I have to agree, she could have done it more quietly, but she was the first to pay back no arguing, unlike Tracey Laing Tory MP who made just over £1m from the sale of "second home" and owes £118,000 in tax, she has offered £25,000 as a goodwill gesture.
On the other hand the expenses scandal (seperate to the above) the Tories on Average had to pay back £3700 each and Labour £2500 each, Hazel Blears £225.
It was good of the BBC to go after all these dirty MPs and expose the expenses along with the freedom of information ACT, now it is Labour Conference in Manchester in September just ask how many rooms the BBC will have booked for its staff despite having a base here. Last time it was 81 rooms for the week at the Hilton, now these are also in a sense paid for by our "taxes" and should be subject to the same rules as Civil Servants on overnight stays which is value for money about £35 a night.
Oh not defending what the MPs did just the hypocrisy of the BBC staff.

She will not get my vote! & I used to be a member of the party.

ditto

Good post Pev



Not a huge fan of Blears' but nor am I about to jump on the 'Hate Blears' bandwaggon without a decent amount of justification.

Do you want a list!

hmmm. Power , Corruption & Lies , sounds like a cue for a song

[urlhttp://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpc=Salford[/url.

Constituency has been labour since about 1945 , once had 3 members . Salford North. Salford South & Salford West , Now it's amalgamated with Eccles with Ian Stewart stepping down.( Salford & Eccles ) .
Party Candidates for 6th May :-
Labour - Hazel Blears
Independent ( Hazel out ) - Richard Carvath
Trade Unionist & Socialist - David Henry
English Democrats - Stephen Morris
Independent - Joe O'Neill
Liberal Democrat - Norman Owen
Conservative - Matthew Sephton
UKIP - Robert Wakefield
BNP - Tina Wingfield

I'll vote for whoever turns up for the game on sunday ( that should boost the crowd by 9 )

Please, if you have one.

I've always found Blears to be an irritating arrogant little git. Her pompous nose in the air image, with that Jack Nicolson joker style fixed expression doesn't half grate. Hopefully the people of Salford will turn on her and get rid, she took the p!ss big time out her constituents and thinks she can get away with paying back what to most is a big amount of money.

www.salfordconservatives.com/ Good to see the front page of the Salford Conservative website has got a picture of Karen Garrido with recently outed gay basher Chris Grayling. Tory bast*rds.

www.salfordconservatives.com/ Good to see the front page of the Salford Conservative website has got a picture of Karen Garrido with recently outed gay basher Chris Grayling. Tory bast*rds.

Nick Griffin's PA.

hhmmm....spoilt for choice aren`t we ????????????

I knew you would bite!

has she even said sorry for the stealing of money or is she still saying (like others) "Ive done nothing wrong it was within the rules"! The woman has the morals of a rich person who steals from the poor...... oh hang on!!!!!

How about helping out the (so-called) Labour Party with a few campaign slogans?

Vote Labour. We took the p*ss, but it was the other lot that had the duck house and the moat.

Or, Vote Hazel. You might think I'm a thief, but hey, I'm not Jeffrey Archer.

Say what you want about Hazel, but if it was not for her most of Langworthy would be derelict with houses still only worth £5000, she brought in the £13.5m SRB money to kick start the regeneration and she also got Urban splash in when the original contractors pulled out because they could not see how they could make money. She also pulled in £52m for Charlestown and Kearsal, and used her influence to bring other pots of money into the city. What have the rest done? Only Norman tells us that all the people of Seedley and Langworthy have been failed by the regeneration, this was a man who told people to vote Lib dem and they could have Loft conversions and hot tubs from the regeneration money, when he knew full well that it was not there for that, but what the hell it worked, now the same residents get no reply, this is the man who complains about the ice rink but attends council freebies and also a man where even his own lot have split up in the council and on TV he had no idea about the Lib Dem policy on student fees.

Vote Labour for the new Stadium

Is Hazel your mum?

no, I am just stating the facts from somebody who sat as a resident on the partnership boards in Seedley and Langworthy during the regeneration.

I suspect that, had Blears been guilty of any crime (such as theft) she would've been tried in a court of law (as some of her peers are being).

However, accusing her of 'stealing' on here without any factual basis could easily be considered libel, which makes you more of a criminal than her.

Did I miss out the words “allegedly” and “other people are saying it but not me”?
I personally am voting for her in the upcoming election, as she is fine upstanding member of the community and her moral judgment could never be questioned! HAZEL FOR PM!

Move on

Hazel was at Salford Question Time last week with candidates from the other major political parties: www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=530

Hazel was at Salford Question Time last week with candidates from the other major political parties: www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=530

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Is he the christian fundamentalist nutcase?

[url=http://www.richardcarvath.net/RichardCarvathSalfordEcclesTenCommitmentsManifesto2010.pdfSeemingly so[/url

"No to secularism"

[url=http://www.salfordadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/1185757_salford_candidates_warning_from_cops_over_gay_hate_rantHas been warned by the police for homophobic rants too[/url.

Salford and Eccles candidates:

[url=http://sephton.wordpress.com/Matthew Sephton[/url (Conservative)
[url=http://www.hazelblears.co.uk/Hazel Blears[/url (Labour)
[url=http://www.normanowen.co.uk/Norman Owen[/url (Liberal Democrat)
[url=http://bnp.org.uk/2009/12/tina-wingfield-to-take-on-hazel-blears-in-salford/Tina Wingfield[/url (BNP)
[url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/general_election/salford_and_eccles/s/1202900_stephen_morris_english_democratStephen Morris[/url (English Democrat)
[url=http://davidhenryppc.wordpress.com/David Henry[/url (Hazel Must Go/TUSC)
[url=http://carvath.blogspot.com/Richard Carvath[/url (Independent)
[url=http://www.salfordadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/1122567_union_boss_vows_to_fight_next_electionAlec McFadden[/url (Independent)