Downright Greed

The behaviour of some of our politicians is unbelievable. I am referring in this instance to our Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, who has shown her downright greed recently. Her already diminishing supporters will be thinking of giving their votes to someone else.

Her salary is now £141,866 having received a rise in each of the last five years. In 2004, her wages were £95,281, which means that her wages have risen by 49 per cent in five years. Now wait for it – can you believe that she has not given the cleaner for her second home any rise at all during this time. She has refused to identify who her cleaner is, which is very suspicious. However, someone close to her tried to assure the public that the cleaner was real and is a “very nice woman”. Indeed? Fortunately, for the Home Secretary, she did not have to provide receipts for her cleaner under the second-home allowances rule.

This revelation is not the first concerning Jacqui Smith. There was the previous incident when she put in a claim for two adult movies viewed at her family home. However, she claimed that her husband was responsible for this mistake. Really?

The last financial year saw her claim nearly the maximum extra costs allowed. Nevertheless, she has emphatically stated that she has no intention of commenting on any of this leaked information, so we shall have to form our own opinion about the behaviour of our present Home Secretary.

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