Balls and More Balls

We are in for a very boring time as Balls continues, as he did today on the Andrew Marr Show, to propagate the lie that the UK financial crisis was caused solely by the banks and had nothing to do with the Labour government and the Coalition repeats the truth over and over again that government 'investment' was just spending gone mad. Balls has to propagate the lie because that way he hopes if you say something often enough people will believe it, that when people get fed up with taking the deficit reduction medicine they will delude themselves into believing Balls is right and that the cuts are unnecessary and that the reputations of himself, Gordon Brown and Labour as paragons of virtue on the economic front will be restored to the level achieved by the lies of Alistair Campbell and Blair. I do not care how boring it becomes but the Coalition must keep on and on telling the truth about who is to blame for the deficit, that government spending is not investment but simply spending other people's money which all of us know is always spent less well than by the person who has earned it. Archbishop Cranmer http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/ would like us to concentrate on more dangerous issues (see his blog post today 'Egypt and Islam: democracy or dictatorship') and I am sure that he is right but we cannot let the economic argument be lost to a statist bully like Balls. Balls needs to forced to become more androgynous.