Is Ed Balls the most annoying politician ever?

[Walford]

pcvdriver said:

Walford said:

To be honest David milly is public enemy num 1 for me cuz it would be a re,run of the blair years

Don't you mean Ed Milliband?....

No edd is a joke, and will never be elected
david is blair 2

[anonymous-user]

legzr1 said:

fblm said:

Yep, using the governments idiotic definition you get 2.4m kids in poverty. Cpag, who you are using for your 'facts' adjust for housing costs and get 3.5m. So the threshold is effectively even higher than 18 grand!!! You couldn't make it up.

Ah, I see.

The governments own figures are idiotic because they don't suit your argument on an Internet forum?

Jesus, you are a character aren't you...

No the figures are idiotic because according to this definition, not only are junior policemen, firemen, train drivers, senior military nco's and junior officers with 2 kids all living in poverty but I also spent half my childhood in poverty; they are not and I didn't. If you need more clues that the definition is idiotic, consider that in a recession when incomes drop, the threshold drops and so the number of those in 'poverty' drops... Really? If you still don't get it check with someone who passed their maths GCSE.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-18436795

A measure of poverty that shows a fall in poverty as incomes drop, a rise when incomes rise and declares millions of people with perfectly good jobs impoverished is idiotic. A measure of poverty chosen for no other reason than it is between 2 other numbers is even more idiotic.

legzr1 said:

Are you suggesting that 3.5M or 3.0M is way, way too many but 2.4M is somehow acceptable, a price worth paying for the 'fastest growing economy in Europe' ?

Where the hell did you get that from? I made no comment on what is or isn't acceptable however just so we are clear; 2.4m children living in genuine poverty would be a fcvking outrage. Fortunately there arn't, the numbers are moronic, as is anyone who doesn't understand that 60% of median income is a measure of the distribution of incomes, not poverty. For any child to grow up in genuine poverty in one of the richest countries in the world is shameful but horribly inevitable.

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 3rd August 06:16

[hornetrider]

Proving that the man is, indeed, a .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11...

Faces driving ban over failing to stop.

[Vaud]

hornetrider said:

Proving that the man is, indeed, a .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11...

Faces driving ban over failing to stop.

5 points, £900
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bradford-west...

[ralphrj]

Vaud said:

5 points, £900
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bradford-west...

A lot less than last time he crashed and fled the scene...

[mybrainhurts]

£1075 and five points for failing to stop after touching a bumper with negligible damage?

Holy strewth!

Please note, this observation does not detract from my loathing of the miscreant Balls.

[Walford]

mybrainhurts said:

£1075 and five points for failing to stop after touching a bumper with negligible damage?

Holy strewth!

Please note, this observation does not detract from my loathing of the miscreant Balls.

will help towards the billions in debt he left us

[agtlaw]

He now has a criminal record. Fail to stop/report is imprisonable. It's on PNC not just his driving licence.

A shame that Roy didn't pot him for 6 months,

[mybrainhurts]

agtlaw said:

A shame that Roy didn't pot him for 6 months,

I have a better idea ---->

[dcb]

Vaud said:

5 points, £900
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bradford-west...

The man seems to have an appalling driving record:

BBC said:

The Labour MP was ordered to pay a £900 fine, a £90 surcharge and contribute £85 towards the costs of prosecution.

Last year, Mr Balls was given three points for driving through a red light on the Embankment in central London.

He was also caught speeding in West Yorkshire, for which he paid a fine and attended a speed awareness course rather than accept penalty points.

In 2010 the then Children's Secretary was fined £60 for using a mobile phone while driving.

Sheesh !

On the one hand I think he ought to hand his driving licence in after this fourth
offence in four years, on the other hand he'd make a fine Transport Minister in
any Labour Gov ;->

[andy43]

Walford said:

mybrainhurts said:

£1075 and five points for failing to stop after touching a bumper with negligible damage?

Holy strewth!

Please note, this observation does not detract from my loathing of the miscreant Balls.

will help towards the billions in debt he left us

Based on a 1k fine per bump, who wants to work out how many cars Ed needs to reverse into to cover the debt he left us with?

[Stevanos]

He seems to crash everything! the economy, then his car and he still acts like a weapons grade dick with no remorse for his actions

[carinaman]

I think I just heard him saying on WATO that PCC Shaun Wright has been advised by the Labour Party to resign.