Balls replaces Alan Johnson
James Forsyth 5:15pm
Ed Miliband has just taken the biggest risk of his leadership in appointing Ed Balls as
his shadow Chancellor. Balls’ is not a man who take orders and his view on the deficit is noticeably different from Ed Miliband’s. He is also the person most closely associated with
Gordon Brown’s economic record.
George Osborne will relish this fight. During the vacuum between Ed Miliband winning the leadership and the shadow Cabinet elections, Osborne prepared for facing Balls. He told friends,
‘we’ve circled around each other long enough. It is time to get on with it now.’
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RKing
January 20th, 2011 5:24pm Report this commentJohnson down......... Balls UP!!
Robert Eve
January 20th, 2011 5:30pm Report this commentJust when we thought it was safe to go out Balls is back.
Groan.
Will J
January 20th, 2011 5:30pm Report this commentMaybe he thinks two Eds will be better than one? How wrong he is...
George Laird
January 20th, 2011 5:34pm Report this commentDear All
Ed Miliband appoints Ed Balls as his shadow Chancellor.
Mistake!
Sorry, big mistake.
It’s a Blair v Brown situation.
Miliband’s stalking horse coveting his crown from a safe shadow Chancellorship spot.
Red Ed Miliband is really a desperate man.
George Osborne is said to relish this fight?
He tells friends:
“we’ve circled around each other long enough. It is time to get on with it now.”
No Kissing, no kissing and let’s keep it clean, and stand back when the Speaker says!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
George Laird
January 20th, 2011 5:34pm Report this commentDear All
Ed Miliband appoints Ed Balls as his shadow Chancellor.
Mistake!
Sorry, big mistake.
It’s a Blair v Brown situation.
Miliband’s stalking horse coveting his crown from a safe shadow Chancellorship spot.
Red Ed Miliband is really a desperate man.
George Osborne is said to relish this fight?
He tells friends:
“we’ve circled around each other long enough. It is time to get on with it now.”
No Kissing, no kissing and let’s keep it clean, and stand back when the Speaker says!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Vulture
January 20th, 2011 5:37pm Report this commentIt would be a mistake to underestimate the scrotal sac.
He is deeply unpleasant and completely wrong.
But the same can be said of most politicians. Oiky will need to fight very dirty indeed before he can wind Balls round the end of his stick.
Manuel
January 20th, 2011 5:39pm Report this commentSo Balls is going to push his version of Labour's 'his-name'-up of the economy. This should be interesting and unbelievable.
Verity
January 20th, 2011 5:41pm Report this commentVerity - So what?
Frank P
January 20th, 2011 5:43pm Report this commentWhy choose the El Duce photo of the obnoxious tongue-clipped turd? You have plenty of others which show those protruding fish-eyes and his inherent aggressive sneer. If you're bigging him up now - what are you gonna be like when he starts strutting his stuff on the front bench? Currying favour already Master Forsyth?
As for boy George 'relishing the fight'? Cumorfit! He's shitting bricks, already.
Andy
January 20th, 2011 5:44pm Report this commentThank God he's Shadow Chancellor...
And not the real one!
Matt
January 20th, 2011 5:44pm Report this commentRKing,
Shouldn't it be Johnson Out, Balls Up?
Colin
January 20th, 2011 5:53pm Report this commentGreat!
Now perhaps the government can go about the business of holding the opposition to account...
Balls as shadow chancellor is a dream move for the government. He's one of the few people in front line British politics, personally responsible for the unholy fiscal mess we're in.
He has no credibility whatsoever. It should be game on for the government, in relation to this vile tw*t, starting now!
Frank P
January 20th, 2011 5:54pm Report this commentBtw - remember that for the past three months he's been facing someone who still has the dog-bite scars on his arse from his postie days - and who once had the benefit of numbers on the doors to help him get around; who didn't seem to be able to deal as well with the double-entry book-keeping
of the Treasury Mafia.
Now Georgie will have to face the pit-bull terrier who left scars on his own arse when he was shadow book-keeper himself. Not a happy prospect, I would guess.
In2minds
January 20th, 2011 6:09pm Report this commentAlan Johnson, I shall miss him he had a sense of humour, saying of Ed Miliband -
"He is proving to be a formidable leader of the Labour Party"
Tiberius
January 20th, 2011 7:31pm Report this commentDon't you mean Il Duce, Frank?
Listening to Balls' nutjob economics will not be the worst of this. Listening to his juvenile diction and seeing his nauseating face will be far worse.
Cynic
January 20th, 2011 8:20pm Report this commentSo New New Labour is really Old New Labour? What a resounding success that was, economically speaking, wasn't it? And just who was at the Treasury during this time hovering behind El Gordo?
Frank P
January 20th, 2011 8:34pm Report this commentTiberius (7.31pm)
1883 - Llamado “El Duce”, nacido en 1883 en la Romagna, militante socialista primero, dejó la carrera de maestro de escuela que iba muy mal a su temperamento, para huir al extranjero. Se hizo periodista, trabajó especialmente en Treno, en territorio austríaco y después al frente de Avanti, el gran periódico socialista . Hizo la guerra y fue herido. Asiduo lector de libros y de artículos, se convirtió en un fanático nacionalista.
Or as Bertha Wilmott used to sing during her wartime broadcasts,
Oh! What a surprise for El Duce El Duce,
He can't put it over the Greeks.
Oh What a surprise for El Duce, El Duce,
He's had no spaghetti for weeks.
El? Il? - what the 'el? It's east of Dover 'ennit?
Matters if your forebears are I-ties, I suppose.
Nicholas
January 20th, 2011 9:54pm Report this commentBalls is the future and the closest thing this country will get to being ruled by Herman Goering. This man is a dangerous threat to liberty.
Tiberius
January 21st, 2011 1:05am Report this commentThanks for that, Frank. Sadly my knowledge of things Hispanic doesn't go much further than el toro, the beach at Los Gigantes, and a guess that nacido means borne, hizo means today, and herido means yesterday.
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