Put
this in your diaries folks –
Thursday March 3rd, Radio 5 Live 9.30pm – 10.30pm.
Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith presents a documentary for the BBC entitled ‘Porn Again’ – an investigation into the porn industry in the UK - meeting those who make, watch and comment on porn. The subject matter itself is arguably worthy of an investigative documentary but it is the BBC’s choice of presenter which will no doubt leave and nasty taste in the mouth, a feeling of mild nausea to say nothing of seething anger amongst the hard working population of this country who still can’t quite believe how this former Minister escaped the attention of New Scotland Yard during the expenses scandal. But then again that’s exactly what the BBC intended. Stick this up your arse Tory voting middle England licence fee payers, we’ve got your money and we’ll spend it how we bloody well like.
We can only speculate how much the BBC paid Miss Smith for this venture but as for her suitability and qualification to deal with the subject matter at hand, well in her own words, “As I know from my personal experience, porn fascinates us – media and public alike. But we actually know very little about what it’s like to work in the industry and what porn is doing to our society, our children and our relationships”.
Let’s see just how long Miss Smith dwells on her ‘personal experience’ during this documentary, not long, if indeed at all I would suggest. But ladies and gentlemen the personal experience she refers to is, seemingly, enough to justify licence fee cash being handed over to Miss Smith to take us on a journey into the world of smut. An infinitely more relevant documentary for the BBC’s customers would surely have been ‘Why do MPs steal ?’ - disgraced former MP investigates malfeasance in Parliament, what it does to our society, our trust in elected politicians and our relationship with Parliamnent. In Miss Smith’s case the two subjects, porn and expenses abuse, are inextricably linked.
In 2009 who could ever forget the sordid tale of then Home Secretary ‘erroneously’ claiming on her MPs expenses, for two pay per view porn films watched by her husband, Richard Timmey. What Miss Smith will not want to recall is that her husband watched the porn in the comfort of the £300,000 family home in what was her constituency of Redditch, Worcestershire. This was the home that Miss Smith claimed to be her ‘second’ home for which she could, and did, claim £24,000 per year simply because she had declared her ‘main’ home to be the back bedroom of her sisters house in London. We will never know exactly how many nights Miss Smith spent with her sister, doing what sisters do perhaps, drinking wine, eating pizza, staying up late and then presumably opening up that pesky red box and doing the odd bit of Ministerial work on pressing matters of the day like immigration, policing, prisons etc.
One thing is absolutely certain, according to the former MP for Redditch. She was not at the constituency ‘second’ home with husband Richard when for want of a better phrase he was, well . . . . spanking some of the £24K being siphoned from the public purse by his wife to keep Richard in food, drink and Kleenex.
Porn does fascinate men and women and it does not take a BBC documentary or Jacqui Smith to enlighten us any further. As for the former Home Secretary’s husband it was never a case of fascination with porn, more a case of boredom due to the lack of a proper job because don’t ever forget this – Miss Smith at the time was paying her husband, presumably out of the Ministerial £140K salary (boosted by the £24K ‘second’ home allowance), a handsome £40,000 a year to be her Commons Adviser.
Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith presents a documentary for the BBC entitled ‘Porn Again’ – an investigation into the porn industry in the UK - meeting those who make, watch and comment on porn. The subject matter itself is arguably worthy of an investigative documentary but it is the BBC’s choice of presenter which will no doubt leave and nasty taste in the mouth, a feeling of mild nausea to say nothing of seething anger amongst the hard working population of this country who still can’t quite believe how this former Minister escaped the attention of New Scotland Yard during the expenses scandal. But then again that’s exactly what the BBC intended. Stick this up your arse Tory voting middle England licence fee payers, we’ve got your money and we’ll spend it how we bloody well like.
We can only speculate how much the BBC paid Miss Smith for this venture but as for her suitability and qualification to deal with the subject matter at hand, well in her own words, “As I know from my personal experience, porn fascinates us – media and public alike. But we actually know very little about what it’s like to work in the industry and what porn is doing to our society, our children and our relationships”.
Let’s see just how long Miss Smith dwells on her ‘personal experience’ during this documentary, not long, if indeed at all I would suggest. But ladies and gentlemen the personal experience she refers to is, seemingly, enough to justify licence fee cash being handed over to Miss Smith to take us on a journey into the world of smut. An infinitely more relevant documentary for the BBC’s customers would surely have been ‘Why do MPs steal ?’ - disgraced former MP investigates malfeasance in Parliament, what it does to our society, our trust in elected politicians and our relationship with Parliamnent. In Miss Smith’s case the two subjects, porn and expenses abuse, are inextricably linked.
In 2009 who could ever forget the sordid tale of then Home Secretary ‘erroneously’ claiming on her MPs expenses, for two pay per view porn films watched by her husband, Richard Timmey. What Miss Smith will not want to recall is that her husband watched the porn in the comfort of the £300,000 family home in what was her constituency of Redditch, Worcestershire. This was the home that Miss Smith claimed to be her ‘second’ home for which she could, and did, claim £24,000 per year simply because she had declared her ‘main’ home to be the back bedroom of her sisters house in London. We will never know exactly how many nights Miss Smith spent with her sister, doing what sisters do perhaps, drinking wine, eating pizza, staying up late and then presumably opening up that pesky red box and doing the odd bit of Ministerial work on pressing matters of the day like immigration, policing, prisons etc.
One thing is absolutely certain, according to the former MP for Redditch. She was not at the constituency ‘second’ home with husband Richard when for want of a better phrase he was, well . . . . spanking some of the £24K being siphoned from the public purse by his wife to keep Richard in food, drink and Kleenex.
Porn does fascinate men and women and it does not take a BBC documentary or Jacqui Smith to enlighten us any further. As for the former Home Secretary’s husband it was never a case of fascination with porn, more a case of boredom due to the lack of a proper job because don’t ever forget this – Miss Smith at the time was paying her husband, presumably out of the Ministerial £140K salary (boosted by the £24K ‘second’ home allowance), a handsome £40,000 a year to be her Commons Adviser.
As
Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith would have had at her disposal, aides, advisers
and personal assistants following her every move. A little excessive and
unnecessary you might think,
employing another adviser on £40K, who just happens to be your husband.
And to do what precisely ? Re-arrange the paper clips, plump the cushions, walk the dog, read the
papers, and for a treat, draw the curtains switch on the TV, select Channel
XXX
. . . . . . . . . . . and relax.
Mercifully the good people of Redditch did for this wretched couple at the last election but the BBC couldn’t resist inviting her back for an encore. If you live in Redditch, or anywhere else for that matter, enjoy the programme. Me, I'm washing my hair that night.
. . . . . . . . . . . and relax.
Mercifully the good people of Redditch did for this wretched couple at the last election but the BBC couldn’t resist inviting her back for an encore. If you live in Redditch, or anywhere else for that matter, enjoy the programme. Me, I'm washing my hair that night.
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