Hazel Blears’ resignation: it’s imminent, surely?

If Hazel Blears hasn’t tendered her resignation by the time this post gets indexed by Google…

…I’ll eat my cyber hat. [**munch, munch, munch**]

As of tonight, Wed, her political career is already over.  According to the Daily Mail’s website today,

“The Communities Secretary launched a public relations offensive to save her job after Mr Brown condemned her expenses claims as ‘completely unacceptable’.

I don’t envy her these last tortured hours but I can’t help thinking that she – like so many politicians – is simply reaping what she has greedily sown.

Setting themselves up for disastrous falls is, inexplicably, what politicians seem compelled to do.  Writing in the Guardian online, less than three weeks ago, she said:

“People want to look their politicians in the eyes and get their anger off their chests. We need a ministerial “masochism strategy”, where ministers engage directly and hear the anger first-hand.”

Too right, they do, Hazel but they don’t just have to do it face to face.  They can vent their anger at you on YouTube too -  as some of the responses to this two year old video demonstrate.