Vote Labour And The Next Chancellor Could Be Ed Ball's Mother In Law?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3002235/Don-t-ask-maths-questions-leave-MOTHER-LAW-says-Balls-s-charge-making-Labour-s-sums-add-up.html

[jim360]

George Osborne didn't talk about relying on MIL, but he also dodged a maths question in a recent interview. Like most politicians, really.

So long as Ed Balls listens to the advisers and financial team at the treasury, and provides a decent set of policy aims, I don't care who he asks to help get his sums right, so long as they actually are right at the end of it.

[youngmafbog]

As a labourite he only needs how to spend, not how to balance the books. He will leave that to the next Tory Government in true labour fashion.

[youngmafbog]

//So long as Ed Balls listens//

Well that's us all b*gg**d then.

[dannyk13]

As Delboy would say "What a plonker"

[jim360]

Well, all I'm saying is that I expect "Balls up" to take on a whole new life as a headline fairly regularly if Labour win...

But the current Tory Cabinet aren't brilliant at listening to their advisers either.

[EDDIE51]

As he taught economics at Harvard I think he may be able to work out the sums.

[Svejk]

///fairly regularly if Labour win... ///

Lol, ain't gonna happen.

[ludwig]

Ed Balls has got to be one of the strongest weapons in their election arsenal,
- the Tories that is.

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

/// Well, all I'm saying is that I expect "Balls up" to take on a whole new life as a headline fairly regularly if Labour win... ///

Now, now Jim, no personal name calling on here please. :0)

[naomi24]

Jim, //he also dodged a maths question in a recent interview.//

Maybe he didn't have his calculator to hand. ;o

[jim360]

I think asking politicians trivial maths questions achieves nothing, really, anyway, so I can't say I begrudge Osborne, Balls, Nociky Morgan etc their choice to dodge it. I would probably rather do the same myself in most cases, at least in the typical

"What do you do?"
"I'm a mathematician/ physicist."
"Oh so what's 11*13 then?"

You either know the answer straightaway or you just seem to end up being assumed to be incompetent. Rather unfair because it has barely anything to do with what most mathematicians do. Ditto Chancellors, whose job isn't to know 8*7 but to understand economic policy.

Mind, most of them fail at the latter, as well, but at least that's a relevant failing.

[ToraToraTora]

Actually his mother in law would probably have more idea anyway!

[anotheoldgit]

EDDIE51

/// As he taught economics at Harvard I think he may be able to work out the sums. ///

That figures.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70524000/gif/_70524425_global_debt_total_borrowing_464.gif

[DTCwordfan]

//As he taught economics at Harvard I think he may be able to work out the sums.//

And look at the US economy and their deficits and national debt under a socialist regime....point well made, Eddie.

[bazwillrun]

"Vote Labour And The Next Chancellor Could Be Ed Ball's Mother In Law?"

could be worse , could be Ed "Ill spend every penny you havent got and tax the crrr_app out of you " Balls