Seeing as the discussion over Hazel Blears is not abating, even though Brown has at present given her his support, I thought I'd pull a card for her - one card, not a whole reading, partly because she is just another "corrupt little porker" ((c) If, Steve Bell, last week) and partly because I have to go to work at 2pm.
I pulled Queen of Pentacles reversed for our bleary, Blairy little friend.
Reversed, the Queen becomes greedy, spiteful, extravagant, suspicious, demanding and full of complaints about the ingratitude of the world. She is blind to others' good intentions. Beware of succumbing to her oddly persuasive views.
Blears may survive today but is looking precarious because of her own bad character under pressure. I saw her speak live at a Fabian conference in early 2004 - shortly before I crossed the floor to the Tories - and while her panel-mate Frank Field was a lucid, engaging and witty speaker, Blears and, elsewhere at the forum, Stephen Twigg, were as the card says - unable to see that the Tories under Howard represented a serious challenge to their authority and arrogant enough to believe there was only one opinion in the world - theirs, and by association, their master's. Blears is doomed because of her attitude to politics, not her snout in the collective trough. The good thing about this scandal is that it is weeding out all the people who can't run a piss-up in a brewery and bringing out their true colours where the back-and-forth of normal business has not. Good riddance, in other words.
