Hazel Blears resigns

I suppose it's better than nothing, but why isn't G.Brown firing their a**es down the road ?
This way they all still get the golden handshake and a bumper pension. What's the point ?
 
Burnsy2023 said:
This week is just getting better and better :D
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As it goes I don't actually like Blears. I think she's insincere, argumentative and totally avoids answering questions directly, so I'm not sorry to see her go. I get the impression that a lot of MPs put in expense claims because that's what the rules allowed, but hers were pushing it a bit too much.
 
Trouble is, the MPs resigning today appear to be doing so to stick the knife into Gordon - not because they feel any sort of remorse about their expenses. Would be nice to hear a bit of humility from people at the top now and again...
 
Anyone listen to Mandleson on BBC?

Was funny what he said; something to the effect of "she claimed under one set of rules but was judged by the public under a different set because the public felt that the original rules were not good enough" - which basically means she was judged in the court of public opinion.
Funnily; I seem to remember someone posted an extract of the expenses rules - and it clearly said in the first paragraph that "any claims must be justifiable to the public" - clearly the rules had not changed - the public were simply told of the MPs bending the rules and ignoring the first paragraph of them.
 
sidthesexist said:
In all honesty that's no different to any Labour MP since at least 1997, and when has Brown or Blair for that matter ever answered a single question honestly? even in Prime ministers question time.
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I'm no Labour supporter but it's not just Labour that does this. She was just one of the worst for doing it and seemed to do it in a nasty way, in my opinion.
 
I hated her smirk!! She was on Question Time a lot and thankfully David Dimbleby always gave her akward questions :) Glad to see her go - just need the rest of them now!
 
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