Jacqui Smith on the Today programme, on signing off her husband's porn rental on parliamentary expenses:
'I wish someone had brought it to my attention earlier...'
Usually John Humphries gets on my nerves, but he's right on it like a lion on a wildebeest. 'YOU signed it off!' he points out, and suggests that it's enough for her to resign. But Jacqui, the very model of a modern politician, would not resign unless she was caught redhanded pistol-whipping the Queen. And the powers that be like her, so she can mess up and mess up with impunity.
Politicians, I don't like them because they only care about politics, not people. It's in their nature, otherwise why would they do this job? (They don't do anything useful, or real, they don't sweep the streets, they don't make anything we need or provide anything entertaining, they just come out of public school then business school and boss everyone else around, without ever having experienced life as it is for most people. )
This lot make the Tories look altruistic and saintly, though. My latest brainwave is that they should be made to ride on buses. Buses keep you in touch with real people.
Here is my latest bus journey -
I'm waiting for the bus in Dalston. It doesn't come, and doesn't come, and eventually there's a little crowd on the pavement. One of the crowd nips through the back doors as they open to let people off. The driver turns off the engine.
'There's a queue! Get off the bus! These people were waiting first!'
'I was waiting with the people! I was!' He refuses to get off, the bus driver refuses to start the engine. It's a Mexican standoff. Everyone on the bus weighs in, some shouting at the man to get off, others shouting at the bus driver to start the bus. Everyone has something to say, and it looks like we could be there for a while. I get off and walk to Stoke Newington.
But I'm glad I did because I got to see Ridley Road market on the way. It's a wonder and a marvel - you can get everything there, every type of fish, 8 apples for £1.00, African fabric, Haile Selassie pictures printed on silk, Ghanaian cornmeal, the bits of a cow that they don't sell in Tesco, hairweaves, cheap shoes... Of course, it's in danger of being closed down by developers, so catch it while you can.
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Politicians should be made to ride on buses. Car drivers should commute by push bike for a week. ;)
Me and you should go down the pub!
I wish I'd walked this morning, the bus I was on had the most ridiculously sensitive suspension ever. It was like getting a lift off Noddy.
The Mulberry bag issue tells us everything we need to know (at least about the female of the species). They really do not give a monkeys about what we think, how they are perceived.
They should be made to eat bits of cow they don't sell in Tesco.
Ooh, your excellent quote about Jacqui Smith pistol-whipping the Queen is currently being bandied about on Twitter.
Rad, yes we should.
Emordino, I spend my life on buses. They are the business.
Arabella, she has a Mulberry bag? That makes me like her almost as much as the quote about people not walking around Hackney on their own at night-WHAT FUCKING PLANET ARE THEY ON?
Patroclus, ooh, ta - I'm not on Twitter so I'm out of the loop.
I like Ridley Road Market as it has never changed. I hope ugly nasty developers don't get their thieving mitts on it x
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