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Ed Balls is the master of deficit denial, this week he has denied the deficit was a problem and told us the IMF, OECD and the governor of the Bank of England are all wrong and he is right. Now he is denying his own personal debts in Court.

Court papers obtained by Guido show that he has claims against him amounting to £1,966 over unpaid rent and damage to his Normanton constituency office. He refuses to accept the debt and has offered to pay only a few hundred pounds but the landlord has now had enough of his arguing about the debt and taken him to Court. We all know what Balls is like when it comes to admitting debts.

If only we could have him tried in the same way for running up the national debt…