The labour election campaign

[Suff]

performance of Ed Balls on newsnight. Quality? Well his name says it all.

I can just hear the pundits on the path to the election. Just take that path over there. There is a staircase at the end. Keep going down, it gets all red and glowing the further you descend. You'll know when you've reached your destination.

I don't miss Blair for one second. At least he could run a team. Miliband couldn't make a Condom shop make a profit even if it was outside a stadium hired for public orgies once a week....

[TheOstrich]

That was pretty unfortunate, to the extent that I almost sympathised with him. Any of us can get sudden memory blanks, I guess ......

[Suff]

Except his day job is not to....

[Workingman]

Let he, or she, who has never had a brain freeze throw the first stone.

I do not like Ed Balls, or his wife, or the party, but if that is the level of political attack this early on in the pre-election campaign, campaign, I am going to hibernate till mid May.

[Suff]

Well it is a bit more than just a brain freeze. He'd just met with the guy. I can forgive the forgetting his last name but forgetting what his position was? Also that he could not name anyone else. Perhaps because he could not come up with anyone, at such short notice, who would actually agree to being named....

We can, of course, be assured that everyone who goes on TV from this day forward will be armed with a memorised list of those who do support them and will be willing to be named. Which is likely to be so short that even I could remember it without too much difficult and my memory for names (or lack of it), is legendary.

The point being made was that the country is not out of the mess of the last Labour administration yet and the only way it is going to get out of it is to make sure our businesses pull us out of it. Those businesses have no faith that the stated Labour policies are going to do anything to support our businesses or economy.

I think that point was clearly made by Balls' inability to answer a simple question with even one name which he could clearly remember. Because it was not just about remembering that name or the person's position, it was that he couldn't give any other name at all.

However it will be spun and buried as a simple "on the spot" moment and not actually what it is. A fundamental lack of support from the business community we sorely need to get the country back on it's feet. The reason the business community don't support them? Because their policies are anti business, waste not gain and you can forget Boom and Bust, they're not going to do any booming just busting....

That is the key point here. Something which has already begun to be spun into something it is not.

[Kaz]

Let he, or she, who has never had a brain freeze throw the first stone.

I do not like Ed Balls, or his wife, or the party, but if that is the level of political attack this early on in the pre-election campaign, campaign, I am going to hibernate till mid May.

Quite!

[Aggers]

As far as I'm concerned, they are wasting their time opening their mouths.

I have already made up my mind.