Balls in!
- 19 May 2010 16:1452588Yes indeed Balls is in... he has thrown his hat into the ring, but lets hope its not a 'balls up' for Labour! He seems to have support but to my way of thinking he would be a disaster. He just doesnt have it, he doesnt have those leadership credentials of warmth wit nor probably wisdom either. I never seen a less charismatic politician...oh ermm hold on... with the possible exception of Nichola Sturgeon, the dreary Scot Nat talking clock..with apologies there to the talking clock.
But suddenly the House of Commons is chock-a-block with charismatic leaders. I mean Cameron our new PM has it, at times it positively shines through, surprisingly. His colleague balanced precariously on the benches beside him, one Nick Clegg also has it...well they didnt get to where they are today without it. Tony Blair who they all aspire to be, had it. Without charisma of some sort you cannot get your message across in these tele-effect days. People yawn, switch off, and go and put the kettle on for a cup o darjeeling.
I dont want to see Labour banished to the Outer Hebrides of political life for the next 10 years, Balls would deliver that level of obscurity in my view. For another thing he is too associated with Brown and at all times looks to be from a different era, an era when we all wore cloth caps and said things like..." eeee by gummm!"
I wonder will Harriet Harman go for it. It will depend very much how she does in the next few months while in the caretaker role. Labour could do worse and it could be popular, as we are all crying out for more women!
But of course the Millibands would be favourites.email: dover7@msn.com - 19 May 2010 16:3352591How to wreak revenge on Labour
It will cost you a pound and it all starts here.
The Labour Party is so desperate for members that it is offering the
first year of Labour Party membership for just £1. In exchange for
that £1, you get all the perks of Labour membership, such as voting
for the leadership.
And that means that for just £1, you can help to inflict someone as
useless as Diane Abbott or as poisonous and divisive as Ed Balls or
Harriet Harman on the Labour Party. And immediately after the
coronation of whichever **** you helped elect, you simply resign and
walk away.
Membership of the Labour Party is currently around 200,000, so if just
250,000 people sign up, we can pretty much guarantee we'll **** them
completely.
"But wait," I hear you say, "are you seriously advocating giving
£250,000 to the Labour Party?" Fret ye not: the Labour Party has
colossal debts, well over £10,000,000 at the last account. Our
donations will do nothing to help climb that particular mountain, and
by inflicting someone terminally useless or poisonous on the Labour
Party, we can hopefully ***** them into a cocked hat for the rest of
eternity. It's money very well spent indeed.
- 19 May 2010 16:4652594If Ed Balls gets chosen and wins the next election, we would have a Prime Minister Balls........can you imagine it? True friends stab you in the front.
- 19 May 2010 17:3352596Bob - I love it, finish off Labour for all time.... serves them right.
Ed Balls, Andy - he would make a great leader of the Labour Party for the Conservatives! - 19 May 2010 18:1352598For the Grammar School boys amongst us here's a Venn Diagram showing the choice:-
- 19 May 2010 18:1652599Barry, I assume you would prefer the Lib/dems as an effective opposition, the cat flaps of politics, o is it you don't want an opposition at all?
If labour became a minority party would the Conservatives court them in the event of a hung parliament? - 19 May 2010 19:3752603Let's suppose we carried out Bob Frost's plan, and 250.000 people in Britain join Labour, vote Ed Balls as leader, and then quietly drift out of Labour again as quick as they entered, and in three months time Tories/Lib fall, the Libs unite in a coalition with Labour without a General Election, and Ed Balls then becomes Prime Minister? Would Bob Frost take the responsibility? (question mark)
Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 19 May 2010 19:4552606
Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 19 May 2010 21:3352624Balls in, Balls out, How long before we gat a balls up.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet. - 19 May 2010 21:3452625Dave1 - I have said before that I would love to see Labour obliterated given that every single term of a Labour Government has screwed up the economy and yes, we do need a 'left of centre' opposition to the 'right of centre' Conservatives and hopefully the LibDems will grow up a bit with some governmental experience and come to replace Labour as that left party with Labour themselves consigned to a minor third or even fifth party status.
- 19 May 2010 21:4052627Calm down Barry, is that statement anything like the off side rule.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet. - 19 May 2010 22:0052632PAULB
Whilst I'm no Ed Balls fan, a leadership with as wider number of people the better.
I think the Millibands will come out on top, as they have the support already.
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Barryw
Just as I Predicted a hung parlianment, I also predict Labour tore group and in a short time after the IMMEDIATE public spending cuts being implimented by the tories and the lap dogs,
Labour will always be here to stay and so get used to it.
Whilst I will always lean to the LEFT, this tag of left and right means diffrent things to difffrent people so hard to devine, and for some people it means nothing. - 19 May 2010 22:1352636it will be between the the brothers.
importantly they come over strictly kosher. - 19 May 2010 22:1552638spot on keith the reds will be with with us just like the blues.
- 19 May 2010 22:1952640Barry you do suffer from selective history syndrome, the Tories have made many an economic blunder, please stop this we're gonna save the country rubbish.
- 19 May 2010 22:2152643I thought we were recycling our rubbish, not saving it. Silly me.
- 19 May 2010 22:2752644the blues need their superiority complex to be confirmed to give them confidence.
- 19 May 2010 22:3752646With all due respect would anyone actually fancy living in any of the areas that are not either blue or yellow?
Personally I much prefer parliament to be run by a load of Southern products from the best universities in England rather than a band of rather oikish Jocks and professional Northeners with chips on both shoulders. - 20 May 2010 06:4252654Dave1 - no-one is perfect but the fact remains that despite what it says on the packet every single Labour Government in history has left office with...
1/ Unemployment higher than when it started
2/ In a financial crisis cause usually by overspending and overtaxing the life out of the economy.
It is worth adding that the longest ever period of Labour Government has ended with the biggest and longest bust, that is not a coincidence and I have often posted on the specific errors made by Brown that make the length and depth of the recession down to him, (after Brown claimed to have banned boom and bust!!!)
You cannot possible make the same claim about every Tory Government (even if you restrict it to the last 90 years or so that Labour have been around). It is a matter of statistical and historical fact. - Brian Dixon
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20 May 2010 06:5452656barryw,i wander where they [labour party] got there ideas from.?
