BALLS & MILIBAND: Will nobody rid the Labour Party of these media-trained Priests?
By John Ward February 2, 2015

Say, who are those masked men?
Ed Balls by name, Balls by mouth and nil by brain has just been on Radio 4, and I think I should give you all a chance to get in there before the herd with this scoop: Ed says that “George Osborne is playing fast and free with Britain’s finances”.
Stop the presses, roll back the stone and hold the front page: bugger me, Ed’s nailed it. Throughout today, the sound of scales falling from the eyes will reverberate throughout Britain: by ‘eck, they’ll be dancing in the streets of Morley tonight.
Such is the nature of Britain’s soi-disant ‘Opposition’ at the moment. They haven’t got a clue, so allow me please to offer some objective advice in defence of our liberties if nothing else: the electorate has had four years to watch the bleedin’ obvious about Osborne’s Chancellorship. If, after four years, it either doesn’t see it, get it, believe it or care, Ed Balls saying it again isn’t going to make a ha-porth of difference.
Because virtually nobody on the Shadow Front Bench has any understanding (and thus no perspective) about the need to be consistent and distinctive in one’s persuasion, they stick with Old Labour’s tried and found wanting Just One More Heave strategy. That’s why – despite the treacherous nature of the ground upon which the Tory standard flutters – Labour will lose this election unless somebody inside the Party gets a grip.
Ed Miliband gave us “The Prime Minister doesn’t get it” for three years, followed by other stunning soundbites such as “We must set aside the rhetoric”, “It’s time to have a grown-up debate”, ““My party’s mission in is to show politics can make a difference. To demonstrate that optimism can defeat despair” and of course the never-ending “My heart goes out to the families”. Miliband has three PR minders who almost never leave his side…and that, of course, is the problem.
Examine his response to the 2011-12-13 budgets in a row, and you will be amazed (and then bored) by the content-free similarity between all three; but with Balls, one is forced to ask whether anyone remembers what he has said in response to any of the Camerlot budgets?
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