The year of Balls?

strapworld

To avoid being made the scapegoat- perhaps Mr Darling will prove to everyone that he is his own man and resign! Both removing that opportunity from Brown and creating a very unsettling series of events.

I can see both Darling and the Governor of the Bank of England walking away, leaving Brown with the mess and with the blame!

Mr Darling is no fool and I am sure he will not wish to be blamed as the one that caused all the problems - when Brown is without any shadow of doubt the real villain!

Ian C

As strapworld has suggested the only way Balls will be Chnacellor in 2009 is if Darling resigns as a result of another disagreement with Brown, a Brownie too many or, most likely, to distance himself from the uselesseness of the outcome of Brown's "saving the world" decisions made on Darling's watch - while he was powerless to do what really needs doing.

This is getting the banks' toxic assets into the open so an accurate calculation as to the re-capitalsisation required can be calculated. All they've done so far is keep a few patients alive while they and others die of the poison they swallowed in the boom. Oh and cut VAT by 2 1/2% and raise taxes on employment when the recovery is young!

Nicholas

The year of Balls-Ups more likely, judging by the cavalcade of clowns type approach to anything that isn't yet the subject of draconian legislation.

We can now look forward to being prosecuted for daring to chat to passengers in our cars. The monastic rule of silence whilst driving is yet another stupid idea in a catalogue of stupid ideas but no doubt it will not apply to the New Labour State Police as they speed about talking to their dispatchers and fiddling with their radios whilst driving.

Clearly their law training is rubbish for them to have to keep inventing new, teeny-weeny pieces of inane legislation to cover every possible permutation when there are already perfectly good laws they choose to ignore. In their latest proposals the idiots have forgotten to make it an offence to change one's socks whilst driving. Still all the loopholes should keep them busy plugging for awhile, no doubt aided and abetted by their conniving friends in the police.

Are what it is to be 5 years old again and treated as such by the puerile, nannying, nincompoops of New Labour.

Robert Simpson

I seem to remember reading that Darling has already written his memoirs, and that they contain various damaging anecdotes about Gordon Brown, which he intends to unleash in the event of his being sacked.

I think it was in late spring, early summer, when tensions between the Treasury and No10 were being reported. Perhaps Brown is aware of this Damoclean sword, and will keep Darling in place for that reason?

cuffleyburgers

Sorry chaps but I quite like Darling.

He has so totally been dropped in it by Brown, but he plays his part and demonstrates loyalty without tribalism, and is not really doing any harm, the damage was all done previously. He's got a truly horrible job, but he doubtless thought that somebody's got to do it, and doubtless there'll be an ermine overcoat at the end of it.

Of all the ghastly people on the Labour front benches he is by far the least malignant, the least ignorant and the least stupid and vindictive.

I also suspect that he knows where an awful lot of bodies are buried ...

Wilhelm

Hamburgers

Shifty Alistair Darling is the glove puppet of Gordon Broon.

Wilhelm

Hamburgers comes out of the closet and says ''I Love Darling.''

What ever turns you on, son.