If anyone needed a reason not to vote 'Labour' at future elections, they had only to watch the stumbling, garbled and guarded performance of Ed Balls under questioning from Andrew Neil on this morning's edition of the 'Sunday Politics' on the BBC.
While trying to prove his credentials as a money-saving future Chancellor of the Exchequer, Balls tried desperately to say that he would slash all sorts of welfare spending without actually saying what he would do about pensions, housing benefit and the like; it was clear that he'd been given a range of broad-brush remarks to make but had no idea what the details might be in the event that he actually had the chance to put his 'plans' into action.
Everyone knows that Balls has 'previous' when it comes to economic messes; it was he, after all. who helped Gordon Brown destroy the UK's economy during the catastrophic years of Labour government between 1997 and 2010. Balls is one of those fanatical socialists who will do and say anything that he imagines will give him access to power, while living a life of luxury himself; he will happily mortgage the country's future knowing that whatever horrors he visits on future generations will have no effect on either him or his children. How can anyone possibly take this man seriously or, heaven help us, trust our economy to him ?
The very simple answer is that we can't and mustn't. The trouble is that, far from the 'savage cost cutting' of which the current lot has been accused, very little has really been done to reduce government spending over the last 3 years. Given his political leanings, it's highly unlikely that Balls would even do as little as has been done by the Conservative/Liberal coalition; it's far more likely that, if gullible voters gave him the power, we'd be back to the same old tax and spending policies that caused us to be in this mess in the first place.
If voters choose Labour at the next General Election, it will be a disaster for the country. BE WARNED !
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