Comments on: Jacqui Smith: umm, what can you say… http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:30:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38556 Mark Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:25:26 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38556 Can someone help me understand the LibDems position on the EU treaty vote? As a pro-European party I can´t see the integrity in threatening to abstain... Can someone help me understand the LibDems position on the EU treaty vote? As a pro-European party I can´t see the integrity in threatening to abstain…

]]> By: Gavin Whenman http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38555 Gavin Whenman Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:07:44 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38555 I'm always out late at night... It's quite hard to mug people in daylight. I’m always out late at night… It’s quite hard to mug people in daylight.

]]> By: Deepak http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38550 Deepak Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:30:35 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38550 As a matter of fact I generally go out in the evening when it is dark. I feel more safe. Might be because of my dark complextion I become invisible in the night and feel safer. As a matter of fact I generally go out in the evening when it is dark. I feel more safe. Might be because of my dark complextion I become invisible in the night and feel safer.

]]> By: cgp http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38548 cgp Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:47:10 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38548 "I am much less likely to be a victim of crime than 10 years ago." To be fair, that's probably true. I don't think a Home Secretary has been beaten up since 1972, and that was on the floor of the House of Commons ... Chris Phillips “I am much less likely to be a victim of crime than 10 years ago.”

To be fair, that’s probably true. I don’t think a Home Secretary has been beaten up since 1972, and that was on the floor of the House of Commons …

Chris Phillips

]]> By: James Schneider http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38547 James Schneider Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:04:16 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38547 7 - Hywel, precisely. We have to make sure that they don't sour the discourse so much that people freak out and reach for authoritarian, reactionary, and mindless policies. On crime, liberals must be at the forefront of the debate and not leave it to David Davis scaremongering. This is Huhne's opportunity. Use those sharp elbows, Chris. 7 – Hywel, precisely. We have to make sure that they don’t sour the discourse so much that people freak out and reach for authoritarian, reactionary, and mindless policies. On crime, liberals must be at the forefront of the debate and not leave it to David Davis scaremongering. This is Huhne’s opportunity. Use those sharp elbows, Chris.

]]> By: James Schneider http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38546 James Schneider Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:01:55 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38546 They're now spinning like crazy and making her look even more pathetic. http://christianmay.blogspot.com/2008/01/jacqui-smith-street-crime-and-kebabs.html They’re now spinning like crazy and making her look even more pathetic. http://christianmay.blogspot.com/2008/01/jacqui-smith-street-crime-and-kebabs.html

]]> By: Angus J Huck http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38545 Angus J Huck Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:55:03 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38545 She should try Beachy Head. The edge is very, very crumbly, and there is no fence to hold idiots back. Seriously, the lack of any real talent on the Labour front bench is astounding. Brown has looked haggard and burned out since his mauling by Cameron last October. I cannot see him lasting the year. Who will replace him? Harriet Harman? Hazel Blears? Steve Pound, perhaps? Or the boy, Milliband? The proliferation of colourless mediocrity at the top of the Labour Party is going to prove a very serious challenge to the comrades (gulp, colleagues) by the end of the year. She should try Beachy Head. The edge is very, very crumbly, and there is no fence to hold idiots back.

Seriously, the lack of any real talent on the Labour front bench is astounding.

Brown has looked haggard and burned out since his mauling by Cameron last October. I cannot see him lasting the year. Who will replace him? Harriet Harman? Hazel Blears? Steve Pound, perhaps? Or the boy, Milliband?

The proliferation of colourless mediocrity at the top of the Labour Party is going to prove a very serious challenge to the comrades (gulp, colleagues) by the end of the year.

]]> By: Hywel Morgan http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38543 Hywel Morgan Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:41:52 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38543 1 - absolutely James. Clive Stafford Smith said how he couldn't believe the Tories were claiming that the UK was top of the premier league of crime in the 2005 election - pointing out that he'd never been held up at gunpoint in the UK whereas that had happened to him four times in the US. 1 – absolutely James. Clive Stafford Smith said how he couldn’t believe the Tories were claiming that the UK was top of the premier league of crime in the 2005 election – pointing out that he’d never been held up at gunpoint in the UK whereas that had happened to him four times in the US.

]]> By: Jennie http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38542 Jennie Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:41:25 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38542 James, yes, a pointy one. * volunteers to be the Ogg substitute, and wear red boots, get drunk, and sing rude songs about Hedgehogs at her * James, yes, a pointy one.

* volunteers to be the Ogg substitute, and wear red boots, get drunk, and sing rude songs about Hedgehogs at her *

]]> By: MatGB http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38541 MatGB Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:38:07 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38541 Whut? I presume she's never ever been on holiday or taken a city break? I walked pretty much the whole of Berlin Mitte, central San Francisco and some very dodgy areas of PAris, as well as a lot of London, at night, without feeling threatened or overly worried. Cautious, naturally, but still. How can you get to know a city properly, or indeed any area, without walking around it? Ye gods, another batshit Labour Home Sec. They do know how to pick 'em. Whut? I presume she’s never ever been on holiday or taken a city break?

I walked pretty much the whole of Berlin Mitte, central San Francisco and some very dodgy areas of PAris, as well as a lot of London, at night, without feeling threatened or overly worried. Cautious, naturally, but still.

How can you get to know a city properly, or indeed any area, without walking around it? Ye gods, another batshit Labour Home Sec. They do know how to pick ‘em.

]]> By: James Schneider http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38540 James Schneider Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:37:33 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38540 God she must live a terribly dull life. Imagine walking the same few streets your entire life. Never branching out. Well it explains a few things about her, I guess. God she must live a terribly dull life. Imagine walking the same few streets your entire life. Never branching out. Well it explains a few things about her, I guess.

]]> By: James Graham http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38539 James Graham Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:37:10 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38539 Clearly she needs a hat. Clearly she needs a hat.

]]> By: Jennie http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38538 Jennie Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:36:17 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38538 Maybe she's missing an "unaccompanied" there, but even so... Perhaps she needs some Granny Weatherwax Training (who knows that there are scary things in the woods after dark, and also knows, with smug satisfaction, that she's the scariest of them) Maybe she’s missing an “unaccompanied” there, but even so…

Perhaps she needs some Granny Weatherwax Training (who knows that there are scary things in the woods after dark, and also knows, with smug satisfaction, that she’s the scariest of them)

]]> By: James Graham http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38537 James Graham Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:35:37 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/jacqui-smith-2-2032.html#comment-38537 The sad thing is, this appears to have created a circle jerk of politicians all denouncing Labour for the high crime in London, instead of pointing out that it isn't actually that dangerous to walk the streets at night. The sad thing is, this appears to have created a circle jerk of politicians all denouncing Labour for the high crime in London, instead of pointing out that it isn’t actually that dangerous to walk the streets at night.

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