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Blears Survives
Hazel Blears has survived a vote of no confidence by her local constituency party. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8107343 .stm
Have the British public become so apathetic about politics that we get the politicians we deserve?
Have the British public become so apathetic about politics that we get the politicians we deserve?
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I'm not surprised she has no confidence with those of you who are died in the wool Tories.
No more surprising than if I said I had no confidence in Cameron.
I'm a little surprised though that she managed to sweet talk her way out with her local constituency, not so much to do with the spending as to do with her disloyalty to the party.
I rather suspect the pitch may have been along the lines of "Look if you ditch me here and now the papers will dwell on it for weeks and have a field day and none of us want that"
I can see how that'd be quite a persuasive argument
No more surprising than if I said I had no confidence in Cameron.
I'm a little surprised though that she managed to sweet talk her way out with her local constituency, not so much to do with the spending as to do with her disloyalty to the party.
I rather suspect the pitch may have been along the lines of "Look if you ditch me here and now the papers will dwell on it for weeks and have a field day and none of us want that"
I can see how that'd be quite a persuasive argument
The Tories are the only viable alternative.
Labour, ahem, socialists have shown that they are far more adept at far oursleazing the Tories (see Blears, Smith, Harmon, Mandelson....the list is endless) and, despite their socialist credentials are only interested in feathering their own nests.
1997 seems an awful long time ago now when Blair promised Labour were going to be "whiter than white" - they have made Major's government seem like vestal virgins.
Anyway, Blears - she will get her just desserts next year. It would take swivel eyed lunatics to return this truly horrible woman to Parliament.
Labour, ahem, socialists have shown that they are far more adept at far oursleazing the Tories (see Blears, Smith, Harmon, Mandelson....the list is endless) and, despite their socialist credentials are only interested in feathering their own nests.
1997 seems an awful long time ago now when Blair promised Labour were going to be "whiter than white" - they have made Major's government seem like vestal virgins.
Anyway, Blears - she will get her just desserts next year. It would take swivel eyed lunatics to return this truly horrible woman to Parliament.
It doesn't really matter bobbisox.
Labour were victorious in 1997 on the wave of a backlash against Tory sleaze - which, in 2009, seems kind of ironic.
As Rollo said, Labour's anthem in 1997 was D-Ream's Things Can Only Get Better - yet they have got considerably worse.
Somebody will be along in a minute blaming Thatcher......
Labour were victorious in 1997 on the wave of a backlash against Tory sleaze - which, in 2009, seems kind of ironic.
As Rollo said, Labour's anthem in 1997 was D-Ream's Things Can Only Get Better - yet they have got considerably worse.
Somebody will be along in a minute blaming Thatcher......
Far be it from me to defend Hazel Blears, but she is merely one droplet in the ocean of greed which has enveloped the very seat of democracy which many of us in this country hold dear. A place now tainted for ever by the revelations not only about her but hundreds of her peers also.
Therefore it's not surprising that her constituency apparatchiks have seen fit to back her, they're all puppets dancing from the same strings as is she.
It's only delaying the inevitable until the people of Salford deliver their true opinion of her at the GE. I look forward to the supercilious smirk being wiped off her little smurf-like face!
Therefore it's not surprising that her constituency apparatchiks have seen fit to back her, they're all puppets dancing from the same strings as is she.
It's only delaying the inevitable until the people of Salford deliver their true opinion of her at the GE. I look forward to the supercilious smirk being wiped off her little smurf-like face!
