Hazel blears

Accountability is for the little people…….

May 10, 2009
Blears

Police Reform Conference – Jan 15th 2005 Speech by Hazel Blears – Police Minister. “Accountability…. is vital for public confidence. And for our desire to increase community engagement. We want to clarify and strengthen the present arrangements. On a very basic level – people pay taxes and want to know that their money is making [...]

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The ‘Go Fourth and Multiply’ Bandits.

May 3, 2009

Over on Plato’s blog I caught up with her piece on the ‘typo’ in Alistair Campbell’s blog. It rang bells, ‘Go fourth and multiply’, I’d heard that phrase before. It wasn’t until I got round to reading John Prescott’s defence of the Prime Minister’s YouTube performance, that the penny dropped. How slow am I? John [...]

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Quick – Blears at it too……..

April 21, 2009

If you want to know what’s being discussed in Downing Street these days, all you need is a press pass and a telephoto lens. The Communities Secretary Hazel Blears inadvertently leaked Gordon Brown’s proposals to scrap MPs’ second home allowances when she left Cabinet clutching a copy in full view of photographers. In May last [...]

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Excluded by inclusiveness.

March 26, 2009

Yesterday, the Communities secretary unveiled the new  counter-terrorism strategy, known as Contest 2, a commitment to challenge those who “reject parliamentary democracy, dismiss the rule of law and promote intolerance and discrimination on the basis of race, faith, ethnicity, gender or sexuality”. Ominously, Contest 2 spells out that the new policy will be reflected in [...]

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Re-definitions – Nu-Labour speak; Issue 1.

March 4, 2009

Such is my confidence in NuLabour’s congenital immersion in the world of verbal obscurity, that I am labelling this Issue 1. It is likely to be a long series, and I am happy to take contributions for future issues. So, today we kick off with ‘lost’. According to my Thesaurus: Adj. 1. lost – no [...]

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