Secular Thought for the Day

By all reports, Jacqui Smith has been feeling pretty devastated over the last few days. All the while, she has maintained that she has done nothing wrong, except for inadvertently claiming for movies her husband watched on her expenses. This has been made particularly painful for her as it transpires that two of the movies were “adult” in nature. There is nothing illegal about this and surely if she and her husband have done nothing wrong or illegal, they have nothing to fear from disclosure.

The revelation, however, does seem to have caused her intense pain. The cause of this pain is the affront to her dignity. It is to be hoped that she reflects on the pain that this unwelcome intrusion into her personal life has caused and retreats from her position of undermining the dignity of the rest of the citizens of this country by the unwarranted intrusions she proposes to make into their lives.

The government’s stance is the constant mantra, “If you’ve done nothing wrong then you’ve nothing to fear” might not be ringing quite so true in Jacqui Smith’s household just now.