How Does The Poor Woman Keep Taking It?

If she wasn't such a shrill self-satisfied cow you might at a stretch and with a following wind feel the odd twinge of pity for our useless and incompetent Home Economics Secretary, Jacqui Smith. About the only words of encouragement she gets are those she pays her husband to write.

As I wrote over at Old Holborn's Club For Desperados yesterday, La Spliff was holding a meeting to bring together experts on burglary in order to try and countermand her earlier assertion that the depression (previously recession, thanks Gordon) would inevitably lead to an increase in burglaries. She has already been rapped publicly over the knuckles for fiddling statistics, so has to find another way of spinning that things are not running dangerously out of control. Although she needs a plod escort to go for a kebab, and has admitted being too afraid to go out in London in the dark.

However, her little summit was holed below the waterline by the fact that Labour's own figures show that 80% of serial burglars escape the maximum prison sentence, and 15% don't even go to prison at all. And Jack "Slippery Weasel" Straw over at the laughable Ministry Of No Justice has let 4,000 burglars out early because when Home Secretary he failed to build any prisons, the stupid corrupt little cunt.

She must also have been a tad dismayed that a report has also been published revealing that not all of the police farces are ready to deal with large scale civil disobedience.

Best order some more tasers, Jacqui!

The Penguin