ENTER BALLS, STAGE LEFT.

As the leader of Her Majesty's Opposition has a reshuffle forced upon him, Thoroughly Modern Miliband has to bite the bullet, and elevate 'All Ed' (Balls) to be shadow Chancellor. If that is not enough, this has created the opportunity for Mrs. Balls (Minnie Cooper) to take on a more responsible brief. It is difficult, however, to imagine ultra left-wingers showing responsibility. They will be able, collectively, to shout across the floor of the House, "Spend, Spend".

What is significant here, is the fact that it took all those years of conning by Blair and his New Labour outfit to devise a truly Marxist opposition; both Miliband and Balls emanate from a Marxist family background.

Balls no doubt will be breathing fire and Keynes all of the time. He won't, of course, quote Alastair Cook, who famously pointed out that the first leaders to adopt Maynard Keynes' theories were Hitler and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930's. To succeed with such theories, the nation would need a sound manufacturing base; this would not prove to be Britain's strongest suit.


BALLS WAS ALSO INSTRUMENTAL IN ENGINEERING OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS.