Articles tagged Hazel Blears:
The Consequences of a Disappearing Chipmunk
- 5 Jun 2009
Knock Knock Who's There? Hazel Hazel Who? That's politics They say a week is a long time in politics. In the modern media age, I think we can reduce that to an hour. Hazel Blears resigned on Wednesday, but less than three days later she is already the forgotten ...
The Consequences of Hazel Blears
- 4 Jun 2009
A few weeks ago I warned that the Prime Minister might soon experience the wrath of a wounded chipmunk. I could never have predicted that Hazel Blears would resign from the Cabinet the day before an important set of elections. Her departure is entirely understandable, as she h...
The Origin of the Chipmunk
- 4 Jun 2009
I think one of my biggest claims to fame in politics is to have invented the internet the nickname of "The chipmunk" for Hazel Blears. I looked back in my blog archive and I first used the expression in a blogpost on 28 December 2005. I was doing my end of year awards... LA...
Fortune Favours Brave Chipmunks
- 4 May 2009
From the Daily Mash... Hazel Blears: Britain's most powerful Borrower. Lives inside the skirting boards at Number 10 where she chews through the modem cables and eats off an old bobbin. Can make a Babybel cheese last for a month Wounded chipmunks can be very da...
In Conversation with Hazel Blears
- 1 Nov 2008
This interview was conducted in October 2008 and appeared in Total Politics magazine. To her fans she’s a human dynamo, to her enemies she’s an irritating robot. Iain Dale talks to Hazel Blears, the Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government about her li...