and another thing

Ed Balls was trailed as the Big Beast who would eat George Osborne alive. Having watched his performances at the Despatch Box on both Tuesday and yesterday I would say that he was a flop. He'll have to be much more clever and much sharper if he wants to win his jousts with Osborne. Osborne comes across as pompous yet sharp whereas Balls come across as cocky, nasty and wrong. He's a bit like the Miliband brothers who both come across as supercilious beings convinced that they know it all and that nothing that they do not know is worth bothering about. As they have never done anything in their lives other than politics they are more than somewhat hamstrung in the reality stakes. Too many MPs from all sides are similarly hamstrung. If they were more realistic would Clegg, the Labour party and others be suggesting that Universities must take in the 'disadvantaged' with lower exam passes in order to resolve the lack of social mobility issue rather than doing everything to improve the quality of state schools? if they were more realistic and knew a little more about real life would they have accepted membership of the European Court of Human Rights which was set up to give other European Countries a similar kind of safety net which we had evolved over centuries in this country? To be a member of the ECHR is an insult to this country. We need no lessons from any other country on human rights issues particularly from those countries which have adopted their constitutions since the 2nd World War which is practically the lot of them.