It seems to me that Children's Secretary Ed Balls is pushing for the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Stop Pushing, That Boy ! I think it's high time you were excluded from government office. You've been the bully of Gordon's Gang for too long, setting up poor Alistair Darling with no forewarning of the Credit Crunch when - clever boy that you are - you'd been the Chancellor's (ie Gordon's) Representative on Earth for all those years. Of course, perhaps you didn't know the Crunch was coming either, in which case, like your wife, you're not so clever as you make out, and perhaps even a little stupid !
Having got that off my chest, I now want to move back to the subject of gender equality. For it seems to me that Mr & Mrs Balls (Schools Secretary Ed Balls and his wife Yvette Cooper, Chief Secretary to the Treasury) epitomise what the New Labour Elite understand by gender equality in the workplace : having a spouse who has a job about as powerful and well paid as one's own, which also enjoys generous allowances and tax breaks etc. Of course if Ed Balls were to become Chancellor and his wife remained Financial Secretary, I'm not sure how they'd manage !
Now, as it happens, this "Golden Couple" are also New Labour's leading lights on "Class". In short, they don't like "Toffs" like David Cameron and George Osborne, respectively Conservative Party Leader and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. This in turn brings me back to the US Republicans choice of candidate for Vice-President, Sarah Palin or "Rottweiler Mom", as we don't allow ordinary folk to have Pit Bulls (even with lipstick on) in this country. For it seems to me that if any of Ms Palin's offspring were failed, as children over here have been, by Ed's Balls Ups.....the consequences for him might be not only serious, but painful !
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