flat we pay for as her Main Home- job done except she wouldn’t have been able to trouser another £20k+ pa to pay for the hosue her family live in and regard astheir real “Main Home”. Resign as MP immediately, 3 months in jail and pay the money back should be about right.
If Lie-bore tried to pevret the course of justice there would be fucking Riots ! and hopefully the odd public Lynching !
How about donate a tree? We have 29,000 politicians so we will need a lot to string them all up.
The police will have logs to show when they were outside her sisters house.
Mmmmm tasty!
she was won of the worst
Errrr Nooo
ONE of the worst
Whatever happened to your cash for peerages prosecution?
I’ll follow your lead on that Guido.
Oh and well done there aren’t too many people who put their money where their mouth is.
Marigolds and daisies!! I thought for once I was going to be first. Oh well – Happy with 2nd!
Close but no Cigar! Just logged on for my daily fix and there I was!!
I’m very proud of the fact I always do……Thankfully I win more than I lose.
Well done Guido – I’ve not got five grand spare but I’ll stretch to a tenner for a good cause.
Was it 130,000 you said read this blog last month Guido? One pound each should be enough to see the Sunlight COPs through the first round at least.
Keep up the good work, both here and with Sunlight :-)
I’ll go a fiver on that.
Me too. Enjoy your holiday Guido and well done for your mammoth donation. Can you claim it as a legitimate business expense I wonder ;-)
Sorry but it’s Gladys Pugh
At last! If we all contribute, we can get these people in jail – where they belong.
Jacqui became the “poster girl” because she milked the system for all it was worth. There isn’t a shred of morality, or any sense of decency and what is right between them all. They should be hung out to dry.
NUFFINTOHIDE! NUFFINTOHIDE! K-RAAARKK!
I’m definately in.
At long last someone out there with the time and the balls.
Question – if we lose are we liable for the pig’s costs? Not that I expect to lose but we need to know full implications. Lawyers are as bad as politicians at getting the cream.
Pip pop. What a lovely day:)
Good point. Could someone clarify this, please?
Those who fund “civil” litigation risk liability for costs – such action amounts to maintenence ie the “support of litigation in which the funder has no
legitimate concern without just cause or excuse” but there is nothing about chasing after funders of private prosecutions
Absolutely brilliant idea Guido – perhaps you should do more to PR this by sending a press release to the rest of the media as I am sure thousands of people who perhaps aren’t aware of you or the blog would love to have the opportunity to help force La Smith into court. Not having your funds I will be restricting my contribution to a tenner – its on its way!
Jacqui Smith doesn’t “get it”. For her, it’s always someone else’s fault and never good enough unless red flags are draped over everything. This is classic dualism. However, Alan Johnson amazingly has a secret weapon up his sleeve. By wanting business success and fair pay to come within his remit, he’s putting business, people, and government on the same page. Labour has a very strong chance come the election.
“[LabourList is] a mirror of a collapsing government being run over by an opposition with a free pass. Wake up.”
Charles Hardwidge @ 5:07 pm, Wed 8th Apr 2009 on LabourList
Nearly Chaz, nearly – 90% of that was logical. Maybe, on this route of progression you may post something sensible in about 3 years. C+ for effort, well done.
Labour is putting everyone else (and by that I mean immigrants, and themselves)before the people of this country – and you well know it Charles.
Try living on Jobseekers for a couple of months. Let’s see what you think of your beloved party then.
Jacqui Smith doesn’t “get it”.
Neither does her old man, it would seem.
On the one hand, I agree. The other hand’s rather busy.
“If you’ve done nothing wrong then you’ve nothing to fear.”…
Too fucking true sweetheart….so be afraid Jacqui, be very afraid.
Count me in Mr Fawkes. Money on it’s way.
Excellent – me too Guido. If it costs a few bob to see one of these thieving parasites up before the beak then I consider that this is money well spent.
PS Any room on the jury? I’m pretty sure I could come up with the right verdict.
I’m in. Have £10 Guido; would give more but I’m now officially one of the 2.4 million reported today.
This could set an amazing precident.
A very deserving cause.
O/T
John Hutton on Daily Politics = McSnot bricking it
Ha ha ha
He winked at Anand. If she winks back does it mean his eyes will pop out later?
Re: Sunlight, I’m in. I’ll have Mrs Mixture xfr later.
I’m too mean to send you any money but I will click, click, click on those ads, however annoying they are.
CEH: ffs, Gordon is still breathing and you are already crowning his heir.
A great idea Mr Fawkes I am going to give
Could you on this site give a running total of how much has been given this might encourage more people to give
Emma
I’m in for £10.
a poxy tenner?
you fucking cheapskate.
oh, hold on, you might be unemployed or a tramp.
in which case I apologise for my outburst.
but if you aren’t a dole boy or a tramp then I stand by my original insult.
wait a second…..hmmm….homeless tight fisted tramp…. surely not,..could it be? steve expat, is that you c’unt?
got your tin hat at the ready and ready for the front line steve?
nah, thought not. you’re just a fucking spineless wanker.
Wasn’t me, TAT – but tell me how much are you going to put in and I’ll agree to match it…?
Still waiting for you…..
fifty quid.
Well its a tenner more that you’ve come up with so far!
Twat.
Cock
TK-TK-QUAAARK! KRIPPLEKRIPPLEKRIPPLE! HALLOBALDIE! PHWEEET!
Calming down and letting things go is an easy technique to avoid difficulty but self-styled Masters of the Universe, journalists, and armchair pundits find it very, very hard to do. The media is unashamedly running flags up flagpoles, and the opposition and their friends and allies are bigging themselves up, but the worst danger for Labour is people losing their minds or getting desperate. Most of the criticism and attitude in this blog is, mostly, illusion. It doesn’t matter.
“Losing their minds and getting desperate? ”
How about losing their jobs, homes and livelihoods?
This is reality. Really Charles. Sometimes you are most insensitive.
Brown isn’t anywhere the temper throwing control freak I am.
Charles Hardwidge @ 10:15 pm, Wed 29th Apr 2009 at LL
Nurse!
the nurse is busy dealing with doctor dick.
he is having another one of his violent manic episodes.
but don’t worry, I have got everything under total control.
as soon as we have finished subduing the mad doctor we will turn our attention to charles.
section 3 + ECT should sort that c’unt out.
nurse ratched please put charles on the treatment list.
thankyou nurse.
I’m in too. I’ll donate later on when I get home from work.
I am very glad to see this happening. I blogged about Smith’s expenses situation a few times when it first broke and could not believe that it was not pursued any further. It is good to see that she might not get away with what seems to me to be potentially fraudulent behaviour without it being properly tested in court.
I will do a post myself later on to further publicise this.
Blogged on it myself now as promised here:
http://markreckons.blogspot.com/2009/07/jacqui-smith-may-not-get-away-with-it.html
I hope that the bitch dies in jail having been raped by Holloway lesbians
Your ultimate personal fantasy, Beast?
The video will sell like hot cakes.
Holloway Does Jaqui or Clit Clink 2
She will come out fully qualified in”STRAPADICKTOME !
O/T this is what happens when you put thick sheet metal workers and postmen in charge of the country.
Alan Johnson says he “doesn’t ‘lie awake at night’ worrying about the population hitting 70million.”
Yet another reason not to vote NuLabour.
http://tinyurl.com/ntrral
That’s because it’s already gone past 70 million and is heading for 80 million
Happy Johnson is spinning himself to look better than Smith, who was scared at night to go down the road for a kebab. An open goal really, but Happy seems to have forgotten the public doesn’t like off-side cheats.
It looks to me like Happy is signalling he means to sleep on the job for the next 10 months – like Dormouse at the Mad Hatter’s Tea-party, waking occasionally in an alarum over terrorist plots, before signing off ACPO Ltd’s next shopping list.
I’ve had enough of dereliction of duty, I shall be donating shortly.
Thats what you get when you scrape the bottom of the barrel to find someone to be in your cabinet ! you get a clueless ugly twat that dont give a fuck ! by then him and his pondlife mates will all be millionaires living in france
I thought Derek Conway was one of the first MP’s where their troughing started to come to light…..?
True, and his family are much more offensive than that of JS……do ‘em both!
True, but as Home Secretary it’s Wacki’s job to uphold the law, and that includes for her too. In any scandal you always go for the highest ranking persons involved as they’re the ones who are meant to be setting an example for others to work to.
I’m in but please clarify for me.
In the event Jackboots should win and costs get awarded against the SCOP team. Will they be able to recover the cost of their Perry Mason’s from us tax paying mugs er contributors? ie Guido is there a even remote possibility of being ruined by this? Are there any legal disconnects in place?
Just asking. I’d prefer to see her just quietly shot myself.
shot as noisly as possible please, at dawn before an army firing squad with an encore for all the cabinet.
The Tuscan tenner has been roughly inserted in the Jacqui pot.
you are a pensioner on a budget TT so you are allowed to be miserly.
Maguire!
Spit….
Great idea, but I suppose the obvious question is ‘why Jacqui’ when there’s so many others to aim for? Not saying she doesn’t deserve it, mind…..
Thanks for linking Guido – will contribute £5 later.
Can we lock her up for six weeks while we collect the money? I’m sure she’ll understand it’s for her own good.
keep your fiver you fucking pauper.
for fucks sake what the fuck is going on?
I bet you are a scum tory troll innit.
I am putting a nifty in.
now stop fucking about and put your hand in your pocker you tight bastard.
oh, hold on, you might be unemployed or homeless like that other peasant.
in which case your fiver means more than my fifty quid because you have so little money because you are a homeless person whereas I am intelligent and successful.
and never forget that although financially speaking you live in the gutter you can always look up at the stars, you can always look up to heroes like thick as thieves for free.
well, free until I start charging subscription fees that is.
then you will not be able to afford to come here anymore.
oh well.
I don’t believe for a second your mum gives you £50 pocket money. If she could afford that she would have given you a decent education.
I saved it up.
fuck off.
!She had a good night down the Massage parlour Last night !
No massage parlour. She’s an independent.
HEY THICK AS SHIT ! HOW CAN YOU CHARGE FEES FOR GUIDO’S SITE ? Unless you are one and the same !
I’m in too.
But Guido – what about a paypal account? I only ask on account of the zillions of people who use ebay etc. who all have paypal money just a click away.
I don’t know the full implications of what it might cost Sunlight to receive the money, as they do charge a fee to the payee, per transaction.
But as a quick, brainless way to get money from the people, it’s hard to beat.
“Nothing to hide, nothing to fear”
Let that be her epitaph.
http://www.sunlight-cops.org.uk/donate/
Links to Paypal a/c.
Durrh, sorry Guido – the button with the various payment methods just has the usual credit card logos, so I didn’t go any further.
Off to donate now by paypal.
Ta.
Guido,
Any chance of being kept in the picture how the fund raising is going?
I even remembered my Paypal password!!!
At least she spent the money in the economy supporting British retailers and possibly some manufacturing and garden nursery outlets not to mention (ahem) supporting Visual Media sales.
All this money ended up in private hands.
Hats off to Jackie. She’s ‘won’ of the best!
Regards,
Tom
Excellent idea, I shall chip in. If we win, will she pay costs?
As said above I reckon a paypal account would be a good idea and lots more people would donate. I’m in.
http://www.sunlight-cops.org.uk/donate/
Paypal a/c
Donation made.
Mental note: Will have to check with Fees Office to see if this impacts on my claim for customised Golf cart, matching clubs and clothing.
I’m in for a Tenner
Nick Clegg has just said that Labour have blocked the electorate’s right to sack their MP’s. Can anyone elaborate on this?
It’s OK, you can still pillage and torch them!
If you prosecute her, who picks up her defence lawyer’s bill?
The taxpayer?
Worth paying twice? Probably
I would not be surprised if ministers either individually or collectively are indemnified by the government against civil lawsuits relating to conduct in office. There may also be legal liability insurance in place. An interesting question would whether this action relates to Jacqui Smith’s conduct as a minister or as an MP or both. I would strongly recommend that the initial funds collected are spent on a substantive Counsel’s Opinion before deciding to proceed further. The adversarial nature of English law may even mean that it would be advisable to get two opinions, with one counsel instructed to concentrate on the downside risks.
I have to say that I am not convinced this action is wise. Guido’s currency is the printed word delivered from the relative safety of an internet bunker. The legal process is an entirely different establishment world which once running will disarm Guido’s core weapons.
I am not saying we should not contribute but I am arguing that more caution and forethought is needed. Just think what £100,000 could achieve if it was deployed to support the blogosphere’s key strengths. A candidate in Buckingham at the GE for example.
My Counsel’s Opinion: Thay cannot “indemnify” her for a criminal action so a private prosecution is thry way not a civil claim. “Compensation” for the public can be ordered when sentencing after conviction.
But what shall the charges on the Crown Court indictment be?
Yes, but if the public purse will defend her, any compensation levied will come out of tax payers fund rather than sequestration of her assets, and the public purse can afford the best representation.
Under Civil Law, the victor is usually the one who has enough money to waste.
The ex-two homes secretary will of course have a scratch on her record that might mean she could never hold public office again anywhere, and instantaneous if a conviction is gained before the next election without giving her constituency the opportunity
I do wonder, however, if you do not need to get a judicial review to ask the question whether prosecuting her under current law sets a precedent for the rest of them in the house or it is a case in isolation. I think it would cause more issues if the current law could apply to them all, and might bring down parliament sooner than Brown wants and ultimately gain a victory for Fawkes
Bardirect, if Guido and his blog commenters (i.e. us) fund a criminal prosecution, does the Trial Judge have any special powers to gag comments relating to the case or even Parliamentary expenses in general. Would there be a risk of contempt proceedings. Sorry to be devil’s advocate here but I think we should think the risks through.
I have just given a tenner wish I had more
The Youth Parliament will sit during the parliamentary recess to debate reducing the voting age to 16.
Labour are hoping these youngsters will vote for them. They must be bloody desperate.
Most 16yr olds in this country can no longer read and write – no wonder Labour want them on the electoral roll. All the easier to pull the wool over their eyes, following their indoctrination by left-leaning “teachers” in ’social studies’ lessons.
Best of luck with bringing Smith to justice – let’s hope a conviction will set a legal precedent
Most 16 year olds are weak-minded imbeciles – did you know that their intelligence level actually goes down from about 12 onwards*?? It doesn’t recover till they’re about 30.
As a mother, I know what I’m talking about.
*Anecdotal evidence from raising my own sprog.
Leaking documents to Damian Green is not the same as whistleblowing – and to say so is insulting to those who have the courage to stand up for their own convictions
Agreed – which is probably why he is leading this action after his Tory friends dropped him like a hot potato.
He is pushing his luck. I wouldn’t be surprise if his former civil service masters have a closer look at his behaviour in post with a view to a further prosecution.
Yep. I don’t doubt that our heavily politicised ‘civil service’ will be being leaned on right now to do just that.
The other risk is that a similarly ’spontaneous’ collection will be triggered by (say) Labourlist to go after one of the Tory MPs in the frame.
The other risk is that those who have donated become liable for massive additional costs as Brown and Smith simply unload their massive legal expenses onto the taxpayer and then employ a whole bundle of insanely expensive lawyers and briefs to tie the whole thing up for months/years before awarding costs against Galley. And guess what? The donors might find themselves in for more than their original tenner.
The system is not in your favour. The governmnet has ploticised the police, the attorney general and the courts. You have no hope without a criminal prosecution.
This energy would be better spent filling newspaper headlines with the proud record of this government. Ie record increase in unemployment, record debt and record fiscal deficit. Government printing fucking money for Gawds sake.
And it’s going to get a lot worse.
If they do, bearing in mind the legal system, they’ll run out of time very quickly, and once the general election takes place, any action will cease forthwith…
Or they could just arrange a walk to a secluded beauty spot like that weapons expert chappie.
Maybe any fines Jacqui could eventually have to pay can go to bailing the nation out of this financial situation we find ourselves in?
Peers in Houses of Parliament…. I have seen M.P.’S weeping, everybody thinks we are a complete set of C***’s, (pause while Violins play gently in the background) my family has been open to abuse on the streets, we the House deplore these attacks by the Daily Telegraph promulgated by the proletariat scum, we are not subject to Common law, we are subject to Commons law, we are answerable to nobody but ourselves….. Trough On Baby!
All fucking Tories. This is just a front for Conservative Future. Fine – but don’t pretend otherwise “Open politics” indeed.
All fucking lefties. So what? It’s about time you lefty scum had some real opposition, some real antipathy to everything you think, say or do. You are a minority. Now we just need to up the ante so you become a persecuted minority – as you deserve.
…persecuted and extinguished minority, a McBrunian minority – one with a 0% rise and a 1000% downfall and soon please.
Indonesia ‘65, Chile ‘72, United Kingdom ‘79, Poland… It’s happened before!
To English Liberation Front.Quite right too mate. Time to make the leftie feminazi scum shit themselves with fear and then we can take our country back!!
Fuck off.
I might be a Tory and there is no doubt Guido is of the right.
But he’s gone after Caroline Spelman (rightly) criticised Cameron (rightly)
And E.L.F. is right you lefties dominate the media and the commentariate while righties tend to do things that fucking matter.
Now we have a way to organise boo fucking hoo. Go write an article for the Fabian society about it.
Btw I wouldn’t rub shoulders with the slimey fuckwits who attend CF meetings if you paid me.
END MINORITY RULE!
What about the other private prosecutions you were contemplating. Guido?
I’ve just sent the link to the guy who was organising sending all our emails to her on Jun 15 – abandoned after she chickened out.
He should have a goodly set of Jacqui fans.
As an Aberdonian, I make a point of never donating anything to anything! However for that bitch I’ll make an exception. £20 on the way!
[...] From Order Order The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics, a pressure group that Guido helped set-up, is gathering evidence for a case. The police have indicated that they are not going to investigate Jacqui Smith, who as Home Secretary was at one time responsible for the administration of law enforcement. Led by Chris Galley* the Sunlight Centre is planning to bring a private prosecution. The key factor under the rules for determining “main residence” is where she spent most of her nights. Chris Galley worked in her private office with access to her diary. [...]
What about the electricity,gas and phone bills. Surely they would be acceptable evidence in court.
I’ll be in for £10 when I get home, I’d donate more, but thats the extent of my beer money for tonght.
Anything good on telly?
Hopefully this may be the best £20 I’ve spent for a long while.
I agree and it is the best £10 I have spent.
Guido could we have a update how much has been given.
Brilliant idea… The Sunlight Centre… My tenner has gone in already via Paypal… Much better idea than a pretendy fiver for a pretendy drink and a not very competently drawn rose.
Come back better than ever after the holiday.
Not just politicians, but all the senior Council officers and quango apparatchiks must be investigated. We’e all been taken for a huge (expensive) ride.
One big local authority is currrently chucking huge amounts of public money into a legal action trying to defend its chief officer(s) from the most unbelievable incompetence. (Watch this space).
Should add that the Councillors in said authority know nothing about the money being spent by their chief officer(s) – the legal action is being authorised by the very officer who is responsible for the c*ck-up in the first place.
I’m in for £20. Best of luck!
now that’s more fucking like it.
good lad.
Put this impoverished pensioner down for a bung. Sorry but although the heart is willing, the pocket can only afford £10 – but sod it, £20 going over in five minutes!
Ampers
Andrew, thank you for your donationPayment by PayPal
Confirmation number: 4KC329799D4303308.
An email with your donation details has been sent to ampers@gmail.com and you
can print your donation receipt.
Displaying your e-mail address to all may not be such a bright idea…
gmail email is easily repalced with some other, no harm done ….
Jacqui has now told us that after wasting 100’s of hours of Parliamentary time on trying to extend detention from 14 days it was not a good idea, strange how reality sets in AFTER they have been given the sack from the Cabinet.
P.S.. tell hubby Dyke Strap-on Vol 2 would be good video for a cosy night in.
Bet it’s not as good as volume 1.
The Dildo’s already seen that one, please ‘keep up’.
Have donated – let’s see her brought to account.
Seems the fund is doing well. Updated half a hour ago
http://twitter.com/sunlight_cops
Done.
Can you keep us upto date with the action or is that a very, very stupid question?
Sent a tenner – paypal.
Thanks for the alert to tell us what is going on.
Good luck.
I would love to see Jacqui doing a nice stretch as a quest of Her Majesty. In a cell with Blunkett would be good. But it ain’t gonna happen. Even if you guys get to court I bet the Attorney General will enter a nolle prosequi and thats it, game over. Spend your money on Guinness.
You can try I suppose, but some people have realised that the sad fact is they are above any laws. Trot out John Wilkes again: Lord Sandwich: ” You are a scoundrel Sir, You will die on the Gibbet or of the Pox”, Wilkes: “That Sir would depend on whether I embraced your Politics or your Mistress”.
Unfortunately, even if this gets off the ground – and issuing a summons is supposed to be an administrative matter – the Attorney General has the right to intervene and take over a private prosecution and will then drop the charges.
Are you up for a Judicial Review of his decision? That’s what will cost.
I have posted my doubts above. Expect comments are however going to be more persuasive. The more you are willing and able to explain the better. Let’s make an informed decision here.
Correction: Expect = Expert
It’ll cost whatever it costs. I’ve put £20 in and if needs be I’d multiply that figure by ten! If only a thousand people feel the raw “burning” hatred I feel, the political classes of this county would already be planning their getaway!
As for the Attorney General, he would be well advised not to get involved in this.
She you mean?
Too right – these politicians need to understand there is real anger out here.
There are surely enough incensed voters out there whom if the ball gets rolling will happily contribute to the 300,000 pounds cost of a judicial review if it comes to that and just think of the political damage to McSnot’s lot. Well worth it.
And the international media coverage! This ‘Government’ in particular does not seem to enjoy the experience of being taunted and laughed at by non-complient journos…
All in all a timely, lighthearted and fitting end to Gordon Brown’s bungled dreams and vision of welding a social-Marxist superstructure onto an unregulated capitalist substructure, and thereby going down into grateful History as ‘the man what fixed it’ for Socialism!
And if you eventually start feeling pangs of guilt-pity, because his harried lieutenant is ‘only a poor, undereducated Labour wommin out of humble sprat-gutting folk’, just try explaining, as an excersise, an unannounced 42 day absence to your family, job, dog and self, just because you fitted a demographic profile that, occasionally, had to be targeted and detained, so’snot to offend certin peeple like , an’ keep fings nice and fair for all of you…
if smiths main residence is her sisters front room in london , then surely the house in redditch must belong to us ,the taxpayers as we paid for it ,why cant we sell the house in redditch and THEN sue the bitch with the money we get for OUR house
This is unprecedented and far more important as a measure of peoples feelings against New Labour in general and former-Reichsfuhrer Smith in particular. More important than whether it has a chance of success or not. This is Wat Tyler in 2009. This is the voice of the people rising against New Labour tyranny and the media should pick it up and echo it throughout the land.
The people are coming for you and your gang of criminals Brown. They will not forget. You are hated and your lies are despised to the point of a very public whip round to prosecute one of the most hated figures of your despicable regime.
You can hang on for now, making your fatuous announcements from the bunker, but eventually truth and justice will catch up with you. Every dog has his day and long runs the fox. Every strike against you, your filthy lies and your gang of criminals, past and present, is a strike for justice, liberty and the English way.
daily mail already has.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1199779/Whitehall-mole-prosecute-Jacqui-Smith-expenses.html
I gave up at the 3rd attempt. Apart from the badly designed flow I refuse to hand out my home phone number and I refuse to use PayPal which is awful, intrusive, spammy and misleading.
Aw c’mon Mark,
The home phone number is to help establish that you haven’t stolen the card you’re using.
I might take issue with them about their fees, but the only emails I get are payments in and out receipts, which are v. handy.
This is a dream come true for me.
I have posted up to now about fifty seperate different critiscsms and suggestions about The Olde Jackboot and now my hat goes off to Mr.Galley.
I have donated to the fund and implore all those who are like minded about
the abuses perpetrated by this Two Home Secretary to donate accordingly.
I suggest the legal team demand the Logs of The Protection team to be made available by the old bill which will show just exactly how much time was spent guarding the sister’s house in DelBoy Trotter land.
If only she hadn’t continued laughing and smiling throughout the period of The Expenses Saga I would never have been so angry.
Smile,laugh,smile,laugh,smile laugh.
Now Jackboot try smiling and laughing.
You should have lived in a Grace and favour as befits the High Office of Home Secretary,not a spare bedroom in Peckham.
£10 sent
thanks john 2braincells.
not for the money, but for your name.
using a different one yesterday weren’t you?
that one is mine now innit.
another troll bashed by the most excellent and undefeatable thick as thieves.
TOP BOY SCALPS ANOTHER SCUM TROLL!
KEEPING THREADS CLEAN FROM SCUM TROLLS PARTISAN BULLSHIT
FUCK THEM – VOTE INDEPENDENT
‘fraid not!
I’ve never posted here before.
Unlike you, I don’t feel the need to show the posters here that I am an arschloch many times a day, as you do
ARRRK! NOISY GIT! NOISY GIT! (pingpingpingpingping)
tory trolls rule number 1) lie.
you little fucking liar.
what a lying c’unt!
Will send a cheque to Sunlight. Wonderful idea. However, bearing in mind how this Government relaxed the expenses rules in 04, unless fraud/deception on the lines of Elliott Morley is proven, you might struggle to succeed. Should still be worth causing the Liebores maximum embarrassment.
Tenner sent.
I’m in for a tenner!
Fair play to you for making such a big donation Guido – I’ll be following suit come next payday, albeit with a more modest sum.
The thing that’s going round in my head is that all they need is 10,000 people to donate a tenner (well, 9,500 thanks to Guido’s generosity). I suspect that if this gets the right publicity, there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people who could afford to donate and would be prepared to.
If that does turn out to be the case, I do sincerely hope that Smith will be just the first of many (Kirkbride & McKay, Blears etc) crooked politicians, be they red, blue or yellow, to find themselves in the dock. Smith may or may not have become the “poster girl” as she so pathetically put it, but she ain’t alone, so it would be a shame to see her taking all the flack – not because I like the woman (does anyone besides her wanking husband?) but because there are plenty of others out there who deserve the same treatment.
It’s about time these light fingered fly by nights started learning that they’re elected to serve us, not to lord it over us. Seeing a few of them get stung financially would be a great start on the road to their realising what their obligations are, although in my humble opinion, there really would be no substitute for a few stretches inside for fraud, because that’s what this is.
P.S. Sorry for the essay ;-)
No, no, no, NO, I’ve said it before, I know best about these matters, that’s what I am paid by MPs for, to look after their interests.
I looked very, very, very thoroughly into Jacqui and found no case to answer, she is whiter than white, whiter than the driven snow, a fragrant peach.
a FRAGRANT peach ? I bet she smells like a Bedouin arab’s truss !
I’m in. Time for the people to rise.
Great idea to prosecute the fat bitch Smith But the police should be doing it out of public funds as all her legal fees will be coming fromthem
Ten notes sent.
I will make a donation this evening.
I can’t help feeling that she took some bad advice. But she did take it, so must be held responsible for her actions.
What you don’t mention Guido is whether you or the “Sunlight Centre” have taken any legal advice as to the prospects of a prosecution succeeding.
I assume not (or that the advice was not favourable), otherwise you/they would be relying on it to raise the money.
Unless there’s some reasonable prospect of success, it’s (i) a waste of money, and (ii) a misuse of the criminal justice system.
Nothing in life besides death and taxes are guaranteed, so it would be disingenous of either Guido or Sunlight to tell potential donors that they are going to win the case.
Opinion, of course, not fact. Hence anonymous comment.
If I donate a tenner can i have a lend of the video?
You really wouldn’t want to see it Mark. It’s shit.
Dear All
I have to say this ‘get the ugly old cow’ in front of a jury has comic value but does it have a reasonable chance of success?
Her claim was passed by the Fees Office, they getting a tug on the collar as well?
Surely she will get off with it and walk?
The best thing is wait till she gets booted out at the election and then go for her.
She wouldn’t have access to the trough then.
Play the long game.
Finally; I am glad to see that you really hold a vendetta and nurse it along.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Thanks for that; glad you’re so positive. Tenner on the way is it? Pillock.
Maybe you can advise Her ? It just might be the human right of her husband to” jack off” At our expense because his wife spent so much time away from home ?
Dear Stains
If he was reduced to jerking off then it was only because your bird wasn’t available!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
At least i’ve had birds Not like you . You being a niffy spotty cock tugging sponging student twat get a fucking life you gay bastard !
WAAAARRRRK! kwwwwwwwrrrr…
Dear THE STAINS ON JACQUI SMITHS CARPET
“At least i’ve had birds Not like you”.
Do you work in a morgue then?
Don’t you feel clammy climbing on top of someone who is freezing stiff?
Another question, so bear with me, men or women or don’t you care?
Finally, ever shagged a bird with no head?
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
£20 gone.
Best of luck; me thinks we’ll need it.
Another £20 from me as well. When are they going to do Blair, Campbell and Bush and Broon for Iraq? I’ll dig deep for that. I just threw the tv out the window on hearing baroness (fucks sake baroness!) kinnockio say that the government is putting bliar in for eu president, that murdering Hoon should be put up against the wall. I despair
So whats the total so far then?
Done
Ooooo !!
Is this one of those Daily Female-type appeals , darlin ???
Brill !!! I spose it would be a fiver well spent an that would be 2% of the entire Botha estate , petal x .
Teensy problem , hun . No surprise , Ewa don’t have no bank account so either you’ll have to come an get it or I’ll give ya a dog-eared note at ur Drinkathon 2mrw .
Later E x .
Best £20 I have spent today.
Hope you nail her.
SIR- Absolutely splendid idea, old bean, sir. One is, temporarily, slightly strapped for folding, one might mention, but Mrs. K is, as I work my way through this bottle of mescal, mobilising the Little Cockup-By-Widdling Women’s Institute.
It’s all a bit hush-hush but General X.Q. Smee (retd.) has got wind. The old buffer also hypothesises that they could well be planning a naked custard pie romp (in the altogether, one wouldn’t wonder) and that photovisual representations may well find their way into a calender which no sane johnnie would ever pay money for.
Who knows, sir? You may find twenty guineas winging it’s way into your war chest and, if one may so bold as to suggest, photographic representations involving acres of crinkley flesh and oodles of shaving foam.
Yours, blah blah, hrrummmph, why do I bother, Col. M.T. Kernel (retd.)
I’m in – can’t think of anything else for £20 which will bring me as much happiness as seeing Jaqui in t’dock
£100,000 to prosecute? As a solicitor I am amazed at that figure. Which firm have they instructed? If this site supports the put upon tax payer can I suggest that perhaps it ought not to support the filling of greedy lawyer’s troughs.
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Done. Jail Jacqui!
Gaol Jacqui!
Being interested in justice I will give money. Once I can claim it back on expenses that is!