Blears blunders?

Louise

“Blears has done sterling work at the DCLG.”

Yes, and the other one plays jingle bells.

Blears wasn’t the architect of it but she is helping stuff like this gather momentum:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1273356.ece

It’s part of this government’s social engineering programme to put council flats in ordinary areas to create what the government calls “mixed communities”. The same is happening with the so-called “eco-towns”, nothing more than an attempt to destroy the English countryside because so many in it refuse to vote Labour. Solution? Get more council flats in there.

Meanwhile, people like me who don’t qualify for council housing and who can’t afford to buy break our backs paying private rent while holding down a full-time job. Two fingers to me cos I didn’t get up the duff and qualify automatically that way for a sea-side council flat.

Please run a feature on this dreadful, unfair and blatantly wicked piece of social engineering that me and millions of others are busting a gut to fund.

Never mind losing data. I wish someone would lose Hazel Blears.

Rob

I wonder if she'll be detained for 42 days pending an investigation? (I wish...)

Nicholas

Brown's big speech looks suspiciously like a response to DD and is full of the sort of inflammatory, scare-mongering language designed to encourage the foisting of yet more Draconian measures on the long suffering British public.

It reads as though Brown is in the pocket of the police. Why not lock the whole country up, Brown? That way we will all be safe.

Verity

Louise, get the hell out. I did.

They are destroying Britain not in error, which would be bad enough, but with intent. The long march through the institutions is almost there.

One look at Blair's slimy face and I could read the future in it. Two million others did, too.

jm

"But if the information on the computer was improperly stored, then her position is going to be rather precarious."

Is that a joke? Do you really think that? Why did you write that?

She could take out a prime time ad spot in the middle of Coronation Street and read out names, addresses, NI numbers, bank details, UTRs, dates of birth - and if you think after that GB would spank her little botty , you would be sadly wide of the mark...

Frank Pulley

Nicholas

"Why not lock the whole country up ...."

If the price of oil continues to rise exponentially, we may as well be under house arrest anyway.

Can we start a website called "Let's Have an Election, you Cowardly Bastard; We Want you OUT!"

Next question - is Dave ready, though?

Frank Pulley

jm

"and if you think after that GB would spank her little botty , you would be sadly wide of the mark..."

Now THAT would cure even the most dedicted and obsessive voyeur, surely?

John

Sterling work???

What ARE you on?

She is a standard issue Blair babe with no discernible talent. All she does is come out with inane words in a random order, accompanied by a half-witted grin.

She may be a fool rather than a knave like Harridan, but she's no less a menace to Britain for all that.

McBean's drivel about civil liberties is yet more proof that we are governed by certifiable lunatics.

John

Verity, out of interest: where are you?

You and I must be among the few people who could see the future after one look at that charlatan's face.

Wilf

Many of us could see the future after a glimpse of that mug, but not all of us were in a position to flee.

Instead, I've been depressed for 11 odd years. Only recently have things looked a little less grim.

Chuck Unsworth

"and if you think after that GB would spank her little botty"

Do we know for sure that it is little? I demand a recount.

After all, she spends enough time speaking out of it.

Liz Brown

I had eh good fortune to be out of the UK at the time of the '97 election and couldn't for the life how any sane person could see that Bliar and his gang were charlatans. I vowed never to return to the UK whilst that lot were in power and was lucky enough not to have done so. I would be unable to live there now with the social engineering, crime, inflation, lies, fouled up transport, educahsun,skoolsnospitals and the theft of my hard earned income. Polayanna is as appalling as the rest of them

Anan

For god's sake why don't the Conservatives make more of a deal out of all the Labour incompetencies? They all hide behind rocks when Crazy Crick comes out with his latest report on Tory expenses, without telling him to shut the hell up. And when the Labour fools come along to add more criticism, the Conservatives should be immediately telling them to shut up also because of the outrageous expenses abuses committed by all of them, not to mention the PM himself charging all of us so he can watch Lost on Sky. What a joke! Stupid Conservatives, where the hell are your brains? Oh that's right, they are worrying about some green rubbish aren't they.

Shaun Pilkington

As an IT professional, I have to laugh (copiously) when these clowns harp on about how they take data security seriously and can be trusted to operate an ID card scheme in pretty much the same breath as their hopeless securocrats abandon sensitive info on a train and a minister has improper material on an unsecured computer stolen from her constituency office. Seriously, they think they are competent people to maintain a register of our info? Back to laughing for me...

John Page

It was officials' fault.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7459579.stm

Of course.

TrevorH

"why don't the Conservatives make more of a deal out of all the Labour incompetencies"

Is a 24 point poll lead not good enough?

Look, inflation is a t 3.3% and rising - other economic indicators are grim, but the election is 2 years away. I think it sensible for the tories to keep their powder dry.

Crick was at it again last night, but only repeating day old news like he had just discovered it.
I am a bit confused, Spelman has done nothing wrong even by Cricks standards for 8 years yet Brown continues to get his SKY subscription paid at our expense - other labourites get their gardens and windows done at our expense.

Which story should a reporter be looking into?

Anan

Politics is about power, and as any self respecting dictator will tell you, you can never have enough power (i.e. poll leads). Therefore, no, 24 points is not enough, any party that wanted power would not rest at 24. They should want 34, and then 44 point leads. It is the continuous erosive effect of "soft" stories like this about Spellman that undermines governments and destroys the credibility of oppositions.

We can also add to the list the hypocrisy of Speaker Martin yelling "Order, order!" to the House when in fact it is he who should get himself in Order and stop his wife from abusing our money for taxi joyrides.

Perverse Perry

This ghastly woman, a current encumbrance with all the hallmarks of Bliar, - smug, arrogant, mouthy, self-righteous, - cannot possibly have been responsible. Remember this is a topsy-turvy world now.

So obviously the loss will be re-framed. In reality Mz. Blears has been graciously sharing those data with other people in the Spirit of Community or some such twaddle.

permex

What a miserably corrupt & apathetic country.

The Chocolate Orange Inspector

Anan - The Speaker's wife doesn't take taxi 'joyrides'. She's out shopping for official groceries that will go on the official expense sheet. So that's OK, then.

This is a genuine question: Has he repaid the British taxpayer-owned airmiles he had accumulated from his unnecessary trips thither and yon, to fly his whole family down from Glasgow, free?

Applying airmiles to personal travel is illegal. Has he repaid the market price for those - was it five? - round trip airline tickets or not?

How can we find out? We wouldn't like the issue to get lost down the back of the couch, after all, if the Speaker of the House of Commons is still on the fiddle.

It's really Sovietesque, isn't it?

This stench-laden Nomenklatura needs to be driven out. And a legal order that they must repay all their illegal "expenses" posted in every newspaper. Then each monthly payment should be noted in the paper.

Verity

No, no, Perfervid Perry! In the spirit of "diversity". And "inclusiveness". It would be unthinkably judgemental to keep our enemies out of the loop! I mean, how snobby and demeaning of foreigners! This is not inclusive!

I will say it again: All this is intentional. It is to weaken the structures of Britain. Even the Blair's Babes (all those fat women in suits that rode up the hips in the defence of polyester bad taste, so clearly unqualified for a local council) was an intentional.

It was to diminish Parliament.

To degrade it into a local council, which it is destined to become under the booted foot of the EU.

This is a long-term plan that began to come to fruition under Tony Blair, former rock star manqué; former actor manqué; former barrister manqué. In other words, a failure, but a useful tool if you just give him a chance at the limelight - a TV couch or two to practice his Estuary. Do you remember him pretending to be a cowboy on George Bush's ranch, wearing jeans that were so tight he could barely walk without squealing? Laughing is so cruel.

Addressing people from the White House Rose Garden in tones of a David Niven WWII RAF ace?

I would say, do you remember him and Cherie, when they thought their fortune may be on the left, on the CND marches, but those has been Sovietesquely airbrushed out. As has their enthusiastic membership of the CND.

It is all part of the long march - long abandoned in China.

Hysteria

just a minor point on expenses - I work in private business (a compamy listed on the NY stock exchange) - if I am sent somewhere, or volunteer to go somewhere, then the compamy (meaning ultimately the shareholder) will pay reasonable living expenses at a secomd home. Including Sky !

Fergus Pickering

I’m in love with Hazel Blears.
She bucks me up. She calms my fears,
The little lefty of my dreams,
Not half as daffy as she seems.
The country may have gone to pot.
Are we downhearted? Hazel’s not.
From cheery smile to cheery botty,
New Labour’s finest piece of totty.

steve

Whilst the DCLG may be very good at what it does (and that is highly debatable. I seriously doubt that what it does is any good. Surely the whole point of local government is to do the local governing stuff, so why have a central department telling them what to do? It is just another one of those essentially pointless departments, (DCMS being another one) that I just don't see the point of.

Trumpeter Lanfried

I am not a violent man, but if Hazel Blears doesn't stop grinning I am going to stick one on her.

davis for victory

She should just get her coat and leave, taking the rest of the genetically McModified lunatics of government with her

Fergus Pickering

I’m in love with Hazel Blears.
She bucks me up. She calms my fears,
Not half as daffy as she seems,
The little lefty of my dreams.
The country may have gone to pot.
Are we downhearted? Hazel’s not.
From cheery smile to cheery botty,
New Labour’s finest piece of totty.

Frank Pulley

Fergus

The subject is undeserving of such versification, but whatever turns you on.

She sounds more like Hilda Baker every day. Except Hilda Baker was funny and not occupying a ministerial office of government. This chirpy, twittering little garden tit is no joke and makes me reach

... for my 410 shot gun!

Luckily, so far I have resisted the urge and my TV screen has survived.

Dave Clemo

It's worse than we thought. The stolen PC was a desktop. Yes it had sensitive doscs on it- but that's OK as the PC was password protected
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/blears_pc_theft/