December 4th, 2009

Ed Balls’ Privileged Education, in Eton not at Eton

Little bit of confusion yesterday when Guido misheard that Ed Balls went to Eton for an education, it wasn’t a scoop, The Times had it a year ago and it was Draperishly innacurate – as Balls tweets this morning.  Eric Pickles consequently made the same muddle on Today this morning (Eric is an avid Guido reader and this blog is one of his favourites).  So Guido will take this opportunity to clarify the facts on behalf of Ed Balls for chums and co-conspirators:

Ed’s father taught at Eton.  Nowadays Ed modestly boasts he went to a state comprehensive in Eton, which in truth he did briefly for one term.  His alma mater however is the exclusive private fee-paying (£10,000+ a year) Nottingham High School, founded in 1513.  The school’s motto ‘Lauda Finem’ means ‘praise to the end’, which perhaps explains Ed’s view of himself.  From there he went to Oxford’s Keble College, just like his father before him.  At Oxford he, like many other public schoolboys, joined the Oxford University Conservative Association.  He also joined a notorious exclusively all-male drinking club known as the “Steamers”.

Here is a picture of Ed enjoying himself at an initiation ceremony wearing full Nazi uniform staring at the crotch of a mooning fellow member of the “Steamers”:

The japes these public school boys get up to, eh?  After Oxford (where he first met Balliol girl Yvette) he went to George W Bush’s alma mater, Harvard.  It is not known if he joined the Skull and Bones club…


374 Comments

  1. 1
    • 52
      Tankboy says:

      Another rabbit out of the hat from Uncle Guido.

      I can always rely on you to make my Fridays even better

      Top work lad

      • 100
        holiday snaps ? candid photography ? nudge, nudge, know what I mean ? says:

        wait till you get a load of the Osborne photographs when they get leaked a few weeks before the election
        guaranteed catnip for the redtops

        • 102
          Say no more! A nods as good as a wink to a blind bat! says:

          • Tankus says:

            “Sally Bercow: I was a binge-drinking ladette who downed two bottles of wine a day and had one-night stands”

            http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1232914/Sally-Bercow-I-binge-drinking-ladette-drank-bottles-wine-day-night-stands.html
            __________________________________________________________
            In the interview with the London Evening Standard, Mrs Bercow said that at her worst, she was ‘an argumentative, stroppy drunk, picking arguments with my bosses over stupid things’.

            She confessed to one-night stands, saying: ‘I would end up sometimes at a bar and someone would send a drink over, and I’d think, “Why not?” and we’d go home together. I liked the excitement of not knowing how a night was going to end
            _____________________________________________________________
            nudge nudge …no need to say no more

        • 307
          BROWNED OFF says:

          You’re right holiday snaps. Cameron should ditch him now. The man is a time bomb and could cost us all very dear if it gives us another five years of incompetency. And while he’s at it stop putting that idiot Pickles up for interview. Every time he appears anywhere the polls show a labour leap in support.

      • 297
        Biffo says:

        Love his eye makeup – he looks like an escapee from the night club in ‘Cabaret’ or something to do with the ‘Rocky Horror Show’.

      • 300
        You're a toff says:

        It MUST be bad for New Labour if they have wheeled out that dinosaur John Prescott. He talks about the class war New Labour have started, strangely quiet about how a LOT of New Labour have gone to ‘toff’ schools, and got educated at university AT TAXPAYERS EXPENSE…. before changine the law and making sure there are lots of ‘middle class’ students wedded to New Labour’s banker friends and having to take out loans to get educated.

    • 53
      Anonymous says:

      Reading between the lines Guido, are you trying to say that all these useless Tory Etonian tosspots learnt their politics at the knee of Ed Balls’ old man?

    • 57
      Bollocks says:

      And He is now the Children’s Minister for the United Kingdom?

    • 65
      Trev says:

      Well Balls went to public school! Perhaps he changed his politics when he met his wife, like Bercow.

      Balls looks like he is wearing make up. The backside is a falsy though innit?

      I see Yvette ‘worked with’ Bill Clinton (ho hum) – and core blimey she is scottish. Another one.

      • 74
        4 & 20 Virgins says:

        Yep, She came down from Inverness

        Singing Balls to your partner…..

        • 107

          Fuck, I’ve got Highland Spring in me keyboard now!

        • 302
          Biffo says:

          My son taught me the words of that when he was drunk after a Rugby match once – I believe there’s a verse

          ‘The Minister’s wife, she was there, she had the crowds in fits
          By jumping from the mantelpiece & landing on her tits’

          Very apt!

          • A.F. says:

            The boy wife wouldn’t have much to land on.

          • copain says:

            Four and twenty vergins
            Came down from Inverness
            When the ball was over
            There was four and twenty less
            Singing balls to the skipper
            Arse against the wall
            If you’ve never been shagged
            On a Saturday night
            You’ve never been shagged at all

            Oggie oggie oggie

        • 327

          The Nazi Party, they were there
          Drinking up a storm
          But they are all New Labour now
          All cozy, nice and warm…

    • 95
      Cross Chris says:

      Not only Balls, but Geoff “property tyc” Hoon and Ken Clarke are all Old Nottinghamians

    • 208
      Jilly says:

      Not another Fawkes Balls up.Mistakes are getting more and more frequent.

    • 275
      Pickled Eric says:

      Eric Pickles ex Communist you mean, who claimed a second home allowance in Westminster even though his main home was 37 miles away.Makes me SICK! He couldn’t fit in the red army uniform.

    • 338
      Anonymous says:

      I have never understood the arguement that to be rich and priviledged is to be “Out of touch” automaticaly,

      “Out of touch is an attitude we can all have, is anyone suggesting poor son of the manse Brown is in touch, with anything but the planit coosbain?

      Try my little test

      1) Would you like a red hot poker shoved up your Ar*e

      Answer 1 yes = (you are weird)

      Answer 2 no

      2) If not why not

      Answer 1 )Dont know =(You’re still weird)

      Answer 2) It will hurt a lot and kill me.

      Reply = how can you knoew that you’ve never experienced it you cannot understand how it feels etc etc.

      ergo i know being poor sucks, i don’t need to be poor to know that or to think something should be done about it.

      Wilks and Liberty

  2. 2
    Ed Bawls says:

    Ve have veys of making you poor!

  3. 3
    Ed says:

    A first for the ZanuLab SS?

    • 46
      Road_Hog says:

      Ha, ha,

      It must be killing the BBC having to report about climategate now that the UN is involved.

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8394483.stm

      They’re still trying to put a bit of spin on it, saying police are involved to see if the computers were hacked. Hey BBC, when are you going to learn, we don’t care if the CRU computers were hacked, we want Phil Jones and his mob locked up, for years of taking public funds and allegedly mis-using them.

      • 54
        jgm2 says:

        Standard Labour/BBC spin. Like when Draper/McBride got caught out with the incriminating e-mails the fuckers were all about ‘who hacked into my computer’ rather than being red-faced about getting caught. Same when they had the MP arrested.

        Labour seriously believes it has the right to conspire in public against the voters and that if the voters then find out about it then it is the messenger who is at fault. They’re pure fucking evil.

        They really are.

        • 76
          Andy Carpark says:

          Don’t knock it. A ‘shoot the messenger’ tantrum is eventually what did for Michael Martin, not before time.

          • jgm2 says:

            Yeah, but it was a ‘shoot the messenger’ approach that did for David Kelly. The fuckers are at war with us.

      • 80
        Nemesis of the BBC says:

        Before we get too carried away, this UN investigation is likely to be done by the same characters who are behind the GW claim. What we really need is an investigation by scientists who are not memebers or contribute to the IPCC.

        Yes, the release of these e-mails is a good example of a public-interest action. If I was in the jury I would not convict anybody charged with releasing information that showed we were being mislead.

      • 164
        Anonymous says:

        This is like “smeargate” in slow motion.

        That happened mostly in a weekend, this is taking weeks to grow.

        ..and it’s something we’ve all known for ages anyway – Brown smears/Climate scientists lie, that’s how it goes but then suddenly something comes along which is picked up.

  4. 4

    Ed Balls the Nazi – like it!

  5. 5
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Is it a latvian SS uniform?

  6. 6
    Heil Balls says:

    Is that his Lady Boy wife before him.

    The uniform is appropriate I must say.

    • 8

      That’s the first thought that went thru my mind!
      I wonder if they claimed for a dungeon where she takes Blinky for a bit of “extras”?

    • 236
      Bail Olly says:

      Do think about this.Many of the women you see around with big boobs have had silicone implants.So they would have been flat chested before the operation.So many of you like big busted women but some of them have had tiny breasts in the past.Yvette is naturally good looking and has no need of false additions.

  7. 7
    Anonymous says:

    Rather a lot of make-up there!

    Maybe he should still wear it?

    Maybe he does!

    • 20
      Thats News says:

      So the truth about Ed Balls is even worse!

      His family are Champagne Socialists and that picture says it all. The thing is, Guido, this story is even bigger than how it first seemed!

      Balls DID Attend a private school -though he had to rough it for a few months at a poor person’s school, how sad- and he is sween gazing fondly at a fellow chap’s arse, whilst dressed as a Nazi officer. Right…

  8. 9
    Smiley says:

    Skull and Bones is Yale Society.George Bush was a Yale Undergraduate but did study at the Harvard Business School.You’ve had a bad week Fawkes.I suggest you vet your staff for moles.

  9. 10
    Jethro Q. Walrus-Titty says:

    The Sturmbanfuehrer like a bit of the bare arse eh?

  10. 11
    Ministry of Truth says:

    More toffs in the trough.

  11. 14
    genghiz the kahn says:

    I thought that Balls was more of a Brown Shirt.

  12. 15
    Chris says:

    Skull & Bones is at Yale. As was GWB.

    • 22
      Ministry of Truth says:

      How the fuck did he get in there – did he just get lost.

    • 25

      He went to Harvard after Yale.

    • 101
      Sukyspook says:

      “Skull & Bones is at Yale. As was GWB.”

      ……and the logo of the Nazi SS was??? the skull and bones.

      There must be something in the water here in Nottingham as Balls and Ken Clarke are Bilderberg multi-attendees. Balls went post and prior to becoming an MP – prior was when he worked for Brown and went in 2001 and 2003 allegedly. I wonder who paid for that/those “jollies” – let me guess…latterly he attended in 2006 as reported.

      NB – Wee Dougie Alexander also spent time in the US prior to his becoming an MP dot dot dot…move along please, nothing to see here.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_participants

      Ed Balls ‘The CV’ from the Independent:

      Born: 25 February 1967 in Norwich

      Family: Married to Yvette Cooper, two children

      Education: Nottingham High School, Oxford University, Harvard University.

      Career: 1989-90 Teaching fellow, Harvard

      1990-1994: Columnist, ‘Financial Times’

      1994-1997: Economic adviser to shadow Chancellor

      1997-1999: Economic adviser to the Chancellor1999-2004: Chief economic adviser to the Treasury

      2004: Prospective parliamentary candidate for Normanton

      Here’s the late Tim Russert (rip Tim) who DIED SUDDENLY within the last couple of years…:

      • 174
        An Actual Aussie Writes ... says:

        Doesn’t change the fact that Skull and Bones is a Yale thing, Guido.

        • 230
          Sukyspook says:

          Yale; Georgetown; Harvard; Oxbridge; Tory; ZNL; Lib Dem; Protestant; Jew; Mormon; Muslim; UK; US – it matters not which ‘front’ – it’s a mindset which transcends all boundaries/beliefs/views and it’s best described by the term/symbol “square and compass” which is better interpreted as:

          (a) DIVIDE AND (a) RULE…

      • 243
        Bail Olly says:

        What an impressive CV wow,swoon wow.Thanks for the publicity Guido.

      • 312
        Cross Chris says:

        So, lots of real life experience then! Classic MP CV.

  13. 17
    Stepney says:

    Those who live by the smear…

    • 91
      Oberleutnant Bratwurst, Waffen Coprophilia Squad says:

      I’d smear the lot of them.

      With a fuckin great Dirty Sanchez.

      Don’t even think about it Oaten. You’re still a plebiscite. No commenting until you’ve licked clean the glans of Colonel Fistula.

    • 92
      Mark Oaten says:

      What?

  14. 18
    Ministry of Truth says:

    Looks like the guy with fake arse is about to produce a steamer – is that an initiation trial for prospective club members?

  15. 19
    Anonymous says:

    George Bush’s alma mater (and the home of the Skull and Bones) was Yale, not Harvard.

  16. 21
    Klaus Waugh says:

    Can’t quite see what’s occurring with the other Steamers arse – looks like a stick on one, or is someone up his jacket backwards?

  17. 26
    Dack Blog says:

    Is that Balls bottom right?

  18. 27
    Watt Tyler says:

    Ed Balls in Nazi uniform? What about this:

    (2009) New Labour David Miliband M.P. -PARASITE AND SUPPORTER OF TERRORISM: http://eotp.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/2009-new-labour-david-miliband-m-p-parsite/

  19. 29

    He wanted to be in Eton, but not run by Eton.

  20. 30
    Chutney Barrel says:

    I bet he got bummed somewhere along the line

  21. 31
    BBc bastards says:

    Ot, sorry:

    Go over to have Your Say on the BBC website regarding “Climategate” – the “red to green” BBC censors are in overdrive to manipulate the posts.

    http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=7310&edition=1&ttl=20091204100033

    Its a bloody outrage – they are so Pravda.

    • 68
      Road_Hog says:

      Done my bit, let’s see if it passes moderation.

      • 71
        Road_Hog says:

        This just about sums it up,

        DEBATE STATUS
        Total comments:
        150
        Published comments:
        18
        Rejected comments:
        0
        Moderation queue:
        132

        • 86
          anon says:

          Nice top Readers Recommended post though:

          “The myth of AGW is exposed – the models created by the CRU have been manipulated & are now completely discredited.

          As many suspected all along – the AGW religion is just the same old tired anti capitalists who have merely changed their red flag for a green one.

          The BBC Environmental correspondent on R4 Today – he seems to be changing the story now – apparently its all about “creating wealth via green technologies” & not “global warming” or “climate change”.

          Winny Churchill

          Recommended by 41 people”

    • 94
      Andy Carpark says:

      The BBC ran a warming feature on the evening news earlier this week in which it was claimed that the Antarctic ice cap is melting, ‘therefore’ the seas are going to rise by two (three? six?) metres. I am no physicist but if an icecube melts in a glass of water, one thing that the glass does not do is overflow. I think the Beeb are more full of shit than the North Sea, which is presumably also due to overflow.

      • 136
        Ice Cube says:

        There would be no change if the Artic ice cap melted as this is surface ice on water. In the Antartic much of the ice is on land so if it did melt there would be a rise in sea levels. The same would apply with surface ice in Greenland, etc

        That said, I still think AGW is a load of balls.

        • 155
          Mr Quelch says:

          Ice Cube, I would pay more attention to your diatribe if you knew (a) how to spell “arctic” and (b) the first thing about the accumulation of ice in the Antarctic. As it is, the MMGW fiasco is becoming a confusion of hyperbole and vested interest, not helped by the input of ignorami such as yourself.

          • Ice Cube says:

            Let’s have your 5 cents worth then. Happy to stand corrected.

          • Spring in January says:

            Whatever, we’ve just had the wettest November ever in (parts of) Britain, the first-ever snow-free November in Toronto, you name it, some record is being broken almost every month. Something, my friends, is Going On.

          • Thats News says:

            And the only thing you found of interest was a typo? Whooo-hooo! You da Man! Respec! (sic) etc., etc…

      • 149
        Solopolis says:

        The Antarctic icecap has been increasing since at least 1980.

        The Arctic icecap has been decreasing since at least 1980.

        Wow, will you look at that! Nature has found a way to maintain a balance!

        Next mission, should you choose to accept it, is to ask UEA CRU how much warming has occured in the Southern hemisphere. Trust me, they don’t play hockey in Tasmania, nor Tierra del Fuego.

      • 152
        Agent 99 says:

        Andy you are correct if the ice is in the water but the Antarctic is not like the arctic insofar as the Antartic is a continent of rock iced over better known as permafrost (though yes ice is in the water as well know as ‘sea ice’ a lot of which is seasonal). Hence it is said the permafrost on land will melt and flow down into the sea and so they say raise the water level. Pravda are capitalising on this as opposed to other theories and ideas. I still agree with you that its all bullshit and probably just as likely to say the loss of all that weight at the bottom of the planet will turn the world upside down and we will all then fall off.

        Given the fact that the sea coverage of the earth is approx. 70% (before even the depths are taken into account) the cubic volume of water is enormous already and I reckon it will take more than an icecap melting to significantly affect that volume and raise the levels even cm’s rather than meters. Only in my opinion of course.

        • 359

          just as likely to say the loss of all that weight at the bottom of the planet will turn the world upside down and we will all then fall off….

          Don’t start another scare rumour for pity’s sake. It will be all over the news.
          Global gravity shortage caused by pollution. Gordon leads the way in calling for a gravity tax on tall buildings,. aircraft and stepladders.

      • 233
        Times they are a changin' says:

        And even if the water levels go up,what in gods name will anyone be able to do about it?

        1.) Call Steven Spielberg for advice?

        2.)Pray a lot?

        3.)or simply get on with life and accept that this is a tiny place in the middle of a bloody huge universe,a the whim of nature.

        How is anyone ever going to be able to turn the tide of nature – I suppose Brown is so used to thinking that if he creates a committee,then the problem is solved.

        Fuck em

    • 115
      Sukyspook says:

      In case anyone’s interested – here’s an excellent mp3 on the whole Club of Rome/Climategate/MMGW fraud which’ll probably get modded but I’ll give it a go – it’s one of the best expose’s of Climategate AND the global takeover by carbon tax scam:

      “Dr. Bill Deagle 12/02/2009

      DR MIKE COFFMAN PhD – BANKSTER BAILOUTS AND WORLD CARBON TAX SCAM PENDING CAP AND TRADE CONGRESSIONAL BILL — CLIMATE SHIFT GLOBALIST CARBONAZI EUGENICIDE PLOTS ! — COPENHAGEN TREATY WITH CARBON TAX CAP AND TRADE WITH GLOBALIST GREEN ADMINISTRATED WORLD ECONOMY ”

      http://www.twowitnesses.us/dr_bill_deagle_03_12_02.MP3

    • 118
      G Brown says:

      I gave up on the Beeb years ago. Do you realise how much we pay them? And they still can’t organise a bloody whitewash without making it obvious?

  22. 32
    Bill Gates says:

    Wow, now if Osborne was in a photo like that the media would never let it lie and his career would be over

  23. 34
    Charles Flaccidwidger says:

    No doubt this picture won’t be appearing on the BBC quite as often as pictures of the Bullingdon Club do.

    • 66
      jaziz says:

      If a senior Tory was found to have been pictured in the past in a Nazi uniform the BBC and Guardian would go absolutely mental and not stop “investigating” it.

      • 200
        Agent 99 says:

        I wonder if channel 4 will make a docu drama out of it and put on the TV right at the point of an importnat by election / election?

  24. 35
    Dr Iago says:

    Brilliant. I was at Nottingham High School with Ed (five years below) and I think that he could be reasonably described as a bumptious obnoxious twat. Should also point out that as an Old Nottinghamiam Ed is entitled to use the post nominal ON as set down by Henry VIII, strangely I’ve never seen him making use of this facility. Surely it wouldn’t expose him as a hypocritical hoon (sadly another NHS old boy) of the first order. His father was avid campaigner against the Eleven plus before moving to Nottingham and having then sent little Ed to NHS (thank you so much Professor Balls) is an even bigger hoon than his son…

  25. 37
    Cast Iron dave says:

    Labour Toffs

  26. 38
    We have ways of making you toast says:

    If the picture were to come to the attention of the European Press, the subject would be toast.

    The European sense of humour is a bit ‘deficent’ when it comes to the regalia of the former NS regime.

    Witness the Prince Harry outrage a few years back.

    I can see the headlines already should the fellow attempt to jump on the Euro train.

    • 41
      Dack Blog says:

      I had seen it before so they’ve had their chance. Plus it seems that Balls is an arse AND tits man.

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1062940/I-obeying-orders—Schools-Secretary-Eddie-Balls-dressed-German-officer.html

      • 96
        Dame Davina Pancake says:

        Well, just emailed it to the editor of Bild (circulation ca 4m) in Deutschland. Be interesting to see if they pick it up.

        • 123

          Haha!!

          Quality move!!

          A serving member of HM Government dressed up as a Nazi. After the furore over Prince Harry as well! The Germans will go postal!

          • jgm2 says:

            Labour will turn it into an Us ‘v’ The Germans issue of free speech. Hurray for Britannia standing against the Nazis. We defeated the Nazis so we’d be free to dress up as Nazis if we feel like it.

            Might get a few of their lost voters back from the B&P though.

      • 161
        Anonymous says:

        cut and paste blogging at it’s finest

    • 113
      rocknrolla says:

      That’s just it – you’ve got to hand it to the LEft – had the same pic come to surface of a senior Tory then the BBC/Guardian/Labour Party would all have swung into ruthlesss action over it, every Labour MP would bring it up everytime they get on TV, Denis McShame would be claiming that it means the Tory party has never changed and can’t work with “our European partners” and the BBC would just love it. Brown would even give a special interview condemning it, pointing out how he feels the pain of the holocaust and how Cameron now has to prove he isn’t a Nazi.

      So… the pic is actually a senior Labour politician – what’s the betting it is just forgotten about? There are many parallels the Tories could point to – the detention without trial, the starting of wars, the complicity in torture, the destruction of constitutional safeguards, the arrest of political opponents, the snooping on private citizens – they should use this picture to try to bring home to people just how nasty and authoritarian Labour are, not a single Tory should give an interview on anything without starting off by condemning the photo and flaunting how much they care and how Winston Churchill was a Tory. That is the approach Labour and BBC would take if it was the other way round, yet you just know Cameron doesn’t have the stomach for the fight, indeed most Tories don’t. Sad really.

      • 260
        Nick says:

        I wonder if the Tories are afraid to make too much of the Nazi photo in case any other photos record similar Tory ‘misjudgements’…

        • 287
          Peter Grimes says:

          Foxtrot Oscar, Toenails, back to your poorly-regarded and seriously censored ‘blog’ for Al-JaBeeBa!

        • 293
          jgm2 says:

          I doubt that. If there were similar ‘misjudgements’ they’d have been all over ‘The Mirror’ and the BBC by now. I don’t doubt though that our fine intelligence services, politicised to the point where they’ll write anything to justify a pre-determined war, will have been heavily mined by the government for a whole raft of embarrassing revelations/photos.

          After all, in the same way that a lot of our politicos on both sides did PPE at Oxford then that’s an obvious place to start building files on future politicians. Cameron, Osborne, Balls, Boris – every one of those fuckers will have a file that was opened the day they applied for their PPE. And Brown will have access.

          Maybe that’s why he’e looking so smug in his snideness lately. He’s got the dirt.

  27. 40
    Sir William Waad says:

    I recognise the arse in that photo!

    It’s the Secretary of State for Kids ‘n’ Stuff.

  28. 42
    Herr Braun says:

    Oberbefehlsleiter Edvard Balls

  29. 45
    Lord Reith says:

    Baronness Scotland on Desert Island Discs on Sunday. Any suggestions for her choice?

  30. 48
    Jabba the Cat says:

    Guess that confirms that Blinky is a fully paid up hypocritical hoon of the first order.

  31. 49
    Baboon 2-The Revenge says:

    Look Pickles,

    Pass this message to Dave. No wonder slippage in the
    polls. You fucking lied over Lisbon.

    Most people can’t stand this repellent moony scientology class envy
    bunch of sub culture mentally ill fuckers who lie and deceive
    in the name of international socialist bollocks.

    But if you lie like them…..

    • 83
      Road_Hog says:

      You forgot to mention that green Dave is following the climate change religion as well. Expect another dip in the polls.

      • 353
        Zacaroo says:

        Worse than that. Call Me Dave wants a carbon tax and RFID chips in your wheely bin.

        Imagine it, little old ladies dying of hypothermia because they cannot pay the carbon tax to put the gas fire on. Shameful.

  32. 51
    Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

    Ed the Nazi!

  33. 58
  34. 61

    Hahahahaha!!

    This has gotta be a wind-up!

    What next? Bob Ainsworth at Ampleforth? Dennis Skinner at Gordonstoun and a member of the Drones Club?

    • 77
      Klaus Waugh says:

      Upper class twits, coming here telling us what to do. Like they’ve liked on a council estate. Cocooned in thier private schools, Oxbridge education and bijou properties. How very dare they tell us how they empathise with the working man.

      Full list here

      http://www.workingclasstory.com/2009/12/labour-toffs.html

    • 114
      Training Plan says:

      I went to Gordonstoun! Cracking school. No Nazi uniforms there I assure you. Unsurprising as the Founder Kurt Hahn escaped Germany in a rowing boat across the North Sea.

      I saw that creature Dennis Skinner on the box the other night. He was so full of hate and spite he was hardly able to string a sentence together.

      Frankly the calibre of all Politicans is now so low what can one expect?

      God help us all

  35. 63
    BillyBob poops on ZaNuLab says:

    Nazis and Marxists supporters of totalitarianism….no change there then Mr Balls. However I think their ability is more like Allo Allo…… Ed and Yvette as Herr Otto Flick and Private Helga Geerhart.

  36. 64
    miserable old git says:

    Well,Guido either you or Ed have got it wrong.There is no state comprehensive school in Eton,the nearest comprehensives are in Windsor and Datchet.There is,however,a primary school located in Eton high street [in the shadow of the college].this is the Eton Porny school.

  37. 69
    Drew says:

    As an Nottingham High School old boy, he was widely regarded by the school, especially by a couple of old teaching staff who subsequently taught me, as a horrible, obnoxious prat who was too big for his boots.

    Sounds about right to me.

  38. 70
    Dave "Cast Iron Guarantee" Cameron says:

    Had Samantha and me is stiches Guido.
    Beats The Bullingdon Club hands down
    I will have to organise a charity cricket match between former members of “Bullingdon” and “Steamers”
    There won’t be a dry eye in the House

  39. 72
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Was he wearing his Nazi outfit when he put his £33 claim in for a remembrance day poppy wreath?

  40. 73
    Anonymous says:

    http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/Carter-Ruck.htm

    In other news Carter Ruck have been busy again.

  41. 75
    Huw Jampton says:

    You know, Balls looks extremely camp in this picture. I suppose the plastic arse doesn’t help. The effeminate visage in this shot reminds me of that scene in the film ‘Cabaret’ where Joel Gray (or is it Grey?) and a line of chorus girls change their outfits into a mock-up of nazi uniforms.

  42. 78
    13eastie (150 Days: Good-bye, Gordon!) says:

    Cabinet Disclosure of Secondary Education:

    HARMAN
    St Paul’s School for Girls (Fee-Paying)

    MANDELSON
    Hendon County (Grammar)

    DARLING
    Loretto (Fee-Paying)

    MILLIBAND x 2
    Haverstock (Comprehensive)

    STRAW
    Brentwood (Grammar, Boarding)

    BENN
    Holland Park (Comprehensive)
    His famous, rich, aristocratic father went to Westminster – poor Hilary!

    ALEXANDER
    Park Mains High School (Comprehensive)

    DENHAM
    Woodroffe (Comprehensive)

    BALLS
    Nottingham High School (Fee-Paying)

    BURNHAM
    St Aelrod’s (Roman Catholic Church School)

    WOODWARD
    Bristol Grammar School (Fee-Paying)

    ROYALL
    Forrest of Dean (Grammar)

    JOWELL
    St Margaret’s, Aberdeen (Fee-Paying)

    MURPHY
    Whites-only Secondary School, Capetown

    COOPER
    Eggar’s School (Comprehensive)

    BYRNE
    Burnt Mill School (Comprehensive)

    HAIN
    Emmanuel School, Battersea (Fee-Paying)

    AINSWORTH
    Foxford (Comprehensive)

    ADONIS
    Kinghorn Hill (Fees Paid by the State)

    BRADSHAW
    Thorpe St Andrew (Grammar)

    • 202
      Peter Grimes says:

      Is Jowells a clucking Jimmy as well? She is certainly ugly enough!

    • 203
      Climate Change denier and proud says:

      Ainsworth actually went to a school?

    • 219
      Agent 99 says:

      Nice one

      Be interesting to see the line up of them at Higher education / university.

      Cameron should read this out everytime thr fuckwitted one mentions Eton

      I think the Tory front bench had a lot less at grammar which is why Labours attack is so hypocritical.

    • 241
      Anonymous says:

      So, unlike Cast Iron Dave’s crowd, most of the Cabinet went to state schools. And your point is?

      • 262
        Peter Grimes says:

        Please fuck off!

      • 298
        13eastie (150 Days: Good-bye, Gordon!) says:

        Anonymous Prick,

        The point would not have needed spelling out to most people, but it seems a special case needs to be made for you.

        Most of the Labour cabinet went to (and presumably would not deny that they benefited to some degree from) EXCLUSIVE, SELECTIVE SCHOOLS, to which Labour is opposed.

        Many of these were highly expensive, fee-paying, independent schools, of the type the David Cameron’s parents chose for him.

        As usual, the Labour pot-plant is shown to be rather fragile and viable only within the confines of its (tax-payer funded) conservatory.

        People in glass houses should not throw phones (or masculine perfect rhymes thereof).

        Now fuck off.

        • 314
          Anonymous says:

          7 out of 21 went to private fee-paying schools (exactly 1/3 for the benefit of the retards here). Wonder what the comparative proportion is for the Shadow Cabinet. Post that figure up, prick.

          Now you fuck off.

          • 13eastie (150 Days: Good-bye, Gordon!) says:

            13 members of the shadow cabinet were state-educated.

            cf. 16 members of the cabinet were state-educated.

            Now, are you really going to try to suggest a difference of three among sixteen is of sufficient statistical significance to be used as evidence that Labour are not a bunch of desperate hypocrites whose political strategy is based on ad hominem attacks and the re-enforcement of the very social divisions that it claims to be eradicating?

            Go for it, you tiresome сunt.

          • Anonymous says:

            And the proportions, Hunt-face?

          • 13eastie (153 Days: Bye-bye, Gordon!) says:

            Hoon-face?

            Hoon was another Nottingham boy, like Nazi-Balls.

            Good work, shit-for-brains!

    • 340
      cant hunter says:

      You mean some of this lot were educated; my God you couldn’t tell.

  43. 81
    Rt Hon Hoon says:

    I would just like everyone to know I still am a total utter hoon.

    “Military chiefs were banned from buying equipment for British troops for months before the invasion of Iraq because Tony Blair did not want anyone to know he was preparing for war.
    Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon even ordered the head of the Armed Forces, Lord Boyce, not to speak to the head of defence logistics, responsible for ensuring service personnel have the right kit. ”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1232895/Iraq-inquiry-U-S-assumed-Britain-join-war-dismissed-need-UN-backing.html#ixzz0YiOlUAX6

  44. 82
    I Hate new Labour says:

    FFS, nobody cares.

    It doesn’t matter where somebody went to school as long as they can do the job.

    Brown didn’t go to public school, Blair did: both incompetent. See? Doesn’t matter.

    Why do the real issues (i.e. the desperate state of the economy) always get sidetracked by these items of trivia?

    • 172
      jgm2 says:

      Nobody cares. Until the BBC tells them to care.

      First time I’d heard of Ed Balls in Nazi Regalia. I bet he’s glad nobody took a picture of him saluting in it. Which, lets be honest, he’s bound to have done. But as others here have pointed out there is no end of ‘Bullingdon Club’ references in BBC and print to Cameron and Boris. All geared to keeping that class war prejudice alive in the minds of voters who will re-elect an absolute jackass like Prescott or Michael Martin for 80 years before they’d listen to a word anybody educated at Eton had to say. Minds firmly closed.

      And the BBC is front and centre in the war on truth and balanced reporting.

      Can you imagine if a photo of Cameron like this came to light. Or Osborne. Or any of the shadow cabinet? Try and imagine what Labour and the BBC would do with that. It would be headline news for days. There would be questions at Question Time. Questions in the House. Every Labour interviewee on no matter what unrelated topic would be incomplete without a painfully engineered reference to the Nazi past of so-and-so.

      • 235
        Agent 99 says:

        Side tracking is correct.

        Just remembered this morning before this latest crisis blew up Brown was in the shit anyway with the amount spent. Not as bad as it is now but it was always commented on this site.

        Of course the latest crisis blew up and everyone got ‘sidetracked’ and forgot Brown put us in the shit long before this but used this episode to bury all the problems but just created a bigger one. In other words it was not specifically the credit crunch, bankers bailout we will were all in the shit long before but now conveniently forgotten.

        The latest sidetrack is the bankers bonuses and BBC are going rabid on this. Of course it protects their masters from anything they may have done previously.

        Sidetracked indeed

        • 272
          jgm2 says:

          The groundwork was prepared at the BBC when they eviscerated them over the Gilligan/David Kelly furore.

          That is why the whole banking crisis got reported as ‘crisi of capitalism – failure of Thatcher’ story rather than ‘Brown’s economic reputation in tatters’. It matters because, via Labour and the BBC, the Tories are being blamed for this crisis even though Labour was is/was in government.

          Any time Brown looks to be in trouble now the BBC runs a story on the bnaks. Or bankers.

          Even this am they’re getting the meme out there that the banking crisis has cost 850bn quid when it’s about a tenth of that and likely to end up one twentieth. But that 850bn quid is importand because it’s just slightly more than the 800bn quid Brown has increased national debt by without any fucking banking crisis at all.

          You can see the soundbite being written already.

  45. 84
    Anonymous says:

    Why let the facts get in the way of a good story ??

    Nobody reading the Guido blog is interested in little details like whether a story is true or not.

    Guido has fucked up. Long Live Guido. To make up more stuff.

    • 138
      TaT the tramp f*cker says:

      rimming time again thickboy
      your tongue must need a rest by now surely?

      • 366
        Fidel X Penses says:

        Learn some respect, pigfucker. This is top boy you’re talking about. Anyone who describes Ed Balls as ‘sweating like a fucking rapist in interviews’ is out of your league.

  46. 85
    RestandBthankful says:

    Desert Island Disks song title for Baronless Ecosse

    I’m an Alien I’m an Illegal Alien

  47. 88
    13eastie (150 Days: Good-bye, Gordon!) says:

    Guido – you’ve modded my list detailing the Cabinet’s collective priviliged education.

    I didn’t even say сunt once!

    Do us a favour (we went to the same school, don’t you know?)

    • 143
      Corky the Cat says:

      prersumably if he lets that go through there will soon be loads of posts detailing the shadow cabinets even more priviliged education
      (the ones they hide at the Conservative website)

  48. 90
    Clarence says:

    Given their privileged, moneyed background, how can David Cameron and George Osborne possibly connect with normal people?

    However, Ed and Yvette were brought up on the ghettos of Alton, Nottingham High School, Balliol and Keble, so they have seen life at the sharp end, oh yes.

    • 131
      Training Plan says:

      As Alan B’stard often said “move along poor people”

      Why do those with nought act so proud and think they know it all? Pride destroys rich and poor alike in the end.

    • 197
      The Virger says:

      Actually, when I went to Keble it was more like the arse end of Oxford – mind you, they’ve gentrified it since women got in.

  49. 93
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Ed vos only obeying Gorders

  50. 126
    Angry Old Man says:

    A cabinet minister in a Nazi uniform. this will not go down well with his colleagues.

    Bye Bye Ed,

    http://angry-oldman.blogspot.com/

    • 165
      Sukyspook says:

      Truth really is stranger than fiction:

      “VF exclusive: Blackwater’s Erik Prince to step down, reveals CIA role”

      “Blackwater’s Erik Prince was recruited as a CIA agent in the years after the 9/11 attacks, says an exclusive report at Vanity Fair that also reveals the billionaire ex-Navy SEAL plans to step down from Blackwater

      to teach high school.**

      For the past six years, Prince “appears to have led an astonishing double life,” writes Adam Ciralsky. “Publicly, he has served as Blackwater’s CEO and chairman. Privately, and secretly, he has been doing the CIA’s bidding, helping to craft, fund, and execute operations ranging from inserting personnel into ‘denied areas’—places US intelligence has trouble penetrating—to assembling hit teams targeting al-Qaeda members and their allies.”

      Ciralsky reports that Prince became a CIA “asset,” or spy, who became a “Mr. Fix-It” in the war on terror.”

      **I wouldn’t want him teaching my children.

      And tell us, what are the origins of the CIA???:

      • 279
        The Horrible Truth says:

        For gods sake when will the evil institution of the Catholic church be wiped off the face of the earth?
        It morphs its way through history leaving blood and corruption in its wake and to this very day is involved in Child abuse and cover ups on an industrial scale.
        You can judge something by the company it keeps.
        Hitler,Mussolini,Franco and now Blair among many other notorious followers.

        • 291
          Sukyspook says:

          Catholic can be defined as ‘universal’ – which is planned to be the ‘religion’ of the new world odour which is why you see various “religious leaders” visiting God’s right-hand-man (not imo) Papa Razzi and John Paul before him etc.

          “By their fruits you shall know them” and “all roads lead to Rome” pretty much sum it all up eh!

    • 269
      backwoodsman says:

      No, it was early training for life in the bunker.

  51. 128
    The Fallen Angel says:

    So either he’s deficient in personal judgement by wearing the uniform in the first place or he’s so easily led and manipulated by his friends that he cannot say no to anything they suggest…

    Whichever it is if any decent investigative journalist takes this story up and runs with it his political career has to be over…

    Thanks for making my day Guido!

    • 245
      Nooness Scottie putting her 3rd record on Desert island discs says:

      “his political career has to be over”

      Really?

  52. 141
    Disco Biscuit says:

    My goodness, look at his face; he looks like he’s about to felate the chap.

    It’s a wonder Yvette got a look-in, isn’t it?

    Do you think he still has the uniform? Maybe she makes him wear it on “special days”…

    • 341
      cant hunter says:

      Yvette is not a bad looking gel; indeed quite shaggable in a way. But just how can any woman really endure being fucked by tht bug eyed little creep.

  53. 144
    Ed_the Shred says:

    Thou beholdest the moat in thy brother’s eye but considerest not the three (flipped)Tudor roof beams in thy own……………….

  54. 148
    Penfold says:

    Now there’s class warfare. Class.

    NuLieBour will soon become an adjunct of Opus Dei, beatings and thrashings all round, no wonder Ruth Kelly quit in a huff, scourging had lost its exclusive cachet.

    No wonder Gordo et al have bleating on about toffs and Eton. No mention about the ladies though, perhap HarPerson has issued a demarche re St Pauls her ole alma mater……..you wouldn’t want to annoy her now would you!

    As for Balls in uniform, perhaps he would like to apologise for his lack of discernment, a facility he has taken to public life, or perhaps Yvette loves a uniform and posturing. That’s her wearing the uniform and Balls having his balls kicked whilst writhing in ecstasy……….

    ………..Oh god the thought is making me sick.

  55. 151
    genghiz the kahn says:

    latest score on BBC HYS Climategate

    DEBATE STATUS
    Total comments:360
    Published comments:87
    Rejected comments:1
    Moderation queue:272

    4/5 not published, I wonder why.

  56. 153
    dr. sipp says:

    whats it about NAZI uniforms

    springtime for hitler and germany

  57. 154
    Reichschancellor ( in-waiting, and waiting and waiting ) GoBalls says:

    UN-MASKED BY GUIDO FAWKES.

  58. 158
    Nick says:

    So Ed Balls is proven to be even more compromised than McBride wanted people to believe that Osborne was. Why aren’t the BBC or the Grauniad baying for Balls’ blood?

  59. 160
    Peter Grimes says:

    That is definitely Yvette Cooper-Bollox’s skinny arse, and Sweaty Bollox is about to do some smoking!

    (This would have made a great caption thread, GF!)

  60. 166
    Sarge says:

    Guido,

    I take my hat off to you. Labour’s fuckwitted class war line is going to be unravelled by how they play this.
    Any defence they try to make can be used to either deflect the Tory toffs allegation.So much for dividing lines

    Let’s watch the troll overload you get -that should tell us how well you prodded the party’s tender bits.

    • 178
      Building Up an Ed of Steam says:

      So Ed was a ‘founder member of the Steamers’ .

      He certainly has remained a fcuking great steamer all along.

  61. 169
    Charles Flaccidwidger says:

    Prezza currently on BBC News 24 displaying all of the verbal dexterity that you would expect fom such an incompetent gobshite.

    • 185
      Prezza is Blair's man says:

      Actually he spoke a lot of sense. That was a direct attack on Darling and Brown, dressed up as one at the bankers.

      • 204
        jgm2 says:

        How’s that then? Was he attacking Brown and Darling for their reckless squandering of 200bn quid in an effort to by a single quarter of 0.1% growth before the election?

    • 192
      Climate Change denier and proud says:

      Did the BBC ask him about his habit of fucking women that are not his wife by chance? I thought not.

      • 215
        Charles Flaccidwidger says:

        Funnily enough, they seemed to have forgotten that. They also didn’t mention his huge pension pot and salary, paid to him despite his staggering incompetence. I suspect the interviewer must have forgotten it.

        • 255
          jgm2 says:

          Did they ask him what scientific qualifications he had tobecome a visiting lecturer at a Chines university? Did they ask him did his interest in global warming occur before or after he authorised building 100,000 new homes in a flood plane. Did they ask him what exactly the Chinese were getting out of the deal since it manifestly isn’t anything educated on global warming. Indeed it’s unlikely to be anything educated on any subject at all.

  62. 171
    Gordon says:

    He was a very pretty boy, he served me well and has been rewarded.

  63. 181
    Philip Hammond says:

    In negotiating the rescue package they told us at the time they had secured cast-iron guarantees.”

    http://page.politicshome.com/uk/cast_iron_guarantees_on_lending_holding_back_economy_says_hammond.html

    A rather unfortunate turn of phrase from Mr Hammond.

    • 184
      genghiz the kahn says:

      If Brown has had anything to do with it they will have been cast enron guarantees.

      I’ll get my coat.

    • 278
      If you wanna save me, pay me says:

      The ‘money’ is filling the black holes in the banks’ balance sheets and is being recycled into government debt at a better return than the millions of savers could ever hope for.

      Hence the bonuses. The banks are deriving profits from the tax payer.

      A bit like a patient charging the the bloodbank for the privilege of saving his life with a transfusion or making the fire brigade pay to extinguish the fire in your house.

      The money isn’t going to businesses at anything like the rate it should.

  64. 182
    El Gordo's Nokia, ouch wish he wouldn't take it out on me says:

    Sorry guy old chap Scull & Bones which does not excist it is at Yale sorry guy old chap your slipping two Balls ups

    • 186
      Peter Grimes says:

      Learn to spell, fuckwit!

      • 318
        Artistic Licence says:

        To Peter the Human spell checker, you can spell a word but you cannot put them into context in a sentence. Catch the mystery catch the drift.

  65. 189
    Climate Change denier and proud says:

    Ed Balls a nazi, surely not? Yvette as Eva Braun?

  66. 190
    Mike Law says:

    If this is a picture of Balls at Uni, what fucks me off if that if a Tory or anyone from another political organisation had dressed up as a Nazi, Labour would be hounding them into the ground.

    No doubt this will be passed of as youthful high jinx… utter bollocks.

    They are hypocritical arseholes.

  67. 193
  68. 194
    • 258
      Nokia =" 'nother one killed in action" says:

      They should have introduced a phone throwing area with targets of cabinet ministers – then we could have had the Nokia Olympics.

      These retailers simply lack the imagination needed to get customers in to their stores these days.

  69. 199
    Climate Change denier and proud says:

    Have the BBC run this yet? Oh hang on of course not, can you imagine if a Tory were in a Nazi uniform? The BBC would be having it as the top story.

  70. 211
    Berghof says:

    Fantastic, the full ZaNaziLiebor uniform of the staats Polizei.

    Should still be worn on all occasions lest we forget what this bunch of criminals are truly like!

  71. 216
    jgm2 says:

    It’s more about paying taxes than class, isn’t it?

    • 284
      Engineer says:

      Not many people bother a jot about class, they judge as they find. About the only people who do are Mirror journalists and Labour spin-jockeys. If Labour continue with the class-war, ‘tory toffs’ attack line, it’ll lose them votes as the majority of people, from all backgrounds, get more and more sick of hearing it. It didn’t do them any good in Crewe and Nantwich.

  72. 221
    Peter Grimes says:

    I just love the link on the RH to ‘Labour’s Privately-Educated Rump’!

    So that IS Yvette Cooper-Bollox’s arse!

  73. 222
    jgm2 says:

    OT

    Gordon chucks his toys out of the pram. Again.

    http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8394576.stm

    • 237
      Engineer says:

      “A rift between France and the UK.”

      There’s a novelty.

    • 290
      Gordon is kwoss says:

      Sarkosy cancelled a visit to Sweden a while back after a speech confirming his doubts about Turkish entry to the EU a fewdays before. Sweden held the rotating Presidency that had just cleared further negotiations with Ankara that very week.

      The excuse was ‘prior commitments’.

      It’s diplo-speak for ‘we is miffed and don’t want to see your Frog face’

    • 308
      Osama the Nazarene says:

      Sarko got one over on ditherer Brown. Quelle surprise. Incompetent dithering fuckwit!

      • 364

        This is all part of a Gordon populist comeback idea that has leaked out.

        The idea from Campbell central was to link Labour in the minds of the people with a popular TV show.

        ‘Allo ‘Allo was chosen. just in the planning stage so far.

        Rene – Sarkozy
        Yvette Carte-Blanche – Yvette Cooper
        Maria Recamier – Cherie Blair
        Mimi Labonq – Hazel Blears
        Edith Melba Artois – Margaret Beckett
        Madame Fanny – Glynis Kinnock
        Michelle “of the Resistance” Dubois – Caroline Flint
        Monsieur Roger LeClerc – Jack Straw
        Major-General Erich Von Klinkerhoffen – Gordon Brown
        Colonel Kurt Von Strohm -Bob Ainsworth
        Lieutenant Hubert Gruber – Andy Burnham
        Herr Otto Flick – Ed Balls
        Private Helga Geerhart – Harriet Harman
        RAF Flight Lieutenants Fairfax and Carstairs – some toffs {possibly Hoon and Hutton}
        Officer (Captain) Crabtree – Alistair Darling.

        Scene 1 capt crabtree disguised in EU customs outfit meets Rene at the cafe.

        “Good Moaning. I was pissing all ze money away and I wuunted to get my hands on zis Balls fellow. Tell me Rene, is it true he was once bummed by ze Luftwaffe?”

  74. 225
    Engineer says:

    Anybody remember the tut-tutting and arm-waving when Prince Harry wore a “Nazi” uniform? That one wasn’t as convincing as the one Reichshoon Balls wears in the above photo, which must now be treasured and aired frequently, every time Balls makes any comment about Tory toffs, Bullingdon club etc (so about five times a day).

    Eric Pickles is an avid reader, hey? Mornin’ Eric. Wonder what screen-name he posts under? You’re not really ‘thick as theives’, are you, Eric?

    • 265
      Pickled says:

      Morning Eric. Still in touch with ordinary folk?

      • 276
        Engineer says:

        Nearly as bad as Hoon, Morley, Moran, Uddin……

        • 288
          Pickled says:

          Replace one set of piggies with another. Some improvement.

          • Engineer says:

            All MPs are guilty of troughing, but some are more guilty than others. Irrespective of party.

            On the subject of hypocricy, Labour are by far the worst. They bang on about ‘Tory toffs’, whilst desperately trying to play down their own, often equally privelidged, backgrounds. Balls is just one example.

          • Pickled says:

            “but some are more guilty than others. Irrespective of party.”
            No. You either take the taxpayers for c’unts or you don’t.Pickles is no better or worse than other thieves.His whole attitude of “I’m too important to commute like a drone” tells you everything about his contempt for us.

          • Engineer says:

            Pickles ain’t perfect, but at least he doesn’t bang on about class, privelidged background, and all the other hypocritical bollocks we get from NuLieBore, many of whom have a privelidged background or public school education. Also, as far as I know, Pickles has never worn a Nazi uniform.

          • Pickled says:

            Balls is a c’unt who’s on his way out of government,and hopefully Parliament.
            Pickles is a c’unt who’s on his way into government.

            P.S. I’d be surprised if there was a fancy dress hire business with a nazi uniform in Pickles size.

    • 280
      Agent 99 says:

      Just in case we forget

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4170623.stm

      “Lord Falconer told BBC One’s Question Time: “He apologised straight away after the mistake became public. I think we should leave it at that.”

      “The photograph, taken at a friend’s birthday party in Wiltshire at the weekend, has prompted outrage from politicians and anti-fascist campaigners who accused the prince of insensitivity.”

      Funny had a good look around Pravda and no mention of Balls on this even on the serch engine.

  75. 226
    Disco Biscuit says:

    Ed Balls (or should we now call him Ed Goeballs?) is still a very ambitious man. Take a look at this:

    http://www.tackfilm.se/en/?id=1259926957438RA39

  76. 227
    Cyco Billy says:

    Is this Friday Caption Competition?

    ‘Revealed: how Ed Balls was converted to endogenous growth theory’

  77. 240
    Trollop says:

    Ed Balls kicked Michael Gove’s head in over the planted question on anti terror fund funding terror, it blew up in his face and Cameos.

    It was another turning point.

  78. 242
    Anonymous says:

    Guido’s not having a good week. He’ll be telling us Spain isn’t in the G20 next… ;)

  79. 246

    A little bird (not Yvette) told me that Mark Oaten was in fact one of the founders of the Cleveland branch of The Steamers.

  80. 248
    My own experience says:

    I am a climate change sceptic,but I have to relate an experience;

    My wife and I went on honeymoon in 1989 to Grindelwald,Switzerland.

    One day we visited a glacier at the head of a valley – you could simply walk along a path and then into the depths of the glacier through ice tunnels – you know how the Swiss can do anything with tunnels.

    Well,we took our kids to Grindelwald in 1999 , ten years later and took them to the glacier so that they could walk inside etc.

    My face must have been a picture when we got there to find no sign of the glacier – it had vanished to reveal a smooth rock face with some stairs that you could climb (again the Swiss are clever) – the damn glacier had retreated so much in 10 years it was incredible.

    So the water had melted – why so quickly I don’t know.

    • 282
      Anonymous says:

      Dirt from pollution. The clever Swiss never worked out how to vacuum the glacier and remove all the Diesel soot. There is no feature of nature that can destroy this floating black sun absorbing dirt. The Glacier has to melt to get rid off it.

      “Around a third of all new cars in Switzerland now run on diesel and demand for the fuel is increasing, according to the latest figures.”

    • 299
      Cold Light of Day says:

      Glacier don’t melt, they ablate.

      They do it all the time and require replenishment from higher levels.

      Ablation is also a feature of colder but DRIER conditions in which the water is removed as vapour and not replaced.

      Warming (Global or otherwise) is not the only reason for glacial ‘retreat.

      I live in a region where snow is a fact for 12 weeks in the winter.

      The ‘firn’ (fresh snow) compacts under its weight as the air escapes and the crystals turn to blue ice.

      With no further snow over two or three weeks with – 9 temp., the snow can disappear without ‘melting’ by evaporating from the surface.

    • 303
      Lil Olmey says:

      Must be Prezza putting it all in those G and Ts.

      • 330
        My own experience says:

        Well,I did notice a really fat bloke with a blond tart standing complaining in a very loud voice to the Swiss ticket collector;

        “Oh,Klaus, where’s the fucking ice gone mate!”

        Must have been him.

  81. 261
    oldfella says:

    funny how times change

    the Tories were always the ones who left public school amongst all sorts of high jynx, looked down on everbody and then went into politics. They were not too fussed about poverty or welfare rather tried to maximise profits, especially their own.

    the Labour party was always into wefare and equality and members would often go without to enhance the general good. They looked down on private education and fought for redistribution.

    These days you could be forgiven for thinking it was exactly the other way round. Although it makes it a lot easier to hate the fucking lot of them.

  82. 263
    Potkettle says:

    Guido

    You really should ask the jewish Millipede twinset what they think of a colleague being a holocaust supporter

  83. 281
    crack of Dawn says:

    Ah – poor Guido. Got it wrong again?

    Had you actually read Gary Gibbon’s blog properly you’d have been able to pass this story off as your own. As you do all the time.

    Funny, that. I remember you cursing The Londoner for doing precisely the same thing…

  84. 285
    David Hendon says:

    Confirms everything I ever thought about Ed Balls, and anyone associated with “ZanuLabour” rabble!

    I tell you something – after Glenthrothes and Glasgow North East, be afraid and fully prepared for a host of Labour marginals to be well and truly fixed up come results night. This lot aint preparing to give up power at any cost, I have said it for a long time!

    god help us all………

  85. 294
    Yvette says:

    where did it all go wrong?

  86. 301
    Osama the Nazarene says:

    Brilliant, simply brilliant. Nuliebor hypocritical bankers!

  87. 304
    Gurner says:

    “Draperishly innacurate” – I like it. ‘Draperishly’, can we get it in the urban dictionary? (((((snarf………..))))))

  88. 306
    streamfisher says:

    Surprised Guido hasn’t mentioned the latest instalment of the Curse of Gordon Re-Copenhagen, big build up, must get all World leaders to attend, vital, last chance, save the World (with Brown in the foreground for photo-op), then oops!, Government funded climate spin organisation caught with pants down, Is it now 10 days left to try and salvage some credibility?

  89. 321
    Jimmy says:

    “it was Draperishly innacurate”

    I think the term is “Fawksian”

  90. 332
    "Two Banjos" says:

    Look you Tory wankers, just because Ed had a spot of fun at uni wearing makekup and Nazi unionfirms it doesnt follow that he isnt a socialist with the natural interests in his heart
    You are going to lose, live with it
    John

  91. 335
    Lord Carrington's binoculars says:

    There’s no doubt that Labour has set up massive postal-voting scams because its own ‘supporters’ never get off their arses to vote. Either that or they’re the sort of people who need ‘guidance’ from community elders.

    However, the closer we get to the election, the clearer the signals from the markets that anything but a cutting-Conservative government will instantly result in a loss of triple A ratings and a serious economic crisis.

    I can’t see the Liberals propping up Gordon in a hung parliament because even they know what will happen if Gordon got back into No10 and carried on spending.

    Labour’s answer to all our problems is to spend more than we have.

    Whether we’re in a boom or a bust, the Labour solution is ‘more spending’.

    Is there any circumstance when spending is not Labour’s answer?

  92. 337
    Anonymous says:

    Bush went to Yale (where the Skull and Bones is), not Harvard. He then went to Harvard business school.

  93. 342
    Naked Nazi butt says:

    I take it the BBC and the press are calling for Ed Ball’s immediate resignation?

  94. 343
    Jumbo says:

    Minister for children should swear a badge saying KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN. (So should most of his colleagues past and present come to that.)

  95. 348
    Lincolnshire Squire says:

    SS were routinely shot out of hand. Oh, happy thought.

  96. 349

    I highlighted Ed Balls’ Hitleresque leanings back in May

  97. 350
    Nick F says:

    Skull & Bones is at Yale not Harvard

    • 351
      Nick F says:

      GWB was undergraduate at Yale, then Harvard Business School (tough entrance requirements, apparently)

      Does Yvette have meat and two veg? I reckon she’s a strong candidate

  98. 363
    Groucho says:

    I’m sure we all did stupid things as young men and women, but purely for the sake of humiliating Balls, this picture must find its way into the mainstream media.
    He always strikes me as insufferably smug. Lets see his reaction to this.

  99. 368
    denverthen says:

    Er, is that cut off thing in the bottom right hand corner of the photo an arse?

    If so, then it perfectly matches that nazi thing on the left hand side.

  100. 369
    Simonsview says:

    I can tell you that Balls is pretty much despised at Nottingham HS.

  101. 370
    NoWotIMeen says:

    So the press had a good go at prince wotisname for wearing nazi gear at a teen party, so what the fuck are they going to do about Balls?

    Nothing.

    Hunts.

  102. 372
    David Lindén says:

    Guido, small point of information: Skull and Bones are at Yale where George W. Bush did his undergraduate degree. At Harvard he went to Harvard Business School. Keep up the good work

  103. 374
    Anonymous says:

    good grief, you don’t mean a Labour politician could be a hypocrite do you!

  104. 218
    jgm2 says:

    No they’re not.

  105. 224
    jgm2 says:

    Not really.

  106. 220
    jgm2 says:

    That’s correct.

  107. 229
    Trollop says:

    Try to guess

  108. 252
    jgm2 says:

    On the subject of androgeny, what is it with Sam Cameron?
    She looks completely freaked out all the time.

  109. 266
    jgm2 says:

    Half or more of population of China is on a flood plain.

  110. 270
    Anonymous says:

    Possibly

  111. 289
    David Hendon says:

    who will rid us of this horrible, nauseating “government” and all their hangers on?

    you just know they will try and fix the results at next election….or delay the election if the polls don’t improve, on the excuse of some “national emergency”. I just know it in my bones!

  112. jgm2 says:

    My bones tell me the same thing. This will be the nastiest election campaign in UK history. It will be characterised by lies and smears from Labour, there will be massive amounts of postal votes in marginal constituencies.

    But we’ll only get to that point if the polls close to within hung parliament territory. Otherwise it’ll be financial crisis II, THE BIG ONE. Elections suspended to allow the government to ‘do the right thing’. A ‘National Government’ populated by a cabinet of all the same Labour MPs as before and Cameron given a job as Minister for Recycling.

  113. streamfisher says:

    Who will rid us of this turbulent Priest?

  114. Jumbo says:

    Frighteningly close to the truth, God help us.

  115. Auntie Flo' says:

    Her young son died just months ago, jgm2, if there are any freaks around here, I would say it’s you.



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