Blair would have dealt with this heckler head-on not have the heavies throw him out. It was a public meeting on public property. Why couldn’t Gordon answer his question?

Last night fact checking Cathy Newman from Channel 4 News took a look at Antony Calvert’s campaign to castrate Labour in Morley and Outwood. Watch her ask Ed Balls “will people be asking ‘where you up for Balls’ on May 7?”

Particularly amusing when a former Labour voter says, on camera, she hasn’t seen him for 2 years and Balls says “yes you have”.  Calling your voters liars to their face on the doorstep is an interesting canvassing strategy…

The bookies make Calvert and Balls pretty even, have a flutter for a bit of fun. It’ll give you more to cheer about on the night…

See also: Balls Booed at Hustings as Castration Strategy Hurts

If you were not one of the 84,754 visitors viewing 610,039 pages over the last seven days, here are the seven most popular stories (in order of popularity) that you missed:

• Bristol Police Receive Official Complaint – First Case of Electoral Twitter Crime
• Exclusive : Kerry McCarthy Illegal Postal Votes Tweets
• Gordon Fuels the Fire
• Guy News : You Were Always On My Mic
• No Such Thing as an Innocent Bystander
• Kerry’s Cowan Cover-up
• Thatcherism Redux

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