That the U.K.’s exclusion policy could be so confused is unsurprising when you consider that the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, is probably the most clueless member of an increasingly clueless government. She refused to apologize when the police raided the office of a sitting MP in connection with a leak from her Department. She wants to create a vast database of all Brits’ electronic communications. She has happily suggested that gay Iranian dissidents should be deported to that tyranny and, most publicly, has been the center of an increasingly bizarre scandal over MP’s expenses. First, it appears that she claims that her sister’s spare room is her primary residence, allowing her to claim over GBP 150,000 in allowances from the taxpayer for her “second” home. Next, her husband watched some on-demand porn movies, and charged those to the taxpayer. Finally, she has charged all sorts of other household expenses to the taxpayer, including an 88p bathroom plug. Yet somehow she manages still to occupy one of the great offices of state. Until the Brown government is swept out of office a year from today (in all probability), we should expect to hear more and more daft policies emanating from Whitehall, and from Jacqui Smith’s office in particular.