The many faces of Ed Balls

Woody

This is the third article on CH about this ridiculous man.

Why??

Did you read David Cameron's New Year message yesterday? Is that not worth a mention at least?

Woody

PS

I shall be glad to get back to work tomorrow, I'm fed up with reading all this Balls nonsense.

Ted

Interesting comments from public schoolboy Ed, who with his wife has family earnings of well over £300,000 excluding expenses.

Moraymint

It's so bloody scary that men like Balls hold positions of power and that nobody - whether it be the politically disinterested masses, a supine mainstream media or (ironically, least of all) Parliament itself - can hold him to account.

He just gets on with the lunatic job of trashing society.

Many of us now know for certain that we're looking at a couple of decades - let's call it a generation - to recover from the past 12 years of unreconstructed Marxism-by-stealth.

The other scary thing is that my suggested recovery timetable assumes that there is a political party out there with the faintest idea how to recover our economoy and our society.

ajs

Why do you and all the media nits give such time to Mr Balls? He is obviously in it for himself, wife and all; accumulating wealth beyond the possibilities (let alone dreams) of us ordinary people. His former hero Stalin would have dealt with him by now, as he (Balls) plots to rise above his station - off to Siberia. Would that we had in UK a Siberia suitable for this ghastly person. Permanent posting to a quango entrusted with the problems of mobile libraries, always on tour in a bus, perhaps?

Peter From Maidstone

I have to say that I am really enjoying reading the current edition of Standpoint. It shows that it is entirely possible to produce serious political comment that does not pander to the political class.

It seems to me that I wish that the Spectator would take a long, hard look at itself and decide what sort of a publication it wants to be. If it wants to be a soft-left fanzine then I won't be buying it again.

Chuck Unsworth

Just consider this: Would you trust this man? Would you give him even the slightest chance?

Dan

Balls is nothing short of a complete joke. He is the only politician who comes close to achieving the seemingly impossible - he is even more unelectable than Brown.

Liz Brown

The many faces of sowhatballsup and none of them attractive. hH fails to mention that he was instrumental in the raid on pensions which has condemend many to poverty in their old age. he fails to mention that he was instrumental in organising the tripartate oversight of banking which led to the bank crisis. Does he seriously think that anyone in their right minds would vote for a party which had him at the helm. Is he already showing signs of the delusion which has gripped his mentor?

Sevo Slade

Many faces perhaps, but they all look like the anatomical opposite of a face to me....

gareth

thanks Peter from Maidstone, I just checked it out and Nick Cohen's article was relevant and interesting - about PC plots for films and TV.

This article is pretty good compared to the trendy Liddle and Massie's preening - what great blokes they are, and hey! they are pretty straight kinda guys, whose impartiality is constantly paraded before getting back down to the real business of making a stand against the fox hunting classes' threat to this country.
The big three film blockbusters this christmas (though not mentioned by Nick) are great examples of our non-biased media. I just watched Sherlock Holmes at the cinema and who was the baddie? An English Lord pre-empting Hitler by about 70 years not least in dress and speech- who has as his goal - the re-conquest of America (and the world) from his extremely powerful base on the Edgeware Road. Superb plot.
Avatar is Dances With Wolves in Space. Also what about 2012 where China and India lead the world's brightest and best poor scientists and hard-workers to avert catastrophe.
Mel's got a new one out too.....the heart of darkness....gulp, I wonder who will be the baddies?

RobP

Err I think you'll find it was Fred Kite, as mentioned in the Beatles' 'For The Benefit Of Mr Kite' - or were you getting confused with Dad's Army?

Anyway, that's enough Balls (Ed)

James D

Fine, so they want a war on success. Where are the classical liberals with their single tax on the unimproved value of land policy when you need them?

Watt Tyler

@Woody

Spectator doesn't want to draw attention to the fact that David Cameron made an outright declaration that his party is no different to the Liberal Democrats. This would justify what a lot of us have been saying.

The job of the Spectator is to attack Labour, and keep the Tory faithful distracted. It is easier for that faithful contingent, then, to keep their head in the sand regarding the reality of their party. So Cameron wins, the Spectator wins, and frightened and deluded Tories win. The country loses.

Meanwhile, over at the Guardian and the Independent, Cameron and his "Team", now unashamedly, reach out to Liberal Democrats - the ones who beleive in open borders, no prison sentances, the EU super state - things like that. And he can promise them their Marxist EUtopia because it is something he believes in himself. He must do, because of the things that he does and says.

It is the Tory Old Gaurd that he lies to, says one thing to them, and another to those who should be ideologically opposed. I wonder how long they are going to take this humilating shafting. Cameron thinks they will vote for him even when he rubs their face in the fact that their party in now the New Lib Dem party. I wonder if they will ever send him the message that he deserves at the ballot box.

Amadeus Plonquer

But whatever happened to his Post Neo-classical Endogenous Growth Theory? Was this how Brown and Balls 'saved the world'? Or did it turn out to be Post Neo-classical Endogenous Growth Bollox?

Why isn't he being asked?

Percy

Please, please, please let this man be leader of the Labour party after Chernenko... please.

eeyore

No social class war?! That IS a disappointment. I was looking forward to some healthy, robust pauper-hunting. In particular, I was going to suggest that a wise and farsighted government would force us all to keep a publicly available profit-and-loss account with society, so we could all identify the proletarian spongers (and then possibly dunk their heads in indelible purple dye so they couldn't hide or pretend to be bourgeois like Mr Prescott did). Never forget that Labour loves the paups - that's why they create so many of them. Nor that Tories don't - that's why they try to make everyone prosperous.

Frank Leader

Has he really got more than Two Faces?

phil

Chuck Unsworth
December 28th, 2009 6:09pm Report this comment

Just consider this: Would you trust this man? Would you give him even the slightest chance?
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No Chuck I would not ,in fact if I had to pick out who I would trust the least in our government it would be a toss up between him and his wife ,the rudest and most deceptive of all the politicians I have recently come across ,not only does she talk tosh she talks continually over anything anyone else is trying to say .If we are to be left in their hands heaven help us .It is the worst of all positions for us ,she understands economics and still continues to pull the wool over our eyes .The opposition spokesmen behave like British gentlemen and let her get away with it ,whilst her hubby slides out of his seat like a lump of lard .Now Chuck do you think I trust them ?;)

Adrian Gobbi

The class war theme is, I believe, nowt more than a background against which to attack their principal target in the election, which is Osborne.

This will be an economic contest more than any other has been and Osborne is going to be point man for the Tories which is going to suit Brown and Balls down to the ground. It really is going to be very easy for them to target him as the snidey, rich, arrogant, untrustworthy shit he not only looks but has proved himself to be.

Fergus Pickering

I met a bloke in the swimming baths who knew Mrs Balls from way back. His opinion of her was very much in line with yours, phil. Me, I wouldn't recognise her in the street and never, never listen to a lying word she says. Oh, and any fule can understand economics. It's one of the easy subjects introduced for people who haven't the heads for classics. I mugged it up myself years ago from Lipsey's fat tome.

dimples

I wish to goodness that I,or my kids could have been half as priveliged as "so what Balls-up".He really should button it regarding Tory toffs,all of these champagne Socialist toffs have had private educations,all are millionaires yet seek to keep you and I living in pig s**t with the most dire education.
Labour reeks to high heaven.Any party except LIB/LAB/CONS.

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Regarding Ed Balls, were there only a large pair of exploding under pants which could be placed over his head. Said subject could then be led to the nearest deserted waste ground and left to self destruct.