April 22nd, 2009

Ed Balls and Jim Knight Lied to Parliament

Ed Ball and Jim KnightKen Boston is opening up with both barrels on Ed Balls and his deputy Jim Knight.   Boston was made the fall guy for the SATS fiasco, not so he writes in an explosive letter. Guido can’t help feeling that if Ed Balls spent less time plotting his leadership path and more time on fixing the state school system we might be better off.

Read the letter (here) Boston has sent to the Select Committee overseeing Balls’ department – it accuses Balls and Knight of spin, smears and deliberate falsehoods. In more honourable days this letter would mean the Minister’s resignation this afternoon. Fat chance with this dysfunctional cabal in Downing Street…

UPDATE : Gove is demanding an apology from Balls, Graham Stuart, Tory member of the CSF Select Committee wants him to resign:

“Ministers have been accused of misleading Parliament, Lord Sutherland’s official inquiry and the Select Committee. Millions of children were let down by the SATS exams fiasco and the response of Ed Balls was allegedly to smear a public official who was then forced into silence for months afterwards. If these allegations are proved true then Ed Balls will have to come before the House of Commons, apologise and consider his position.”

Nothing would make a lot of Labour MPs happier…


288 Comments

  1. 1
    Anonymous says:

    Excellent.

    You might try a storage other than Google Docs, which workplaces restrict access to as ‘personal storage or backup’.

    • 27
      • 98
        Augusto Pinochet says:

        Mr Balls is very clever!

        Mr Balls does not want Mr. Brown to retire. He knows Brown won’t retire, he knows you guys don’t want Brown to retire, Brown is a walking liability.

        The Plan: The Tories will win the election. Mr Brown will be put down. Ed Balls will win the party leadership.

        For the next five years the Tories will have to do a lot of unpleasant things to get the country back on its feet. (You know typical “nasty” things the Tories always have to do after a Labour govenment)

        Massive spending cuts, cuts in civil servant gold plated pensions, tax increases, all needed to fix the last last 12 years of Labour’s mistakes.

        Mr Balls from the opposition benches will harry and mock everything the Tories do with cheers of delight from the Labour benches, The Daily Mirror, fed up population.

        Mr Balls and and Labour win the 2014/5 election. Mr Balls is Prime Minister. Your readers call these guys “Hoons” but they are very cunning.

      • 109
        thick as thieves says:

        tory bear, you appear to be confused as to the purpose of this place.
        it is most rude of you to abuse Guido’s hospitality by screwing him for a free hyper-link and offering nothing in return. learn some manners you ignorant bastard.
        either post a comment or fuck off retard.

        memo to balls: you are dead fucking meat you lardy-arsed c’unt.
        memo to self: will need to to buy a very, very strong length of rope for such a fat fucking pig.

      • 191
        backwoodsman says:

        Anyone else notice the similarity between balls and the chap playing Mcbride , in the McBride Downfall video ?

      • 246
        Roberto says:

        I agre with Augusto. they are really Cunning Stunts!

    • 43
      'orrible 'orrible just 'orrible says:

      …..and more bad news being buried on Budget day.

      That “huge and significant” terrorist threat in the North which Quick despatched with such efficiency, was all bollocks. The “illegals” are now being handed over to Staziliebour border guards for disposal, which means they will all get a nice council house free, and the dole.

      Watch out for a terror threat a week as they cry wolf at each new nail in their coffin.
      The true terrorists are currently in power wearing red rosettes clutching 100 page expense sheets, free bath plugs, the keys to 5 homes and paying homage to a one eyed scotch git who gurns his way to doom, they need to be executed without delay.

      • 58
        Anonymous says:

        They, the zanulabour are terrorising us. No question about it. One is in constant fear about overstepping ‘The line, whether it be motoring or workplace employee/ment regulations, radio commercial threats of terror in shopping centers, etc. Rubbish Bins, what one says, medical records, other personal records/details, political views. This is terror and it is facism. This is not the Britain I recognise being 47.

      • 164
        oldrightie says:

        I like your style. As for burying bad news, quite an art form for Snotty’s gang. Bet McBride is still holed up in No.10. Still the stench is growing so strong from these hasty burials it won’t remain unnoticed much longer. When Brown’s pollster mates still give him 26% you can be sure it’s around 19%. I can see Labour coming third, I really can. What joy that would be.

      • 188
        BordeauxBinger says:

        Perhaps if Quick had not caused the operation to be brought forward then the evidence for conviction might have been in their possession. Then again MI5 will hype any of their operations to increase their funding and expansion as long as they remain generally unaccountable.

      • 229

        Surely the ‘terrorists’ will be awarded vast compensation for abuse of human rights, ‘racism’ etc. Some of this may find it’s way to real terrorists.

    • 52
      Papiere, zeigen Sie mir Ihre Papiere - schnell!!! says:

      Zis ‘Balls’ fellow, he iz toast, nien?…

    • 69
      Anonymous says:

      THIS IS ANOTHER SMEARGATE.

      TERMINATE ED BALLS.

      WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.

      PERMANENTLY.

      • 134
        A UNIX administrator says:

        kill -9

      • 211
        IFBALLSTOOKHASHWOULDHEFREAKOUT? says:

        THE FAT FUCK WOULD FREAK OUT BIG FUCKING TIME!
        TOTAL FREAK OUT NO DOUBT!
        HE’D LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND SEE STARING BACK AT HIM A BIG FAT USELESS LIMP COCKED HAS BEEN.
        THAT’S YOU ED, THAT IS.
        YOU FAT FUCKING Hoon.

      • 267
        StormTrooper says:

        Unix… surely some mistake….. only rm * will cure ZaNuLiebour ?

    • 127
    • 273
      Anonymous says:

      No fucking change there then, they’re both fucking NuLabour (NuLabour=Same Old Hoons) MPs which mean they just naturally lie.

  2. 2
    Tony the Tory says:

    So why don’t you give some support to his opponent whose odds with the bookies have been repeatedly slashed from 6/1 to 5s to 3s to 5/2

    • 73
      Anonymous says:

      DO NOT ALLOW ED ‘THIS IS FICTION’ BALLS TO BECOME CHANCELLOR.

      ELIMINATE HIM AND RETIRE HIM TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS SIMPLY NO POSSIBILITY OF HIM BECOMING PRIME MINISTER.

      THIS IS A VITAL MISSION IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST.

      ENDS…

  3. 3
    Bill d'Sarse says:

    I am surprised that anyone is surprised about anything this Government messes up. Don’t forget that the New Labour Project is all about power, the job is secondary at best.

    • 46
      Pete-s says:

      Totally agree, Ministers of ZaNULab tell the truth is a headline we will NEVER see.

      • 205
        Hugh Janus says:

        Very true Bill, every minute of every waking hour is spent scheming and plotting ways of retaining power, no matter what the cost. Against this everything else is just completely irrelevant. Fortunately a tsunami of sleaze, corruption, profligacy and outright lying is slowly but surely engulfing them. I can’t tell you how good it feels to think that this bunch of hoons will be collecting their P45s before too long.

    • 48
      pissed off voter says:

      My understanding is that the site is visited by many politicians, anxious perhaps to find out if their own particular scam has been exposed.

      Those polititicians were entrusted with the administration of our country’s finances. I invite them therefore to consider the excesses of Smith, McNulty, etc. and contrast it with the following comment which was submitted to a national newspaper today.

      “Yesterday I spent the afternoon crying with my neighbour who was evicted from her home through no fault of her or her husbands own. She loved living there but they had both lost their jobs and could no longer keep up with the repayments. They had purchased their first home after saving what was then a good deposit but the value has dropped as has their income. No one has helped them.

      Yes, John I agree…you are not telling me that Gordon did not know it was coming. All who knew and made it happen (including ‘Fred the Shred’) should be made to do penance starting with meeting my friend – look in her eyes and tell her that
      ‘the recovery will be slow and painful’ – she will never ever recover.”

      • 128
        Anna R says:

        Guido discovered a foolproof way of ensuring that he had a minimum of 646 readers every day……….

        The 646 turned into 250,000…….

      • 162
        The big D says:

        POV. I wonder what the people losing their homes think of Mr. Browns latest expenses plan: replace a £23k second home allowance with a £25k attendance allowance.

        I am sure the MPs need this increase, as well as the salary increase, just to ensure that neither their first nor second homes are reprocessed.

        Just a shame that everyone facing the loss of their home cannot be a MP. That would fix the problem.

        Why has stopping digging when you are in a hole gone out of fashion?

      • 281
        FM Sideways says:

        Unless you are a government minister and you can claim for 52 weeks a year!! Oh joy thank you Gordo Jackie will be able to buy her sisters house (except that she will be back in Brum with a P45). The Porno channel will be redhot.

    • 80
      Election Now! says:

      Agreed. Yet more lies and spin are coming out from this nasty government’s actions. A year seems too long for an election to get this lot out…

  4. 4
    chronic says:

    Lets get the Ball rolling>

  5. 5
    That's Absolutely Totally Brilliant Damian says:

    I wish this had broken next week, it will get buried today.

    • 19
      jgm2 says:

      A good day to bury more lies (Jo Moore).

      I’m not sure I can bear to watch the shitstorm of lies masquerading as a budget this afternoon. I will however predict the form….

      blah blah…. uniquely placed… blah blah …started in America …. blah blah …. doing the right thing … blah blah ….. hardworking families… blah blah unlike the ‘do nothing’ party opposite blah blah … tractor stats … blah blah wildly optimistic number a million miles from reality or indeed what was reported as recently as November ….blah blah … more wildly optimistic numbers showing reducing deficits until a ’surplus’ is reached in 2013 …. blah blah …. commend this pack of fucking lies to the house.

      Then Osborne will attempt to rebut this pack of lies and whoops of Labour gibbons will drown out every fucking word aided and abeted by that fucking disgrace of a speaker while Gordon fucking Brown sits there with his trademark leer of idiocy and contempt.

      No thanks.

      • 40
        Fluffy Thoughts says:

        Isn’t the Deputy Speaker in the chair for the Budget?

      • 45
        jgm2 says:

        Is he/she? Are they a New Labour plant too? Where’s Martin? Acapulco on expenses with the missus?

      • 59

        I heard this morning that in a new twist Gordon wanted to play a theme tune when Alistair stands up today. The idea is ‘anything to distract from the terrible content in the budget’

        Gordon had a list of his ideas ..”something bright and jolly”
        1} Its raining men
        2} Charlie and Lola theme
        3} Bewitched theme
        4} I’m so excited {go with this one Alistair. its brilliant. I put it on at night and dance around the bedroom.}

        Darling had
        1} Taxi theme
        2} You don’t bring me flowers
        3} Yesterday
        4} Funeral march

        They could agree on “Things can only get better”
        At that point, Damien McBride watching on the video conference link phoned in to tell them to drop the scheme.

      • 63
        Anonymous says:

        …and Cameron will reply, not Osborne.

      • 72
        jgm2 says:

        Cameron not Osborne? If you say so. Won’t make any difference. The chorus of howler monkeys opposite will make sure he’s not heard.

      • 155
        Hahahahahahaha says:

        “commend this pack of fucking lies to the house.2

        priceless!

      • 214
        Hugh Janus says:

        Quite right. Golden rule is never to read even the budget headlines but wait for some of the more respected financial journos to pick it apart and to find the really bad news buried on page 108 etc. McBust was very good – notorious perhaps – at only announcing the good news and spinning the remainder as also good. I can’t be alone in regarding him as one of the most monumentally accomplished congenital liars of all time.

      • 245
        stevo says:

        I understand, Susan Boyle will be singing Highway to hell

    • 31
      Labour - Scum says:

      Precisely why it is scheduled liebour look after its own, – tribal scum

  6. 6
    Twizzle says:

    National media = Silence on the matter

  7. 7
    councilhousetory says:

    Start of Para 4 of the letter:

    ‘This is fiction’

    So Blinky, is this man libelling you? Are you a liar?

  8. 8
    Alex, Balls's overpaid SpAd says:

    Why do you have to bring up this rubbish now????

    Wednesday mornings I am cleaning the windows of the Guvnor’s second home.

  9. 9
    Ed Balls says:

    Where’s the Boston Strangler when you need him?

    • 20
      Dick the Prick says:

      Fuck state schools – why educate shits who’ll just vote Labour?

      • 34
        Alien8n says:

        Because with a decent education they might actually realise what a bunch of tossers Labour actually is?

        Personally I’m doing all I can to get my youngest into my old school (yes, private, no we’re not rich) simply because the local school is crap and she has an IQ off the scale. This is the same child who regularly tells me that our govt is run by “stupid” people. And she’s only 10.

      • 51

        The only education required in this case is of the pavlovian variety, turn off welfare payments so the plebs have to go out and find jobs.

      • 106
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        “Guido can’t help feeling that if Ed Balls spent less time plotting his leadership path and more time on fixing the state school system we might be better off.”
        Guido, if Balls spent even MORE time plotting his Leadership path the State School system would be FAR better off.

      • 115
        Stephen Hawkins Keyboard says:

        That’s a harsh condemnation on a lot of us who have had the misfortune of being educated by the state.

        I know what is right and wrong – and it is not spending money on shitty fuckers that fail to contribute to life, society or the general economic well being of the country.

        Thank god for social mobility.

      • 159
        Zeno says:

        Social mobility having, of course, declined in the past 12 years.

        Thanks for that Tony, Gordon and all the other jackasses in the House of Commons.

  10. 10
    Anonymous says:

    It is a pity this has come about today. But it is still something which can be made to run !! Balls really is a sleazy moron. Time he fucking well resigned.

  11. 11
    margy says:

    On a serious note, these hooligans should be arrested and tried for crimes towards the state. Surely all their lying and deceptions are illegal and misleading. Bearing in mind the utter mess the country is in, their dishonesty must have contributed.

    They have trashed this country and should be held to account over it.

    The main culprits are Blair, Brown, Balls, Watson, Mandelson, Campbell, Draper and others. The aforementioned crooks should be arrested immediately. We have enough evidence of their lies, manipulation and deceptions…..don’t we?

    • 21
      Papasmurf says:

      What about Malfeasance in Public Office…..they seem to like that!

      • 28
        margy says:

        Absolutely Papasmurf. It’s a bit early for me to use such concise words!!

        Malfeasance just about sums them up perfectly.

    • 225
      want my country back says:

      Would save the Country a fortune, if we just strung the b’stards up.
      There is another form of death penalty: when they skunk off to positions in
      high fly corpns, we should hound them to Hell.
      Make them toxic assets. Make their histories known loud and clear. Make their new employers tarred by association. Rattle their shares.
      Damage each and every one of these traitors, in the same way as they damaged our Country.

    • 253

      …but who will bell the cat?

  12. 12
    Marian says:

    Brown’s whole political career has been built and maintained upon smearing and “de-stabilising” all and any opposition to his will. Smearing and de-stabilising his opponents are what got him to the position as the UK’s unelected PM. This is well known within the Labour Party and the media where there are numerous victims of the smearing, but so far they have appeared to be helpless to do anything about it. Now at last someone is having the courage to speak out about this cancerous tumour which is destroying the Labour Party from within.

  13. 13
    SpudGun says:

    Balls talks bollocks….no change there then.

  14. 14
    a Hastings gentleman on the Charing X train says:

    well done Guido. My morning routine is now a cup of tea, toilet, dress (myself), a slice of toast, then order-order…and to cap it..its a wonderful spring day!

    • 104
      Anonymous says:

      The only downside is you live in a shithole, sun or not

      • 120
        Anonymous says:

        Hastings is an up and coming town. Brighton was a shit hole some years back and now is really ‘up and coming’ town if you get my drift old boy. I imagine Mandy might find it to his liking.

    • 233
      want my country back says:

      happiness and nice weather will soon be taxable.

      • 277
        Apathetic Voter says:

        What’s new it already is in the SW, what with the highest water rates in the country

  15. 15
    SwissBob says:

    .
    Great stuff, keep it up. Any PMQ’s today or is it just the budget?

    Live Chat the Budget at The Daily Politics blog from 11:30am today
    .

  16. 16
    Twizzle says:

    Don’t take a walk in the woods over the enxt week, Mr Boston.

    • 30
      PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

      A scarily pertinent parallel, methinks. Cassandras in this era are all doomed.

      Shame this didn’t come to light during the NUT conference. Might have had some coverage in the MSM.

  17. 17
    Piscator says:

    A few more nails hammered into the slimy Balls and his egregious sidekick Knight won’t go amiss. I don’t expect anything but more lies out of these two, however.

  18. 18
    Peter Grimes says:

    Go get the fat slimy Bollox!

  19. 22
    What me? Impartial? Nick Robinson says:

    The utter moral depravity of the ZanuLabour party is beautifully illustrated by this odious little shit’s belief he can take control of it.

    Does it’s PLP actually hold any collective scruples, ideals or values?
    If so they will reject this vile specimen with all haste.

    • 200
      Anonymous says:

      “Does it’s PLP actually hold any collective scruples, ideals or values?”

      Nope, not anymore. Those days are long gone.

    • 236
      Feduptothebackteeth says:

      In a word, no.

      This crop of ‘honourable members’ have shown themselves to by nothing of the sort. Not even being caught running off with the Crown Jewels would make any one of them resign. Smearing Ken Boston to hide his own stupidity and incompetance is all in a day’s troughing.

    • 254

      Their depravity is an illustration of the consequences of socialism.

  20. 23
    Michael Booth says:

    Excellent – but yes, what a pity it breaks today of all days! We must ensure that it runs and runs. Balls caught out telling fibs and porky pies? Well now, there’s a surprise… NOT!

    Is this man fit to head the department which is responsible for the education and welfare of the nation’s children? Not in my book.

  21. 24
    New Online Ambassador says:

    It’s very easy for you Tories to snipe from the sidelines.

    Labour offers Real Help Now!

    “The Ambassadors chocolate balls were always the highlight of the party”

    (is this ok Derek? It is my first day)

    • 94
      Max says:

      Real Help Now … for hard working families (you forgot). On the next comment add in “where the tories would do nothing”. Finish off by alluding to the “tories being the friends of the bankers” (neatly forgetting they are actually our mates, er and rather neatly we now own them).

      Finally, can you pick a better name or by-line that will irritate the fook out of all of the Aunt Maudes eg Tra-loo tra-lay etc. Oh and just for the time being do not mention balls in any context, including chocolate. Ok?

      • 149
        no longer anonymous says:

        Max, you are Harman_Pride’s coach and I claim my 5 pounds.

      • 165
        Online Tra-loo tray Ambassador says:

        Thnaks for the tips “Max” :-)

        Good to be doing something for the party before term starts – better that doing nothing like these loded Tory friends

        btw can you remind me what is the minimum wage rate again? I’ve lost your original email

      • 261
        Max says:

        You could have had the fiver, NLA, but I’ve had to lend it Alistair.

        Now, Online Tra-Loo, I do recall mentioning the Minimum Wage (remember to emphasise Party achievements with appropriate Capitals) but I think we may have a Funding Problem there currently with our Union Friends.

        Anyway there is lots out there to fight (claim) for; have you been unemployed for more than 12 months because if so we may, at some point, be in a position to Assist.

        Alternatively do you drive an old car, maybe?

        If all else fails I’m thinking Bank internship albeit your ability to lose my emails causes me a slight problem. Let me think about it…

  22. 25
    Ed Balls says:

    So what?

    • 29
      a Hastings gentleman on the Charing X train says:

      I’m coming to get you…already at Tunbrige Wells..

    • 61
      stewie griffin says:

      die you vile man

    • 169
      The big D says:

      Don’t you mean so weak? You must be losing your touch. The old Balls would have had any records of meetings changed to reflect “what really happened” by now.

  23. 26

    Balls tells a fib? Never! He is a man of the utmost integrity and trustworthiness.

    I would trust him and the rest of the Labour cabinet with all my savings and my very life itself.

    Excuse me… got to go. Men in white coats want to speak to me.

  24. 32

    Ed’s in the shit. One large teachers’ union is having a ballot on refusing to run SATS. And the other big teachers’ union is threatening to strike if he drops them. The IMF have fingered his and Brown’s tripartite banking regulatory system as utter shit and published figures for the real cost of the banking bail out, and the fall guy refuses to go quietly. The shitwaves over McBride are lapping at his door…

    Most amusing.

    The Penguin

  25. 35
    Geo says:

    In thought education had been done away with and replaced with brainwashing. Subjects taught today …
    Ethnic minorities are better than the british. Vote labour. The british empire was evil. Vote labour. Islam is the religion of britain. Vote labour. How to claim the maximum benefit. Guido Fawkes is the devil. Homosexuality is compulsory. Vote labour.

    • 218
      Anonymous says:

      You are so right Geo.my son came home last night with a letter saying the PSHE
      subject this term was how to cope with relationship problems and sex education including gay sex.Bearing in mind that my son is only 9 I didnt think that learning about gay sex was really relevant.
      I e mailed them and told the school to fuck off-in a polite way and withdrew my son from the lessons.
      Probably get the Stasi knocking on my door next.

  26. 36

    Once Balls has been dispatched, someone is going to have to come up with a more appropriate video to dub than “Downfall”. For Balls we need a video that conveys the vile, odious, lying, poisonous, plotting of Balls.

    There is a scene somewhere in Lord of The Rings that should do the trick – when Gandalf expels some vile ‘Balls-like’ bloke who held a corrupt and poisonous power over a king.

  27. 37
    Captain Panick says:

    Slightly OT, from the Electoral Commision via the ZanuLiebour Broadcasters headed ‘Work needed’ to encourage voters
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8011110.stm

    Hidden away in the middle is the following {after a survey of electoral registration officers}:

    Some 37% said they did not meet the standard expected for “maintaining the integrity of registration and absent vote”.

    No comments made on that fact at all!!! Time for Ballot Rigging then in this Bannana Republic that was once a Green and Pleasant Land……HOONS

    • 53
      Labour Postal Voting Scam says:

      We need a national neighbourhood watch style campaign — “Ballot Box Watch”(?) to stop the electoral fraud NaztyLiebour are preparing.

      Plenty of data out there about the scandal but liebour plows on regardless and we know why, fair means or foul is the marxist way to hang on to power.

      Be aware of postal vote fraud , be very afraid.

      • 90
        backwoodsman says:

        good idea Batman – have you found any group interested in running with this ?

      • 137
        Anonymous says:

        How to kill neighbourhood watch the labour way: Announce that crime statistics will become available in post code areas so you can choose to try and sell your home or buy one at a risk discount. Results in decreased reported crime. Brilliant!

      • 151
        Captain Panick says:

        Backwoodsan- Outside every Polling Station (or Group) you should find a Policeman (or PCSO =valued member of the extended police family = no power, non job). They are there to deal, among other things like making the voters feel this is an important day, with dealing with electoral fraud. This is at the request of the Polling Station Officer {a Council Employee being paid extra in his non job}, and it happens on a very, very few occasions. The boxes, at the end of the day, are moved to the central counting area, with seals, and with police control.Meanwhile, via the back door, at the central counting area will arrive the postal votes. The police have no control over these boxes. They just get added in.

        So, I suggest that a team of Detectives are assigned per constituency, to start the investigtion into these back door votes at the stage the election is called. I am sure that the Damian Green Squad would be willing to volunteer as a starting group. One down, 634 to go.

      • 171
        Captain Panick says:

        Having read that again – it seems to suggest that I am starting with Damian Green. I am not. Send them to Scotland, pick a PM by popular vote, and hover over the Snot Picking HOON.

      • 248
        Puzzled says:

        Totally agree. Tell everyone you know not to postal vote.

    • 185
      reg511 says:

      There must be a mechanism for us to demand UN oversight, if enough petitions can be raised, but to who?

  28. 38
    Augusto Pinochet says:

    I think the education system at the moment needs some radical thinking. It has been let down, as a lot of things in this country, by Career Politicians. To much time following the “party line” and personnel ambition.
    We need to reduce spending, one way is to look at the private sector. Allow more private schools so parents with the money can get their children out of the state system and off the taxpayers purse. Get local business involved in their local schools to make children aware of job opportunities and what talents and skills are need to get them on in life. Allow local business to give schools sponsorships to special talents within schools. Stop assessing teachers via tests and let them get on with teaching, give them back trust. Look at a system where we can encourage the talented children to move ahead. Stop charging for university education. We need a John Lilly type who will think the unthinkable and stir up some reasoned debate. All the posts on this site accept the Labour education system has failed so we need to rethink.

    • 100
      Piscator says:

      Good stuff, Augusto, but I think that you’ll have to toss the drugged Career Politicians out of aeroplanes over shark-infested seas. As long as one of these nitwits remains to use education as some sort of springboard or soapbox, education will remain the “Balls-up” it is.

      It’s also the case that the party politics in the education authorities (local councils) will continue to bugger things up at the local level. So I guess you’ll have to pollute the seas with County Councillors as well.

      • 117
        Old Tory says:

        We need to get Politics and dare I say it religion out of schools. So the way forward is with more private sector funding. If we can get state schools up to the standards of Private Schools there will be no argument.

      • 249
        Puzzled says:

        Actually, the per head spend on university education is now equal to what was spent on A level education in 1976,so you could argue education is badly underfunded in some areas. Just as well as this lot have made it a commodity with a price and completely lost the plot.

        General P is this a miracle? Your recovery from a terminal condition(death) is truly amazing.

    • 124
      Anonymous says:

      Actually the brit education system has always been a useless muddle with forever changing goalposts. Best thing would be to copy the system of another country and sack all the failed academics running it and forever screwing it up.

    • 133
      Doctor Mick says:

      You mean, “Too much time….”.

      Must try harder. See me after school.

    • 186
      Anonymous says:

      Allow more private schools so parents with the money can get their children out of the state system and off the taxpayers purse.

      You shouldn’t need rich parents to have a good education – which is basically what you are talking about there. Everyone, no matter who they are, should have the ability to get a top class education on the taxpayer. After that, you’re on your own. If you don’t use your education you can go live under a bridge for all I care – you’re no longer the taxpayers responsibility at that point. As long as everyone is given an equal opportunity by society at the beginning there is no reason for society to prop them up later. Teach people how to doggy paddle then “Sink or swim”.

  29. 39
    Plato says:

    Excellent stuff – the truth will out :lol:

    I don’t think the MSM will go with it big time until the evidence is discussed by the Committee – can’t wait!

  30. 41
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    I was impressed by the well dressed child in the photo, standing head and shoulders above the rest.
    Is he I wonder just big for his age ,or as seems more likely, a thicko who keeps having to repeat a year?

  31. 42
    boulay says:

    the big problem is that the general public are so immune to this sort of thing and expect nothing less that they do not see the implications.

    FFS balls even wants to have ultimate control over which text books are used by students – the nazis would be proud.

    the only option is that people with terminal illnesses go out in a blaze of glory and take out these labour muppets as their last patriotic acts!!!!!!!!

  32. 44
    Bevanite says:

    The sound of the clock ticking gets louder every day. The sh*t will really hit the fan on 1 May.

  33. 47
    Taxfodder says:

    Makes me roar with laughter when I hear (mostly self interested) people bleat on about how we need to pay MP’s well to attract the “Right Stuff”

    This presumably means fair-minded honest capable people putting the people of the UK before themselves and party. (Mr Balls? hahahaha)

    The current lot at Westminster would struggle to eat on what the UK population think they are worth.

    Minimum wage would be too much!

    In any case who decides what they are worth? Well you and I can decide what we think “we” are worth, funny how others have a different idea, and of course if we don’t agree we can always move on to pastures new!

    Ha!

  34. 49
    State informant specialising on wheelie bins, and rubbish bags says:

    Would that be Jim Knight with the parliamentary maj of 1812, gained over one of the worst Tory candidates of modern times?

    On his website there are posts entitled ‘Jim is thinking budgets’, Jim is working on the train’ etc

    Nowhere can I find ‘Jim is lying to Parliament’

  35. 50
    eagerbeaver says:

    It is getting to the point where it would be worth reporting if Ed Balls actually told the truth.

    He really is a slimy hoon – hopefully he will realise his dream of becoming Labour leader as he will consign the party to a generation in opposition and probably third place behind the Limp Dems

    • 62
      jgm2 says:

      Naaaah. we’ve all had a good long twelve year look at Brown. Brown has been the one lying his full fucking head off about abolishing ‘boom and bust’, ‘prudence’, ‘best placed’ and all those other egregious mistruths. He’s now been found out in the most spectacular fashion as he presides over banks going bust, unemployment soaring and a structural budget deficit that dwarfs very other nation in the universe.

      Naaaah. In order to banish Labour under the pyroclastic flow of twenty million votes we all need to ensure Brown stays in power. If Balls gets in it will take another couple of years for the true idiocy of Balls to sink through to the voters as his lies and destruction of education has to be explained anew to a whole new audience.

      Browns lies and destruction have been visible form day one. He (along with Blair) is the Labour party. The rest of the idiots (Smith, Balls, Mandelscum, Blears, Straw etc) are just compliant idiots along for the ride. And the perks.

      I refuse to believe that the Tories could do better than have Brown in office right now. The man writes his own suicide note with every fibre of his being and every action he takes.

      • 107
        Red Flag Alert says:

        So who do we vote for? Any vote other than Tory will bring Mr Brown back.

      • 244
        want my country back says:

        Red Flag
        lMHO, l think we know, and the Tories know. Simply because it’s the only sure way to get rid of we all know who.
        What the Tories don’t know but we know, is they are very much mistaken if they think we won’t be watching them very, very closely.
        While they sit on the pot keeping it warm, l personally will be taking a much closer look at Libertus.
        No matter, l hope for all our sakes, there is a Party or the emergence of a Party,worthy to Govern in 5 years time.

  36. 56
    educator says:

    Go get ‘em Mr Boston. You did the honourable thing and offered your resignation when something went seriously wrong on your watch. Your ex-paymasters should have done the same!

  37. 64
    Zena Phobe says:

    Knight is an old style Labour/Trade Union commissar, who would have never been elected in 2001 had the South Dorset Conservative Association been any good. He even managed to increase his majority in 2005, after yet another poorly managed campaign. I just hope they don’t cock it up again next time, and that this particular ‘hoon’ will be gone.

  38. 64
    backwoodsman says:

    They actually used the naughty B R word (bannana republic) in the introduction to a piece on todays Toady programme , jokingly of course, because the bbc still revers the Dear Leader, even during this prolonged period of ‘ little local dificulty’.
    This was followed by a short half an hour slot eulogising jack jones, a union leader who participated in the long march to destroy the foundations of the British economy.

    • 91
      2nd Viscount Smeargate says:

      Backed up to the hilt by Tony Benn who in a fit of dementia conveniently forgot about the 1960-1970s motor industry unionisation and its sorry demise etc., IMF bailout etc, in his blaming of Maggie, banks, fat-cats for today’s problems!!

      • 103
        jgm2 says:

        Can we refer to Benn’s grand-daughter, PPC for Wherever-The-Fuck, as ‘Benn the Younger’?

      • 111
        Augusto Pinochet says:

        We will never forget Margaret, remarkable women.

      • 123
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        “Sit on your ass, light up a camel, for this IS the promised land.” What great days the 70’s were for the unions.
        the rest of us were fcuked.

  39. 66
    GerryM says:

    The next government, of whatever party, or coalition should impeach the whold gang of ex-student activist, money grubbing, authoritarian, incompetent bastards. I want our democracy back, they are a bunch of pranksters, without a millisecond of real world experience between them who regard us as their servants. They should be punished for their arrogant dismissal of the people as the masters.

  40. 67
    Nixon-Brown says:

    “There will be no whitewash…”
    (at the Shitehouse)

  41. 68
    bergen says:

    Balls may be in difficulty.As he is Brown’s vicar on earth and a detestable hoon to boot,disgruntled backbenchers and blairites could lay into him causing collateral damage to Brown without necessarily being disloyal to the party(very important for Labour).

    Just desserts.

  42. 74
    Anonymous says:

    It’s budget day mate. What other bad shit will the government briefly air and then bury out of sight before the day is done?

  43. 75
    Anonymous says:

    I see McNulty has broken cover and is being interviewed on Sky news at the moment. Wonder if they will raise the subject of troughing.

    • 223
      Hugh Janus says:

      I find McNulty in particular an aggressive and talentless little bastard, odious in the extreme and certainly not deserving of membership of the human race. Should have a long and distinguished career with the loathesome NuLiebour I would have thought.

  44. 76
    Anonymous says:

    Yep they just have.

  45. 77
    Spunky Biscuit says:

    I hope this guy is forced out. His reform of the state school sector is a disaster – it will force a culture of penny pinching and league tables, and ‘managers’ rather than non commercial teachers into the schools so they will end up in the same state as NHS hospitals.

  46. 79
    Anonymous says:

    Far from ‘Burying Bad news on Budget Day’ this could be the ‘main story’ on the ‘lead-in news bulletins’, viz. “Why should we trust this Government’s view on the public finances when we can’t trust the Education Secretary to tell the truth ?”

    Finish him now. I want him dead dead dead dead dead. Then bury him.

    Then go after Tom Watson and Charlie Whelan. Then, and only when Brown is totally exposed, go after him and finish him off.

  47. 81
    PD77 says:

    Looks like Balls Ballsed up again.

  48. 82
    Anonymous says:

    Even Peston blowing the gaffe on the parlous state of public finances…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009/04/funding_record_borrowing.html

    How will Darling explain this ??

    • 181
      Sick and tired of the Zanulabour lies deceptions smears and utter incompetence says:

      Peston starts with
      “What I’ll be looking out for in today’s Budget are three things.”

      I will be looking for three things as well, The truth the whole truth and notning but the truth.

      We won’t get it though

    • 195
      Anonymous says:

      Why does anybody still bother to read peston? The man is so pathetic I’m not even going to capitalise his name. Just read the government press releases from their own website instead of getting it second hand from that twat.

  49. 85
    Thats News says:

    So, this is something else they messed up and tried to spin their way out of by lies and libel? Hmmm.

  50. 86
    jgm2 says:

    O/T

    Average earnings in the year to February rose just 0.1%. Since we know everybody in the civil service got a 2% or greater increase plus marched another grade up the pay spine so probably closer to 5 or 6% increase this means that effectively the private sector has taken a substantial paycut this year.

    We are fucked. The economy is fucked. Brown fucked it.

    • 96
      Private Sector says:

      Pay spine!!..for just getting a year older!!!, WTF!

      No wonder private businesses are going down the tubes to pay for this profligacy!

    • 258

      They took more money for their supporters when there was boom, ’sharing the proceeds of growth’. Now they should be cutting their numbers and pay, to share the pain. Start with the politicians pay.

  51. 87
    apricotfox says:

    You can see why the DCSF is known as the Department of Complete Science Fiction…

  52. 88
    Good day to bury bad news alert says:

    This won’t get any coverage, having it on Friday or Sunday would have been better.

    There is already a veritable shower of shit falling into the bunker this morning.

    Borrowing so high that every man woman and child in this country will owe an extra £6,000 by the end of the year if the deficit continues wracking up at the same rate it has for the first 3 months. And that’s divided by everybody, amongst the workforce, how much is that, £10,000?

    McNumpty was on Sky News, talking about the (gross) 277,000 who came off unemployment benefit last month. Well, given that the net rate level has increased by 177,000 that actually makes it a net increase of 454,000 in a month, almost half a million!

    • 92
      Doh! says:

      Correction, gross increase of 454,000

    • 101
      jgm2 says:

      Yeah. Came off unemployment benefit and onto disability benefit or long term disability benefit or ‘Sure Start’ or plain grew so old that they ‘retired’ from unemployment benefit to collect their pension.

      Nothing but lies from this bunch of liars.

  53. 89
    it's all Balls says:

    “I can’t drop my Balls” squeaks McHoon

    I need someone to cover my back

  54. 93
    shellingout says:

    Ed Balls? Lying? Surely not.

  55. 99
    bergen says:

    Update on the Speccie blog says that Balls is going to blame Knight.

    That’s all right then.

  56. 105
    StrongholdBarricades says:

    So who’s left within the bunker to brief for him?

  57. 108
    Anonymous says:

    http://www.blackouteurope.eu/act/why-act.html

    I had no idea about this but it’s very worrying

    • 130
      Old Man says:

      Very interesting. The internet to lose it “Wild West” frontier days?

    • 174
      Dr Nuts says:

      Of course there will be internet providers who don’t play ball, get noticed by the people, and the law gets circumvented, there is always loopholes. Being told what not to go to – could just as much be illegal sites – kiddie porn for example.

      Try and uphold the law in the courts, stating they’re allowing people to communicate, and type to each other, the courts are more likely to just throw the case out. …

  58. 112
    Budget Sweepstake says:

    Lets play budget Sweepstake

    Reply and predict

    a) Total borrowing expected by Alistair Darling in 2009.
    b) Year in which we get back to net repayment of debt.

    No prizes (well, a copy of Derek Draper’s book if you really want…)

    For example

    a) £360bn
    b) 2018

    • 118
      jgm2 says:

      a) 2009/2010 – Will predict 120bn. Will actually be 160bn or more.
      b) Will predict 2013. Will be a total act of fiction but will used from 2013 onwards by the Labour opposition to proclaim disingenuosly from the sidelines ‘If you’d voted for us we’d be in surplus by now’…

      • 142
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        I don’t think he can be too economical with the truth. The figures are there for all to see and there are plenty of interested parties to keep him fairly honest. Furthermore, with Brown’s stranglehold over Labour melting like ice in a Chinook thaw, there’s a good chance that the glove puppet will bite the hand that moves him. I go for 180 £Billon and 2018. Anything less would be totally unbelievable.

      • 161
        jgm2 says:

        I disagree. The figures have always been there. Every year since 2001 he (Brown) has projected deficits of (say0 30bn, 26bn, 14bn, 8bn and hey presto a surplus by year five and every year without fail he’s been wrong. Then the following six months in his interim budget he pulls the same stunt again. he pulled the same stunt in November. The man is a habitual liar. The treasury is politicised or cowed to the point where Brown pulls a figure out of his arse and the treasury just runs back, reverse engineers his ‘assumptions’ and graphs and hey presto the figures add up.

        It’s the same technique as Blair used to justify the Iraq war. The Spooks come up with some dossier claiming they have no proof of weapons of mass destruction then Blair sends them back to draft and redraft their conclusions until they come up with one that will justify the action he was always planning to take.

        Same with Brown/Darling. This budget will be a pack of lies perched on a fucking pyramid of impenetrable maths and assumptions which will be internally consistent (ie give the answer Brown wants) but will nonetheless be based on a statistically implausible chain of best-case scenarios. Like every other budget he’s manufactured.

        But by the time the grown-ups have looked at the detail Brown will have stitched up Cameron over expenses claims or there’ll be another mass arrest of ‘terror’ suspects.

        We’re fucked.

      • 206
        Don't mention 1976 !!!! says:

        “And in conclusion, Mr Speaker, all Honourable Members on all sides of the House, will wish to know that myself and my Right Honourable friend,the Prime Minister, will shortly be submitting the application to the International Monetary Fund. It is the right thing to do and this government will never shirk taking the tough decisions for the benefit of hard-pressed British families unlike Honourable Members on the benches opposite who would do nothing and I commend this budget to the House”

    • 215
      Anonymous says:

      Well Al-JaBeeba say its currently sitting at £90bn for in the last financial year but £19bn of that was in March

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8011781.stm

      The total net debt is £743.6bn… or half the UK GDP

    • 251
      Anonymous says:

      How about a sweepstake on “how far short of reality will Badger’s borrowing estimates be?”

  59. 114
    Anonymous says:

    Nail the bastard Guido, we’re all right behind you. This fucker needs removing from British politics, PRONTO.

    Preferably by means of a rapidly falling, frozen block of piss from a passing jumbo jet.

    • 119
      Genghiz the Kahn says:

      which bastard – Balls or Brown, better still both.

    • 121
      shellingout says:

      Ditto to that.

    • 227
      Hugh Janus says:

      Frozen number twos would be more certain and definitely more fun – no point in messing about.

    • 263
      Andy Carpark says:

      Please clarify whether you mean (a) kept on the ground and impaled by a spike of frozan urine jettisoned from a plane or (b) taken up in the plane, immersed in a cubic tank of said fluid which is then decanted from the hold to freeze on the way down.

      My marginal preference would be for (b) on grounds of both reliability and condign humiliation.

      • 269
        Anonymous says:

        Serious risk of pollution of course, but nothing compared with bits of the Testicular One scattered all over the place. At least as bad as a dirty bomb.

  60. 122
    Stephen Hawkins Keyboard says:

    Story now being covered by Sky.

  61. 129
    AA Dalek says:

    New Labour – EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE

  62. 131
    RavingMad says:

    Tony McNulty on Radio5 at the moment talking about expenses, won’t talk about which home is his real one or second one, electorate don’t matter except on his terms – chief wanker or what??

    • 136
      jgm2 says:

      I’d be amazed if a Labour mouthpiece is talking about expenses without conflating it with Tories earning money for outside work. That’s been the tactic on here for a few weeks from the Labour Jungend.

      • 203
        Anonymous says:

        Stupid argument isn’t it? We already know just about every politician is a thieving HOON, no matter what stripe they are. Tories should stick to only doing the job the electorate pays them for and Labour should stop blatantly stealing from the electorate and then they can all just fuck off and die somewhere.

  63. 135
    Master Baiter says:

    Who cares about this?

    Outsourcing doesn’t work the private sector screws up and is unaccountable, that’s all old news to and well understood by the electorate.

    This morning when Gove was asked on Raido 4 for the Conservatives position on the proposed changes for MP’s allowances, he couldn’t answer.

    Because as ususal they don’t have a position or a proposal because they would ‘do nothing’.

    Guidiot/PeeStains has been posting non-stop on MP’s allowances. Suddenly he has nothing to say.

    The reason:___________ he hasn’t had his orders Faxed from Conservative Central Office (or whatever TWA they use now).

    • 138
      shellingout says:

      You can bet your bottom dollar MP’s won’t lose out from this. After all Brown’s “It’s the right thing to do” bullshit, we know the shysters will all be better off, otherwise what’s the point? They make up the rules to suit themselves.

    • 143
      Dave Hill says:

      Fuck off sad sack.

    • 144
      it's all Balls says:

      Aren’t you late for school?

      • 234
        Anonymous says:

        Notice how there are only two black faces to be seen in the entire playground, but – only concidentally of course – they have been placed alongside the two pillocks pretending to visit them? This kind of ‘engineering’ is so transparent and really riles me.

    • 152
      Harry Va Derci says:

      Anyone who still has any questions about Labour’s uselessness in ‘owning’ the blogosphere only has to refer to your posts for the answer.

    • 157
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      Gove was cautious because the Tories know that any fag packet Brownian initiative is so full of holes that you can use it as a colander. Constitutionally, WTF have MP’s salaries and expenses got to do with the PM anyway? The Commons will still have to vote on the proposals and you can be certain that they will come under forensic examination in Committee.

    • 197
      Malcom Tucker says:

      “Who cares about this?” I do wanker.

      I have children that are at the mercy of this government’s ‘education’ system. I want to know if they are responsible for lying about the SATS mess.

      “the private sector screws up and is unaccountable” – unlike the brilliant and fully accountable public sector?

      God you really are a wanker of the first order.

  64. 139
    Scallywag says:

    Just because the odious Balls is a Minister of the Crown in a nulab government doesn’t mean that he has to tell the truth. He’s as free to lie as all the other lying bastards who inhabit the unelected Snottie McTwat’s dysfunctional apology for a government…

    I hope he goes down for this, the arrogant shit.

  65. 140
    Moley says:

    The picture makes my stomach crawl.
    I thought people like that were not allowed in school playgrounds and that children could only be photographed with the parent’s consent.

    • 145
      Moley says:

      I’m replying to my own comment.
      Is this photo real?

      Why are absolutely none of the children looking at the Minister?
      Isn’t this a little bit unreal, The Minister visits the school and all the children in the photos act as if he is not there.

  66. 141
    Eileen Critchley says:

    Mr President may I introduce Prime Minister Balls!

    Your Royal Highness……Foreign Secretary Blears….ah up chuck!

    Get yer media studies sorted and it could be you one day!

    Good luck everyone.

  67. 146
    A disliker of spin and slease says:

    Partially off topic,

    I hope Guido has noticed the Adam Smith Institute praise of him on their blog over the McBride affair. Well deserved Guido!

  68. 148
    Yoda says:

    Message from the Dark Side,there is…

    ….Master Gonad… a burnt slice of bread,you are.

  69. 150
    Cheer up says:

    Today’s word is LIQUIDITY.

    Definition:

    Liquidity – when you look at your retirement funds and wet your pants.

  70. 153
    Please save me from committing suicide says:

    ED BALLS AND YVETTE COOPER MUST EITHER ABANDONED THEIR OWN CHILDREN OR THEIR OWN CONSTITUENTS – PERHAPS BOTH.
    How is it possible for a government minister married couple s to have enough time to adequately parent their children and “live” in their constituencies. Why would their Labour constituents want to vote for a public school boy and a Scottish woman. Neither of them have any roots in the area. Their constituencies just touch each other. Do they have a 2nd home in each?

    • 172
      Labour Heartlands says:

      Only in Labour Heartlands do they feel safe!

      • 184
        eye-eye says:

        Can anyone spill the beans on the ammount of time these two spend parenting or do they have nannies etc?

    • 199
      Sick and tired of the Zanulabour lies deceptions smears and utter incompetence says:

      Do they have a 2nd home in each

      As I understand it they have one second home but they both claim for it but so complicated is the troughing its hard to follow anymore

  71. 158
    Augusto Pinochet says:

    ED BALL: THE DARK ENFORCER OF DOWNING STREET, this was the Sunday Times editorial. Balls ‘ran‘ Labour’s smear unit, was The Sunday Times front page story. So this unpleasant story was out on Sunday, it will continue after The Budget.

  72. 160
    chronic says:

    Pic above
    I hope the two gentlemen have had a CRB check.

  73. 163
    Mrs Trellis says:

    Ken Boston is culpable anyway – it is he who has presided over the trashing of the examinations system in this country. Crappy meaningless multiple choice papers for GCSEs, 20% of the marks = a pass for Maths GCSE, the waste-of-time 14-19 Diplomas, and the sit-as-often-as-you-want ‘A’-level modules. And then the famous SATs fiasco.

    The next shoe to drop is the unworkable ‘Qualifications Credit Framework’ that they have wasted millions on and will wreck most of the specialist industry qualifications. This is bureaucracy out of control on a massive scale.

    Of course, the reason why the UK is stuffed full of useless quangos is so that the civil servants and ministers can play ‘Mr Innocent’ when the ’s’ hits the fan, which is what is going on now.

    Boston complains that the DCFS did not correct the ‘draft’ Sutherland report – why didn’t he correct it – why wait until now to say the facts in Sutherland are wrong?

    A plague on all their houses!

  74. 166
    Sick and tired of the Zanulabour lies deceptions smears and utter incompetence says:

    BREAKING NEWS

    JUST ANNOUNCED NOW ALL 11 MANCHESTER TERROR SUSPECTS HAVE RELEASED WITHOUT CHARGE DUE TO INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.

    Quell surprise!

    This government really take the piss they really really do.

    • 170
      chronic says:

      Another 11 extremists created.

    • 183
      Billy Butplug says:

      Waterboarding at Center Parcs is the next plan!

    • 196
      bergen says:

      Mr Quick should be fired!

      Damn,I forgot he’s gone already on a pension of £110,000.00 per annum at the age of 49.

      Still.being self-employed,my attempts at saving for a pension will be torpedoed this afternoon anyway.

    • 208
      grobdj says:

      Jacqui Smith told MPs this week that Quick’s mistake ’caused the operation to be brought forward by a few hours’

      i.e. the arrest and interrogation of these people was shamelessly aimed at the Easter Holiday news vacuum, and had nothing to do with national security

    • 235
      Anonymous says:

      OK Spliff, time is really up now, on your way.

    • 260

      Success in education! The Terrorist Recruitment and Training Programme is starting to work.

  75. 168
    anonymous says:

    “I have take full responsibility for my department and its failures and that is why Mr Boston has resigned !” – It worked for Gordon.

  76. 173
    A Linux hacker says:

    killall balls

  77. 175
    Anonymous says:

    Ed Balls needs to remain in post. He will be a great motivator for anti Labour voting in the next GE (proven liar, smug, incompetent, snout in the trough and ugly)

    • 209
      Anonymous says:

      But even looked at from the point of view of New Labour what would have made someone like Balls a serious leadership contender? Same for Millibrand and Brown, although at least the latter was able to ride the uncontrolled and disastrous boom and claim credit for it while it lasted.

  78. 177
    eye-eye says:

    Wonder why Balls always has his hands in his pockets ? ( photo above)

  79. 179
    Online Tra-loo tray Ambassador says:

    Unemployment up by 177, 000 in February – but wait I see ‘green shoots’…

    15,000 new public sector jobs created in February

    Yay!!!!

  80. 180
    Have your say says:

    http://twitter.com/BBC_HaveYourSay

    You know you want to…

  81. 190
    Frank Gallagher says:

    Make politics history! Cheaper rope now!

    Make politics history! Cheaper lampposts now!

    Make politics history! Cheaper rope now!

    Make politics history! Cheaper lampposts now!

  82. 192
    chronic says:

    They will supress any off message posts(eg Nick Robinson site)

  83. 193

    Perfect!

    Now the Labour government are forcing single parents with children over the age of 10 to go out to work! Then they will complain about all the teenage latchkey kids who are wandering the streets after school…
    Great idea to force people who arguably already have an important job, that is, bringing up a child on their own, out to menial jobs while unemployment is rocketing.

    No “joined up thinking” here…

  84. 194

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  85. 198
    Anonymous says:

    YVETTE COOPER ON THE BOX – SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE IS SHITTING HERSELF…

  86. 201
    Galloping Gurner says:

    £15 on a pint of Guinness, £46 on a packet of fags. £6,000 on bath plugs.

    • 226
      Frau Schmidt says:

      Patio heaters next… and what about my hubby’s porn films? Will I still get my usual Redditch discount?

  87. 202
    + + + NEWSFLASH + + + says:


    A SpokesPorkPerson for 10 Drowning (in Debt) Street, has released the following statement by The Glorious, Beloved, and Supreme Leader, the Bonkers Bungling Bullshit Bongo,


    I am just about ready to have my witless shill read out my Dud Budget, – or Dudget.

    In it, I have laid out my achievements, as follows :

    An end to Boom ‘n Bust. It’s only Bust now.

    67,000 million UK children saved from abject Poverty last month alone.

    67,000 million UK tractors produced last year alone, by British Workers doing British jobs.

    67,000 million UK electric cars produced just this last week.

    67,000 million megawatts of electricity produced to power them

    67,000 million UK lofts lagged

    67,000 million terrorists caught

    the Entire world SAVED 67 times, including Africa, 100 times

    67,000 million lies spoken by me and / or my staff.

    67,000 million times I have said nothing is my fault.

    As a result, everyone – living, dead, or cared for in dangerous, filthy NHS hospitals – will be taxed at unimaginable levels.


    Old-Noo (neé Noo-Old) BoringLiars – TAXING YOU WITLESS, LYING, ‘n WASTING YOUR MONEY on something stupid NEAR YOU!

  88. 204
    Anonymous says:

    The BBC spending money on a helicopter to show Alistair Darling entering Parliament ‘via a tunnel from Portcullis House’ to ‘avoid protesters’..

    They are fucking terrified…

  89. 210
    The Master says:

    Balls should be deeply ashamed. Perhaps someone on “his team” reads the comments listed here….Balls, you have no Balls. Leave public life and go into the private sector.[somewhere like deepest Africa]

    • 213
      Twizzle says:

      The private sector? You mean there still is a private sector?

      • 221
        M.T.BUCKET says:

        I wonder how long he will take to announce the country is bankrupt, the markets will no longer lend us any more money and the I.M.F are not answering the phone.

    • 237
      Anonymous says:

      On the basis that he is unemployable, I will end up supporting him on benefit.

      Oh shit, I already am.

  90. 212
    Johan says:

    Nothing will happen. Balls is tough and has enough support (or a sufficently brass neck) to ride this out.

  91. 216
    Mr Christopher says:

    Balls could tell without checking that Dr Boston must have been at fault because:

    1. SATS is one of New Labour’s beloved American imports.

    2. Balls has never made a mistake of any kind, so that anything he says is automatically true.

  92. 219
    Anonymous says:

    It makes me sad people like him exist.

  93. 220
    BrownWorld says:

    Interesting public sector merry-go-round

    1. Interim staff spends 1 month hiring person to replace them – consequently too busy to do other ‘work’
    2. Interim staff spends next month on handover to replacement – again, far too busy to do their ‘work’
    3. Replacement turns out to be interim [hard to find the right quality of candidate in todays economic climate]
    4. Go To 1. and add 1x efficiency saving job “cut” to statistics

    This is not made up!

  94. 222
    Who ate all the pies? says:

    You SAT bastard.

  95. 230
    Anonymous says:

    Echoes here of the “Baby P” affair where Balls, under pressure from the Sun in particular, threw Shoesmith to the lions to save his own skin.

  96. 231
    Rudy says:

    In more honest times something like this would have resulted in the a single crack of a service revolver being heard from inside mr Balls’ office. It would be the decent thing to do.

    • 239
      Anonymous says:

      It would also be the right thing to do, never more so.

    • 243
      henry the navigator says:

      It would indeed.

      If a future Conservative government repealed the Firearms (Amendment) Act (1997) and leaned on Chief Constables to end the practice of helping criminals by rendering the law-abiding defenceless, we could have this whole ghastly crew take the decent way out with the help of volunteers.

      Having got myself so excited I shall now go and lie down.

    • 272
      Monkey63 says:

      FFS, none of the current Cabinet, or opposition front bench for that matter, have any idea what the words Decency, Honesty , Duty or Service mean and neither do 60% of state employees. How could they live with themselves otherwise?

  97. 238
    Ex-pat says:

    McNutter is doing his grinning trick again! I wish he was dead!

  98. 240
    Anonymous says:

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Ed-Balls-Schools-Secretary-Accused-Of-Sexing-Up-Evidence-Against-Ex-QCA-Chief-Ken-Boston-On-SATs/Article/200904415266843?lpos=Politics_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15266843_Ed_Balls%2C_Schools_Secretary%2C_Accused_Of_Sexing_Up_Evidence_Against_Ex-QCA_Chief_Ken_Boston_On_SATs

    policised civil service? here in good old democratic UK? Never!!

    Balls doesn’t even have to come to his own defence a civil servant does it for him. absolutely disgraceful. the only good bit is that this is headlinenews on Sky. i’ve attempted to paste it here but arsed it up I think.

    • 262
      Anonymous says:

      Oh dear. Put a small moustache under balls’ nose in that photo and who does he look like? Don’t these people spend fortune on ’stylists’ or image makers, they missed that his haircut makes him look like the fuhrer…

  99. 247
    A Darling says:

    Mr Deputy-Speaker, I’m a Hoon

  100. 250
    Anonymous says:

    An apology would be a very “unBrownBalls” thing to do wouldn’t you say?

  101. 265
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Look, no party in whatever state it finds itself after an election is ever in a million years going to choose a leader called Balls, is it? Think of the headlines for a start. It’ll be Purnell, mark my words.

    • 266
      Trough and Drop says:

      Then the rest of the world will refer to “that Brit with a mouth like a Goat’s mickey”.

      Odd fecker is Purnell. Wants looking at. Mark my words.

    • 282
      Moley says:

      Good point.

      This Manifesto is pure Balls.
      Civil Servants advised on handling Balls.
      Opinion Poll . Balls up!

      Can we have a competition?

  102. 270
    caesars wife says:

    my early caption comp entry

    EB “come along children crayons at the ready this way to the voting booth”

    5yr old “isnt that electoral fraud”

    EC “so weak”

    • 274
      Hugh Janus says:

      Children, if you don’t know what an arsehole looks like then we’ve got two in today to show you.

  103. 271
    Lefty of Labourland says: says:

    I blame the Tories….er Maggie Thatcher….er……er Started in America…..er Tories….Thatcher… Toffs…. etc etc until head explodes.

  104. 278
    Sic a parcel o'rogues says:

    Jing’s and help ma boab you English waking up to how Labour held sway in Scotland all these years until the lies finally stuck in the craw and we voted for Wee Eck and the SNP instead.

    We are still waiting for the E-mails that Labour said proved Wendy Alexander had not breeched PPER 2000 and therefore should not face criminal charges.

    There’s all the jobs promised for Glasgow and Rosyth over the new carriers which haven’t arrived because – quote Hoon – the aircraft from Lockheed will not be delivered on time (though according to Lockheed the planes will be ready on the due date). Then there is the delay to further orders for the Type 45 destroyers because the missile system is not ready (not true says Raytheon who have successfully test fired the system and are awaiting to carry out final acceptance sea trials when the first type 45 is worked up and commissioned).

    How about the classic Labour tale of how voting for the SNP at Holyrood would add £5,000 per year onto each Scottish taxpayers annual bill?

    Iraq’s weapon’s of mass destruction?

    Scotland is subsidised by England – yep; you lot bought that one hook line and sinker.

    The stupidity of the UK voter in putting up with this bunch of venal pack of lying dogs, year after year simply beggars belief. the only way to sort the Augean Stables that are the Palace of Westminster is to break up the political union and get on with being good neighbours. Get with the picture England you no longer have an Empire, Scotland is not a colony.

  105. 280
    Daveyone says:

    For me Ed Balls has renaged on his commitment to reform his department and more especially that of Social Services who came to public disgrace through the Baby ‘P’ scandel http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7993913.stm and yet again we see the incompitence at work with the case of the snatched great grandmother in the home story in the Mail todayhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1172640/Fury-social-workers-snatch-great-grandmother-taken-care-home-daughter.html
    Now he has his eye on the chancellors role for a future in opposition so has lost the plot of the department he should be responsable for!

  106. 283
    Bodderick says:

    Politicians are lying Hoons by nature. The “testicular one” is a full on lying B’stard of the highest order. He and his Whore droid of a wife are like mouldy gonads in a sack – in urgent need of visit to the Pox doctor.

  107. 288
    J Bowen says:

    Is anyone surprised that the govt has lied? When have they ever told th etruth?







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