How Much is Balls Really Worth?

65 comments:

Anonymous said...

tell yates of the yard now

Anonymous said...

Surely "..about Balls' popularity" ?

gunslinger said...

Well spotted Rob Hutton.

Be interesting to see how many CVs Ed sent out for a job when he left the treasury.

Also be interesting to see who else the Smith Institute interviewed for the position.

Anonymous said...

Balls has a reputation in The City - he talks crap. The slickers patronise him which he misguidedly takes as praise. Thats how thick this twat is. Stupid and emotionally retarded like his boss. The Smith Institute fee is a charitable donation to an unpleasant and unpopular wanker.

Anonymous said...

Oh, they advertised the job far and wide & were especially keen to hear from women and BME candidates.

Well, surely ... it is a charidee, isn't it?

Anonymous said...

"How Much is Balls Really Worth?"

Didn't we sort that out in the previous post?

Anonymous said...

Bollocks. He's the chancellor's right hand man and could even be chancellor himself in the not-too-distant future. In that business, access is everything. What think-tank wouldn't want him?

Anonymous said...

Smith institute could be Brown's watergate. Nice one Guido.

Anonymous said...

Call me a cynic, but that must have been a handy financial bonus just before a GE in which Ed Ball's was standing as a candidate.

Anonymous said...

Brown's watergate

Ha ha ha! What is illegal about paying someone £50,000 per year to do a job?

Does anyone on this board have a clue what a) is corruption and b) what isn't?

Let's not mention what happened between 1994 - 7...

Anonymous said...

" Brown's watergate

Ha ha ha! "

You can almost smell their fear!

Anonymous said...

Yates of the Yard - Boo! Squeaky bum time.

Steve Hilton said...

Again, I will emphasise (for those not familiar with Common Law) that there is nothing familiar with earning £50,000 per year from a charity.

Anonymous said...

The Labour apparatchiks who so regularly post here (miliband etc)remind me of someone so sublimely excoriated by the genius of Blair:

"Parsons was Winston's fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms—one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended."


Eric, not Tony btw.

Anonymous said...

"Again, I will emphasise (for those not familiar with Common Law) that there is nothing familiar with earning £50,000 per year from a charity."


Waht a characteristic New Labour non-sequitir .
It's also rathe r like a comfort mantra isn't it? Bless.

Anonymous said...

Loonies,

Please note that it says "more than 50,000". From the numbers, it looks like it may have been much nearer 100K.

Anonymous said...

What the fuck is with you defenders of Smith Inst payments to Balls. Smith Inst is a fucking scam itself. Nice name. Remember Norton Warburg. Nice name took BoEngland in and ripped off the punters including Pinl Floyd. A corrupt facade will find no problem in explaining £50K to hotshot Balls. Most will fall for it including you silly twats on the payroll. Fuck off and try your propaganda bullshit elsewhere. Balls is taking money from a slush fund set up by friends of Brown to finance his parallel govt in waiting. Remember Orion trust, apartment at Dorchester, cosy evenings etc - all funded from immoral earnings. There is a pattern here you dimwits.

Anonymous said...

I think bhownaggree is saying that people can legitimately be paid £50k by a charity. OK, but I'm not sure why he mentions the common law, because that hasn't got anything to do with it.

Anyway, if Balls goes down with his master then I say hurray. If we can also get his twat of a wife then I would give up Christmas.

Steve Hilton said...

The above should read:

So desperate are the lacklustre Tories in attempting to portray Gordon as a mixture of pychologically flawed, corrupt, nepotistic, etc. you almost get the impression they are the ones running scared.

So apparently Ed Balls got money from a charity to do a job, is this more or less corrupt than being appointed to the board of an industry that you privitised? (Cue a gaggle of Tory ministers).

(Hungover)

Anonymous said...

Did the Smith Charity pay rent (to us) for its use of No 11 Downing Street?

Anonymous said...

bhownaggree

There is a big difference between working for a charity and a privatised industry. Perhaps you don't see it. Perhaps you believe that SI is a charity in the accepted sense of the word. Perhaps you believe that Brown has not benefited from the Orion Trust a scam to launder Robinson's 'gift' for services rendered to Joska. Perhaps you believe Brown understands economics. Perhaps you believe Brown can run the country. Perhaps I shall send you come pills.

Steve Hilton said...

Probably not, it isn't based at No. 11 Downing Street. It's based in Grosvenor Gardens.


This is rather a non-story: Charity pays government minister for his advice on his specialisation. As you lot are so fond of Adam Smith, would you begrudge this? Tellingly, still no mention of those privitized industries and Tory directorships....

Steve Hilton said...

"Perhaps you believe Brown understands economics"

Have we had a quarter of negative growth since 1997? (He says as he pulls the trigger on his shotgun firing an ounce of lead into some barrelled carp.)

Anonymous said...

bhownaggree, dear heart, since you've had two attempts it, I assume you actually meant to write 'pychologically'. What the hell is pychology? Do you suffer from it? Is it contagious? Do tell!

Steve Hilton said...

You can get it from typing too quickly and paying scandalously little attention to your SPELIN n GRAMOR.

It is associated with Blackberries and devices such.

Ben said...

I get it - you ARE Alistair Campbell!...

Anonymous said...

Well yes, in the fast moving modern world we don't usually criticise people for typo's.

t'internet etiquette.

Steve Hilton said...

It's discrimination - I would sue if it weren't for the fact that compensation culture is being tackled by the impressive thrice-elected government (total claims having fallen by a third since 2002).

Anonymous said...

bhownaggree

Perhaps you believe Brown is responsible for creating uninterupted growth since 1997. Shit you are more credulous than I believe is possible. You are not Balls are you?

Two points:

1.Friedman (decd) advised Paul Volcker of Fed Reserve to stop printing US$. This in 1979. This decision was the precursor to the largely stable growth worldwide since 1982/3. So if you want to give credit where credit is due MF is to be recognised

2. Britain under Tories joined ERM. Brown as Shadow Chancellor voted for this with the Tories. We exited under the collapse of interest rates trying to protect £. £ collapses and this leads to unprecedented growth in UK compared with ossified Europe. Brown becomes Chancellor in 1997 and inherits a £38bn surplus which he keeps stum about.

Those are the sources of our growth. Your fucking Chancellor has pissed this against the wall with his micro management and social engineering policies. We are OK, thanks. Its the fucking poor who suffer. Wake up. Your Brown hero has no clothes. Your children and their children will pay.

Apologies for length of post. I am doing this as a social service to the blind. I'll send some more pills XXX strength.

Steve Hilton said...

Dr. Crackers (moniker more than justified):

Or, increased public expenditure in an era of low inflation has done exactly what Keynes (deceased) predicted: stimulated the economy, reduced unemployment and with targetted supply-side measures reduced poverty. The same policy of increased public expenditure has on both sides of the Atlantic undone the damage done by 'irrational exuberance' post-Dot Com [on the subject of the Dot Com boom I wonder how much pensioner's money broker Guido Fawkes lost during that horrific and pointless gamble].

The poor don't suffer and you'd realise that if you spent just one measure hour of your time knocking on doors in council estates listening to people explain how the Winter Fuel Allowance or Tax Credits had helped their families.

Ben said...

"The poor don't suffer"

fantastic stuff straight from the bunker...

Anonymous said...

Balls must be a really sad little shit as he seems to have spent all day on here defending himself.

Guido Fawkes said...

bhownaggree,

Will you fuck off and go bore on ConHom or LabHom or somewhere.

If you don't have any tittle tattle, jokes or wit to share, you are not wanted here.

Guido Fawkes said...

Crackers,

You can give it a rest as well. I expect better of a regular like you.

Steve Hilton said...

So your board is to be a pointless echo ever resounding with plum Tory voices attacking [insert Cabinet Minster name]?

Steve Hilton said...

I like you blog Guido, but your bias lets you down.


If you weren't so biased I'd give you a terrific story about serious sums of money from MPs staffing allowance being paid to family members... but alas.

Anonymous said...

bhownaggree said...
So your board is to be a pointless echo ever resounding with plum Tory voices attacking [insert Cabinet Minster name]?


With any luck it will you fuckwit, far more amusing than having to read your toytown Marxist bollocks.
Go and wipe a tramps arse at st Mungos if your conscience is giving you so much trouble.
Leave us to worry about the breast sizes of Tory women and who is shagging who.

Anonymous said...

"Balls has a reputation in The City - he talks crap."

I worked as a government economist and he had that reputation in government too. I've probably posted this before, but I remember talking to a very senior and well respected civil service economist, who remarked to me on several occasions that "Ed Balls is a VERY bad economist". And I heard similar remarks from several people in government independently.

Nigel Lawson was a great Chancellor who made a bad judgement call on fixed exchange rates. Gordon Brown is a crap Chancellor who's has wonderful luck.

Steve Hilton said...

Peter, the only thing you'll be wiping this evening is your penis against yet another kleenex tissue as you ponder all the Tory Totty that you'll never ever get the chance to place a single one your withered fingers on, let alone move your repugnent tombstone teeth and matching sclerotic tongue towards.

Guido Fawkes said...

That is more like it. More entertaining. This blog has standards.

Anonymous said...

anon 531 re : Balls. Lighten up or you will be yellow carded.

bhownaggree: I am no fucking good at insults. I have been told to shut the fuck up. We can chat again on a doorstep somewhere in Toxteth when I am collecting my rents. crackers is just an alias. My real name is Rachman.

Anonymous said...

Bhownaggree

Thinking about your mother !

Bet you do the same .

Anonymous said...

Dr Crackers ... "Those are the sources of our growth." Plus excluding house prices from inflationary measures diluting the value of money and stealing the said value so that, as Browngee says "increased public expenditure in an era of low inflation" which effectively means employing unnecessary civil servants and over paying public service employees without any increase in delivery.

Crackers, Brown new what he was doing.

Steve Hilton said...

I am a gentleman, not a rogue.

Anonymous said...

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. Maynard was a lovely man.

Steve Hilton said...

I would not know my dear, I died in 1932 and alas did not meet the fine chap.

Anonymous said...

At the risk of being tedious, a few facts: Balls hasn't registered ANY cash in the MPs' register of interests from this outfit. That means a)he is astonishingly stupid b) this story is 100 per cent wrong.
There may be a smoking gun, somewhere - this definitely ain't it. Thought better of you Guido. PS. Don't you think you should have mentioned that Hutton (not known for breaking stories!) is a mate of yours x

Guido Fawkes said...

Anonymong,

At the risk of making you look totally stooopid. It was in 2004/5 before he became an MP. Hence no entry in the members register of interests.

a) This means you are astonishingly stupid.
b) 100% wrong.

Have no idea who you are. X

Anonymous said...

How about this if Mr bollox new anything about the economy he would work in it rather than trying to fuck it up.

Anonymous said...

bhownaggree said...

The above should read:

So desperate are the lacklustre Tories in attempting to portray Gordon as a mixture of pychologically flawed, corrupt, nepotistic, etc. you almost get the impression they are the ones running scared.

So apparently Ed Balls got money from a charity to do a job, is this more or less corrupt than being appointed to the board of an industry that you privitised? (Cue a gaggle of Tory ministers).


You really make yourself look the right cunt you are when this description more l;ikely fits in with Labour MP's and party hierarchy than any Tories.

Fucking idiot.

Anonymous said...

bhownaggree said...

"Perhaps you believe Brown understands economics"

Have we had a quarter of negative growth since 1997? (He says as he pulls the trigger on his shotgun firing an ounce of lead into some barrelled carp.)


You really are a mongisg cunt of the first order that believes the shite he's fed by Labour aren't you?

Which was the last quarter of recession we had? Brown even now admits that Thatchers legacy allows him to be a success, but cunts like you are so fucking thick you can't bring yourselves t admit it, and it is also why cunts like Balls have to be paid by a dodgy charity.

Anonymous said...

bhownaggree said...

It's discrimination - I would sue if it weren't for the fact that compensation culture is being tackled by the impressive thrice-elected government (total claims having fallen by a third since 2002).


Having prviously quadrupled...meaning they have actually more than doubled since 1997...It's all in the weasel words these cunts spout.

True new labour cunt.

Anonymous said...

Guido Fawkes Esq. said...

Anonymong,

At the risk of making you look totally stooopid. It was in 2004/5 before he became an MP. Hence no entry in the members register of interests.

a) This means you are astonishingly stupid.
b) 100% wrong.

Have no idea who you are. X


Guido...that was such a good one, if I was a knob jockey I'd suck your knob..but I'm not, so you can fuck right off...but it was a good end to a long thread.

Anonymous said...

The emperor has no clothes.

Brown's so-called economic miracle is based on debt.... a record £1.3 million of it now owed by "consumers" alongside record trade and public sector deficits.

The next 5 years earnings have already been spent and a house price crash, rising reposessions, bankruptcies, unemployment and a recession are now staring us in the face.

Well done Gordon, and well done your stooges at the (independant (LOL) Bank of England.

Anonymous said...

£1.3 million? Shouldn't that read TRILLION?

Anonymous said...

Ed Bollox may be a nasty little creep and a vile turd with a weird taste in females but at least he doesn't share his master's penchant for rocking horses.

You'll have to look elsewhere for Brown-Hatters current favourite knob-jockey.

Anonymous said...

stroppycow said...
£1.3 million? Shouldn't that read TRILLION?

It should indeed! Brown's economic boom is based on record debt and is about to burst with dire consequences for the UK economy, the pound, and millions of over-indebted consumers.

Plenty of ammunition there for Osborne, methinks it's time he went on the attack.

quote: "Total UK personal debt has exceeded £1 ¼ trillion and at the end of October 2006 it stood at £1,268bn. The growth rate increased to 10.4% for the previous 12 months which equates to an increase of ~ £110bn....."

http://www.creditaction.org.uk/debtstats.htm

Anonymous said...

Osborne and Cameron are in cloud cuckoo land. Two lightweights more suited to Hill and Knowlton than to leading HMO. For fucks sake your job is to expose the criminal incompetence and corruption of this fucking useless administration. Get involved in some hand to hand combat and give over on fatuous photo shoots. Next election will be about competence. Wake up.

Anonymous said...

According to Peter Oborne in the Mail, George Osborne was about to launch a series of attacks on Brown but now the news about the child's cystic fibrosis has come out Osborne is going to lay off him, apparently.

How bloody convenient for them both!

Anonymous said...

Well, at least these guys have stayed out of the euro, so Balls cannot be an utter idiot, as some of the more heated folk around here claim. That said, he does buy totally into the idea that he can micro-manage our lives via the tax code.

But the Tories need to be honest: these men created an independent Bank of England, something that the Tories never
did, and should have done, years before. A missed opportunity.

Anonymous said...

Johnathan Pearce said...
Well, at least these guys have stayed out of the euro, so Balls cannot be an utter idiot, as some of the more heated folk around here claim. That said, he does buy totally into the idea that he can micro-manage our lives via the tax code.

When our debt fuelled economy goes tits up the pound will fall to the value of one euro then watch as we ditch sterling and rush into the safe haven of the eurozone.

"...But the Tories need to be honest: these men created an independent Bank of England, something that the Tories never
did, and should have done, years before. A missed opportunity."

Independent Bank of England my arse!! Four of the 9 MPC members are directly appointed by Brown and the Deputy Governor Lomax is a Brown toady.

Anonymous said...

Independent Bank of England my arse!! Four of the 9 MPC members are directly appointed by Brown and the Deputy Governor Lomax is a Brown toady.....
But Mervyn King isn't a Brown toady - or anyone else's toady; mild of manner he's truly clever, honest and actually quite scary in not needing or choosing to toady to anyone, least of all an intellectual and political fake like Balls, or his pseud-economist master Brown the economic disaster area.

Anonymous said...

Thought that BoE independence was originally a Tory idea.

Brown also controls the MPC through the 'financial stability' clause, which is beyond the select commitee's remit.

Brown has been very lucky with the post 9/11 liquidity glut. Rampant inflation, hidden by fiddled CPI figures. All boats float on a rising tide. The mess Brown and Balls will leave behind will cripple the UK for decades.

Remember that Gordon Brown has no economic qualifications whatsoever. Brown and Balls are economically incompetant morons. Who else would sell 60% of the UKs gold reserves at all time lows?

Anonymous said...

Mervyn King is a central banker. His job is to tax you through inflation, the hidden tax.

Anonymous said...

Brown and Balls toxic legacy is the contingent liability of pensions for the 835000 extra drones on the payroll. Govt consumes 42.5% of GDP and rising. Add in the billions spent on quangos and consultants. The productive tax base is shrinking. And we stupid twats are having a party on the Titanic. We will need another Thatcher in five years and you don't spell it Cameron.