Is Ed Balls the most annoying politician ever?
Discussion
Mr GrimNasty said:
The fact that Labour are in as strong a position in the polls as they are, given their past performance, and manifest complete lack of credibility, policy, trustworthiness, etc. etc. says all you need to know about a large proportion of the electorate.
Substitute "Conservatives" for "Labour" and this statement is still true.Hackney said:
Mr GrimNasty said:
The fact that Labour are in as strong a position in the polls as they are, given their past performance, and manifest complete lack of credibility, policy, trustworthiness, etc. etc. says all you need to know about a large proportion of the electorate.
Substitute "Conservatives" for "Labour" and this statement is still true.The last two times the Conservatives got elected to hose out the country's stables after Labour left a massive pile of s
t behind, they've done exactly that.Balls "we need a Plan B". Sure we don't, just like Labour's economic idiocy when in power it turned out to be b
ks. We just don't need him or his fellow Labour muppets anywhere near government again.CMD isn't on my Christmas Card list but the credibility (and competence) levels of the Conservatives are far and away above Labour.
RegMolehusband said:
Tony Blair was the most annoying politician ever, I hated him with a passion and still do. Miliband comes second.
Yes but at least it was obvious what Blair's intentions were, ... To get rich. Balls is even less likeable than brown, at least brown really believed in his own ideology, regardless of its merit. You wonder if balls just wants people to jump when he enters a room , you suspect he was unpopular at school and is merely stroking his ego at our expense. Posturing, aggresive, smarmy tt. turbobloke said:
Conservatives lack credibility to the same degree as Labour?
The last two times the Conservatives got elected to hose out the country's stables after Labour left a massive pile of st behind, they've done exactly that.
Balls "we need a Plan B". Sure we don't, just like Labour's economic idiocy when in power it turned out to be bks. We just don't need him or his fellow Labour muppets anywhere near government again.
CMD isn't on my Christmas Card list but the credibility (and competence) levels of the Conservatives are far and away above Labour.
What really worries me is that quite a few on here share your view.The last two times the Conservatives got elected to hose out the country's stables after Labour left a massive pile of s
t behind, they've done exactly that.Balls "we need a Plan B". Sure we don't, just like Labour's economic idiocy when in power it turned out to be b
ks. We just don't need him or his fellow Labour muppets anywhere near government again.CMD isn't on my Christmas Card list but the credibility (and competence) levels of the Conservatives are far and away above Labour.
"Labour make a mess, Tories/coalition use this excuse for X years, those at the bottom pay the real price."
The future looks bright...
legzr1 said:
turbobloke said:
Conservatives lack credibility to the same degree as Labour?
The last two times the Conservatives got elected to hose out the country's stables after Labour left a massive pile of st behind, they've done exactly that.
Balls "we need a Plan B". Sure we don't, just like Labour's economic idiocy when in power it turned out to be bks. We just don't need him or his fellow Labour muppets anywhere near government again.
CMD isn't on my Christmas Card list but the credibility (and competence) levels of the Conservatives are far and away above Labour.
What really worries me is that quite a few on here share your view.The last two times the Conservatives got elected to hose out the country's stables after Labour left a massive pile of s
t behind, they've done exactly that.Balls "we need a Plan B". Sure we don't, just like Labour's economic idiocy when in power it turned out to be b
ks. We just don't need him or his fellow Labour muppets anywhere near government again.CMD isn't on my Christmas Card list but the credibility (and competence) levels of the Conservatives are far and away above Labour.
The future looks bright...
Fortunately, there is still a chance that Balls and his incompetent fellow travellers won't get in at the 2015 General Election.
turbobloke said:
What's far more worrying is that the recent track record of both Parties demonstrates clearly that the Labour Party destroys the economy and does nothing for the people it claims to want to help, unless increasing poverty and widening wealth gaps is what they really want, yet there are still significant numbers of people who say they'll vote Labour - and if sufficient do so, then it wrecks things for those with more sense.
Fortunately, there is still a chance that Balls and his incompetent fellow travellers won't get in at the 2015 General Election.
Yes, that's the truth - foolish people near the bottom rung of society incapable of realising how bad Labour is for them yet still vote for them in droves.Fortunately, there is still a chance that Balls and his incompetent fellow travellers won't get in at the 2015 General Election.
Sheer madness.
Or, just maybe, they see and experience things quite differently to you and yours...
On a serious note, I honestly fear what this lot would do if given a clear mandate - Victorian values giving the scum classes absolutely nothing, anything worth more than a quid sold off to profiteering Tory party donators and national institutions ran like McDonalds franchises.
No doubt some relish the idea.
He is like most modern politicians in that he has never had a proper job.
Whatever you think of the various MPs of the 80s, most of them had achieved something before becoming MPs and had lived in the real world and had a proper job.
The trouble with modern politicians is that they've gone from student politics to being "researchers"/ whatever to MPs without being in the real world so most of them have no idea. Look at the politicians for all parties in the 80s and whether you agreed with them or hated them you could actually respect most of them and that it not the case today.
The press is largely to blame for this - who would want their life under the scrutiny that these guys suffer?
But the sort answer to OPs question is probably yes.
Whatever you think of the various MPs of the 80s, most of them had achieved something before becoming MPs and had lived in the real world and had a proper job.
The trouble with modern politicians is that they've gone from student politics to being "researchers"/ whatever to MPs without being in the real world so most of them have no idea. Look at the politicians for all parties in the 80s and whether you agreed with them or hated them you could actually respect most of them and that it not the case today.
The press is largely to blame for this - who would want their life under the scrutiny that these guys suffer?
But the sort answer to OPs question is probably yes.
longblackcoat said:
Steve_T said:
Stevanos said:
The guy is not fit to manage the economy.
He's not fit to run a School tuck shop.ked up the economy.98elise said:
longblackcoat said:
Steve_T said:
Stevanos said:
The guy is not fit to manage the economy.
He's not fit to run a School tuck shop.ked up the economy.Balls is intelligent and a fool. AKA an intelligent fool, there are plenty of them in politics.
mercGLowner said:
Please expand on this statement, I genuinely would like to know what you mean when you say "those at the bottom pay the real price"?
He won't. In fact the middle earners have fared the worst in the past 15 years. Most of the cuts were pencilled in by the outgoing labour government in collaboration with the civil service. Fair to say labour weren't too keen on being re elected. There is no difference between the blues and reds, we are a socialist command economy. If anyone thinks by voting labour back in it will be like 2001-2010, it won't, that ship sailed. No, for me it's Boris.
What a buffoon. I don't care how many people argue that he's being 'ironic' and 'ooh, he's highly intelligent you know...'
He comes across as a grade-one tt.
Other countries must laugh into their cornflakes about how this ridiculous individual portrays and represents our capital city and country.
I might direct you to one example of many:
Boris, 'representing' us at arguably the world's biggest and most prestigious sporting event:
Barak Obama, looking like a professional statesman:
What a buffoon. I don't care how many people argue that he's being 'ironic' and 'ooh, he's highly intelligent you know...'
He comes across as a grade-one t
t.Other countries must laugh into their cornflakes about how this ridiculous individual portrays and represents our capital city and country.
I might direct you to one example of many:
Boris, 'representing' us at arguably the world's biggest and most prestigious sporting event:
Barak Obama, looking like a professional statesman:
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