June 18th, 2010

Balls Website Goes Live

Ed Balls has finally got his website up and running. It’s a bit of a mess to be honest and Guido had to laugh at the Coronation Street “man of the people” look and feel:

How many people from the real-world depicted by Corrie went to elite public schools, Oxford and on to Harvard, flip multiple taxpayer funded properties on top of their his ‘n her’s income of nearly a third million per year? Although he admits to being a public school boy, the biography on the site is still rather scarce. Let Guido fill in a few blanks:

Now you know…


107 Comments

  1. 1
    Aaron Porter says:

    Ed Balls is my idol

  2. 2
    Aaron Porter says:

    Labour are interlectals.

  3. 3
    Reg511 says:

    Thank you. Already waiting moderation on balls site

  4. 4
    Dorian Smith says:

    at least the site has a comments section – true at the moment it contains more sycophancy than a Chris Evans sidekick, but that can change, can’t it…..

    Eddy wants us to “Fight for Fairness” too, why not lead by example Ed and pay back all the money gained from flipping homes?

  5. 5
    Wes Streeting II says:

    I love Balls.

  6. 6
    Michael Foot from the Grave says:

    I hope Edward Balls ends up leading the Labour Party…he’ll be a vote winner just like I was!

    • 12
      Dorian Smith says:

      We could have a whip round and buy Balls a donkey jacket.

    • 61
      John Smith underground says:

      Do I hum

      • 70
        Michael Foot from the Grave says:

        Edward already has a huge Donkey’s cock protruding from his forehead and in my opinion it compliments Balls quite well! A Donkey jacket would be overkill! However, that Wehrmacht jacket he wore during his public school days ought to be worn again by him! It’ll be a vote winner…like I was!

        Good to see you here John, apologies for outliving you!

  7. 7
    peterross says:

    I don’t like this tendency to attack people for going to public school. Just because someone was privately educated, it doesn’t mean they can’t have socialist principles or care about the lowest in society. Ed Balls is an utter prick but attack him for being a prick not for the decisions his parents made to send him to a posh school. Also he’s lower middle class and his parents were only able to pay for him to attend an elite school through tremendous sacrifice.

    And what was that patronising northern accent about, that’s fucking elitist.

    • 18
      Cheese Lover says:

      Eric Pickles did the voice over. Certainly Guido’s irish boyo accent seems to have changed, doesn’t it?

    • 59
      Elli Tish says:

      and they don’t take the piss of the secondary school types.get used to it.

    • 60
      Lord Bumwatch of Bumbledon says:

      Ok then – you said it – he’s an utter prick!

    • 100
      Infanta of Castile says:

      since when does having a noted academic for a father make you lower middle class?

  8. 9
    Rice an' Pea says:

    Secret recording of Diane Abbott’s campaign HQ:

  9. 10
    Dack Blog says:

    Mange of the people, more like.

  10. 13
    Routine Mischief says:

  11. 14
    So What says:

  12. 15
    Suck On That says:

  13. 17
    HDB111 says:

    He is just a Ballsy guy, you know a wild and crazy irrelevence to all but himsef. Why are we talking about him at all??

    • 22
      captain cumshot says:

      Because Balls is always a good draw. Many of the posters on this site save their best abuse for the c*nt.

      Balls provides a mixture of hatred and hilarity, especially with that fucking stupid name.

      Which is nice.

      • 37
        Sir Edmund Testicles says:

        I’m basically a decent guy.

        • 39
          Suck On That says:

          Why couldn’t Duncan Smith have had the same fire he showed here when he was leader?

          • Derek Simpson's Grace and Favour mansion says:

            Just looking at that fat knacker balls makes me puke.

            He is such a tit and just wont stop spouting crap

  14. 19
    resistor says:

    Hey Guido,

    have you considered getting psychiatric help to deal with your ‘Gordon is mad’ delusions. It seems to me that you are suffering from advanced schizophrenia.

  15. 20
    nell says:

    He’s even using the website to ask people to donate money to his campaign for the leadership. Talk about brass-necked!

    He’s a member of UNITE, who laundered all those government £millions so why can’t they pay for his campaign.?

    • 25
      Sir Edumund Testes says:

      Don’t be howwible. Unite won’t give me money.

      Please donate. I was bullied at school. You should feel vewy sowwy fow me.

    • 26
      Charlie Whelan says:

      another tequila sunrise darling and bring me a double Jack Daniels.

    • 102
      Derek Simpson's Grace and Favour mansion says:

      Hi I’m Derek and I get paid about 100k a year for shouting my mouth off and pretending I’m not hurting British industry

  16. 23
    Geezer says:

    Is that shit Corrie still running?

  17. 28
    John Kenington says:

    I think the website looks good. Its better than the other campaign sites…but you and I might have different tastes… as I think your site looks like a blind man designed it!

  18. 40
    Martin Day BBC political correspondent says:

    Labour are fighting back now

    Labour secured overall control of Hastings Borough in East Sussex, gaining a seat from Tories in a night of council by-election shocks.

    The party also come from nowhere to win from Liberal Democrats at East Lindsey District, Lincolnshire, but there was a triumph for the Conservatives when they took an independent seat at Northamptonshire’s Wellingborough Borough.

    At Hastings, Labour’s Michael Wincott won an Ore ward seat on a 12.9% swing since the 2008 main polls, giving his party a majority of two on the authority.

    The contest had been postponed, after a candidate’s death, from May 6 when Labour had gained control by a single seat with the one vacancy.

    Tory Andrew Atkinson won at Earls Barton, Wellingborough, on a net 15.1% shift from 2007. Last month’s General Election also saw a double digit movement in the town’s parliamentary constituency.

    At East Lindsey, Labour’s Philip Sturman won the North Holme seat which his party failed to fight last time with Lib Dems dropping from a good first to fourth place.

    • 48
      cant hunter says:

      Hastings is the chav capital, against pretty strong competition, of the South coast.

    • 79
      nell says:

      All the District Councils and the County Council in Northamptonshire went to labour in the late 1990′s early 2000′s.

      Northamptonshire’s is predominantly Tory now and you are ”alas’ reduced to talking about odd seats here and there.

  19. 50
    Logic Genius says:

    Anyone from Wales know if Hawkwind are doing a free one. mate of mine just got here said he could hear the Space Ritual blasting all over the Horseshoe pass but couldn’t see were it was coming from

  20. 54
    Elvis says:

    When they string Gordon up I hope they reserve a spot for Balls to hang by him- preferably so that his tongue is up Gordon’s arse (in death as in life)

  21. 56
    Superintendant Pegg-Wrosser says:

    Feck Off Ed!!

  22. 57
    Dept S says:

    Is Vic there?

  23. 58
    Ziszou says:

    Love the Algerian kit colour!

  24. 62
    Robert Green's Gloves says:

    Is there a match on Guido?
    It’s a bit quiet!
    That James David is a clown, but I’ll go to sleep on the bench.
    Where is Gordon, I need reassurance?
    Kabylie here I come!

  25. 63
    Cockney Geezer says:

    And there was me thinking he was a down-to-earth working class man of the people, it’s hardly news is it? Don’t forget that ‘Politician’ is just a compressed synonym for devious, greedy, narcissistic, talentless, tosser.

    • 80
      nell says:

      +++Laugh+++

      A labour person being down-to-earth and working class??!!

      Where have you been the last 13 years??

      First of all labour’s heirarchy is all about privelege. You only have to look at gordon, bliar, balls, mandy, darling, harpy harriett and on and on …. priveleged backgrounds, troughed lifestyles, every one.

      Then look at labour supporters – benefit cheats, consultants to government telling highly paid civil servants how to do their job when they should surely be well enough educated to know that for themslves, non jobs in local government, middle managers doing nothing earning £40k plus in the nhs.

      Where are the true working classes, you and I, in all of this??

  26. 72
    Oberst Kurt Steiner (of The Eagle has Landed) says:

    Balls for Reichs Chancellor!!!!

  27. 77
    nell says:

    Oh Dear! A draw!!

    Did gordon come out of hiding to wish the England team good luck perchance?!

    He didn’t send a handwritten note to fabio did he?? I bet he did!!

  28. 78

    Is this legal

    Promoted by Sarah McCarthy-Fry on behalf of Ed Balls MP, both at Elliot House, Alington Street, Victoria, London, SW1E 5EB
    Ed Balls MP may contact you using the details you have supplied. If you do not wish to receive information from Ed Balls MP,
    please write to Elliot House, Alington Street, Victoria, London, SW1E 5EB

    So you sign up electronically, but there is no way of taking your name off their list electronically?

    • 89
      Dame Celia Molestrangler says:

      Technically no, as the address is incorrect. Apparently the staff of the former Minister of Education blah blah can’t even spell their own address correctly.

      It should have two L’s, like Milliband.

      Doh!

  29. 88
    Steve Jobs says:

    Thankfully I do not know this man

  30. 91
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    As you’d expect, they’ve managed to make a balls up (geddit?) of the contact address on the website: Elliot House, Alington Street, Victoria, London, SW1E 5EB. It’s ALLINGTON Ed.

  31. 94
    David Cameron says:

    Blinkybollox is the best man we’ve got…

  32. 96
    Who's behind Balls? says:

    EDBALLS4LABOUR.ORG WHOIS

    Updated: 1 minute ago
    Registrant Contact Information:
    Name: Chris Leslie
    Organization: Chris Leslie
    Address 1: 26 Sullivan Road
    City: London
    Zip: SE114UH
    Country: GB
    Phone: +44.7960512920
    Email: Email Masking Image@hotmail.com

    Administrative Contact Information:
    Name: Chris Leslie
    Organization: Chris Leslie
    Address 1: 26 Sullivan Road
    City: London
    Zip: SE114UH
    Country: GB
    Phone: +44.7960512920
    Email: Email Masking Image@hotmail.com

    Technical Contact Information:
    Name: Thomas Gooday
    Organization: CEMP
    Address 1: Fern Barrow,
    Address 2: Talbot Campus
    City: Poole
    State: Dorset
    Zip: bh125bb
    Country: GB
    Phone: +44.1202966676
    Fax: +44.1202966676
    Email: Email Masking Image@bournemouth.ac.uk

  33. 104
    marcus aurelius says:

    brilliant but why didn’t we see this on the BBC?

  34. 105
    Disco Biscuit says:

    Balls went to Eton! Posh twat

  35. 106
    Mike Rouse says:

    You also have to write a snail mail letter to be taken off the e-mailing list. Not sure that is fully compliant with spam regs.

  36. 107

    [...] has been the Oxbridge education of all of the contenders.  For example, influential blogger Guido Fawkes (18/6) ‘had to laugh at the Coronation Street “man of the people” look and feel’ [...]



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