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The master of deficit denial did not turn up to court today to defend himself against accusations over unpaid rent and damage to his Normanton constituency office. The judge has ordered him to get his cheque-book out.  Now about that other debt he ran up…

UPDATE: Judge orders Balls to pay debts of £1,095 plus expenses. Balls used an expensive London firm of solicitors so who knows how high it could be, perhaps thousands. Legal source says “he could so easily have settled at lower cost if he wasn’t so belligerent”. Guido hopes the taxpayer isn’t going to suffer because of his pig-headed stubbornness..