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David Blunkett

Asked why David Blunkett was being allowed to hold onto his grace and favour residence, the PMOS said that the premise of the question was mistaken. David Blunkett had made it clear to the Prime Minister when he resigned that he would be moving out of his residence, but as with all former Home Secretaries there were security considerations which other people did not have. These meant the process took a little longer as it took time to get those security considerations in place. In answer to further questions the PMOS said that it had only been a matter of weeks since David Blunkett’s resignation and the security considerations had been as such for previous Home Secretaries as well. Being a former Home Secretary did put you in a different category.

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  1. Um, hang about; he wasn’t Home Secretary this time around. If this shite is true then fair enough, when he "resigned" from the Home Secretary’s job I could understand it. But he wasn’t Home Secretary, and he’s wasting yet more of my money, so the sooner Bliar and the rest of them stop treading on politically-correct eggshells around old Blind Himmler and get him moved the f*ck OUT of any grace-and-favour residence to which he is NO LONGER ENTITLED, the better for them, him and me :o>

    Comment by PapaLazzzaru — 16 Nov 2005 on 6:24 pm | Link
  2. Come on
    – if we are talking about the amount of time since Blunkett was Home Secretary and the Security Forces can’t get cover in place for him then I begin to understand why the Police need 90 days to gather evidence.
    But it doesn’t make a good assumption because it looks from the outside to be more incompetence.
    I tend to believe that Tony is more to blame than the Security Forces and that if Mr Blunkett were booted out tomorrow the good ole boys in mufti would be more than able to secure his well being.
    So we have to write this one off to more graft and corruption in the cabinet.

    Comment by Roger Huffadine — 16 Nov 2005 on 9:03 pm | Link
  3. From the Register of Members’ Interests, Mr Blunkett’s entry:

    8. Land and Property
    Second home in London, from which I temporarily receive rental income.

    I particularly enjoyed the ‘temporarily’.

    I wonder how much he has pocketed while taxpayers pick up his housing bill?

    Comment by Colin Williams — 16 Nov 2005 on 11:44 pm | Link
  4. When the PM gets kicked out of Downing street they move the same day – the police seem to get the security sorted out fairly quickly… so why not here.
    It just doesn’t wash.

    Perhaps dirty Dave is having just one last shag in his old pad…
    Or maybe he can’t find the door…?

    Comment by andrew — 18 Nov 2005 on 7:00 pm | Link
  5. When the PM gets kicked out of Downing street they move the same day – the police seem to get the security sorted out fairly quickly… so why not here.
    It just doesn’t wash.

    Perhaps dirty Dave is having just one last shag in his old pad…
    Or maybe he can’t find the door…?

    Comment by andrew — 18 Nov 2005 on 7:00 pm | Link

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