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Posted: 6/2/2009 4:20:31 AM EDT

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Home secretary Smith 'to resign'

Jacqui Smith has been home secretary since 2007

Jacqui Smith is expected to resign as home secretary in a reshuffle, Whitehall sources have told the BBC.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to reshuffle his cabinet after Thursday's elections.

Ms
Smith has been criticised for listing her sister's London house as her
main home for expenses - and her husband's claim for an adult movie.

Mr Brown confirmed to the BBC he is planning a reshuffle but refused to be drawn on individual ministers' roles.

Posted: 6/2/2009 5:03:36 AM EDT

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See Ya

Home secretary Smith 'to resign'

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Jacqui Smith has been home secretary since 2007

Jacqui Smith is expected to resign as home secretary in a reshuffle, Whitehall sources have told the BBC.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to reshuffle his cabinet after Thursday's elections.

MsSmith has been criticised for listing her sister's London house as hermain home for expenses - and her husband's claim for an adult movie.

Mr Brown confirmed to the BBC he is planning a reshuffle but refused to be drawn on individual ministers' roles.

good riddens

Posted: 6/2/2009 5:22:38 AM EDT

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Posted: 6/2/2009 5:26:50 AM EDT

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..course the 24/7 protection she needs will mean we pay forever... good to be rid of her though

Posted: 6/2/2009 5:33:52 AM EDT

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We are the laughing stock of Europe over this. They've dragged this Britain's name through the mud and filth. They should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

Posted: 6/2/2009 5:47:15 AM EDT

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We are the laughing stock of Europe over this. They've dragged this Britain's name through the mud and filth. They should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

You're quite wrong.

Britain's name has been mud for a long time

Posted: 6/2/2009 6:04:51 AM EDT

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there is just no point being a MP, if you cant flip your houses and fiddle expenses any more why bother.

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Posted: 6/2/2009 6:13:12 AM EDT

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Best news I have had all day

Posted: 6/2/2009 6:32:19 AM EDT

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We are the laughing stock of Europe over this. They've dragged this Britain's name through the mud and filth. They should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

You're quite wrong.

Britain's name has been mud for a long time

Touche

Posted: 6/2/2009 6:53:46 AM EDT

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Oh well, more time for her and her hubby to watch Raw Meat 3 and By Special Request…

Posted: 6/2/2009 7:05:04 AM EDT

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I would just like to thank her for all of her earnest worthwhile honest work that she has done for the United Kingdom while she was in office, like her never flailing work in keeping her claims in order and thinking up new and more improved baffling ways to bugger the man on the street about.

We'll miss you, not.

Hey Jacqui sling your fooking hook.

Tony

Posted: 6/2/2009 7:49:02 AM EDT

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...and may many more go with her

Posted: 6/2/2009 8:03:09 AM EDT

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..course the 24/7 protection she needs will mean we pay forever... good to be rid of her though

Sorry, not sure we can spare anyone, what with all the Police spending cutbacks and all...............

.............tell you what, how about a couple of PCSO's to shadow you when you go to pick up your big pension? Best do it before dark though, as their mums want them in by then. Oh and I should stay away from deep water if I were you..................................(probably a bit late for that though)

Posted: 6/2/2009 8:47:41 AM EDT

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Posted: 6/2/2009 8:54:58 AM EDT

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.............tell you what, how about a couple of PCSO's to shadow you when you go to pick up your big pension? Best do it before dark though, as their mums want them in by then. Oh and I should stay away from deep water if I were you..................................(probably a bit late for that though)

If she wants 24 hour protection she can put in an expenses claim for that stab vest that she felt she needed to wear when she went out on patrol with the police

See ya; wouldn't wanna be ya!

Posted: 6/2/2009 3:37:30 PM EDT

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Safe to say i won't miss her...

Now we just need to see what idiot replaces her instead

Posted: 6/3/2009 1:57:39 AM EDT

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And now the poison dwarf Blears is quiting! Great news, who's next?

Posted: 6/3/2009 2:15:34 AM EDT

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Posted: 6/3/2009 2:17:47 AM EDT

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And now the poison dwarf Blears is quiting! Great news, who's next?

Hopefully the one-eyed haggis muncher

Posted: 6/3/2009 5:05:00 AM EDT

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Well the politicians seem to have got the message. Bring on the Civil Service...........they're an even bigger bunch of crooks.

Posted: 6/4/2009 3:07:23 PM EDT

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and another one bites the dust....

PM told to go as minister quits

Mr Purnell called on Mr Brown to 'stand aside'

James Purnell has stepped down from the cabinet and told Prime Minister Gordon Brown to "stand aside" as leader.

In
a letter to several newspapers, the work and pensions secretary said Mr
Brown's continued leadership made a Tory victory "more, not less
likely".

He is the third cabinet member in three days to say they are standing down.

Downing
Street said Mr Brown was "disappointed" but would be getting on with
the job but David Cameron said the government was "falling apart".

Mr Brown was set to reshuffle his team within days as he fights to hang on to his tenure as prime minister.

'Fighting chance'

But
in his letter to Mr Brown, published in Friday's newspapers, Mr Purnell
said he owed it to the Labour Party to "say what I believe no matter
how hard that may be".

He wrote: "I now believe your continued
leadership makes a Conservative victory more, not less likely. That
would be disastrous for our country."

I'm surprised, James is a good friend of mine but I fundamentally disagree with him

Jim Knight

Schools minister

Profile: James Purnell

Purnell resignation letter

Allies of Brown go on offensive

He added: "I am therefore calling on you to stand aside to give our
party a fighting chance of winning. As such I am resigning from
government."

The BBC understands Mr Purnell only came to his
decision to resign on Thursday but is said to have been frustrated for
some time.

BBC political editor Nick Robinson said it was the first direct challenge to Mr Brown from a cabinet minister.

'Real anger'

Mr
Purnell's resignation was a message to the rest of the Labour Party to
make up their minds about Mr Brown's leadership, he said.

A
Downing Street spokesman said: "The prime minister is disappointed by
the resignation of James Purnell, of which he was informed shortly
before 10pm."

He said Mr Brown's focus over coming days would
be "restructuring the government on the big challenges facing the
country for the future", tackling the global economic downturn, trust
in Parliament and reforming public services.

Mr Purnell, a former adviser and a current friend of Tony Blair's, has acted with the ruthlessness of his mentor

BBC political editor Nick Robinson

Read Nick's thoughts on the resignation

"He will continue to give his undivided attention to addressing
these great challenges facing our country and putting the interests of
the British people first and foremost," he said.

But
Conservative leader Mr Cameron said: "In a deep recession and a
political crisis we need a strong united government. Instead we have a
government falling apart in front of our eyes."

He said Mr
Purnell's resignation had meant the argument for calling an immediate
general election had gone from "being strong and powerful to completely
unanswerable".

Secret ballot

Meanwhile the BBC
understands Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who was touted as a
possible challenger to Gordon Brown's leadership last year, does not
intend to resign.

He said he did not agree with the decision of his friend, Mr Purnell.

Several ministers have been defending Mr Brown including Jim Knight, Liam Byrne and John Denham.

Schools Minister Mr Knight told the BBC: "I'm surprised, James is a good friend of mine but I fundamentally disagree with him."

He added: "Gordon is the right person to lead this country through very difficult economic times."

HAVE YOUR SAY

If Brown decides to go, or the party elect another leader there must be
a general election. The Labour Party has nobody of sufficient calibre
to take over as PM

David Lloyd, Harrow

Send us your comments

The news comes as the polls closed across the UK for the European
elections, the last big test of opinion ahead of a general election.

In England people have also been voting in 27 county and seven unitary council elections - and for three mayors.

Speaking
as the polls closed, senior Labour backbencher Barry Sheerman told the
BBC there should be a ballot of Labour MPs to see if Gordon Brown still
has the confidence of the party.

He told the BBC: "Many of my colleagues, all over the Palace of Westminster, are e-mailing each other and phoning each other.

"This goes far beyond just a few people, this is a large number of us who are really unhappy about the present situation.

"We
would love to have a secret ballot so that we can express our views in
the confidence that there would be no recriminations whatever way the
vote went."

But asked about the idea of a ballot on BBC One's
Question Time, Labour's leader in the Lords Baroness Royall, said: "If
that's Barry Sheerman's view I don't happen to agree with it. I believe
at this moment in transparency and freedom of information."

She
defended Mr Brown's style of leadership and said he could relate to
people: "We haven't got a media star, we have got a person who works
damned hard and is taking us through the economic crisis."

There
have been predictions Labour could be pushed into third or fourth place
in the Euro elections behind the UK Independence Party (UKIP),
following damaging revelations about expenses claims in the Daily
Telegraph.

Council results are expected overnight from
Lincolnshire, Bristol and Central Bedfordshire - and the result of the
mayoral contest in Hartlepool.

Mr Brown's much anticipated
reshuffle was pre-empted earlier this week with the news that Jacqui
Smith had asked to step down as home secretary.

Fevered atmosphere

She
later said she believed Gordon Brown was the right person to lead the
Labour Party but was stepping down for her family - who had been "at
the forefront" of expenses allegations against her.

Then Hazel Blears announced on Wednesday that she would be stepping down as communities secretary.

In
her resignation statement she did not pay the customary tribute to the
prime minister, who weeks ago had described her own actions on expenses
as "totally unacceptable".

Alistair Darling's position as chancellor is also thought to be vulnerable after questions about his expenses.

Amid
a fevered atmosphere at a Westminster - where the expenses saga has
dominated the agenda during the election - two junior ministers
Beverley Hughes and Tom Watson have also said they are to step down.

Some Labour backbench MPs say they are circulating a letter among MPs seeking support for a call on Mr Brown to go.

About 70 Labour MPs would be required to nominate a specific alternative candidate to trigger a leadership contest.

Posted: 6/4/2009 10:27:31 PM EDT

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I am thoroughly enjoying seeing these scumbags wither away one by one. I hope ZanuLabour is eradicated from the political landscape forever in the next general.

Posted: 6/5/2009 12:17:52 AM EDT

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I reckon Alistair Darling will don a lifejacket and abandon the SS Gordon today

Posted: 6/5/2009 2:34:09 AM EDT

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.......and another one

John Hutton quits as Defence Secretary.

Who's next?

Posted: 6/5/2009 4:32:04 AM EDT

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LABOUR PART UNVIEL NEW PARTY ANTHEM………

Posted: 6/5/2009 7:41:14 AM EDT

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HOONS GONE!!!!!!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/5453348/Geoff-Hoon-resigns-as-pressure-mounts-on-Gordon-Brown.html

Posted: 6/5/2009 7:47:24 AM EDT

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Looks like Gordon no mates/vote's Broon will be going down with his ship, not.

Tony

Posted: 6/5/2009 8:06:44 AM EDT

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McNulty's gone as well, expenses related no doubt.

Posted: 6/5/2009 8:34:30 AM EDT

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Norwich MP Ian Gibson takes the long walk, followed by the Welsh Secretary

Posted: 6/5/2009 8:43:17 AM EDT

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Flint as well, apparently Gordon's Cabinet eye candy.

Posted: 6/5/2009 9:57:19 AM EDT

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Results are starting to come in

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/local-election-results-map-2009

Posted: 6/5/2009 10:34:01 AM EDT

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What the hell happened??????

I've just come back of holiday....... mad a point of no telly, nor radio, no newspapers........ just me Mrs Agent_Funky and Mini Agent_Funky by the seaside.

Whole cabinet bails and leave Misery McBroon in a pickle.

Damn......... I would have enjoyed that.

Notice that poisoned rat Blears has gone as well.

I'm overjoyed.

Posted: 6/5/2009 11:23:33 AM EDT

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Flint as well, apparently Gordon's Cabinet eye candy.

I'd slip her a serving of my Tory sausage…

Posted: 6/5/2009 11:30:33 AM EDT

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Margaret Beckett's gone too.....

Posted: 6/5/2009 11:48:27 AM EDT

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Margaret Beckett's gone too.....

I wouldn't knob her……

Posted: 6/5/2009 12:08:17 PM EDT

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Margaret Beckett's gone too.....

I wouldn't knob her……

you so would

Posted: 6/5/2009 4:25:59 PM EDT

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Brown was on the fiddle too…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5456789/mps-expenses-Gordon-Brown-billed-taxpayer-for-two-second-homes.html

Posted: 6/5/2009 11:16:44 PM EDT

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Wouldn't it be easier to publish a list of those who aren't?

Posted: 6/6/2009 1:03:59 AM EDT

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Wouldn't it be easier to publish a list of those who aren't?

A list with no one on it......

Posted: 6/6/2009 1:11:54 AM EDT

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Neil Kinnock is on Sky News beating the drum for Gordon…

Now he really is doomed!

Posted: 6/6/2009 3:54:50 AM EDT

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Neil Kinnock is on Sky News beating the drum for Gordon…

Now he really is doomed!

McBroon is a two faced arse.

He wasn't going to attend the D-Day remembrance service until Obama decided to go. Makes me sick.

You can bet he won't be spending as much time at Juno, Sword or Gold Beaches as he will clinging to the coat tails and whoring the attention of Obama.

Posted: 6/6/2009 8:19:17 AM EDT

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Neil Kinnock is on Sky News beating the drum for Gordon…

Now he really is doomed!

McBroon is a two faced arse.

He wasn't going to attend the D-Day remembrance service until Obama decided to go. Makes me sick.

You can bet he won't be spending as much time at Juno, Sword or Gold Beaches as he will clinging to the coat tails and whoring the attention of Obama.

Won't do him any good, Obama will only be interested in the next Prime Minister........................

Posted: 6/17/2009 8:36:12 PM EDT

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Looks like Kitty Ussher has decided to fall on her sword before she has to face the consequences of her actions.

Link

I know this might be somewhat naive of me, but will all of these people ever be investigated by the CPS, as their willingness to leave prior to being shoved is an admission of guilt in one way or another???

Tony

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