to find the latest Jacqui Smith story simply hilarious?

[MadreInglese]

Is that really wicked of me?

but soooo embarrassing !

88p for a plug?! What's so funny?

YANBU, it is hilarious. Was watching it on the news last night and nearly PMSL.

I reckon her husband is grinding an axe, so to speak. I mean, really, who in their right mind would charge porn to the taxpayer unless they were trying to make a point?

88p for a plug?? Ok maybe not the latest story then - I meant her dh's 'additional features' whoopsy

I guffawed at the husband's public apology last night. How MORTIFYING. [schadenfreude]

He certainly looked very sheepish!

YANBU very very funny. Poor woman. If she hadn't tried to 'fiddle' her expenses none of this information about her (or her husband's) private life would have come out.

Yes, I must admit I had a good giggle over this one! He says it was claimed on her expenses by "accident" - my arse!

Surely, in these times of a recession, the expenses should stop? They get paid enough for crying out loud! Why should they expect us for pay for their second homes, restaurant dinners, porn films, 1st class flight tickets, posh hotel rooms etc?

Why should we put up with that?

ANyone hear Nick Clegg describe her as 'a big beast' on R4 just now? Made me giggle a bit

Jeremy Vine's just had a big phone-in about it, "is the porn going to ruin their marriage etc?" Seemed to miss the point that the films were paid for by us and they fiddled the system!! Hilarious, AND he's employed as her "Advisor"!

I'd love to know what type of porn it was.

LOL yes she claimed for a plug!!!

Wonder how many other dodgy expenses have been claimed for, not just her but the lot of them!! They should be made public for us all to view!!

What kind of plug? A butt-plug? Ooh Jacqui!

Totally agree with Rhubarb, it's obscene, no pun intended, the amount they are claiming.

Dh is expected to work every Sunday but there is no public transport at the time he needs it so he has to fork out a good chunk of that days wage for a taxi, can he claim that back, can he hell as like

I would not have wanted to be in his shoes when his wife found out though

Hilarious! How embarrassing!

It's not a new thing though - who was it who got his wife chauffer-driven 50 yards so her newly done hair wouldn't be blown about, was it John Prescott?

Oh Yes. I giggled to myself in the car when this story was on the radio. .

You couldn't make it up, could you? I thought I'd misheard the radio yesterday.

I'm finding it all hilarious, and sadly desperate to know what sort of genre it was, too.

They've made money hand over fist.

Mind you, if I were married to Big Jacqui, I'd probably be whipping out my copy of Lusty Lobbyists and Dishonourable Members to crack one out over as soon as she was out of the house. Wouldn't you?...

Unfortunately, we will continue get MPs who are not fit to run the country until it stops being a 'good' career move. Once it is paid at a level similar to the majority (not the average, but the mode if you want to get technical) and they stop having so many benefits, then we might start getting people who actually want to do it for more altruistic reasons. Or am I in cloud cuckoo land?

I LOVE this story - you couldn't make it up.

The best thing is that her husband is her "parliamentary assistant" and therefore a) he gets paid by the taxpayer for being her "assistant" and b) as her assistant he probably submitted the claim himself.

Snortalicious.

I know that she's been dishonest, and it's a travesty that she 'employs' her husband, and all of that. But I can't help feeling sorry for her. She seems to have very good, old-fashioned feminist credentials to me and she must be pretty humiliated by this.