I spotted an article at The BBC today with Ed Balls giving his considered opinion on how control orders shouldn’t be scrapped or we wil all die horribly (or something like that) and couldn’t resist this juxtaposing of articles.
The BBC (emphasis mine):
Cameron ‘playing politics’ on control orders – Ed Balls
Prime Minister David Cameron said the controversial anti-terror measures “haven’t been a success”.
But Labour claims plans to modify them are motivated by a desire to please the Lib Dems, who promised to do so in their election manifesto.
Labour’s Ed Balls said Mr Cameron and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg should put national security first.
The shadow home secretary insisted he would wait until the outcome of a review into control orders, a form of house arrest introduced by the previous Labour government in 2005, before passing judgement on whether they should be scrapped.
He told BBC Radio 4’s The World at One: “The experts I have spoken to in the security services and the police are very unconvinced that it is possible to keep our country safe without some kind of successor regime in place. That is not consistent with the Lib Dem manifesto. That is Nick Clegg’s political problem.
“And this desperate attempt to play politics with this issue is, in my view, very mistaken.”
And now, The Daily Mash :
Balls Condemns Expert For Knowing Stuff
16-03-10
ED Balls has condemned children’s commissioner Dr Maggie Atkinson for using her years of professional experience in forming an opinion.The schools secretary has called for an inquiry into how a qualified person with qualifications qualifying them to do their job could qualify their statements on matters they are qualified to comment on.
Balls said: “Responsible governance is not about taking the advice of proper experts, it’s about Jamie Oliver making a nice salad or asking that large television nanny to dictate childcare policy even though she does seem to limit herself to houses with steps.”
Julian Cook, professor of public policy at Reading University, said: “The public is often caught between highly trained experts who have studied a subject in depth and actually know what they are talking about and the bastard, son of a bitch whores we call politicians who spend their entire lives with the throbbing penis of the editor of the Daily Mail lodged firmly inside their filthy, lying mouths.
“It’s difficult to know who to trust.”
The latter was the piss take of Mr Balls ignoring committe advice and making up his own mind as to which Labour parasite should be installed as childrens commissioner.
In the current debate on control orders, he appears to be playing politics himself as well as demonstrating that he is an unrepentent statist control freak.
As an aside, I heard Milliband speaking for the first time today – I had no idea that Labour had elected Biggus Dickus as their leader (theven thediscious thothialiths – think about it). Im sure the shodow cabinet is a bag of laughs with stammerer and lispy boy engaging in mass debate.
And, as another aside, I was interested to see how the BBC described control orders in that article :
The shadow home secretary insisted he would wait until the outcome of a review into control orders, a form of house arrest introduced by the previous Labour government in 2005, before passing judgement on whether they should be scrapped.
Nice to see they decided to actually call a spade a spade for a change – maybe they are growing a backbone after all.
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