It may have worked with the media, once again, but a cover-up is a cover-up (or should it be now called - a concealer?)

The lame excuse

“There was no fiasco, there was no blunder, there was strengthened and improved action.”

is not an excuse at all, it is in fact an indignation of how by copy spin the ineptitude of our elected MPs is washed away and made okay and in turn, to be forgotten in tomorrow’s press.

It is now revealed that up to 10,000 foreign nationals could be working illegally in the security industry, whether that is true or not, God knows, because quite frankly, we don’t know where they are.

Point One. Mrs Jacqui Smith, as an elected candidate for this parliament, anything that arises within your duties, that require the attention of all government bodies, in order to function efficiently in their respective offices, should be reported, firstly to your senior minister and then to the House. You did neither.

Point Two. We have been at the height of security around the UK since 7/7, and even now Gordon Brown reveals the ‘Fortress Britain’ plan with more than 250 busy railway stations, airports and seaports as well as 100 ‘’sensitive” installations like power stations and electricity substations will be given extra security.

Yet you knew the SIA became aware of the problem in April when it found that 44 foreign nationals, including 12 guarding Metropolitan Police sites, were working illegally. One was looking after a garage where the Prime Minister’s car was repaired. You failed to feel that this could be a case of national security and report this.

Point Three. We, the taxpayer know. that the position you have excepted is an intolerable one, all we ask is that you fulfill your duties to the best of your abilities. We do not employ you as a PR agent or a clairvoyant who can foresee what the public should and should not be privileged to.

Point Four. You, along with your current spin doctors have a) misled the House, b) misled the British public and c) convinced the media that the saga is history. You and your inept Met Chief, Sir Ian Blair, live once again to fight another day.

See, the spins are winning already, from the Times, Only cover-up was of the most famous cleavage in Westminster, well having  a cleavage is another lame excuse!

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Just as David Blunkett has managed to get himself the Chair of a commission for bringing more US yellow buses into the UK by his friends at FirstGroup, now Jonathan Aitken, who was jailed for 18 months in 1999 for “calculated perjury” during a libel action, was named this weekend as head of a prison reform review for the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), which is chaired by Mr Ian Duncan Smith.

Another sleeze, barefaced liar trying to run the country. It’s bad enough that Labour cover over the cracks that are appearing in their ranks. Now the Conservatives bring back a disgraced MP, who once quoted when launching his libel action in 1997

‘If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play, so be it.’

When are we going to learn? Corruption runs through the backbone of our political parties faster than a Brazilian in an underground.

Why do we keep letting disgraced, corrupt, ex-cons have places in power? Jobs for the boys?

The taxpayer deserves better.

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It is now obvious that the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, is proving herself and her department completely inept at doing the job asked of them by the British taxpayer.

Jacqui Smith is being accused of trying to cover up yet another Home Office blunder.

The news that at least 5,000 illegal immigrants had been cleared by the Security Industry Authority to work in some of Whitehall’s most sensitive buildings finally broke on Sunday. Bad enough, but then this information has been known to her for four months, but only admitted to it on Sunday in response to questions from journalists.

Apparantly the Home Secretary accepted advice from officials that a news blackout should be imposed on the story for fear that it could spark negative headlines.

Mrs Smith is about to give a statement to the House of Commons this afternoon at 15.30, I, for one, cannot wait for hear her excuses.

Once again it shows how her department is slowly melting down. Sacndal, followed by ineptitude, followed by scandal.

These people are supposed to look after the nation’s security, it should not be tolerated.

It’s about time she stood up, sacked the useless Sir Ian Blair, then resign her position. A scandal of this magnitude is one straw too far.

Gordon Brown, get your government sorted out. Sack her

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The British bank has reportedly lent £750m to the country’s new landowning elite in the first part of this year.

Barclays is under pressure to state whether it has broke European Union sanctions by bankrolling five of Mugabe’s ministers.

The time has come to change banks and boycott them in the UK. This is totally unacceptable in today’s society.

Get your act together Barclays!

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The strange part to begin with was the caption below his face, ‘Former Home Secretary’

It could be argued that the caption could also have read ‘Former Work & Pensions Secretary’, but I believe that ‘Former’ should always be replaced by ‘Disgraced Former’

It seems that now his memoirs have been published he has been chosen, by First Group, to Chair the UK Commission on implimenting the US Yellow Bus scheme to Britain.

First Group, Britain’s biggest bus and train operator, has formed close links with another senior Labour figure. It employs Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former spokesman, to advise on “strategic communications”. (spin basically then?)

Mr Blunkett seems to be bullet proof when it comes to scruples and how the voters in his ward allow him to continue in any post that commands respect and integrity is beyond belief.

He was made Home Secretary, then broke the rules. Mr Blunkett quit in December 2004 over allegations that a visa application for the nanny of his lover Kimberly Quinn had been fast-tracked.

He was rehabilitated back into office five months later, in May 2005, as work and pensions secretary, only to be forced out after he failed to tell an advisory body that he had taken up a directorship with DNA Bioscience, a firm in which he held shares.

First Group must be hoping that choosing Mr Blunkett will give some backbone to their scheme, when really it is asking for trouble. First Group entered the US arena in 1999, forming First Group America and has since aquired Laidlaw and Greyhound.

Seems that David knows someone with plenty of US Yellow Buses just parked waiting to hit UK streets. (they do look environment friendly don’t they?)

One question, how much is Dodgy Dave being paid to bamboozle the British Taxpayer with this scheme?

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