Eddie Barnes: That nice man, Mr Balls
Education Secretary Ed Balls gives an interview today in which he accuses his fellow Labour MP James Purnell of having a mid-life crisis. This is in response to the fact that Purnell is setting up a think-tank on the future of the Labour party, after quitting the cabinet last month.
Says Balls: "There are times when individuals in their early 40s have crises. They buy motorbikes or go off and travel round the world and have a gap year. Sometimes people do that. I don’t think for political parties to have those kinds of moments is very sensible, especially when you are at your moment of greatest clarity and vision.”
Adds Balls, now is not the time “to be going off to think tanks to find out what your identity really is”.
Those interviewing Balls have little doubt what he is up to: he wants to chop Purnell's legs off now, so that he is seen as the top man post-election defeat.
There was me thinking that the public jockeying for the leadership began after you had actually lost an election and when your leader quit......how naive of me.
Says Balls: "There are times when individuals in their early 40s have crises. They buy motorbikes or go off and travel round the world and have a gap year. Sometimes people do that. I don’t think for political parties to have those kinds of moments is very sensible, especially when you are at your moment of greatest clarity and vision.”
Adds Balls, now is not the time “to be going off to think tanks to find out what your identity really is”.
Those interviewing Balls have little doubt what he is up to: he wants to chop Purnell's legs off now, so that he is seen as the top man post-election defeat.
There was me thinking that the public jockeying for the leadership began after you had actually lost an election and when your leader quit......how naive of me.
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