Guido is frankly surprised with Mehdi Hasan’s latest article “In Defence of Ed Balls“. Not that the ‘senior political editor’ of the New Statesman is defending the indefensible, it is his admission that “I don’t know him. Never met him.”
How do you get to be a ‘senior political editor’ of a supposedly serious political journal without ever having met Ed Balls? Staggering.
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Max Clifford says…
“Most people want to read nasty things about people, not nice things.”
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
Never met Ed Balls?
I’ll bet Balls’ constituents would share the thought…
One of my ambitions is never to meet Ed Balls
Would that no one had ever met him. I do not wish ill on his mum, but she knew not what she was doing when young Eddie popped out.
I’ve never met Brown, Blair, Cameron, Campbell or even Steve Hilton
But I still know they are all wankers
And so do most of the public
Guido, surely you must know by now that politics is not a meritocracy, it’s about who you know not what you can do and your abilities. I’m surprised that you are shocked that someone could be a senior political editor of a left wing rag and having not yet met senior policy makers within the party he writes for.
Inversely: Guido, surely you must know by now that politics is a meritocracy, it’s not about who you know but what you can do and your abilities.
As they say in Scotland,
“You couldn’t love him if you’d reared him.”
perhaps the anti british, war monger backing creep has been given his orders by ball`s bilderberger pals to pump out more propaganda to go with the rest of the propagda they already pump out on a daily gasis.
anyone want their children indoctrinated at great cost on global warming – the NWO hoax of the millenium, backed by ALL the mainstreme lib lab con bilderberg riddled parties.
yep good old dave gets his kicks shoving this global totalitarian lie down our throats with his trillionair puppet masters – er i man pals – the goldsniffs and the interwoven rottenchilds.
just throw trillionair big ears charlie boy and you have the full house of elitist shits out to destroy you and what`s more you get to pay for it!
dave, gordon, osbore, balls.
puppets to the trillionair banking elites each and every one of them.
meet the new boss, same as the old boss!
You missed out ‘Common Purpose riddled!’
You beat me to it Expat.
I wish I’d never met Ed Balls
Mine too expat. I hope never to meet Brown, Blair, Straw, Reid or any of the other ministers that lied us into a war in Iraq either.
How do you know I have never met them?
I am not in prison for murder!
I long to meet them as part of their jury.
My right foot dearly hopes to one day meet Ed’s balls.
Guido, give Mehdi Hasan time. He’s a young bloke (29/30?) and actually it’s a strength of his that unlike people like Marr and Toynbee he’s not part of the left-wing/Islington journalist establishment. Mehdi is of the left but he’s a free-thinker. The future of the New Statesman and probably the Guardian too, if they are to avoid bankruptcy, is in writers like Mehdi.
Guido, give Mehdi Hasan time. He’s a young bloke (29/30?) and actually it’s a strength of his that unlike people like Marr and Toynbee he’s not part of the left-wing/Islington journalist establishment. Mehdi is of the left but he’s a free-thinker. The future of the New Statesman and probably the Guardian too, if they are to avoid going broke, is in writers like Mehdi.
You consider it a strength of someone to indulge so heavily in the politics of envy with spite-laden descriptions of siginificant sectors of the population of this country?
Mehdi is no free thinker, just a bitter, narrow-minded little man who craves control and uniformity and expects it to be applied to all citizens.
give him time ? sure, how about 25 years for treason ?
He is just another mooslim supremacist. Fuck him, fuck the fucking Guardian, and fuck the pantomime horse they rode in on.
He’s not of the left – or even of the right. In islam, there is neither left nor right: only islam, and Hasan is most definitely a muslim.
Ed tells me to tell you he is the most wonderful person ever.
He saw the plot off on his own and i won’t be were I am without him ( oh and Pandy Mandy) – so no need to meet him.
Interesting to read what the Times has to say about Gordon’s desperate surrender to the pack of wolves we call the Cabinet. It seems that the delay in “support” was not so much deliberate hinting at doubt as an interval during which the pack snarled for a few bones that Brown reluctantly fed them.
What a load of Balls.
When I play Rugby, I always defend my Balls.
The device that I employ is called a jockstrap
Especially when McBruin’s coming round on the blind side.
Can’t agree with Guido on this one; I don’t read New Statesman, and I doubt I’d like Mehdi Hasan even if I knew who he was, yet being required to meet the odious Mr Balls just keep one’s job is a fate I wouldn’t wish one anyone.
He looks like a muslim.
Brown, beard, Asian.
Perfect Labour Spokesperson
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/awards/index.php?page=2009/hasan
From the Zanu Labour Tribal Areas I presume ?!
BTW, when are we going to have a Tribal Areas Act in Britain, with Sharia law, polygamy, female excision, burkas and the whole works…?!
Which would apply to the Catholic Scottish Working Class Tribal Areas as well; from which so many Labour thieves seem to come ?!
Talibani by any chance ?
I’ve always understood the title “senior” to mean someone who has a big ego but is too useless to merit a step up the ladder, i.e. being “senior manager” rather than “director”. This would seem to support that theory.
He got the job thanks to positive discrimination in favour of the politically unconnected.
He does look like a Muslim though. -
If I was him I’d avoid Heathrow after they introduce racial profiling.
politically uneducated and unwashed you mean ?!
Why would anyone want to meet the odious Ed Balls under any circumstances?
I can think of one exception… meeting him with the express plan to punch the fucker hard in the face.
What a pervert.
Ed Balls is a really mad little c’unt he needs sectioning and boiling in milk
Ed Balls always strikes me as a little bit thick.
His ramblings on Sky News on Wednesday were plain embarrassing and if that the calibre of Brown’s cabinet (think Milband as well) then it’s no wonder the country is screwed.
Didnt Balls finished fourth in his year at Oxford. Then when you see him on tv you just think HOW?
he sounds like an utter cretin.
You can’t finish 4th in your year at Oxford! What on earth are you on about? Do you visualise a sort of undergraduate marathon?
There were only three that year.
What did Balls study at Oxford?
He’s not thick, he’s a socialist…oh wait…
He’s probably never met Mr Bean either
But he sure looks like him !
A quick glance at Balls on the telly is enough to learn everything you’d ever want to know about him.
Where does one find this list of Politico’s and SpAds you absolutely must meet before you are deemed fit to write about them ?
I must say this sounds very Westminster insider and the type of thing one would expect from a snooty Lobby journalist not a blogger
Leaves a bit of an unpleasant elitist taste does it not ?
A well known indendent sports radio broadcaster used to commentate live on radio, on matches that they were watching on TV, giving the impression they were there.
Was Mr Fawkes in the Commons yesterday ?
Has he attended every PMQ’s ? Everyones Party Conference ?
It’s all very Westminster insider willy waving I’m afraid
The type of thing sozzled old Westminster hacks and correspondents get round to after hours in their watering holes and just too tedious for words
A blogger should know better than to start a pissing contest on the subject of namedropping Politicos one has personally met
TF. You have issues, in addition to being a crap troll. Seek help and fit a breathalyzer to your laptop.
You Fuckwit.
the tiny twatty tory toddler is back
did you escape from nanny and find your way to a keyboard again ?
no cutting and witty ‘you smell’ comeback this time I see
now run along and watch CBeebies little twat before you embarrass yourself again
By mistake I read the article in question.
The author can carry on with his ideas: Class war, tax the rich, ignore middle England, Blanchflower etc. Perfect.
Staggeringly shocking article too! What a loon. I can only assume he does not earn £100 +. I’m sure he can voluntarily give some more of his money to this useless government if he wants? Or cut out the middle man and take a load of benefit claiming chavs to the Goucho for dinner?
Why doesn’t he send lil ‘ol Ed a tweet?
Balls wanted to meet me but I left him dangling.
Don’t know him. Never met him. Never want to meet him. Hope he falls over in the snow and lands on his ego.
Guido Wheres the Caption Contest ?
There must be some great photo’s around this week
Yeah. Bring it on. My mind is idling and the fuel is running low.
I have to say that the best bit of Ed Balls ran down the crack of his mums arse.
You’re assuming a hell of a lot there. Who’s to say Ed Balls Mum’s arse has got a crack in it. I’d like a second opinion please. Is there a Doctor on the blog?
I can confirm that, like humans, baboons do have a crack in their arse.
Does this answer your query?
Has Mehdi Hasan got a cleft palate?
Not sure but I can arrange for him to get one
Why on earth would anyone willingly (or even unwillingly) want to meet the odious Mr Balls. While I can see why a political editor should have met him surely bonus points should be awarded for successfully failing to.
Hey that title of your thread sounds like a great idea fro my latest movie
“In defence of Ed Balls”
It’s going to be a blockbuster and I can see Guido & Old Holborn in the lead roles.
This has made my week-end
…you are easily pleased…
did you enjoy your Orange for Xmas?
Who will play Guido?
It makes a change from more holocau£t agit-prop.
How about Saving Balls Balls or
saving Ball’s privates ?
Turned out nice again!
I wouldn’t worry too much about not meeting Martin Bormann (Ed Balls) he wont be in his job for much longer so there is little need for Mr Hasan to get to know him.
Balls is more of a Stalin to Brown’s Lenin with Mandelson as Zinoviev and Miliband as Trotsky.
Beware of muzzies in high places.
Beware of muzzies anywhere anytime.
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wont be long now any way, the pickfords van is getting ever closer, has it been booked yet?
i think it would be nice to have a thread on what things these labour Huhnes will go on to do?
what would balls do for instance or brown?
Maybe Guido Should ask him Who he has actuall met ?
Who in their right mind would want to meet blinky balls?Or for for that matter any one of the odious, disgusting marxist traitors in government? They all urinate in the same pot and are totally incompetent except for an all-consuming ability to destroy Britain. Damn the bastards, and the MSM.
I’m all in favour of people being moral, but the man who says he is more moral than you is usually lying.
Alal al-haq- haraam hashaq alhaq allam shizoo alllah alhaqistan baked beans innit, al-elhar erruque alhaq. Aleem haq huq Ed Balls, aleen alhaq furrah hareem, child fiddler, azeer al haq New Statesman almeji harqu George Galloway, farah haq alemni haq al zurbi Jews, al haq pigs. Haramaq alhaq allah vermin allahq hqreen haq hiq huqur vote Labour alahu akbar.
A plague on both their tribes.
I remember him vaguely when he was at University. As there were two kebab vans in central Oxford, one called Mehdi’s and one called Hassan’s he was known as the Kebab Kid…
Hasan was on the box this morning, crap, all nicely nice butter would not melt in the mouth, typical of his type and would turn….very quickly methinks!!
Hasan was commenting on theis headline in the Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1241503/David-Cameron-aide-arrested-fined-train-ticket-tirade.html
Mr Hilton, 40, apparently failed to show his ticket as he dashed to get a train from Birmingham after the party’s conference in October 2008.
Just wondering why this headline and near half page article for something that happened in 2008 should now be hitting the headlines???
Someone is sh*t stirring???????
I saw him too not much to say but ethnic token match with wassername made the news look positively cosmopolitan apart from the pitiful content.
The Hilton article reminds me of a spoof mag I used to read whose front page celebrated such earth shattering news as “40th anniversary of Editor’s wife’s appendectomy followed by a minor news oneliner “World War2 started and finished.”
Jon Snow was also scraping the borttom of the barrel last night with the same non event he must be further up gordon’s arse than toenails.
So the Senior Political Editor of the New Statesman is someone who thinks the vast majority of his readership are ‘stupid kaffirs’ and ‘infidels’.
And the Labour voting readers just lap it up. LOL
What do you expect from self-hating, white, middle-class, PC, Guardian reading idiots?
Socialism has manifestly failed so they’ll be on the lookout for a new religion. If you told the dumb fuckers to start building pyramids and worshipping cats they’d be out there tomorrow proclaiming ‘It’s the right thing to do’.
Vacant minds with too much time.
Jackasses.
These dumb socialist fucks do whatever their Frankfurt School masters tell them. That’s why they call them “cattle”.
Nah, jgm2 – they aren’t idle, not while there’s the altar of Global Warming to worship at. Pushed hard enough it could have the desired effect – of causing the collapse of capitalism.
I hear Iris Robinson (age 60) is looking for a new toyboy.
Are you interested, Guido?
She’ll set you up in your own cafe using taxpayers money, if you’re interested.
Probably driven mental by all that shagging over the sandwich counter.
Absolutely disgusting, I am offended and sickened…… but probably increased the sales of KY Jelly in NI !!
Hope when I get to 60 I can find a 19 years old LBFM
Mehdi Hasan is the 2nd only to Polly for being an awful, wholly backward minded journalist. Their understanding of economics is that of a 5 year old.
Can I just say I have never met Mehdi Hasan!
I used to know Mehdi Hasan a bit and liked him. He was a great guy to argue with. He has opinions on everything. Good luck to him, he is one of the very few New Statesmen writers who is interesting to read.
Hello Mehdi.
I’ve met Mehdi Hasan. He’s a total arsehole and a two-faced scheming turd IMO.
The crux of his argument is against violence. Like I say below, I used to know Mehdi a bit a decade ago and he is most definitely not an extremist.
There must have been a lot of Nazi’s that never met Hitler,too
Would YOU want to meet Ed Balls? Except, that is, to push his piggly little nose back into his piggly little face?
Surely you mean forwards. Backwards could get vey complicated.
Not ‘stagering’ at all. Completely unsurprising for the lefty press and the culture of deceit.
Not ‘staggering’ at all. Completely unsurprising for the lefty press and the culture of deceit.
(Corrected spelling versions – apologies)
Don’t agree that you need to meet Balls just in order to write about him.
Talking to other people who’ve met him and/or being able to read, and having the ability to think are surely the only pre-requisites?
Following the headline logic, if you wanted to write an article about Hitler then you’d be disqualified from doing so unless you’d met him.
Does willie walsh have a pilot’s license? If not, then how can he be in charge of BA if he doesn’t know how to fly a plane himself?
That’s not to say that Mehdi Hasan isn’t a twat or incompetent, he may well be, I don’t know, just that the reasoning behind the logic is flawed.
Now, if you’d said that Brown shouldn’t have been in charge of the economy/country because he doesn’t understand basic maths/economics and is a bullying lying sociopathic fuckwit, then I’d agree, even though I haven’t met him, I’ve read enough and heard enough from him to know that it’s true.
I believe Willie Walsh actually was a pilot before they took him off really responsible work.
Mehdi Hassan: serious delusions of superiority from one whose chums think it’s OK to murder innocents on tube-trains and airliners.
Pillock.
Inexperienced crap journalists.
Still, they’re cheap!
Simple answer to that, he probably hasn’t met any of them.
Gets his lead in stories from this blog
well he does have a great british name… Mehdi Hasan? and no l don’t think his promotion was a politically correct move , things like that don’t happen here ……do they???? ……….like fuck !!!!
He only said that to draw attention to himself normally with that skin colouring he would be ignored – quite rightly. Too much sun has addled his thought processes.
The way these New Immigrants are treating Brits, just look at the Isle of Man and Health Charges, according to ogue Gunner we will soon have to invade our own country to get it back.
Me being of dubious Celtic stock I was wondering if we were any good at raping and piilaging? As long as I don’t have to fuck a Labour supporter. They’ve fucked everything in record time, twelve short years. It took my ancestors hundreds…
Immigrants: Howard, Johnson, Miliband Bliar, if only U check…
if you listen or watch that creepy gordosucker yvettey cooperballsperson u know mr bollox…anyone that could stomach that smarmy twattess must be a creepy birdbrain….. and herr hasan..just tell him to fuck off back to teatowelshire
He probably came here in the back of a lorry.
How can I say this politely. Fuck off back to where you came from, our country will be the better for it.