Has Gordon gone all Zen?
Posted on September 9, 2010Ed Balls has pulled some pretty outrageous stunts over the years, but this morning’s Today Programme interview took the biscuit.
In response to the question “Have you spoken to Gordon Brown since [Blair's] autobiography came out?”, he replied:
“I spoke to him the night it came out. I said I thought it was pretty one sided and unfair, and he shrugged his shoulders and said…you know…err…in life you should think about the future.”
Are we really meant to believe that? For a start, it even sounded like Balls was making it up on the spot. More fundamentally, when has Gordon Brown ever been known to shrug his shoulders, lackadaisically chalk something down to experience and counsel that you shouldn’t bear grudges? Bearing grudges is practically his only transferable skill!
Either Balls just made that up, or he phoned the wrong Gordon Brown by mistake.
Tags: Ed Balls, Gordon Brown, Labour Leadership, Lies, Today Programme, Tony Blair
Categories: Opinion, Politics, Westminster
Anyone noticed how Balls answers almost every question posed to him about the utter fucking mess that made of the country, and that his proposals to spend spend spend are insane is …
“Look, the fact is…”
Only Ed knows, you see. Beyond delusional. Someone put the poor man down. Or better, makes him leader of the Labour Party to finish off the job Blair started.
03.09.2010 09:11
I almost choked on my cereal when I heard Balls on R4 this morning. As you have pointed out, his assertions about Brown were simply unbelievable. The rest of the interview consisted mainly of self-justification, and some half-baked economic theorising – all delivered with the usual Balls “Ring of Insincerity”, and with the awful matey accent he favours, but which adds dimension to the expression “dumbed down”..
03.09.2010 09:29
*If* the conversation was over the telephone how would Balls know Brown shrugged his shoulders?
03.09.2010 09:36
I’m sure McDoom is much more laid back trhese days. Thorazine does that to utter fucking loonies. Personally I hope the arsehole gets some kind of incurable painful cancer otf the rectum. Then again I’m a moderate .
03.09.2010 10:49
Ethan. You have gone on the record wishing cancer on a man. Take a deep breath. You may want to look inwardly and decide whether you are happy to live in your current state or whether you want to improve your state of mind.
03.09.2010 11:55
Harry – lets be accurate here. I wish Gordon Mc Doom “incurable painful cancer of the rectum”. seems only fair for ruining the UK and then many deaths of good people that his and Bliars wars have caused
I’m sure there are many people who wish him far worse.
As an aside in fact I toned it down a bit before I posted that. Deliriously happy thanks.
I only wish Bliar many many years attached to Cherie….far worse punishment than anything else I could think of.
03.09.2010 15:03
In reply to Harry. Why is wishing something on somebody so bad. Everybody knows that nothing one thinks can do any harm or otherwise to anybody, or does he believe in magic. As a believer in capital punishment for treason however, I think Brown and Blair should be executed for the treasonable way they messed up our country financially.
03.09.2010 12:42
Just off them anyway – think of the money saved on protection and pensions for the lying venal scum.
03.09.2010 17:32
Harry: how patronising.
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil”
03.09.2010 12:53
I have cancer and I would certainly wish it on Brown.
03.09.2010 14:49
Amazing how much airtime the former head of the ministry for Children (or whatever Stalinist job title he had) continues to get from his mates at the BBC
03.09.2010 15:04
The licence fee is due renewal – hence the arselicking at Downing street by the head BBC Kommissar: “Oh we used to be so lefty but we are not now any more, really, honestly”. But it pays to keep a foot in both camps so a bit of balls-licking with Blinky is also necessary.
03.09.2010 17:35
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03.09.2010 18:37
Brown’s obsession with a Stalinist NHS run as an employment scheme for Labour voters has left people with cancer that would otherwise have been cured. Seems a very apt wish upon the revolting man.
03.09.2010 18:40
Perhaps he phoned Gordon Ramsay by mistake.
05.09.2010 07:23
I suspect you are are bang on the money with this.
Brown is not the philosophical type…..he would have been swearing his head off and Balls wopuldn’t have got a word in edgeways
06.09.2010 16:17
Please,let’s all get behind the Norfolk Dumpling [or turkey?].Mr Balls should be next leader of the Labour Party,he is a worthy successor to Brown.He will make them unelectable for 2 generations at least,so the rest of us can get on with paying off all those debts he transferred to we taxpayers,from the shoulders of the deserving poor.
07.09.2010 15:53
I suppose Balls sensed through the phone line that Brown was shrugging.
12.09.2010 03:22
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