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Balls vs Brillo (Round 2)

April 26, 2012 6:04 pm

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Last November we brought you Balls vs Brillo. Today they met again – Round 2 (featuring Ricardian Equivalence and Ed Balls refusing to accept the premise of the question):

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  • GuyM

    Ed Balls was shown up to be an evasive con artist at best.

    This is required viewing for anyone stupid enough to believe Balls has any answers on the economy.

    • ThePurpleBooker

      I’m sorry Guy M, but Ed Balls has been vindicated on the economy and he has got the answers at the moment.

      • GuyM

        He has and had no answers in that interview with Neil.

        “Are you going to increase the deficit?”…. minutes of evasiveness and dissembling

        “Are you going to incresae national debt?”… minutes of evasiveness and dissembling

        Then the classic “the US stimulus….. ” only for Neil to provide him with the figures showing the US is going through a tightening faster than the UK.

        His “answer” is to spend more at a time he can’t raise more without causing more trouble. Therefore he has no answers and he will be found out in good time.

        • John Dore

          Exactly. No answers and no credibility.

      • Mark

        Brillo showed Balls up as being out of his depth, he’s a poor example of an MP but typical in sticking to his lies.

      • John Dore

        Only if you have little to no understanding on the economy and believe everything Labour say. All the talk of cuts is crap because we all know that Ozzy is spending more than brown.

        Oh and Ozzy is doing a crap job. Sadly they’re as bad as each other. If Balls got into number 11, I’d have to emigrate.

  • Bill Lockhart

    Dogged attempt to get an honest answer from Balls about his top-secret borrowing plans, but to absolutely no avail. Like trying to nail a jellyfish to a wall. The shiftiest politician in Britain, and with Osborne as Chancellor that’s really saying something. I’d say Balls’ membership of the Shadow cabinet is Labour’s single greatest electoral liability.

    • treborc1

      It’s up to the Tories to solve the issues, Ball’s can wait say nothing until the election starts then come out with his idea’s. It was a mistake the Tories did after Thatcher, they worked hard to tell the people what they would do, Blair stole it did it, and then said ah yes we were going to do that anyway.

      The Tories are in power it’s up to them to come up with the plans.

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