Jacqui Quits as Home Sec.

The news many of us had feared would never come has broken: Jacqui Smith is to stand down as Home Secretary. (Pause for audience cheering).

This is the Home Sec who wanted to extend detention without charge to 42 days, despite police saying it was not needed and would achieve nothing; the one who totally supports the idea of national identity cards, despite masses of evidence from abroad that they would do nothing to deter criminals.

As a constituency MP she is said to be hard-working, effective, committed blah blah blah ...

Ask the people she was photographed with outside their local post offices what they think. The local press published photographs and quoted her as saying that post office X or Y should remain open, much-valued service, blah blah blah ... and the protesters in the pictures with her were smiling, thinking they had powerful support in their campaign against proposed closures.

A week or two later who voted for the wholesale closure of around 2,500 post offices, including the ones Jacqui Smith had said must remain open? Jacqui Smith, that's who, thereby exhibiting hypocrisy, and contempt for her constituents. Did she assume they wouldn't find out how she voted in the House of Commons on this issue, or did she simply not care?