Talk:Hazel Blears

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This edit was mentioned in The Times[1]. Ud terrorist 13:07, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I love Wikipedia 23:50, 3 August 2006 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.16.45.97 (talk • contribs) .

Contents 1 Equality Minister 2 Spoof blog 3 'Law Degree'? 4 {{Editprotected}} 5 Chairman? 6 Criticisms 7 Trivia

[edit] Equality Minister

Hazel Blears is not Equality or Women Minister. The position is Harriet Harman.

[edit] Spoof blog

If the article was more humorous, or wasn't about a politician, I would probably leave this in - but the inclusion of the link to a false blog only detracts from the article. This is political manoeuvring, and this is not the place for it. --Firien § 13:00, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 'Law Degree'?

The College of Law does did not until 2006 hand out law 'degrees' (LLB)- it exits to provide postgraduate professional qualifications (this would have been 'Solicitors Finals' in her case).

[edit] {{Editprotected}}

Someone forgot the protection template. 68.39.174.238 19:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Done. Luna Santin 00:31, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chairman?

As she's a woman, shouldn't she be called Chairwoman rather than Chairman? Or just "Chair" I think is appropriate. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.142.191.240 (talk) 17:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC).

Should be "Chair" - that's the word the Labour Party rule-book uses (in 2002 to 2006 at least). Rwendland 17:40, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticisms

In March 2005, while Home Office minister, Blears implied that section 44 of the terrorism act would disproportionally affect the Muslim community.

“Dealing with the counter-terrorist threat and the fact that at the moment the threat is most likely to come from those people associated with an extreme form of Islam, or falsely hiding behind Islam, if you like, in terms of justifying their activities, inevitably means that some of our counter-terrorist powers will be disproportionately experienced by people in the Muslim community.”[2]

This is just a quote of her personal views. Can we get a citation for the actual criticism of it? 87.127.73.65 02:18, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

I have removed the Trivia section. There were two interesting items: Blears performing in the film A Taste of Honey as a child, and Blears's hobbby of tap-dancing, which I have placed in the main body of the article. The other two facts, Blears's height, and Blears's brother being employed as a bus driver I did not think noteworthy or worthy of mention in an Encyclopedia entry, and have dropped them. Mick gold (talk) 12:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

I came here specifically to find out her height. Might be worth adding it back in. Nibbler999 (talk) 20:10, 22 March 2008 (UTC)