New Labour sleazemongers still at large

It continues to defy explanation how some MPs were selected to be dealt with harshly by the press, their party or the law, whilst others, whose actions seem far more dubious, have escaped scott-free. One prime escapee from justice (though not from the verdict of the electors who booted her out) is Jacqui Smith, former Labour MP and Home Secretary, whose continuing chutzpah defies belief.

Not content with having a room in her house painted by prisoners undertaking work experience prior to their release, she is now offering her services as a “consultant” through a company which her husband has set up with a convicted con-man recently out of prison himself. Dave Cartwright had been the Labour leader of Redditch council, and has just completed a three-year sentence for defrauding more than £80,000 while working as the manager of a charity for young homeless people. Judge Toby Hooper, in sentencing “Dodgy Dave” Cartwright, had said: Continue reading