Brass Neck Award goes to deserving Jacqui Smith for defending her use of prisoners to paint her house. She used guys on day release to do community work on her place in Redditch, claiming that it was fine because they were coming to the end of their sentences and "didn't have anything else on."
Plenty of hard-working painters and decorators haven't got anything else on either. They rely on people to pay them the going rate. A donation to charity, Jacqui's answer, just won't do. They have families to feed and don't go home at the end of the day to a hot meal provided by Her Majesty's prisons.
"Two prisoners doing work experience carried out about three hours of work at my house doing a bit of decorating. It hadn't been cleared with the prison authorities in advance and they've now launched an investigation." said Ms Smith.
As a former Home Secretary, she was once in charge of the Prison Service. Did she know better? Of course not, they never do. We pay these people a hefty salary, but they still expect to get everything on the cheap. They whinge when we catch them fiddling and insist they should be allowed more, living on the breadline as they do.
Somebody should paint "Sponger"right across her front wall. Then let's see if she can find a tradesman to put it right.
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