Monday 22 September 2014

Not All Balls From Balls

His father was a very brave man, going to teach at Eton with a name like that.

Little Balls is today attracting considerable anger for his commitment to continue the freeze on Child Benefit. That anger is correct.

He also talked about "devolution to the cities and counties of England". On that point, he is correct, as he also is to identify the English grievance, where there is one, as fundamentally economic, and as directed at least as much against Westminster as against Scotland.

Moreover, Labour now has a far tougher policy on immigration than the Conservatives have. Remember, if your answer to that one is the four-letter non-word, then you have no interest in politics.

1 comment:

  1. Based on that third paragraph maybe he is a Labour Uncut reader?

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