‘New’ Labourite Blears resigns in corruption scandal

This video from Britain is called James Purnell, Hazel Blears, other Northwest MPs & the expenses scandal.

From the New Statesman in Britain:

Blears resigns from the cabinet

Published 03 June 2009

Resignation fuels speculation of leadership challenge to Brown

Gordon Brown‘s authority was dealt another blow today after the Communities Secretary Hazel Blears resigned from government.

Her decision follows the resignation of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith yesterday and leaves Brown struggling to maintain control of his government ahead of Thursday’s elections.

Blears was facing removal from the Cabinet after it was revealed she failed to pay capital gains tax on the sale of her second home. Brown described her failure to do so as “totally unacceptable”. Despite insisting that she acted within the rules, Blears later agreed to pay £13,332 to the Inland Revenue.

The fact Blears announced her resignation so shortly before tomorrow’s elections will fuel speculation that she is encouraging a leadership challenge to Brown.

Such a leadership challenge in these expenses scandal times would be welcome. But only if it is from the left wing of the Labour party. Not if it threatens to bring to the Prime Ministership some supporter of the war criminal Tony Blair, as, or even more, objectionable and Thatcherite as Gordon Brown.

Meanwhile, as a result of the bloody war policies of Blair, Blears, and Brown, another British soldier dies today in Afghanistan.

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Tom Watson resignation: here.

[Ken] LIVINGSTONE ON THE CRISIS IN THE LABOUR PARTY: here.

Latest: the MP for South Antrim in Northern Ireland, William McCrea, of the Protestant fundamentalist party DUP of “Dr” Ian Paisley, is now also in trouble in the expenses scandal.