Ed Balls Talks...

...good Christ help us. If you want to find out what he has to endlessly gibber on about say you can head here. It is chock full of borderline insanity and clearly delusional statments. One striking example is the spin about the close call he went through at the last election - apparently he knows how to fight the Tories based on that election. Bollocks, young Ed - the only reason why your re-election battle was so close is because you are such an absolute wanker that you have managed to alienate so many people in your constituency.

But the pièce de résistance in Balls' crapitude comes when he says this:

"...we've got to believe in government..."

It is pretty clear that I'm not going to agree with that - as a Libertarian, I believe that government is not something to believe in. Quite the opposite; if you want something to believe in, then go with the idea that the government is incompetent and more often than not malign, intentionally or otherwise. But my opinions aren't that relevant here - we're talking about Balls, and he is clearly someone who believes in government.

Except he isn't. If he did believe in government, then he would believe in the government we have in this country at the moment - but if there is one thing that is clear, it is that he doesn't believe in that government. No, what he believes in is government run by his cronies or, even better, by him.

Which is simultaneously the reason why Ed Balls is so dangerous and why statists are so flawed in their arguments - those seeking to become the government are those least suited to being in government. Balls is arrogant - in fact, he is more than arrogant. Not only does he think that he knows best, but he wants to force what he knows on everyone else in this country. Of course Ed Balls wants us to believe in government (under the right circumstances) - he wants us to believe in him. The arrogant, almost delusional, fucker.