Just in case you're not angry enough at the government today, here's something that will make your blood boil. Hazel Blears has blood on her hands.

There is a lot of waste and needles expenditure in Whitehall but it is, frankly, pathetic of Greg Hands to try and make a fuss about Hazel Blears having a couple of Spanish lessons before attending a summit in Spain or Peter Mandelson being taught how to use a Blackberry. The reputation of politicians is low-enough without MPs spending time and money on this kind of absurd gotcha exercise. Hands r...

Charles Moore has hit the nail on the head in relation to Hazel Blears. In his Spectator notes he discusses plans by the government to fund a board of Islamic theologians to try to advance more moderate interpretations of Islam, and then defends the diminutive Secretary of State for Communities and Local government: Hazel Blears has her fans "By the way, Hazel Blears, the Cabinet minister in charg...

An excellent article from Chris Game of the University of Birmingham Institute of Local Government Studies on how the Recession may just about save something of Local Government from the rapacious cluelessness of Hazel Blears' abolition package. Speaking at a recent Belfast conference of local authority chief executives, Communities and Local Government Secretary, Hazel Blears, claimed her de...

First, an apology. I feel bad that i didn’t support Hazel Blears for deputy leader of the Labour party. She was propbably the candidate I had most instinctive sympathy for, and she was certainly the most energetic, but I thought she couldn’t win, and my top prioirty was beating the resurgent soft left. In the

Hazel Blears the Communities Secretary has insisted Gordon Brown had her "100 per cent support" despite saying that the government was guilty of a "lamentable failure to get our message across".

Hazel Blears has had her car attacked. She came back from a spot of canvassing and found her Citroen Xsara Picasso was minus a windscreen and had all its tyres slashed. She blames it on bored kids. Many of her constituents think differently. I can just imagine Hazel on the doorstep yesterday. Did it go something like this? [Hazel] Hello, love. I'm Hazel Blears, your hard working, local Labour...

Hazel Blears resigned from government this morning, just before PMQ's. Credit where credit's due, Mrs Blears left the cabinet in style and with conviction so often missing from Labours front bench. Yet it leaves this saga turning into Murder on the Orient Express, but to what end? A leadership challenge is being spoken of the most. I'm still doubtful about this idea, Labour are more of a dictators...

Hazel Blears beaming - victorious? Wearing a "brooch" that says "rocking the boat" with a cat and dog in it. Allegedly when you push the boat it starts rocking and the dog starts laughing. Is there no end to this woman's ingenuity??????? I am sorry. As a similarly vertically challenged, erstwhile auburnhaired, middle aged woman, I do have something in common with the woman - but I sincerely h...

I find this Hazel Blears story very bizarre indeed. Although Hazel is perfectly correct in her central message that knocking on doors and old-fashioned campaigning is the best way forward for Labour, "Youtube if you want to" is quite clearly a soundbite that the Labour Minister wanted picked up by the press. For Hazel to say she is distraught must surely amount to little more than crocodile tears....