The Schools Secretary forgets where he is

Suffolkbor

The true face of power and control freak, morally redundant marxoid idealogues .

Have we really got another whole year to wait before we hammer these toilet bowl floaters into the oblivion they so richly deserve?

Peter

Really I am not sure this is a conspiracy to exclude the local MP or leader of the council. Probably a cock-up by the Ministers office not to inform the local MP out of courtesy.

Now if it had been the lovely George Galloway on his Stop the War tour, then it would probably have been deliberate.

Not worth chucking your toys out of the pram over this one Melanie.

Jeremy

Pathetic. Absurd. Petty beyond either belief or parody. Balls and Brown behaving - by proxy - like the playground bullies they so closely resemble. What a pair!...of Balls. And Ms Izzet - Is It?...*rolls eyes to the heavens*

As Richard Littlejohn might say: "You couldn't make it up."

Better than an Ealing comedy...^^

Pete, Scotland

I agree, but not only are they out of control but democratically dangerous.

What other time honoured traditions and conventions are they going to trample into the dust in their increasingly desperate attempts to cling on to power.

Today, the Prime Minister and members of his Government have been publically accused of lying.

All they have to do is respond with the truth backed up by facts. Will they, can they?

Another thing I am concerned about, whilst Labour sign us over to a EU Superstate against the will of the people, and against their promised referendum, where is the Monarchy in all this?

Has it really just become a tourist attraction?

Frank P

Jeremy

"Balls and Brown behaving - by proxy - like the playground bullies they so closely resemble."

Really? In my time and my school playground, such twats would have kept very quiet or been flayed within an inch of their lives.

The boggle-eyed Balls (his testicles seem to have developed in his eye sockets - if it's genetic it may have have been the origin of his moniker) and the barmy Brown would have suffered short shrift rather than vice versa from the more sanguine of the playground pecking-order where I played Fives and hop-scotch. Which is probably what actually happened to them; and why they are now trying to get their own back on the hoi-polloi by means of the bombastic bullshit they now shower on the electorate.

With a bit of luck, even the dimmest of the sheeple will shrink from electing them for another term of baneful policies and baleful ideology. Their scorched earth strategy will, in one way, make it easier for their successors to bulldoze the residue and start afresh. A complete wipe-out of the Labour Party would be the best thing that ever happened to this country. I'm not sure Cameron is a good casting as Phoenix though.

Chris Neal

Balshan Izzet is supposed to be a civil servant not a New Labour Bouncer, we pay her salary. I wonder what she earns? This is totally unnaceptable behaviour and she should be sacked. She brings shame on the Civil service and the public should hold Brown and Balls to account for using the public purse to employ people such as her and Damian McBride to do their dirty work. I think this dwarfs the expenses row in its abuse of trust. Hound her and her kind out of the corridors of power, NOW!!!

Verity

Peter writes: "Really I am not sure this is a conspiracy to exclude the local MP or leader of the council."

You're not? How incredibly cunning of you! I note that you came to this cockamamie conclusion on no evidence.

"Probably a cock-up by the Ministers office not to inform the local MP out of courtesy."

And your evidence for this conclusion that denies the evidence and denies the clear hostility of this Izzet, who had also arranged a decoy entrance of the Minister?

If you're not sure of anything, why did you take the trouble to post your vapid entry?

And what makes you think that your suggestion of "a cock-up by the minister's office" would be reassuring?

The word Minister's has an apostrophe, by the way. And the word "Melanie" should have been preceeded by a comma. I would have expected a better class of troll on Melanie's site.

Brian Smith

Balls is the one I like to describe as the war hero who charged for his Poppy wreath. When I emailed his office to say what I thought of such behaviour, I was told it was his staff's fault. Has he never heard of taking responsibility. He really is a worrying and nasty bit of work and it sounds, not surprisingly, as if his staff follow his lead. Can I be sexist? He seems to come from the same mould as Harman, Blears and J Smith. Scary.

Paul

What I find amazing is the sinister zealotry of the NuLab foot soldier (aren't civil servants supposed to be neutral) in making sure that Brown and Balls control of the message is not undermined.

The need to stage manage is verging on the psychotic, and must tell all we need to know about the mentality of the Bunker.

Simon Denis

Labour's cynical abuse of schools as a political platform has been going on for the last ten years. Now it is simply getting worse. The Beeb, meanwhile, has fairly actively connived in left-slanting our supposedly neutral political space - Brown's clearly partisan participation in Songs of Praise was a case in point. There is a sort of soft Stasi quality to the left of today and it is summed up in Brown's bizarre intolerance of dissent - even from informed luminaries such as Mervyn King. Poor Lady Thatcher, who relished argument, was caricatured by the pinkos as some sort of dictator. Their own man has much more the mentality of a despot than she. And can we conceive of any other British PM who would have gathered around him the cloacal likes of Balls and Mandleson and MacBride? The bully, the sharp practitioner and the sewer rat.

"The Cat, the rat and Lovell the dog / Rule all England, under the Hog."

Ben Seifert

What makes it so sad is that this sort of behaviour is not surprising. This administration's defensive behaviour masks their own insecurities.

Miranda Rose Smith

Ed Balls, who lives up to his name, and his staff (oops!), are perhaps behaving like arrogant jerks. But Britain is not yet East Germany. Greg Hands didn't vanish into prison-and he probably won't.

TomTom

Civil servant Balshan Izzet, Mad Dog Damian McBride's long-suffering girlfriend

See Mail on Sunday 19th April

Mike FW

As a home educator we are well used to the bullying tactics of Mr Balls and the DCFS with their disproportionate demands of draconian monitoring being imposed on us, for the purpose of stopping hypothetical abuse, of which they have yet to provide any evidence.

ray douglas

All is political and tactical for this discredited government. In Northampton , us poor parents are seeking to fight off an unwanted Academy at Unity College . We saw off a previous attempt, but like Dracula risen from the grave, back it came again ! This time , we have the head of Carphone warehouse and a American hedge fund millionaire seeking to run our school ! But , we feel we are caught in the middle of power play politics by ambitious and desperate politicians on the make !

Terry from Oz

Makes Yes Minister look rather mild. Glad I live somewhere else nowadays.

TomTom

Terry from Oz

We will get rid of a Labour Government but you have Gordo's friend Kevin in charge

Verity

Iz Izzett McBride's girlfriend, or Izz she not? This whole administration iz run by husband and wife/girlfriend-boyfriend teams, Izzett it? What wazz Izzett doing at that gathering anyway, if not planted by McBride? How much Dozz she make and how much did it cost for her to attend, needlessly and pointlessly from the taxpayer point of view, that gathering?

What Izz her day job?

Verity

I haven't given it a lot of thought, but off the top of my head I don't like unelected girlfriends elbowing themselves forward to interfere the business of government.

This administration is indeed out of control but it has been out of democratic control since Blair slithered under the lintel of No 10. Twelve years.

Tom

It's interesting that England and Sweden are both in process of bringing their legislation on home education in line with that of Germany's current legislation which bans home education and was brought into being during the Third Reich by Bernhard Rust in 1938 - "The whole function of education is to create Nazis.". Ed Balls, who looks a bit like Hitler, is about to give Local Authorities truly totalitarian powers - the right of entry to ones home, the right to interview a child without a parent, the right to say who can and can't home educate, and the right to send you to prison if you don't agree. Its all in the Badman Review and uses child safe guarding issues in the same way that the Chinese use child safe guarding issues to control the internet. If it walks life a dictator and talks like a dictator it probably is a dictator.

Tiberius

Proof if proof were needed, that in the NuLab world of equality, the pigs are indeed more equal than any of the others.

Frank P

Verity (3.22pm)

LOL.

Verity

Thanks, TomTom. She looks like another one who never got over the Students' Union.

She's a civil servant. What is she doing taking her orders from an ex-SPAD? I think there should be an enquiry into this individual's undemocratic and possibly illegal behaviour. Is it legal for her to try to stop an MP, in his own constituency, from visiting a school? Perhaps someone knows.

Robin

Frank P: "The boggle-eyed Balls (his testicles seem to have developed in his eye sockets - if it's genetic it may have have been the origin of his moniker)"

That is so funny. Spot on.

Colin Ray

Why the outrage, for goodness sake? For the past twelve years we have seen and experienced the policies and practices of a government that is dominated by Communists, Marxists and Stalinists. Just look at the biographies of these people. They have politiced the civil service, public services and the police force. They have corrupted our constitution and our institutions, not least a once honourable political party, formerly known as Labour. We cannot be too surprised that they are only behaving in the arrogant and autocratic manner typical of the extreme-left.

Ed Owen

See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1171834/BLACK-DOG-Sorry-isnt-hardest-word-Gordon.html

It starts as "Civil servant Balshan Izzet, Mad Dog Damian McBride's long-suffering girlfriend"

Home Rule for England

Ed Balls also forgets what his responsibilities are. he is responsible for education only in England. Devolution has meant that the Scottish and Welsh Education Ministers (there are such beings but they are never mentioned) are responsible for education in their countries!
Of course this devious government never make that clear. Might interfere with their 'we are all British' slogans, which of course is rejected by most Scottish people who see themselves as Scottish first.

John Rice

You can read many other examples of Eastern European practices employed by this gvt. They have decided to brazen it out as being the only alternative to being open and above board. The theory being that less people will see through their game than the masses that will not. Similar tactics to Iranian theocrats.

Geoff M

The marxist infiltration of the civil service, local authorities, the media and so on is almost complete.

The sinister Common Purpose organisation is linked to many unofficial groupings that "go beyond authority".

It will not be enough for Labour to be slung out at the next election.

Any incoming government would do well to have a good cleanout of "the Establishment" in it's first year.

If BNP members can be banned from jobs then why not others who are far more dangerous

Verity

Geoff M - Excellent!

John

"Pete, Scotland": 100%. When Brown signed the Traitor Treaty I wrote to Cameron suggesting he ask Her Maj have the army round up Downing St & Co., and the response was no more than a load of bullshit from one of his monkeys. I'm afraid I've lost faith in all the safeguards, including the monarchy, during the last decade. Can't wait for the shit to fly.

Blog O'Sphere

Great to hear from you again, Verity!