Ed Balls blamed his stammer for getting his script wrong yesterday but he still did not have anything to say this morning:
“I’m not going to come on the Today programme within 24 hours and start making ex cathedra statements without taking a proper judgement”
That didn’t stop his boss doing just that when he recommended implementing Leveson in full, just five hours after receiving the 2,000 page document.
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
The thing that Dave needs to work out is which group is more likely to vote Conservative. Mad swivel-eyed loons or mad homosexuals wishing to get married.
There’s a first time for everything…
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Not much of a mention re 30% rise in foreign aid.
Borrow billions and give billions away
Thats the real sickener
Or more money to EU.
Not if it’s a repeat.
You can have a first repeat.
Issue is, next government is going to be Labour government and Conservatives will not be in a government for at least a generation.
Osborne can use tricks to say deficit is falling or Ball’s could make mistakes but majority of voters in this country hate Cameron, Osborne and Clegg.
Not so. If Osborne does the right things to put right the excesses of the Labour years the Conservatives will be re-elected as Mrs Thatcher found.
Whatever you’re smoking, I want some!
Sage,if osbornes policies are not to your advantage you are a useful fool,I suspect they are to your advantage but am not ruling out that you are a fool as well.
And we utterly despise,Milliband, Harman and Balls. Especially when Balls makes a total mess of a slam-dunk opportunity then goes for the sympathy vote.
And the Biased BBC was in full hue and cry on Today, unforgiveable imho.
I couldnt believe my ears this morning when Evan Davis interviewed George Osborne on the Today programme.He shouted him down, didnt allow him to answer, was rude etc etc if ever you wanted to know how somebody votes, this was it ! then, amazingly, he started to defend Balls performance yesterday saying he had a stammer !The fact that he also was talking rubbish was overlooked. What the **ch was wrong with Davis, very poor performance indeed.
I found it unbelievable – even though we are all used to the blatant pro Labour bbc slant on everything – that Evan Hunter was allowed to behave in the way he did this morning.
He showed exactly why he should be removed forthwith from the bbc and go to work for the Labour party where he would be in the company of other dopes and rude dopes at that.
The usual blinkered self belief of the Labourite, stupid but they can’t see it.
Next time, will you vote for Cameron, Osborne or Clegg?
Farage, Salmon and the bewitching Leanne Wood (leader of Plaid Cymru)
I dont think you are right, actually.The majority of the voters dont give a monkeys about politics, if they do they know how bad labour were when they lost the last election. Labour have the same front bench as then, no new policies , a very annoying leader and the economy will be improving by 2015. I can see the conservatives getting in with a clear majority.
Another Labour Government would kill this Country, don’t let the scum get power again.
Well, this lot is killing this country as well.
We need change and the only change available to voters is Labour. It will take UKIP years to get a realistic chance, in other word until UK ends up like Greece.
x100
Issue is UK economy will be in a worse state than now in 2015. This is why Conservative will lose the next general election. Conservatives did win this general election either but they are in power as LD wants to enjoy the trappings of power.
Other issue is, most of the poor doesn’t vote in the past few general elections. Even under Mrs T they were getting their money as money from north sea oil, sale of council houses were wasted on keeping poor to sit at home without work. Osborne is upsetting their life style a bit and they are worried their life style will go down so next time around they will go and vote Labour.
We know all that
but we also know that OmnishamBalls and Ed Milionaire were in Gordon Brown’s Treasury when our pensions were raided, and over 13 years poor people got poorer, social mobility collapsed and B£iar, Brown, Mandleson and their friends lined their pockets at our expense.
Balls is the problem not the solution – we need a Labour party with socialist leaders, not not avaricious, megalomaniac soicopaths
I believe the Balls Brown handing over the “Economy” to the Coalition is commonly known in Sunday League football as a “Hospital Pass”
A pass of the ball in such circumstances making sure recipiant of the pass ends up in hospital after being tackled from behind by an 18 stone beer belly
ffffff fffffff uck offffffff Bbbbbbb alls
What does ex cathedra mean?
Standing outside a cathedral I think
Similar to ex cottager.
No, that’s ex-catheter.
May I push your stool in?
Making a pronouncement with authority, from the seat of authority. Think the Bishop of Rome making a statement on contraception in this situation becomes binding on all Roman-church goers as in speaking ex-cathedra the Bishop of Rome is supposed to be ‘infalliable’.
I’m not entirely sure Balls-up could ever be able to make an ex-cathedra statement on the economy ever again, can anyone trust him?
No.
Statements of infallible authority – to Guido’s point – exactly the kind of statements which RedEd made on Leveson without having had time to fully digest the report in this context.
Eammon Holmes for once got it right about Ed Balls.
hahahahahahahaha now that is excellent
Saw that live. Eammon went up 100 points in my estimation today.
When is this bloke on? I might watch that news caster from now on.
So far, he’s blamed America, the Global Financial Crisis (TM), bankers, and now his stammer. He’ll be blaming Postman Pat next.
People are wrong to bully him as he is a victim of a serious congenital defect.
a stammer makes it hard to speak, it does not cause you to spout rubish and be a deficit denier.
Balls is a liar as well as a stammerer
Indeed, she’s calls Yvette Cooper.
Yeah he is a retard!
He blames everything but his own performance. It is in the Labour DNA.
Only a 30% rise in foreign aid, just a little mean of the Gov’t.
Tell us the truth Yvonne. Has anything in Blinky’s life been his fault?
… apart from marrying her you mean?
Bollock Ed speak Bollocks.
Does anyone remember the deathly silence from the Tories when Brown delivered 10p rate of tax in his budget speech, the only reason was that it was under wraps until the speech, it was the same for Buster Balls, he had not predicted what was in Gideon’s speech, so he just babbled and tied himself in knots.
Ed Balls stammer is like Gareth Gates’ one. Have some sympathy people, he has to shag Jordan next.
Shagging Jordan is better than bombing Iran.
Having lived and worked in Jordan, I can assure you it is not worth shagging !!
Me too. Amman for all seasons!
Jeez do you mean to say people have actually been working inside katie?
Hope he is going to take precautions. I recommend strapping a plank to your arse.
Stephanie Flanders was naturally sympathetic about Balls’ poor performance.
Does that spare him the Eagle Sisters?
That would make it a 5 up, Balls was never good at maths.
Surely Balls must have got A Levels in mathematics and statististics grade A, to get into Oxford
Passing exams and not knowing that spending Billions we have to borrow and at some time pay back are not the same thing.
He may have got an unconditional offer back then, so don’t bet on it.
Must remind him before the budget
Hopefully a further increase in foreign aid will piss off those still contemplating voting Tory !!
“ex cathedra”
Let’s not bring the church into this, shall we?
The stupid twat does not grasp the implication of “ex cathedra” pronouncements.
I suppose he thinks selling our gold at $280 was “ex cathedra”
Er, more like ex-pensive if you ask me.
There is something of the Gordon about Brian including lucrative speaking tours.
“What have the judiciary ever done for us?”
Labour always blame someone/something else.
Ex cathedra indeed. Miliband and Balls are two posh boys that don’t know the meaning of telling the truth.
They do show that labour are consistent, consistently useless.
Did you see Ed M and Hattie sitting either side of Balls yesterday when he stumbled over his response to Osborne ? he didnt stammer, he actually said the wrong words. Ed and Hat were nodding like 2 dogs on the back shelf of a car, it was hilarious when they realised he was talking cr*p !
What an OmniShamBALLS
What a surprise to see David Miliband in the hoc yesterday. I didn’t realise he was still an MP.
I think labour would have more credibility if he was leader.
Anyone know who paid his fare?
Labour can’t decide on a policy unless a Judge made a recommendation.
Labour can’t decide on a judge without a judge led enquiry.
Was I dreaming this morning or did a Northern Irish MP say on the Today programme “The majority of Northern Irish fishing ports are on the coast”?
If I was not dreaming, how far inland are the minority of Northern Irish fishing ports?
let me guess….Jim Shannon MP
Not unless he sings soprano! Definitely either female or a real gender bender and my prejudices are that the good people of Northern Ireland wouldn’t elect one of the latter as their representative.
Spot on can u imagine him as your MP
FIVE TAX AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES have been shut down by the coalition government in the chancellor’s Autumn Statement, it has emerged.
Double taxation relief on foreign bank levies; tax mismatch schemes; property total return swaps; manufactured payments; and payments of patent royalties were all blocked.
About time we had a chnage policy to hanging the thieving scum who don’t pay tax!
Yes, but no substitute for a rational tax system that would not throw up these anomalies in the first place. Revised tax avoidance schemes will already been devised.
I advocate a flat rate of income tax of 0%.
It was my idea. I told him he should do these things. Osborne u-turning again. I’d have done these things if I was in power
I see that Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brasilia and a diehard old Commie, has finally gone to meet Marx at age of 104. His work will continue to inspire those who favour top-down, inhumane solutions to the problem of people being irregular.
No prob. He will have Dave Brubeck to play the piano for him.
What’s important is that we back Ed. I think we should all get round the table about this. That’s what’s important. That’s why I’m giving Ed my full backing and he will be attending the same remedial reading classes as I do and he has my full support in this.
Hope he supports the rise in the Foreign Aid budget
The man from Del Monte he say , “Yesssssssss”
Ed Balls-up is a typical Nu Labour dim-wit. You can’t rely on him to say anything fruity, let alone exhibit any kind of fashion sense.
Even that silly Bagshawe girl could have done better!
Yvette coopers balls was on five live yesterday spouting her usual line
“tax the bankers bonuses “We can use the Billions of pounds collected to create permanent jobs !Can Blinky please tell the silly cow that taxing the bankers bonus would only raise 20 million !
Cut the foreign aid budget and create millions of permanent UK jobs !!
Taxing the bankers is not about raising money, it’s about keeping the focus on the bad bankers and off of Mad McBonkers.
The british banks , polotitians , consumers (sometime referred to as the plebs) all maxed out on their credit for 13 years now you’ve got to pay it back to us you twats .
Kind regards IMF
P.S. thanks for the windmill
So please explain who granted all this magical credit in the first place, and where their money came from to enable them to be so generous with their resources.
I don’t mind my taxes paying for the ‘war’ in Afgani’, because we are wining. We are wining, aren’t we?
Indeed. And dining too.
THE RICH AND POWERFULL DID VERY WELL during 13 years of Labour. Don’t let Miliband and Balls forget it. THE RICH AND POWERFULL DID VERY WELL during 13 years of Labour. Don’t let Miliband and Balls forget it.THE RICH AND POWERFULL DID VERY WELL during 13 years of Labour. Don’t let Miliband and Balls forget it.THE RICH AND POWERFULL DID VERY WELL during 13 years of Labour. Don’t let Miliband and Balls forget it.THE RICH AND POWERFULL DID VERY WELL during 13 years of Labour. Don’t let Miliband and Balls forget it.THE RICH AND POWERFULL DID VERY WELL during 13 years of Labour. Don’t let Miliband and Balls forget it.THE RICH AND POWERFULL DID VERY WELL during 13 years of Labour. Don’t let Miliband and Balls forget it.THE RICH AND POWERFULL DID VERY WELL during 13 years of Labour. Don’t let Miliband and Balls forget it.THE RICH AND POWERFULL DID VERY WELL during 13 years of Labour. Don’t let Miliband and Balls forget it.THE RICH AND POWERFULL DID VERY WELL during 13 years of Labour. Don’t let Miliband and Balls forget it.
Its not his stammer – its his economic incontinence that’s the problem
How come he manages to sneer at the conservatives every week in the house without a hint of a stammer ? Balls has no shame.
Thats exactly what i was thinking,strange that isnt it ?
Nor brain – and definitely no clue either.
Wwwwwhhhhatttt s.s.s.s.stammammmerererer?
I need a lesson in political speak please !
How can George say he has cut the “Deficit” by 25% yet the National Debt is growing , and has grow a huge amount since George came to office ?
Are these one and the same or do we have two huge debts ? Also without the G4 money just how much would George really have been able to pay off ?
40p top rate of tax UNDER LABOUR. Don’t let them forget it. 40p top rate of tax UNDER LABOUR. Don’t let them forget it. 40p top rate of tax UNDER LABOUR. Don’t let them forget it. 40p top rate of tax UNDER LABOUR. Don’t let them forget it.40p top rate of tax UNDER LABOUR. Don’t let them forget it. 40p top rate of tax UNDER LABOUR. Don’t let them forget it. 40p top rate of tax UNDER LABOUR. Don’t let them forget it. 40p top rate of tax UNDER LABOUR. Don’t let them forget it.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to reply to you !
Let me give you a simple economics lesson:
Tax take minus spending = over investment
over investment + over investment year on year = 0% growth, supporting hard working families, as opposed to the do nothing party opposite who ‘Ashcroft!’ support my measures for PFI Boom and Bust
Let me confuse you further.
Say you go into a shop for a packet of fags that cost a fiver, but you only have 4.50 in your pocket. You have a deficit of 50p.
Now if you borrow that 50p from the bloke standing next to you, you can now afford the fags, but you have created a debt for yourself which has to be repaid. Your deficit remains unchanged.
So if you don’t have enough money in the first place you should not try to buy fags with what you don’t have. All of which roughly describes what the one-eyed jack was doing for 10 years or more.
Alternatively buy 12.5g of gold leaf or cutters choice (other tobaccos exist but not as cheaply as needed for the purposes of this example), some filter tips and rolling papers and you’ll have change left over, just about…
I should have said, you’ll have bought the things you need cheaper, had a suplus not a defecit, and not have required to borrow either. Now if only some politicos at the treasury had thought about economics like this then we might not be in he sh*t we’re in now.
I’m wondering whether we should change the way we finance government… politicians stump up the money first, if the schme works we chip in with taxes, if it doesn’t then the politicians accept the responsibility of the loss, might make them spend our money a little more wisely.
I think I see a flaw in your plans. I couldn’t see politicians stumping up any money if they hadn’t claimed it on expenses first. Which would mean that the bill would end up with the taxpayer anyway wouldn’t it?
dummy I can have dreams can’t I? Live in a world where government is small, responsible and actually works to the benefit of the citizens/subjects which the government is supposed to represent? It may all be a dream, but it might just get me through to the end of the working day and to the bottle of gin that is waiting at home for when my dreams break and shatter.
Please don’t take that away from me!
w-w-w-w-what d-d-d-did the f-f-f-f…ing chicken d-d-d-do?
f-f-f-fowl mouth!
Crossed the road?
The view from my voluntary work in Africa: Bwaaaa hhhhaaa hhhhaaaaaaa …… increasing Aid? Bwwaaa hhhah aaaaaa!!
These people can’t have any idea what is going on. And just to beat the old drum once more: Bonfire of the Quangos anyone?
Bwaaahh aaahhh hhaaaaa.
The Rwandan foreign minister bird was on the Sky telly this morning demanding that we reinstate their aid so she can look good in front of her warmongering natives.
Giving aid is a major disincentive for the natives to get their fingers out. Why bother to do anything meaningful when you know there will another lorry load of staff coming round the corner at the weekend.
Been there and done it (no t-shirt though)
PS: Agree – start with the ODA/Difd qango
Given the current impact of global warming I think that a big bonfire of the quangos would help us all at the moment. Should we have a whip round for a box of matches for Cast Iron?
Could not get through to the BBC to complain about the Today interviews, too many people waiting to do the same. Outrageous attempts by BBC to rubbish Osborne but resulting in rubbishing the country. Nick R sounds more like Lord Haw Haw every day. Disgusting bias and utterly indefensible. Patton should resign if this continues. Why should licence payers continue to subsidize the labour party who has populated BBC political reporting with staunch, and highly paid, labour supporters? We know its the sameold story but why can’t anyone do anything about it. We need a Levinson enquiry into BBC political bias, its got to a stage of irresponsibilty where its is literally damaging our country by spreading more misery in order to get Ed Milliband elected to power. There is not the slightest attempt at balance yet they happily get away with it. At least we still have a free press, er……..
The BBC just take the piss. It’s up to Brave Dave to do something about it. There will never be a better time than now. Simply implement a year on year reduction of the licence fee. That should wipe the smirks off their faces. But he’ll do nothing. Wibble wobble.
Starting this year with a 150 pound cut per head of population.
Evan Davis was a disgrace on the today programme this morning, i actually couldnt believe my ears when i woke up to him shouting down George Osborne.He grudgingly allowed him a stab at a few answers but couldnt resist cutting in most of the time.Then we had his hilarious defence of Balls poor performance in the HOC yesterday, which was “he has a stammer” . Er no Evan, he was talking rubbish, quite clearly, no stammer.If ever you wanted to see which way Evan Davis votes this was it.
Has nobody informed you that there are alternative channels from which to get your daily fix? You really don’t have to put up with it.
I cant stand our local radio or 5 live, what other stations are there ? i have a digital radio.
There is a choice of two possible remedies for your dissatisfaction with the Today programme. You could retune to another channel or switch the bloody radio off.
Not paying your TV licence would have an impact on the BBC’s ability to make the Today programme in the long run but would involve visits from a lot of sneering officials who won’t believe you don’t have a television set.
Turning the radio off certainly is one option.
But is there another independent broadcaster of serious voice’ programming? At drive times the BBC, across its networks, has a massive 90% reach.
Something that those concerned about media plurality should do something about
Then feckin’ Toenails waded in with ” well we knew about Bollox’s initial dithering in reply to Osborne but decided not to use it on the news schedules yesterday because he had a better message to say later in his reply and besides he has been very brave explaining about his stammer this morning that caused the initial problem!” Feckin bullshit Toenails, you Liebour Shill!!
Wasn’t one done and then the BBC have thoroughly suppressed it spending a truck load of cash in the process?
And I’m another one to criticise the Beeb. Evan Davis is just about fit to introduce Dragons Den and certainly not fit to interview any Ministers of State. His treatment of the Chancellor this morning was outrageous, rude, bad mannered and so leftwing biased as to be a total disgrace. But then the BBC is now so blatantly left wing that I suppose we should expect this garbage and if we listen to it then we should only expect more garbage. There must be better programmes to listen to than the Today Programme. Get Evan off it!
Please see 114 above.
I used to love the today programme, but now it has become embarassing. Presenters grandstanding, hardly able to contain their political bias, shouting down the chancellor for petes sake, then making silly excuses for a poor performance by the opposition. What is going on there ?
Media putsch lite ?
They scent final victory and have taken to the streets, firing into the air and chanting anti-government slogans.
God forbid anyone should shout the chancer down,ffs,he should be taken to account at every opportunity.He is not god ,but he is an incompetent pillock.
The today programme on radio 4 is not a platform to “shout down ” members of the Government,what a strange thing to say. Maybe you would be better off in North Korea.
North Korea has no freedom of speech,an appalling human rights record,why on earth would Iwant to go there?What a strange thing to say.re. osborne you obviously think he is in order which says it all about you.I stand by what I said and with the reception he and cameron got at the olympic ceremonies I am not alone.North Korea,ha ha, please less of the am drams.
My reply to 147 was removed,surprise, surprise. free comments on here are removed if they go against the flow of detritus flowing down the the gutter of smug self righteousness ,you usefull idiots,that is you who are not fictional
Now my reply to 147 has been replaced after my rant,why not just leave it in the first place?
Twat, you seem to think yours is the only view that should be heard, saying the chancellor should be “shouted down ” says it all.
Evan Davis showed the BBC in its true colours today. The answers that Osborne was trying to give were reasoned (and I’m not a supporter) but his incredibly rude interviewer tried to ensure that we couldn’t hear them.
His name would indicate that he originates from some backward village in the Welsh mountains. Must be something in the slate quarries wot dunnit.
If he is carrying such a massive chip as he demonstrated this morning he shouldnt be allowed within a 100 miles of a supposedly impartial radio programme.
His arse is completely blocked up with Spanish revolutionaries!!
http://fxbites.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/shadow-of-his-former-self.html
Ed Balls’ performance yesterday was akin to Gordon Brown’s Gillian Duffy moment. It shows how shite he really is. The level of debate from Labour is as halfwitted as the Labour supporting dimwits on digital spy’s politics forum.
I really dont get why Ed, Ed, Hat, Yvette, Chukka, etc havent been removed from the Labour front bench by now.They are a disaster, and surely nobody thinks Ed Milliband could be PM, will there be a coup of some sort before the election ?
probably because the alternatives are much WORSE (Abbott, Gwynnie & COUNTLESS OTHERS)!!
When the bully gets bullied, he complains about his afflictions. Perhaps he should leave politics if he cant take it.
I was amazed he didnt get the boot after he effectively sacked Sharon Shoesmith from the sofa whilst talking to Schofield on “this morning” she sued and got thousands in an unfair dismissal case.He is useless.
Schofiled is a Jonah politicians should steer clear
Ever noticed that Ed Miliband looks like g-gerr-gerr-gerr-Granville?
Unless, of course, Ed had prior knowledge of what would be in the report? Was he given an early Christmas present?
Mehdi Hassan v Quentin Letts just on “the world at one” with Martha.Despite the fact that they played the clip of Balls,not stammering in the HOC yesterday, Hassan continued to say he WAS stammering and how beastly people were being.I do sometimes wonder what planet Hassan is on !
Yvette Cooper thinks that Ed Balls is the great lover of the western world ecause he takes so long to cccuuuummm
Actually Yvette looked well p**sed off with him when the camera panned along to her yesterday ! it certainly wasnt “oh my darling Eddies pesky stammer again” she looked furious !
Balls can give it but he can’t take it. The mark of cowards everywhere.