Monbiot on Hazel Blears

[expat]

anyone else having a problem accessing the comments?

Nope.

There are lots of good ones too:

Hazel and her National Socialist chums have made voting Tory an attractive idea. Quite an achievement in my case.

Perhaps that needed saying. What has not been said is the cheerleaders of H.B. G.B. T.B. H.H. D.M. are senior contributors to this news outlet. Some posters have reproduced quotes from past articles that may illuminate why the government behaved the way it did.
To read them now (not dissimilar to current pieces on Obama) makes for "cringe" reading" Maybe the Guardian (exception P.Toynbee) has actually decided to abandon the sinking HMS NUlabour as the only way to retain any credibility.
"It was the Guardian wot won it" Those writers who are affiliated in some way to Nulabour, used their position to persuade voters, and truly see the results of those policies, also need to "Confess". It was not only Bankers, Nulabour, and the FSA that delivered us to this point, the media (Guardian) also is responsible in creating this nightmare.
Spin is a poor substitute for truth, and it may be the case, when agendas become a priority, something very important is lost.
This may be the point HB failed to make clear. Those in the media, were as sycophantic in the good times as any yesminister, and that they now conveniently ignore their own role in this, is what angers Ms Blears.

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[Svalbaard]

Here here George.

[lilelvis2000]

My wife did some work with Ms. Blears...she describes her as "useless".

That's probably flattering her a bit.