And what about Ed Balls?

wilber wilberforce

Labour is just one seething pot of malevolence,jealousy and contempt for themselves and the electorate.
Typical Marxist idiots. It gets more disgusting the longer it limps on.

Vulture

Good until the end when you revert to the Speccie's default 'whither Liebour's leadership?' position.

Hopefully Blinker won't be in a position to make a doomed run for the leadership since ( with any luck) he will lose his seat in the GE. If so, DV, it will be a Portillo moment to savour.

MisterE

What I don't get is that all the members of the press who received these briefings about Darling, know who briefed them...

Why not just come forward and reveal all??

Mike Brighton

O/T Peter but have you considered the political impact of the PAYE Codings that have just gone out. I have just received mine this morning which is K28 i.e. I OWE that tax man £297 before the year starts and has a helpful note 1. "The law allows most people who live in the UK to receive some income vefore tax has to be paid - a "tax free amount" of income. That tax free amount is a "personal allowance" which depends on your personal circumstances and your total income. We estimate that your total income will exceed £112,950.00 for this tax year and will not be entitled to any personal allowance". So I'm 50% of £7345 worse off i.e. £306 per month worse off. Thanks Gordon and your financially incontinent government..

mitcheltj

Vulture - let's hope that Lord Ashcroft has pumped enough money into Balls' constituency to make this dream come true. As you say, a "Portillo" moment fervently to be wished for.

GeoffH

"helpful note 1. "The law allows most people who live in the UK to receive some income before tax has to be paid - a "tax free amount" of income."

And isn't it that little patronising note that makes you want to spit, curse and hit them?

I was in conversation with the Adult Social Services charges dept the other day about charges my mother has to pay for her care visits. About half way through the female bureaucrat harrumphed that my mother had 'quite a high income' - she only receives the State Pension and attendance allowance.

It's the 'think yourself lucky' we don't take it all attitude, especialy when expressed by a live person that's so damned infuriating.

charles hercock

A major mistake to let GB off by blaming Ed Balls

Holly ......

MB.
Check it!
Check company benefits with your P11D.
Check everything they are ESTIMATING with any P60's/Bank interest stuff.
Look at the amounts they have deducted with the actual amounts & give em hell.(If you can get through that is).
Sadly a lot of this can't happen until AFTER 6 April,when all the correct amounts will reach you, but good luck.

Holly ......

MB..there's more,
Yours sounds like one of the cases that the new shiny misfit of a system has screwed up on.
Just a thought.

The Laughing Cavalier

Where can I get a job in Brighton that pays £112,950.00? Must be local government or drug counselling.

TrevorsDen

Mike Brighton, thats what Brown means by a future fair for all.

And on the topic I commend the following website spotted by Dizzy Thinks

http://futurefairforall.org/

The Laughing Cavalier

If he wasn't such an irritating twerp, incompetent and bully one might feel sorry for the man. Imagine having to go through a boys Public School (sort of) with his surname. No wonder he's so odd.

jon dee

Brown's conduct has remained consistent over many years and involved some of the same thuggish cronies.Before Rawnsley came Bower, who laid out a very clear picture of Brown's bullying modus operandi and the roles of outriders Balls and Whelan, all supported by the sinister Robinson.

While the cast may change occasionally, the methods remain the same and no amount of media massaging will hide the fact that Brown is a venomous character.

See how long his patronage lasts after the election, when the next set of diaries is published.

Major Plonquer

The real question we should be asking is who in this government can follow the testosterone-loaded advice of Lord Peter and 'take it like a man'?

Surely Ed Balls can 'take it like a man'. After all, its his wife who wears the trousers in his family.

Charlie Whelan, on the other hand, has been trying just that little bit too hard to convince us all that he has manly traits. Somehow we all suspect that maybe... Well just maybe....

Labour's spin machine should keep in mind the maxim that 'when you sleep with dogs you get puppies'.

Of course I didn't mean that literally. I'd be a prat if I did.

mitch

This years tax codings are a joke due to .......you guessed it a shiny new computer system that was held back over a year to avoid mistakes and get everything right.

Epic Fail!!! again so if your code has changed query it.

Tom Pride

On the matter of who is responsible for the reprehensible behaviour – it is Brown not Balls. Balls does what the master wants. It is like a Mafia boss ordering the hit. Plausible deniability - except that with Brown it is now so implausible that we know he is an out an out liar.

It is impossible anymore to deny or excuse away Brown’s character. All the pieces are now tying up. The moment I heard Michael Crick’s piece on Newsnight, I thought again of the experiences of Ruth Lee.

Michael Crick, Newsnight Monday 22 February 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00r2b3f/Newsnight_22_02_2010/ (seven days only)
(5 minutes 40 seconds in)

“A frequent response round Westminster and Whitehall today is that Andrew Rawnsley’s account certainly “rings true”. A senior figure who has had plenty of dealings with Mr Brown told us that 'Often he'll pick on the weakest person in the room. Often the weakest woman in particular. What disgusted me was when he would do this to non-political people who were simply doing their job in bring him bad news.” ”

Ruth Lee recounted her experience of this type of disgraceful behaviour during an incident when she met Brown at the Treasury in (she thinks) 2001.

“He blew up. No fuse. Just blew up. Didn’t I realise why he had introduced it (I’d just said that I did)? …didn’t I this? …didn’t I that? …didn’t I the other? And so this curious tirade went on for what seemed like an eternity. I have never encountered anything like it in my life and hope I never will again. The man was out of control.”

Not content with his rudeness to her, Brown then went on to try and destroy her professionally.

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/06/gordon-brown-never-was-fit-for-number10.html

The same thing will now be done to Mrs Pratt.

A bully, a cad and a liar.

Tom Pride

That should be Ruth Lea (not Lee) – sorry.

Another example of Brown’s character - infantile tantrums and discourtesy compounding the aggressive rudeness.

Bruce Anderson: Bullying, tantrums and Brown
Anyone who can talk about values and behave like him deserves a prize for hypocrisy
Monday, 22 February 2010

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/bruce-anderson/bruce-anderson-bullying-tantrums-and-brown-1906506.html

“The Blairites knew that Gordon could not do the job. They had all witnessed the scenes which Andrew Rawnsley and others have described. An educationalist comes in to brief Tony Blair. Gordon Brown hears about this, and is angry. He is supposed to be in charge of the domestic agenda. So why is Tony Blair talking to educationalists? Who does he think he is: the Prime Minister?

A compromise is reached. The briefing will take place, but Mr Brown will be present, with Ed Balls. The educationalist starts talking, and so does Mr Brown, to Mr Balls. Taken aback, the visitor stops. Mr Blair looks embarrassed, and signals the chap to continue. He does; so do Messrs Brown and Balls. Was there ever a more demeaning scene in a prime minister's study?

So why did Tony Blair put up with behaviour that would be regarded as unacceptable in a nursery school?”

Mazza1230

Did anyone else pick up Balls confirming that the 2007 non-Election was indeed cancelled because of the Polls.

Shelagh Fogerty Interview on 5Live, I believe.

2trueblue

What about Balls? This is the man who is a serial flipper and has tucked away a nice few quid in doing so. Lets hope he gets his "Portillo moment".

Graham Clark

Yes, Mr Ed 'balls, balls, balls' Balls is itching to polish Paw Broone's Office chair in Numero Dix!!