Okay, so I’ve been disappointed on many occasions over the past ten years, but I’d been thinking that Jacqui Smith might be, y’know, not quite as bad a Home Secretary as some of the other contenders might be. I mean, she did the whole gravitas thing quite well with the recent Crap Terrorist attacks.
But then she goes and ruins it. Faced with the inevitable revelation that she (like, wow) SMOKED CANNABIS in her younger days, her response was straight out of the very depths of puritanical Teflon Tony spin. According to the BBC, here’s what she said…
Why not just be honest about it? Is it so important to appease a small number of Mail and Express readers that you feel the need to rewrite your past? Here’s a handy cut-out-and-keep prompt card for government ministers facing this issue in the future…