Hazel just doesn't get crime at all - even when she's the victim

Did "having nothing to do" drive some vandals to attack a Citroen Picasso one sunny afternoon between 5 and 6:15 pm ?

Hazel Blears says that what she believes.

Clearly "being bored" leads to crime in Hazel's mind - even when she's the victim.

There's no issue of morality that springs to her mind.

And that's what's wrong with the liberal left - even when they are victims of vandalism they don't understand that's what it is.

Hazel - you can look forward to being sent a leaflet on "Victim support" as the highlight of the normal police response - from my personal experience. Though as a member of the establishment you might get a little better service.

Labour aren't just soft on crime - they create the circumstances where they can't even condemn it for what it is. So another of Tony's sound bites comes to bite back "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime ".

Update: Interesting to note that the ever helpful BBC reports Blears saying:

"This was an act of anti-social behaviour by some youths, the same kind of anti-social behaviour unfortunately many of my constituents have to put up with.

"I was canvassing nearby at the time and returned to my car to find the damage.

"I had earlier seen a gang of kids hanging around the car. This was pathetic and cowardly."

Compare and contrast with what the Press Association report her telling the Manchester Evening News:

"teenagers with nothing to do on a hot afternoon".

The hypocrisy of Hazel Blears

I'm fed up of Labour careerists who wound but fear to strike. The likes of Blears who want to win votes by feeling the voters pain and being seen to be on their side ( which today means against Gordon Brown ), but to do so whilst still in the cabinet.

Its the same trick when cabinet minister, um like Hazel Blears, campaigned against the health cuts their own constituencies that their collective responsibility government was inflicted on England ( but never Scotland and Wales ).

I know many of them will never earn much once they are not ministers (expense fiddling aside) and they are immersed in the shameless gutless culture of the Labour party that treats the poor, down on their luck and dependant the same was a drug pusher treats their clients, but surely even they realise they should act honourably ?

During Conservative governments these things were understood, but I guess Conservative ministers were generally talented enough to live productive lives away from government.

Blears should either resign from the cabinet ( and if she is really interested int he people's welfare then the corrupt parasite that is the Labour party as well ) to make her case, or do what she is signed up for of trying to explain how Labour has sold us all and our children into debt slavery in exchange for little improvement in services - which will now have to be cut either by the IMF or the Conservatives.

In short she's a hypocrite, and member of the most dishonourable, incompetent, gutless, shameless and useless government this country has ever had the misfortune to have to tolerate.

Update: I see she's being forced to come out a swear allegiance to Big Brother - how very Labour. As Matthew Parris has said - the problem with Labour's Cabinet is they are gutless.

Hazel Blears will have to resign

If she really did allow government information on her constituency political computer, some of which is confidential, then she will have to go. The BBC report:

The machine contained a combination of constituency and government information which should not have been held on it.

The theft may mean the communities secretary has broken rules on the handling of restricted information. The Tories called it "alarming".

The government is to review guidance on the storage of restricted information.

Now the standard New Labour defence of all the data / secret document leaks so far has been to blame officials for not following procedures. ( Which has always struck me as a cop-out anyway. )

This leaves Hazel Blears with no honourable option left but to resign. But then honour hasn't been Labour's strong suit. This has shades of the infamous NHS heat maps showing government spending correlated with Labour party marginals that Hazel used to have under her coat.