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Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Ed Balls reckons we should pay his football subs. Why? Perhaps because Gordon thinks we should pay his Sky Sports subscription his homunculus thinks we should pay for him to watch football as well? The parliamentary green book says expenses claimed should have been incurred “wholly, necessarily, and exclusively” in the performance of Parliamentary duties… [...]
Liberal Vision (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am not sure whether Ed Balls got out of bed the wrong side yesterday morning, was just a bit “interviewed out”, or whether he was…as it sounded…revealing his true colours - a bully who knows the cause is lost and hopes that by throwing his weight about on BBC radio, he can somehow influence media reporting. I caught the most [...]
Department for Children, Schools and Families (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Ed Balls today welcomed the announcement by the Chancellor that more children are to benefit from free school meals with an extension of eligibility to free schools meals for lower income families, extension of the ... (2009/0243)
Department for Children, Schools and Families (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
- Funding means we can protect the frontline and meet our guarantees to pupils, parents and school leavers ... (2009/0242)
Voice of the Resistance (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Couldn't resist this (courtesy of Not A Sheep ): Please note the arse facing us in the picture is a false one. Ed Balls, however, is the genuine thing.
Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Children's Secretary Ed Balls accused of going soft on failing schools as he refuses to condemn state primaries where pupils fall behind
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Little bit of confusion yesterday when Guido misheard that Ed Balls went to Eton for an education, it wasn’t a scoop, The Times had it a year ago and it was Draperishly innacurate – as Balls tweets this morning. Eric Pickles consequently made the same muddle on Today this morning (Eric is an avid Guido [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Local authorities will be told to come up with action plans to boost the performance of under-achieving primary schools in an announcement by Ed Balls.
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
How Ed Balls loves to call David Cameron and his front bench Tory toffs and allude to their membership of elite drinking clubs. So I was intigued to be pointed by Biased-BBC to a Daily Mail story that had passed me by. It's the story of a privately educated toff who wore a "German officer's uniform (whilst) staring at the crotch of a (male) fellow student wearing comedy plastic buttocks."...
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Angry Old Man (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
I got this picture from Guido’s Blog, thanks to Guido , showing a young Ed Balls dressed up in a Nazi uniform at some initiation ceremony when he was a member or the Steamers Club during his time at Oxford . I don’t have an issue with anybody dressing up as a Nazi for a laugh, what better way to show your contempt for an organisation or individual. However I seem to remember a young...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
The education secretary aims to raise the proportion of 11-year-olds achieving level 4 in Sats to 78% by 2011 More than 1,470 primary schools in England were told they were underperforming today as the government admitted that progress in English and maths for 11-year-olds had stalled. The children's secretary, Ed Balls, threatened to send in advisers to the 1,472 primaries in which less than...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Children's secretary calls for action plan in 10 'underperforming' local authorities after tables show fall in standards More than 1,400 primary schools in England will be told to improve by the children's secretary, Ed Balls, this morning. Balls will say at least 55% of pupils should be leaving school able to write a full sentence using commas and do basic times tables in their heads....
The Christian Institute (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Labour’s “pathological” refusal to endorse marriage as the key to tackling family breakdown has drawn fire from Conservative leader David Cameron. Children’s Secretary Ed Balls said at the weekend that children’s welfare is not necessarily best protected through marriage, but instead through “stable and lasting relationships between parents”. Seizing...
Lobbydog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... won’t be Chancellor very long now anyway. Gordon wanted to get rid of him and bring in Ed Balls at the last reshuffle and in the unlikely event that Brown wins the next election he will sack him and do just that. “He must decide if he wants to play silly games and politics with his last few months or whether he will talk responsibly about the problems the country faces and set...
