Comments on: Ed Balls is back in favour at Number 10

By: Tony E

Tony E — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:47:45 +0000

The only option if Labour decide on all out class warfare is to publish on large posters a list of all the Labour cabinet ministers over the last 10 years, where they went to school, and where they sent their children to school.

Then they should pose the question : if Labour’s education policy is so good, why don’t you send your children to state schools, and why didn’t your parents send you to state school in the sixties?

By: hatfield girl

hatfield girl — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:14:12 +0000

‘Balls still knows how to appeal to Brown’s innate idiocy, clumsiness and lack of strategy.’ Yes. Balls makes Brown comfortable with himself, whereas Mandelson offers Brown strategies that hurt Brown to adopt. And Brown is getting old; more and more he wants his intuitive understanding of the world to be correct, and prefers to use brute force to change it where it does not conform to his understanding.

But a sophisticated, advanced capitalist democracy must be dealt with on its own terms. Brown doesn’t even want to accept such a society, never mind deal with it; his entire mindset is to disrupt it, dismantle it, replace it, and rule the result.

By: Boudicca

Boudicca — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:11:29 +0000

The class war is intended to appeal to disaffected Labour core voters. Brown/Balls are offering the voting white working classes a choice – an anti-immigrant ‘war’ with the BNP or a ‘good old-fashioned, traditional Labour war with the upper class.’

This is ALL about shoring up the northern vote – it really has nothing to do with winning the election.

By: Northampton Saint

Northampton Saint — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:29:43 +0000

I’ve always thought that class war campaigning, such as Labour are using again now, was a case of preaching to the converted, to people who will vore Labour anyhow. It doesn’t appeal to anyone outside the old left. It didn’t work in Crew and Nantwich, and it won’t work in the GE

By: Shaun Pilkington

Shaun Pilkington — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:58:57 +0000

I wonder if this is a panto-esque object-lesson by Mandy – look what happens when I don’t offer you my wisdom!

Which would only be worth doing if he was losing the ear of Gordon which would, in itself, be another story!

By: LFAT

LFAT — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:52:04 +0000

Personally, I doubt class warfare will do little more than invigorate a few hardcore lefties to drag themselves down to the ballot box, but that just emphasises how absurdly stupid the plan is – and by extension why it must therefore be Balls and not Mandelson calling the shots.

By: Shaun Pilkington

Shaun Pilkington — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:45:32 +0000

This class thing is rubbish – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you have no control over who your parents are and so therefore shouldn’t be attacked for being born rich. Or poor, for that matter.

What’s important isn’t so much where you’ve come from – it’s where you’re going. And, in the case of politicians, where you’ll take the rest of us.

Labour appear to want to attack Tories over their circumstances of birth while hoarding those, and similar advantages, for their own families. In the few cases, of course, where (unlike Hodge or Darling, for example) they haven’t already enjoyed very similar privileges themselves. We know where they’ll take us – to the poor house. When we can’t borrow or print any more money, ‘Gulags for Slags’ will just expand into proper 19th C style poor-houses (work houses), no doubt run by fine 3rd sector institutions like the Christian Brothers. They know a thing or two about discipline, eh?

By: FLS

FLS — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:24:25 +0000

‘I’m increasingly of the opinion that this election campaign will be one of the most dirty, negative and hostile campaigns in living memory.’

Has to be – they’ll run the election in the same manner they have run the country – deceit and lies.

Labour is like a weeping pustule on the UK.

By: oldrightie

oldrightie — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:24:13 +0000

JuliaM says “Let people see what these people are really all about. Power.”

If people can’t see that already, God help us.

By: JuliaM

JuliaM — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:29:43 +0000

To which I can only say: “Bring it on!”

Let people see what these people are really all about. Power.