WHATS the difference between Jacqui Smith and Britains Got Talents breakdancing pensioner Fred Bowers?
Nothing. They are both inventive, lying thieves. Of course, one rips off the taxpayer for 116,000, issues an apology, and is allowed to go on her merry way without so much as a caution. The other fiddles 3,000, apologises and is then threatened with loss of benefits and ordered to pay it all back. Body-popping grandad Fred stuck both of his happy feet, plus his disability payments, right into the “cha cha” when he impressed the nation with his athletic and acrobatic moves on the ITV show. The Department of Work and Pensions rightly grabbed the spinning geriatric and put the brakes on his benefit payments, ordering him to repay 10.80 from his pension per week for five years. However, “flipping” Jacqui fiddles over 100k, is caught, rather shopped by her own police protection officers, and is then told by the Standards and Privileges Committee that she need only say sorry to the House and no further action will be taken. Well, you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out who the rea