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arkitect
Jun 3, 2009, 05:06 AM
And another one bites the dust.

Crumbs, it seems Gordon is throwing them overboard faster than he can bail out water from the sinking ship "Nu-Labour"…

BBC… (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8080777.stm)

Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has resigned from the cabinet.

She has been under fire over her expenses and was tipped for the axe in a reshuffle expected after European and English local elections on Thursday.

The Salford MP, a former Labour Party chairman, paid back just over £13,000 after claims that she avoided capital gains tax over a property sale.

She denied doing anything wrong but Gordon Brown described her expenses claims as "unacceptable".


WinterMute
Jun 3, 2009, 05:07 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8080777.stm

Hazel does the right thing, how many others should follow?

Brown for one?


Arkitect beat me by a minute!!! :)
drlunanerd
Jun 3, 2009, 05:10 AM
Jumping from a sinking ship, all for personal gain so they get their £64000 pay-off now while they still can before the rules are changed and they lose the next general election anyway :rolleyes:
arkitect
Jun 3, 2009, 05:12 AM
Arkitect beat me by a minute!!! :)

Heh! You gotta be quick. :)
NATO
Jun 3, 2009, 05:14 AM
PM's Question Time at 12 O'Clock, that'll be an interesting one...
neiltc13
Jun 3, 2009, 06:38 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8080777.stm

Hazel does the right thing, how many others should follow?

Brown for one?


Arkitect beat me by a minute!!! :)

The "right thing" would be to resign as an MP with immediate effect as well. Unfortunately we're going to have to wait for the people of Salford to eject her and at that point she'll be eligible for even more money she doesn't deserve.
NewGenAdam
Jun 3, 2009, 06:44 AM
PM's Question Time at 12 O'Clock, that'll be an interesting one...

Indeed it was.
Cameron and Clegg tried their best to undermine Gordon Brown as PM, and show he should be leaving with so many of his colleagues.
They failed; he stood well his ground. Honestly, those who would oust him, what/who would be the proposed replacement?

He's doing a fine job.
BoyBach
Jun 3, 2009, 06:51 AM
Earlier on the Radio, the BBCs John Pienaar said that there is a letter concerning The Great Leader™ being passed around backbench Labour MPs.

The end, it would appear, is nigh.