Jacqui Smith

BUBBLEGUM SLUT

vox.com     Jul 14, 2008          

Bubblegums Jacqui Smith, she’s a politician so ‘out-of-touch’, reflecting the fact that politicians no longer represent the public in any way or form, its almost like the whole system has broken down,,, what do we have?, Gordon...                    

So why not just throw them in jail? (Daily Mail)

spectator.co.uk     Jul 14, 2008   70 related          

I have a piece in today's Daily Mail on knife crime and the Home Secretary's plans. Here's an extract: ...Yesterday we learned from the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, that the full power of the government and the criminal...                    

Teachers to be given new powers to search pupils for drugs and alcohol

24dash.com     Jul 14, 2008   38 related          

Teachers are to be given the power to search pupils for drugs and alcohol in a fresh crackdown on unruly behaviour in schools, the Government signalled today. The extension of existing powers to search pupils for weapons is a...                    

Youth violence: Tactics against gangs fatally flawed - report

guardian.co.uk     Jul 14, 2008   4 related          

Research challenges government plans to clamp down on knife crime The government's drive to curb street gangs and knife crime is challenged today by research suggesting official tactics are fundamentally misinformed, frequently...                    

Tactics against gangs 'fatally flawed'

guardian.co.uk     Jul 14, 2008          

is challenged today by research suggesting official tactics are fundamentally misinformed, frequently failing, and sometimes actively strengthen the gangs they target. Based on two years' close work with members of six gangs in...                    

Brown defends knife tactics

manchestereveningnews.co.uk     Jul 14, 2008   31 related          

GORDON Brown today defended his move to stem the plague of stabbings by making knife-thugs meet with their victims. Paul Gilligan was found with two stab wounds at a pub in Bolton in the early hours of yesterday morning. He was...                    

Man remains in serious condition after T in the Park knife attack

scotsman.com     Jul 14, 2008   30 related          

A YOUNG man remained in a serious condition in hospital today after receiving "horrific" multiple stab wounds on the final day of T in the Park at Balado. The 22-year-old man is in intensive care after being stabbed repeatedly...                    

Home Secretary: Reforming MP's expenses would have created extra work for my staff

thisislondon.co.uk     Jul 14, 2008   12 related          

Jacqui Smith has launched an astonishing defence of her decision to vote against stricter rules on MPs' expenses, claiming the reforms would have created extra work for her staff. The Home Secretary sparked outrage earlier this...                    

Home Secretary is wrong on knives. Very wrong.

manchestereveningnews.co.uk     Jul 13, 2008          

Home Secretary, you are wrong, wrong, wrong! It's hardly possible for me to say how wrong you are, so I resort to writing the word "wrong" again and again. Your predictable, knee-jerk reaction to the knife crisis today is...                    

EU Leaders Are Useless

britishblogs.co.uk     Jul 13, 2008   26 related          

You may have read my previous post about the Italian government’s decision and now action to fingerprint and register all the approximately 150,000 ethnic Roma in Italy - nearly half of them children, a state-sponsored act of...