From The Daily Mail:

Jacqui Smith suffered a barrage of criticism yesterday after admitting she would not feel safe walking the streets after dark.

Opposition MPs said the Home Secretary had made an “admission of failure” to the millions of shift-workers who have no option but to brave the threat of violence.

Aides of Miss Smith compounded her gaffe with a desperate attempt to undo the damage by claiming she had recently popped out in the evening to “buy a kebab in Peckham”.

In fact, she has round-the-clock police protection.

And the owner of the kebab shop in question told the Daily Mail yesterday that Miss Smith had been accompanied by a burly minder when she dropped in for a £3.90 doner last Wednesday – at teatime not late at night.

The Home Secretary made her admission in an interview at the end of a week when three teenage thugs were convicted of murdering father-of-three Garry Newlove, kicked to death outside his home.

Asked whether she would feel safe walking the streets of Hackney, one of the most deprived parts of London, she replied: “Well, no, but I don’t think I’d have ever have done.”

Asked why she would not feel safe on Hackney’s streets at night, the Home Secretary replied: “Well, I just don’t think that’s a thing that people do, is it, really?”

She was also questioned about how she would feel if she was walking through the affluent area of Kensington and Chelsea after dark.

Miss Smith responded: “Well, I wouldn’t walk around at midnight and I’m fortunate that I don’t have to do that.”

She added that she had walked around in her constituency of Redditch, near Birmingham.

“I don’t get the opportunity to get out on my own now but I certainly have done in the recent past.”

Challenged about her comments yesterday, the Home Secretary said: “You don’t walk in areas you don’t know, in any circumstances.”

And England’s socialist government is dealing with the problem by persecuting bloggers like the much maligned Lionheart who has been the target of an LGF smear campaign since his troubles first began. Most recently someone posed as Lionheart on Jihad Watch and posted comments supportive of neo-Nazi Nick Griffen.

Meanwhile England crumbles and even politicians with armed security are afraid to walk the streets. Way to prioritize LGF and company.