Are You Familiar With the Jacqui Smith Scandal?

The British just have better kerfuffles than we do.

So, you’re a Labour MP. You’ve resigned after attempting to expense your husband’s pay-per-view porno movies. Then you donate some plants to a work-release program for prisoners. (Good for you!)

Do you then arrange to have a few of those prisoners stop by and do some free decorating work on your house?

No? How short-sighted of you! You see, “they didn’t have anything else on.”

Probably because…they were due back in prison. To be in prison. Where, apparently, being under-scheduled is considered a mild plus.