Hazel hands over £13,332 to salvage her Salford hopes!

Hazel Blears has decided to hand over to the HMRC the amount she would have paid in Capital Gains tax on her flipped homes, had she been liable. She has given an interview to the TV media about why she has decided to do this. No mention of sorry, rather that the system or the fees office made her flip her home. Maybe it did, but she still appears to have profited from the episode.

She now realises that the public are up in arms and rightly so. Gordon Brown has been like a sloth descending a tree to see what's going on in the jungle. I bet he's not best pleased, to put it mildly, that she has taken the tip from David Cameron to put houses in order (no pun intended!). Brown has been very peculiar in the whole affair.

I find it very odd that the politicians caught out kept on about the system. Communists after the fall of the Berlin Wall said the very same thing. It was the system that told them, etc, etc.

Gradually things are coming together. We cannot allow as a nation our parliament to be brought into disrepute. Things have to change fast. However, it's going to be shown up as a red card at the Euro elections. Norman Tebbitt has only amplified what I hear in the post office and local shops. It's a plague on all your houses talk. At least Hazel Blears is coming to the realisation that the game's up. And she's dispensed with the grin. All sombre and serious, mindful of the mire the ones who have taken advantage are in.