Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

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Over to you skinny!

Is this the most disingenuous statement in political history? Balls sparks disbelief with claims he had 'no idea' about Damian McBride's tactics
Claims he was unaware McBride was briefing against Labour colleagues
Mr Balls worked for years with Mr McBride on Gordon Brown's campaign

McBride even gives one whole chapter of his book to Mr Balls

By Political Editor

PUBLISHED: 00:06, 24 September 2013 | UPDATED: 08:29, 24 September 2013

Ed Balls sparked disbelief yesterday by claiming he had no idea Damian McBride was briefing against Labour colleagues


Ed Balls sparked disbelief yesterday by claiming he had no idea Damian McBride was briefing against Labour colleagues.

The Shadow Chancellor insisted the former spin doctor was a ‘law unto himself’, saying he was horrified to learn what he was up to.

Mr Balls worked side by side for years with Mr McBride helping plot Gordon Brown’s eventual path to Downing Street and his takeover from Tony Blair in 2007.

In his book, Power Trip, the former spin doctor describes regular evenings out with Mr Balls and Mr Miliband.


He, the Shadow Chancellor and Mr Brown shared a deep love of football and late night brainstorming sessions over pizza.


Mr McBride even gives one whole chapter of his book to Mr Balls.

BBC political editor Nick Robinson said a ‘collective eyebrow’ had been raised across Westminster when Mr Balls professed no knowledge of Mr McBride’s tactics.

Even some of Mr Balls’s Shadow Cabinet colleagues were surprised at the vehemence of his denials.

And Labour leader Ed Miliband has said he complained about Mr McBride’s behaviour to Mr Brown.

But Mr Balls said: ‘Nobody ever came to me and complained about Damian McBride.

I didn’t pass on those complaints to Gordon Brown. I didn’t complain about Damian McBride, because I don’t think until we saw the revelations in this book, we didn’t know what was going on.

‘I didn’t know that Damian McBride was doing personal briefings against ministers.’

Mr Balls said the first time he found out was when a ‘hideous’ email written by Mr McBride proposing to disseminate unfounded smears about the private lives of senior Conservatives was leaked in 2009.
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‘I said to Damian “What have you done? How could it come to this?” I think it’s no way to do politics. I think Ed Miliband and I have moved politics and the Labour party a long way from those bad, bad times,’ he said.


‘It’s in the past. It’s irrelevant. It’s depressing. I’m happy to say that what I’ve seen in this book is shocking and despicable. It’s no way to do politics.’



Lola, aged two, looks on Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls pulls a face as he plays at the sandpit at the Roundabout Children's Centre in Brighton
Lola, aged two, looks on Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls pulls a face as he plays at the sandpit at the Roundabout Children's Centre in Brighton


Mr Balls later denied taking part in any negative briefing against colleagues.

‘That’s not something I’ve ever done,’ he said.


‘Damian McBride has come out and said he did some of those things. It was despicable. It was the wrong thing to do. Politics is tough.


There have been times in the past where I’ve had strong arguments with Tony Blair on the euro, with Gordon Brown on different issues. But I’ve always done that in public and in an open way.

‘This kind of negative, nasty briefing is wrong, but also it’s a thing of the past.


The Blair-Brown era is gone. There’s been none of it for the last three or four years. We’re in a better place now.’

When former No 10 spin doctor Alastair Campbell was asked by Channel 4 News if he shared the scepticism about the denial by Mr Balls, he replied: ‘You might say that, I couldn’t possibly comment.’

Mr Balls yesterday visited a children’s centre in Brighton on the second day of Labour’s conference in the town.

What is the fear index at the moment.

Nightmares are being seen.

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I know one thing Fred, Ed balls is going to be signing on soon. A Unemployed liar.

You hope.

If he is, then there will be quite a few ex bankers and tory MPs.

Forgot the latter will fall back on Trust Fund arrangements.


9-)

He should resign.

Would you?

It is market pressure and he is onto a winner after a period consolidation.

dreamcatcher- 24 Sep 2013 18:58 - 29944 of 29947

I know one thing Fred, Ed balls is going to be signing on soon. A Unemployed liar.....ends

If Balls is a liar Camoron and Osbourne are serial liars.

Them two arent just manipulators of figures they are compulsive serial liars.

Lets not forget when Camoron in a Party political broadcast to the whole nation reckoned the government were getting debt down. In fact it was rising far more than under any labour administration.

Now if Camoron pleads ignorance over the difference between the deficit and debt he SHOULD STAND down as he is not economicaly or politicaly competent.

re: #29901

It all comes down to ticking boxes...and experience.

Surgeons get lots of practise before they are let loose unsupervised (years)

But for the purposes of the bean counters, well, you answered that one yourself.

The hard ones...risky procedures, old folks, terminal conditions are of course avoided if possible, but still count if you have to do them.

It's all about context, and I'm not sure how much weight the dodgy ones carry in mitigation....so best avoided if poss.

Do not know who will pay for all these giveaways promised by Labour. Energy freezes, child care etc,etc. A little man trying to be a big man is Ed Milliband.

Meaningless Songs in very high voices (Ed)

Ed Miliband has shown he knows nothing about business or the economy

The Labour leader has absolutely no clue how the real world works and his plans would destroy the economy, City AM editor Allister Heath argues
TelegraphBy Allister Heath | Telegraph – 3 hours ago


http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ed-miliband-shown-knows-nothing-161047158.html

Allister Heath as been non stop having a go at labour all day today on twitter. FEAR I reckon.

Fact is Balls is so confident his figures will add up hes refered them to the OBR. You cant be more confident than that.

Its about time the rich (myself included) accepted some responsibility and paid more than the poor in society.

My disposable income hasnt been affected one hiyota by the cuts the working classes have had to swallow and shame on the greedy who want to see the poor in the gutter whilst they get fatter and fatter.

Labour will stop all that.

Luck that they won't get elected. I am looking forward to a Conservative engineered mini boom before the election.

Hmmm - Adam Smith springs to mind.

And what youl get is the EU elections where you fall further behind.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/22/lord-tebbit-immigration-_n_3972572.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Bernie Winters mates with Billy Graham. Messiah 2013 tour opens in Brighton, England. Diabetics advised to keep their distance. Outlook: sugary.

If he wants a career as a motivational preacher visiting campuses in the Mid-West states, Mr Miliband has it made. He's a natural at the aw-shucks shrug, the stand-up showman's point to a sunlit upland, the fake-sincere whisper, the tweak of the good ole' boy head. The more he trans-Atlanticses his voice, the less Camden wonk he perhaps thinks he sounds.

Quite how his Americanised delivery fitted in with the patriotic slogan of the day - 'Britain can do better' - I was not certain.


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