Car Trouble

The elected MP for Salford has been having a bit of a bad time of it recently. Not so long ago, I was chastising her on this very blog for her rather creative use of our money in the now much over reported expenses claim row.

Ms Blears, you will have seen, has been in the news again this week, again connected to her position at MP for Salford but this time in slightly more unfortunate circumstances. She took the bold step of going out canvassing in her esteemed constituency and the even bolder step of leaving her car, a nice shiny Citroen, unattended, alone and vulnerable on the street. When she returned the car was, shall we say, in a less than roadworthy condition than that she left it in, with all tyres slashed and the windscreen with a hefty dent in it. This rather strange video demonstrates:

Hazel herself played down the incident in public, claiming it was just ’the actions of a tiny minority’ and that she hadn’t been targeted specifically. The reaction from readers of the local press has been rather more telling, however, with many putting fingers to keys to express their annoyance and, in some cases, pure rage not only with Ms Blears’ naivety but also the apparently preferential treatment she received from our boys in blue. Let’s just take a little sample slice from the response from Salford:

“Isnt it amazing that within minutes an array of cop vans arrived, if that had been me or you we would have had to rely on the AA, or a friend, no Police would have turned up, no nothing. Blears, even now you are so pig headed that you fail to see you are hated in the region...a lot of Salford people simply can’t stand the sight of you.”

It’s certainly to the point.