I shall be writing to my MP and asking for part of my tax to be refunded as it was spent incorrectly.

The problem is 4-fold

1/ The issue of MP expenses is currently under scrutiny over 2nd home allowances, etc. Jacqui Smith herself has recently been rushing around to prove she is clean since she claims her London address is her home, and her real home address is her 2nd home based upon nights spent at each.
2/ Jacqui Smith is quite fond of telling us all how to behave, in matters both personal and sexual
3/ In another couple of days, under freedom of information all these expenses / receipts are no longer private, we’ll all be able to see them
4/ It doesn’t necessarily follow that someone at Virgin Media has leaked it. It may be that she claimed an internet subscription as part of her allowable expenses, submitted a receipt to support it and that receipt didn’t have the film subs removed from it. So it could be ‘anyone’ that leaked it – like a junior in the HO supplementing their income by a quick photocopy and phone call to the newspaper. Possibly.

In the end it’s no biggy, even if they were porn, the films aren’t illegal but the claiming on expenses is officially. But one suspects that once the system opens up to scrutiny, there’ll be plenty of newspaper juniors wading through pages of mindnumbing receipts hoping to find the receipt for subscriptions to gentleman’s art pamphlets.

Surf’s Up is rated PG.
Ocean’s Thirteen is rated PG-13.

Hardly adult movies.

The use of the terminology “Adult movie” is a deliberate attempt to mislead and have people believe that this is porn in order to “sex up” the non-story. Pretty deplorable reporting.

Sad state of affairs.

erm – read the esteemed Andywhit’s clarification of the films watched.

There are 5 films in the claimed of which two are artistic, one I’ve never heard of and the other one (Ocean’s 13) – watched twice – is a crime in itself.

LOL at BD’s official description of the 18 classification.

>The use of the terminology “Adult movie” is a deliberate attempt to mislead and have people believe that this is porn in order to “sex up” the non-story. Pretty deplorable reporting.

Read my post about 15 mins ago.

Edit: The equally esteemed MrV beat me to it 😉

so what were the adult movies in question??

someone told me it was big boobs 3 but i dont necessarily believe that,
its probably PMs Pumping Time, or Lash of the Party Whip

what worries me is that someone would wanna watch oceans 13 twice, or even once!

Ok so; it seems that fims other than the two mentioned were viewed. But we don’t know the nature of their content. And as BigDummy has pointed out, it’s unlikely Virgin(!) Media would have hard-core monkey and chicken action on PPV.

Plenty of films are 18-rated. Some bloody good ones, too. does not in any way mean that someone who views an ‘adult film’ is necessarily looking at something unsavoury.

The real story is; MP’s husbind claims for a internet bill, which is a bit naughty, at worst.

Oh, and Nine Songs is shite. Might as well have just called it a ‘porn movie with some music in it’, ‘cos that’s all it is. Art? Arse, more like…

As a Virgin Media subscriber, I can say it will have been in no doubt on the bill whether the films were adult-18 or Adult-arty. Before the internet I sometimes had to make use of the thick black marker before handing the bill to MrsV for scrutiny.

And you’re right, they would have been very disappointing, probably.

PS: the internet allowance is fine actually, if it allows her to collect email and conduct official business while in her second residence. All he needed to do was get the marker pen out before submitting the bill and take the films off, whereas it’s been overlooked and claimed.

Like I said earlier – big wow apart from the person, timing and nature of the mistake makes it newsworthy.

What day is Home Secretary’s questions in the commons?

seriously i wanna know what these titles were??

im off to virgin media website see if i can find whats on offer

But it does beg the question, are MPs not allowed any privacy at all ? How the **** was the Sunday Express able to get such detailed information about exactly what was watched, what day, what location, etc.

no, it doesn’t. claimed as expenses from a public body, so receipts must be shown and those receipts go straight into the public domain. I have my expenses queried on a regular basis and have no problem with it. then again, i don’t expect the taxpayer to pay for my amusement. neither does the taxpayer pay for my main place of residence because i’m claiming to live somewhere else.

nice to see gordon sticking by her. apparently, she’s doing a “great job”. does anyone know when the nu labour dictionary gets released? the one where “not rewarding failure” translates into £750k pension for one of the biggest fkups in uk corporate history, “doing everything possible” equates to doing absolutely heehaw about it, and “doing a great job” means watching pron at the taxpayers expense

My mate is a councillor and is provided with a separate pre-paid internet connection for his council work to avoid this sort of expenses nonsense. It’s possible that “hubby” got confused about what connection was being used to download the films.

As long as he pays us the money back, I don’t care. He and his wife can watch as much pr0n in their free time as they like.

I’m more concern about the loss of civil liberties!

Kimbers

This seems to suggest that the 2 ‘other’ titles were “Raw Meat 3” and “By Special Request”. Google at your peril!

As long as he pays us the money back,

i think the issue here might be that, had they not been caught they wouldn’t be paying anything back. ok, mistake, it happens. but then, she claims that the “main home” is a single room rented from her sister and the “main home” is the nice house she lives in with her husband to whom she pays around £40k a year – add these together and you have a picture of someone whose snout is fairly deeply ensconsed in the trough

after some slightly dodgy googling it seems that Raw Meat 3 is part of the popular men only series of films

i wonder if he has seen them all it seems that they go up to at least volume 10

has he just been forced out of the closet to his wife or is ms smith aware that her husband plays for both teams

she seems the sort that would own a strap-on 😉

oh and she only pays him 20k a year apparently

oh, thats OK then, as long as she isn’t taking the piss.

I heard a certain MP is a fan of the ‘An@l Black Hammer’ series of films, with ‘An@l Black Hammer 5’ being her favourite. It must be true as Big John down The Winchester told me.

oh, thats OK then, as long as she isn’t taking the piss.

trouble is these are the rules
MEPs for all their bloated expenses arent allowed to employ family members and i think it should be the same here

whats really annoying is that NO PARTY is planning to overhaul the rules on this

what a bunch of scumbags the lot of em!

Having trawled extensively through the internet’s adult sites – as you do on a quiet Monday – I am unable to find any information about the precise contents of By Special Request. I did find a film called Raw Meat 3, though. But oddly it appears to be aimed mainly at viewers with an interest in handsome young men.

Starring the well-greased bodies of “Duncan”, “Valentino” and the gloriously named “Tigers Wood”, Raw Meat 3 wittily tags itself “It’s the end of the world – and we blow it!”.

Clearly it would be quite inconceivable to imagine that a man married to a woman as attractive and intelligent as Jacqui Smith could be driven to watching homo-erotic pornography.

I think we can therefore safely assume one of two things:

Either: 1 The Smith/Timney household was entered on the night in question by a very cheeky gay burglar, who sneakily sat watching Raw Meat 3 while poor Mr Timney was fast asleep.

Or 2. Mr Timney is a closet gastronome who downloaded Raw Meat 3 on the perfectly understandable assumption that it contained exciting new variants on the recipe for Steak Tartare.

Whichever of these is true, I would like to think as that as a nation we are now able to exonerate poor Mr and Mrs Timney of all charges, and never snigger at them ever again. Not even behind their backs. It would be wrong, wrong, wrong.

Marvellous!

This seems to suggest that the 2 ‘other’ titles were “Raw Meat 3” and “By Special Request”. Google at your peril!

No it does not in any way. Those are merely 2 titles in VM’s PPV collection.

Was he actually watching anything ‘pornographic’? Has this actually been proven? Or is it simply more wild media speculation?

And anyway, would watching any skin-flick be less acceptable than watching 9 Songs? Same sort of content, after all.

something like ‘Emmanuelle’ is an ‘adult’ film. Hardly owt to complain to the RSPCA or NSPCC about though.

he was watching something pornographic as these cost 5 quid as opposed to regular movies at 3-75
as to the exact titles there appears to be no proof whatsoever but since the telegraph ‘reported’ it as such its now all over the web
the salacious nature of the story makes it a great laugh
but its a bit of a sad indictment of our society when we are so amused that someone married to an mp might need to have a w@nk now and again that we all, myself included, start gafawwing and chuckling away and posting on bulletin boards

i mean own up whos never watched porn on the web, video cable, top shelf magazines etc??
we are all a bunch of hippocrites

i may not order porn on the taxpayer but im using my work bandwidth to post on here!

No it does not in any way. Those are merely 2 titles in VM’s PPV collection.

RudeBoy – I agree, that’s why I said ‘seems to suggest..’ – my guess is that the Telgraph journo scanned the schedules to try to find some suitably salacious titles that they could pin on him but had to make do with those two. I bet the Torygraph’s internet filters wouldn’t let them do any more advanced research into those titles so they had to publish & be damned.

Anyhow, for the benefit of STW I’ve googled and found the video of Raw Meat 3* – if he gets off on this then good luck to the guy.

* mods – check it before you ban me!

The films were viewed at 11.18pm on April 1 and 11.19pm on April 6, while Miss Smith was staying in London. On the evenings in question, Television X, one of nine adult channels available under the terms of their Virgin Media cable television contract, was screening features called “Raw Meat 3” and “By Special Request”.

talk about bad journalism.