Home Office and Justice Department Shame

(Image from Anonemouse with thanks). The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, is not to be investigated over her serial manipulation of her second home allowance over several years it has just been announced. (Read Littlejohn here for his choice words). (Update apparently a new complaint is now being considered). How are the various people who go about their duties in all the multiple tasks of the Home Office, the policeman on the beat, the prison officer striving to cope in overcrowded jails and those in the Border Agency struggling to keep undesirables out of the country all being made daily aware that there are probably none with whom they must daily deal as despicable as the manipulating individual at their Department's head? Similarly for all those daily involved in the administration of justice in England and Wales, from the highest judge across the benches of all the magistrates to the lowliest court official, all expected to carry on their duties led by a man Jack Straw, so severely criticised by the House of Commons Standards Committee for such a pathetically mean sum as three thousand pounds spent on an ego massaging birthday bash. Why are the two people placed above these senior ministers prepared to stand aside and allow these thousands of individuals employed in these two important Departments of State feel shame and loathing for the demeaning positions into which they have thus been placed?