Ed Balls ?

[fleet]

This.

And this.

Neither of them fill me with any confidence whatsoever. I've never felt so underwhelmed by every single one of the three main parties. There appears to be so little talent and so little balls (excuse the pun) among any of them.

Sadly this is true - if Labour had a half decent leader then they would have it really easy at the next election but as we stand I can't see them getting near with the wrong Milliband and Ed Balls. The Tory party seem void of any talent or coherent thinking so it should be easy. The Lib Dems have signed their own death warrant by wanting power more than their political goals.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

The first thing to do is to stop spending and wasting money in Europe....Labour ...it was a job for the Kinnock family.....failed politician so he gets a job in Europe by the grace of that idiot Blair. Kinnock gets his wife a job and their two children who employ researchers,sectaries and staff. Now Blair wants to be President of Europe. All parties have promised a referendum but none have delivered.

UKIP will get a lot of votes next election thus destroying the Tories vote,Labour will get votes from the old fashioned...'Labour is for the working man'...(tell that to Tony Blair,the multi-millionaire) who reckons he has the divine right to rule.
Lib Dems have proved they are a washout and are still staunchly behind joining the single currency.

Now the ecomony has just started to pick up.....the Unions are rearing their ugly head and want to strike against the cuts....a case of turkeys voting for Christmas....if they strike there'll have to be more cuts....but commie Bob does'nt have to worry with his gold plated wages/pension.
Yes I'd like to see the working man better off...but get the country right first....it is no good being a bit better off if the country is failing.

I thought wed all agreed it was Gordan Browns fault (the global economy, the double dip recession, the failure to win a eurovision for yonks etc)? Now youre saying it was not only Neil Kinncoks fault but his wifes as well?!

Any other advances on the Kinnocks? Michael Foot maybe? What about Toney Benn he was a 'lefty' as you would call him? Surely he was must be responsible as well?

 

[ROSM]

I thought wed all agreed it was Gordan Browns fault (the global economy, the double dip recession, the failure to win a eurovision for yonks etc)? Now youre saying it was not only Neil Kinncoks fault but his wifes as well?!

Any other advances on the Kinnocks? Michael Foot maybe? What about Toney Benn he was a 'lefty' as you would call him? Surely he was must be responsible as well?

And don't forget that nasty commie who was EU commissioner. What was his name again? Ah yes Leon Brittain. Total lefty he was.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

And don't forget that nasty commie who was EU commissioner. What was his name again? Ah yes Leon Brittain. Total lefty he was.

He would have done it for the love of the job and paid his own expenses obviously. As would Chris Patten fresh from the ever so tough role of being governor of Hong Kong. Must have cost him a fortune to get back on the Queens boat thing as well.

 

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He would have done it for the love of the job and paid his own expenses obviously. As would Chris Patten fresh from the ever so tough role of being governor of Hong Kong. Must have cost him a fortune to get back on the Queens boat thing as well.

whatever your political persuasion, the kinnock family's cynical milking of the EU cash cow is sickening , as is his acceptance of a life peerage after so many years of staunch opposition and desire to get rid of the house of lords.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

whatever your political persuasion, the kinnock family's cynical milking of the EU cash cow is sickening , as is his acceptance of a life peerage after so many years of staunch opposition and desire to get rid of the house of lords.

And Chris Pattens isnt?

5 years as govenor of Hong Kong?! What a piece of piss! Then 4 years 'milking the EU cash cow'.

Again whatever your 'political persuasion'?

 

[User removed 4]

And Chris Pattens isnt?
5 years as govenor of Hong Kong?! What a piece of piss! Then 4 years 'milking the EU cash cow'.

Again whatever your 'political persuasion'?

Nowhere near it when you consider the way Kinnock has tried to display himself as a working class hereo type, plus , how many of patten's family were employed by the EU ? I would equate it with the typical tory mp espousing family values who then gets caught shagging his secretary/male prostitute.

 

[Lokki 7]

And Chris Pattens isnt?

5 years as govenor of Hong Kong?! What a piece of piss! Then 4 years 'milking the EU cash cow'.

Again whatever your 'political persuasion'?

That's civil servants for you. Lazy, overpaid and inefficient the lot of em.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Balls was the architect behind many of Gordon Brown's financial policies so will have a hell of a long way to go before much of the country would want to see him back in Govt. I hate the way he scare mongers and talks down the economy with that glint in his eye. In the meantime I think he is just relishing Millibands incompetence so he can bid for the leadership - or worse still manoeuvre his wife into the role. Yvette Cooper is the Queen of the soundbite.

Having said that Osborne is doing his best to cock the whole thing up too so they're all as bad as each other.

No arguments with any of this but he does have one huge achievement to his name.

He is the only current member of the cabinet or shadow cabinet to have played football at an Albion home ground. He was a bit of a thug as I remember.

 

[piersa]

That's civil servants for you. Lazy, overpaid and inefficient the lot of em.

You make some valid points but this one is wrong. Many civil servants earn their corn, just because they are all under one umbrella, please do not tar them all with the same brush.

 

[Peter Grummit]

For what it is worth i am with the Coalition cut the deficit....

One problem OP, the coalition has grown the deficit way beyond forecasts. The cuts reduce spending power in the economy which creates the cycle of recession. Plan A has failed. It's only a matter of time before policies have to change. It's called Keynsian Economics.

PG (BA (Econ))

 

[Bigbelly]

f*** Ed balls and UKIP for me. Pull us out of Europe and govern ourselfs is the way forward.

 

[Lokki 7]

You make some valid points but this one is wrong. Many civil servants earn their corn, just because they are all under one umbrella, please do not tar them all with the same brush.

Don't take everything I say too seriously... but thank you for a half compliment as I rarely get those on here!