Frank Branston - Blogging for a Better Bedford

I confess to a touch of amivalence about the departure of Hazel Blears undere whose remit local government fell.

I have always admired her as afeisty lasy with a sense of humour and - more important and understanding of what local government was about. She faced tough questions with a smile and gave as good as she got to such fearsome inquisitors as Jeremy Paxman..

I am not all that sure that what she did was particularly heinous. Most people with second homes make a careful calculation which to nominate as their main residence for tax purposes. I am one and I am lucky that it is a ‘no brainer’. Changing the designation of my main home would leave me with a potentially huge tax bill. That is not, of course, the same as flipping second homes to make a profit on resale as some MPs have done still less claiming for a non-existant mortgage.

There’s no dofficulty in being upfront when it’s in one’s interest to be so. If Hazel hadn’t made her ‘You tube if you want to’ gibe against her boss she might have survived.

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