You have to admire Ed Balls for his persistence. On this morning’s Today programme he suggested that the New Labour battles between the Brown and Blair camps were merely a spot of “creative tension” that led to “great achievements.”
Bear in mind that there were vicious screaming matches between the two men and periods where they were barely on speaking terms – creating dysfunction at the top of the government machine.
Presumably Ed would say that the Dutch football team “like to get stuck in”; that Fidel Castro is “a left-leaning Progressive” and Burke and Hare (pictured) were “a bit naughty – but they got things done”.
Jim Pickard
Kiran Stacey