I'm fed up of Labour careerists who wound but fear to strike. The likes of Blears who want to win votes by feeling the voters pain and being seen to be on their side ( which today means against Gordon Brown ), but to do so whilst still in the cabinet. Its the same trick when cabinet minister, um like Hazel Blears, campaigned against the health cuts their own constituencies that their collecti...

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...

Communities Secretary Hazel Blears was on Newsnight tonight to defend Wendy Alexander's U-turn to support an independence referendum in Scotland.Stressing that the government was not afraid to put the issue to the people, in the context of the government's refusal to hold the promised referendum on the EU Constitution Ms Blears exhibited hypocrisy of monumental proportions. Not exactly a new trait...

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...

I don’t really want to keep beating Hazel Blears up about this until someone needs to prise my hands from her throat* but the fucking gall of the woman, no wonder she’s done so well in the Labour government. *May contain traces of lie. Anyway moving on… Hazel Blears has been waving a cheque about for what she

Asked whether Hazel Blears would be replaced today, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that there were no plans to replace Hazel Blears today. Asked if the Cabinet Secretary or anyone at the Cabinet Office had been involved in checking Hazel Blears expenses again, the PMS replied that there was a process underway whereby the Cabinet Office looked through ministerial expe...

Asked about Hazel Blears position as a Minister, the PMS said that he had answered this question at this morning s lobby; the Prime Minister thought Hazel Blears was doing a good job. She delivered a presentation at Cabinet yesterday explaining the work her department was doing to help with the impact of the economic slowdown. original source.

Asked why, when the PMS had announced that both James Purnell and Hazel Blears were involved in the Jobs for the Future announcement, Hazel Blears had not attended, the PMS replied the announcement was the following day and there were two separate announcements. original source.

Tonight on Newsnight, watch Hazel Blears in her first speaking role in the film A Taste of Honey. The story, I'm told, is that the director Tony Richardson turned up in Pendelton, part of Salford, spotted a group of street urchins, including Hazel Blears and her brother, and wanted to film them. Their parents insisted that they get dressed up in their best clothes, so a five-year-old Blears a...

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....