The fact that Jacqui Smith got off scot-free says it all

Rod Liddle is appalled that, after knowingly swindling the taxpayer, the former home secretary faced no punishment at all. It seems unbelievable after all their grandstanding — but MPs really don’t think they have done anything wrong

‘We have got to clean up politics, we have got to consign the old, discredited system to the dustbin of history.’ — Gordon Brown

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That’s the problem with the dustbins of history these days — you just don’t know how often the collections are. And whether or not you have to separate out the organic matter and put it in a special green dustbin-of-history receptacle. One supposes that the former home secretary Jacqui Smith counts as organic matter, although it’s a close call. That quote above comes from the Prime Minister, talking all those months back in the early summer, about the MPs’ expenses furore.