Watching Ed Balls today talk to the CBI - gobsmackingly poor public speaking. I've never liked this shifty little bruiser, but that was really painful today. He managed to make reading out a written speech seem like some kind of impossible sponsored challenge for Children in Need. He even tried to tell a joke, and predictably summoned up nothing but a whistling wind and some tumbleweed. This bloke has been in politics for ages and he's still THIS bad. Frightening!

His toxic for the Labour Party.

Fantastic observation..............it must be connected to his very poor memory, because when he is asked about his past connections with a Labour Government and being a sidekick to Gordon Brown whent he world dropped of a cliff............he seems to have no memory

Mr Reason wrote:
Fantastic observation..............it must be connected to his very poor memory, because when he is asked about his past connections with a Labour Government and being a sidekick to Gordon Brown whent he world dropped of a cliff............he seems to have no memory

Indeed.

Most new inexperienced leaders tend to surround themselves with older more experienced people to help keep them on track.

Not Silliband !

He brought in (as his No 2) the deputy to Brown - the duo that brought us ALL the debt and dug us into this hole.

His judgement (Silliband's) is clearly flawed (as it was when he let the Unions finance and run his campaign - and now finds himself totally unable to stand up to them).

Given that Silliband was the "outsider" in the leadership campaign, and given what we now know about the loony Union's tactics (see the Grangemouth dispute / Falkirk by election fiasco) ... can we actually believe that he really won fair and square ?

Cameron was right about one thing he is a muttering idiot.



Also would ITK hug a chav or doler ?

I think Labour chose the wrong Milliband. David was a better speaker and a better politician. You also got the impression that he knew what he was talking about.

Ed Balls is highly qualified as an economist. He has a first from Oxford and has worked for the Financial Times for many years. George Osbourne has no formal Finance qualifications. However Balls isn't a great public speaker or has much charisma.

robbiex wrote:
I think Labour chose the wrong Milliband. David was a better speaker and a better politician. You also got the impression that he knew what he was talking about.

Ed Balls is highly qualified as an economist. He has a first from Oxford and has worked for the Financial Times for many years. George Osbourne has no formal Finance qualifications. However Balls isn't a great public speaker or has much charisma.

I think we all know people who have firsts from Cambridge or Oxford who aren't that smart, don't we? And the same for the Financial Times. And seeing as Hayek ruled the ideological roost for years by saying, basically, that none of them could know much at all (which is why, I guess, economists turned their subject into a fancy form of mathematics) an economics geek isn't that impressive at the best of times. Balls is an opportunist in one of the most unpleasantly, depressingly, opportunistic parties I've seen in ages. And as someone who'd never vote Conservative that pains me to say.

robbiex wrote:
I think Labour chose the wrong Milliband. David was a better speaker and a better politician. You also got the impression that he knew what he was talking about.

Ed Balls is highly qualified as an economist. He has a first from Oxford and has worked for the Financial Times for many years. George

I think you miss the point, robbiex

Balls must know that his policies are bunkem - anyone with half a brain cell can work that out.

The point is, that it's in Labour's interests to keep the peasantry down, so they have an audience to play to, while they carry on turning themselves into millionaires !

(If Balls is such a good economist, how come both he AND his wife - Yvette Cooper - were BOTH claiming for the SAME mortgage during the expense fiasco? Good for Balls - NOT good for the country !)

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-...es-MPs-expenses.html

robbiex wrote:
I think Labour chose the wrong Milliband. David was a better speaker and a better politician. You also got the impression that he knew what he was talking about.


And he isn't a politician anymore - such dedication to his craft he tossed it all away to go and work some invisible job for a 'charidee'. Man of principle, quite clearly.....

And David has a thing for bananas, we must never forget that. I suppose it's better than posing with a bong.