No-one wants to be on ‘Strictly’ with Ed Balls

'THE BBC is struggling to find contestants for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing because Ed Balls is in it.

The corporation admitted it may be forced to use people who have the same names as celebrities and who can also stand to be in the same room as the bum-faced former Labour MP.

Huw Edwards, the BBC newsreader and inevitable Strictly contestant, said: "I'll wait for the next series. I don't even want to pretend to like Ed Balls."

Tennis hero Tim Henman revealed he turned down the offer, adding: "It seems like a rather pathetic attempt by Ed Balls to reinvent himself and I cannot be involved in that in any way."

Actress Penelope Keith, who also turned down the BBC, said: "It would be really awkward when Ed Balls finishes his routine and he and his partner join all the other contestants, but none of them are applauding him.

"It would just be a bunch of people glaring at him as if to say, 'Why are you ruining this for everyone? Why don't you just sod off?'"'

Thanks to The Daily Mash http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/no-one-wants-to-be-on-strictly-with-ed-balls-20160808111995 for that. The BBC's assistance in the rehabilitation of one of the nastiest members of the Labour Party in its pre Corbyn days doesn't surprise me but does revolt me.

Just a reminder of how delusional Ed Balls was on election night 2015

Oh so sweet to watch again especially when Ed Balls is telling us that the people decide elections not David Cameron, the Conservative Party and Iain Dale. Yes they do Ed Balls, yes they do, and look what happened to you on that night.

Listening to Harriet Harman is also instructive.

Remember these are the people who still want to run this country.



Also when Jeremy Paxman says to Paul Mason "Dejection up there?", is he asking about the Labour view or Paul Mason's? Paul Mason does look rather sick, shame.


And here is the moment Ed Balls lost his seat; happy days.




Sometimes it's good to remind oneself how lucky the Conservatives were on that election night.  To a very large degree it was UKIP taking votes from Labour that ensured a Conservative victory. That needs to be remembered over the next years. A Jeremy Corbyn lead Labour Party could win the next general election if only a small number of those UKIP voters return to Labour.

Bye bye Ed Balls (part 2)

Ed Balls - you will not be missed

Bye bye Ed Balls (part 1)

Ed Balls- you will not be missed.

Ed Balls and George Galloway lose their seats

The House of Commons will be a far more pleasant place now without these two nasty pieces of work.

Ed Balls under Jeremy Paxman's interrogation

Ed Balls under Jeremy Paxman's interrogation in January 2014, just not answering questions and generally coming over so badly. Maybe the Conservative election strategy should be just to play Ed Balls interviews...



Remember that for 13 years of the last Labour government the top tax rate was 40%, it was raised about to 50% about 10 weeks before the 2010 election.


Here's Ed Balls being interviewed by Andrew Neil from February 2013



Just as slippery then...



And more recently from February of this year with Andrew Marr



Answer the f***ing question Balls.

But you didn't answer the question Ed Miliband

Once again Ed Miliband shows why you can't trust Ed Miliband and Ed Balls with the UK economy.



Too right Ed Balls should have been sacked and never let near a position of economic responsibility ever again.

Is that the case Ed Balls?

The BBC faithfully report Ed Balls as saying that:

'Conservatives were "telling people you have never had it so good" despite it being the "slowest recovery for 100 years".'

Maybe Ed Balls or one of his allies at the BBC could point me to whichever Conservatives have been saying this, I can't think of any.

Don't let them do it again

Don't let them do it again: https://youtu.be/q_DJ64bPBOw

Why would you trust Ed Balls and Ed Miliband again?

I'd feel sorry for Ed Miliband but he really does deserve every piss-take that comes his way

I'd feel sorry for Ed Miliband but he really does deserve every piss-take that comes his way.

And as for Ed Balls sitting next to him with that idiotic pretend shocked expression on his face, how he has the nerve to look at himself in the mirror after all that he's done to the UK economy, I just don't know.

When George Osborne can take the piss out of a Labour politician that easily then you know it's just to easy.

Caught on camera, the day smoking Ed Balls triumphed over the Bank of England per The Telegraph (part 2)

This Telegraph article also includes this key paragraph:

'After Mr Sergeant repeated Mr Balls' argument that the regulatory change was "automatically" linked to independence over interest rates on the BBC news that night, Mr Balls tells Mr Brown: "Sergeant bought the whole bloody lot. It was great."'

Willingly?

Caught on camera, the day smoking Ed Balls triumphed over the Bank of England per The Telegraph

This Telegraph article is interesting for both the repetition of that which many of us have known and repeated for years but also for the supine BBC reporter aspect.

'1997 documentary reveals how Ed Balls and Ed Miliband helped Brown redraw banking regulations, despite Treasury fears and Bank of England protests

Ed Balls boasted of over-ruling the Bank of England as Gordon Brown stripped it of the power to regulate the City, a newly-uncovered film reveals.

The act that some economic experts argue contributed to the financial crisis was captured by a documentary film crew.

Gordon Brown's economic adviser is seen telling a senior journalist that the Bank strongly objected to the plan to hive off regulation of the finance industry to a new watchdog – but they had no "choice" over the decision.

The then-30 year old is later seen jubilant after the BBC's John Sergeant gave positive coverage of the move to create the Financial Services Authority, telling Mr Brown: "Sergeant bought the whole bloody lot."'

PMQs

I am not a big fan of PMQs as I find the answers (and often the questions) generally over rehearsed and I despair of the obsession with finding the best soundbite.

Yesterday's PMQs was no different but even I enjoyed Prime Minister David Camron's quip that 'Bill Somebody's not a person, bill somebody is Labour's policy'.

Two Eds hid truth about global crash: Miliband and Balls knew UK economy was due to 'fall off a cliff' a year before it happened... but kept it a secret per Daily Mail Online

The Mail reports that:

'Two Eds hid truth about global crash: Miliband and Balls knew UK economy was due to 'fall off a cliff' a year before it happened... but kept it a secret 

The pair reportedly urged Gordon Brown to call a snap election in 2008Knew it was only way Labour could hold power once economy crumbled George Osborne said revelation 'exposed cynicism' of Balls and Miliband

Labour leader has not denied claim, dismissing it as 'ancient history'  

The claim appears in explosive new memoir of Martin Winter - who helped turn Miliband into an MP

Ed Miliband and Ed Balls knew about the economic crash of 2008 a year before it happened – but kept it secret, it was sensationally revealed last night.

The Labour leader did not deny an explosive new report that they both urged Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call a snap Election in 2007 because 'the economy was about to fall off a cliff' and it was Labour's only hope of holding on to power.

Chancellor George Osborne said the revelation 'exposed the cynicism' of Balls and Miliband, adding: 'They were more interested in saving their own skins than saving the British economy.'

The disclosure comes in a new book by Miliband's former ally and friend Martin Winter, the ex-Labour Mayor of Doncaster, where Miliband is an MP. Winter, who secured the seat for Miliband at Brown's personal request, says he has decided to speak out because he has lost faith in the Labour leader.

...

Last night Miliband made no attempt to deny the claim, dismissing it as 'ancient history' – but the revelation is potentially political dynamite as the Election campaign hots up, fuelling the Tory line that Labour cannot be trusted with the economy, or to tell the truth... '

One thing is certain, the BBC will not mention this book and its revelations as that might harm the electoral chances of their allies in the Labour Party. 

By way of contrast, any similar revelations from the Margaret Thatcher or John Major governments would be pored over for ways of harming the Conservative Party.

Ed Balls Dirty Dancing with Ed Miliband

Ed Balls Dirty Dancing with Ed Miliband

Labour bare faced cheek faithfully reported by the propaganda arm of the Labour Party aka BBC News

The Labour Party's propaganda arm aka the BBC faithfully and with a straight face report in this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30291460 that:

'... shadow chancellor Ed Balls criticised Mr Osborne for failing to "balance the books".

"Unless growth is strong and wages are rising for working people the deficit doesn't come down," he said. "Without a plan for jobs and work, it's not going to work."'

Shameless is one word that comes to mind...

No wonder Gordon Brown, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls made such a mess of the UK economy, they can't do simple maths

Guido Fawkes has the details http://order-order.com/2014/07/02/eds-pmqs-figures-out-by-134/

More weasel words from the BBC, this time about Gordon Brown

'Gordon Brown - who employed Ed Miliband and Ed Balls as advisers during his years as chancellor - is often accused by opponents of selling off Britain's gold reserves far too cheaply.

He decided to dispose of almost 400 tonnes of gold between 1999 and 2002 - the majority of Britain's reserves - for between $256 and $296 an ounce, only to watch it soar up to $1,615 per ounce.'

The article about today's PMQs is here. The whole truth is rarely to be found on the BBC anywhere.

People who rely on the BBC for their news just wouldn't understand Boris's reference to 'Ed Balls' and a 'Nazi uniform'

This Telegraph article contained a quotation from Boris Johnson

(Ed) “went into his stock rant about which schools everyone used to attend, and which university clubs they belonged to (a bit much, when you consider that both he and I were at the same prestigious forcing-ground of talent that was Primrose Hill Primary School, Camden; or when you consider that Ed Balls himself was a member of an Oxford drinking club so egregious that he once appeared in Nazi uniform).”

People who rely on the BBC for their news just wouldn't understand Boris's reference to Ed Balls' Nazi uniform as the BBC have carefully protected one of their allies in the Labour Party from embarrassment. I am less protective of the nasty bully that is Ed Balls, so here he is in his Nazi uniform...

Am I being hard on the BBC?

I don't believe so, in 2011 the BBC published this article under the headline 'How common is Nazi fancy dress?' which began

'A Conservative MP has apologised after reports he attended a stag party with Nazi overtones. But just how common is Nazi fancy dress?' 

No mention of Ed Balls in that article let alone a photo.


Then there was this article from 2008 which allowed Ed Balls the then Labour Education Secretary to indulge in mock outrage

'over Conservative claims that Labour had not lived up to a promise of free educational visits to Auschwitz concentration camp.

The Conservatives included the Labour pledge in a list of 26 "gimmicks" it said the government failed to deliver.'

Schools Secretary Ed Balls said: "Anyone who has seen the horrors of Auschwitz at first-hand knows what a life-changing experience it is."


He's absolutely right, so what changed in Ed Balls' life from when he dressed as a Nazi when at University?

Had Ed Balls not heard of the holocaust when at university? If he had then why did he think dressing as a Nazi was fun or appropriate? Surely someone studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College Oxford, indeed going on to get a First, would have had some knowledge of the true nature of Nazism and what that uniform represents.

The BBC are utterly shameless

I hear that the BBC have replaced Stephanie Flanders, former girlfriend of both Labour leader Ed Miliband and Labour's Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, with the TUC’s senior economist Duncan Weldon. He previously worked for the labour party, was a Labour candidate in 2010, has written for several Labour blogs (including LabourList and Owen Jones and UNITE's CLASS think tank.

How can anyone think it right that such a person be appointed as the economics expert on the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme at any time, let alone just over a year before a general election?

Have the BBC heard of unbiased reporting or do they not feel they even need to pretend to be unbiased anymore?

Will the Conservatives do anything other than quietly express disquiet? I doubt it, they are too scared of the BBC's reach and power.The BBC is out of control, for some time it has not been an unbiased news reporting organisation but an organisation campaigning for left-wing causes. Increasingly it now functions as the propaganda arm of the Labour Party in the UK, the Democrats in the USA and radical Islam around the globe.


Update: I learn that Duncan Weldon was also the economic adviser to Harriet Harman when she was acting leader of the Labour Party.


Oh come off it, seriously BBC?