Maybe Brown should end it now for Smith

As might be expected much has been written about the Home Secretary over the last 24 hours but maybe Michael Brown's column in the Indy just about sums it all up for Jacqui Smith.

Entitled the Home secretary is now a joke,Brown writes that

Jacqui Smith and her husband have a maximum of 13 more pay packets and expenses claims before the voters of her Redditch constituency call time on both their services. Simultaneously she will be relieved of her jobs as Home Secretary and Member of Parliament. As a consequence, her husband will also be dismissed as her £40,000-a-year constituency organiser. There can now be no doubt that Ms Smith is on political death row.

He makes clear that she is already a spent force

Throughout her remaining months in office, everywhere she goes, every dispatch box appearance and every television interview she undertakes will be accompanied by public ridicule and laughter. Let every voter enjoy this grisly spectacle until the electoral grim reaper puts Ms Smith out of her misery.