Finally Balls Finds A Job!

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35185636

[sandyRoe]

A few hundred more votes and he might have been leading his party in the preparations for a return to government.
It's tragic.

[ToraToraTora]

....maybe if he had a De Lorean with a flux capacitor fitted Sandy!

[melv16]

I think he should have married the chief constable of London... Cressida Dick..

[sandyRoe]

Would she have used a hyphenated name? Cressida Balls-Dick would certainly be memorable.

[retrocop]

//I think he should have married the chief constable of London... Cressida Dick..//

Has she been promoted in the New Years Honours list? :-)

[Canary42]

Can't say I'm over the moon about it.

[Baldric]

Thought she'd quit the Police

///Cressida Rose Dick, CBE, QPM is a Director-general at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Previously she was a senior officer in the Metropolitan Police in London./// Wiki.

[mushroom25]

aww come on canary, he can't be worse than robert chase.

can he?

[Canary42]

Two wrongs don't make a right ;-)

[ichkeria]

When I think of who the present resident of Number 11 is, not to mention the joker who shadows him, that only makes it worse.
Send Osborne to Norwich instead...

Ed will probably end up on TV: actually a very talented and interesting person

[sandyRoe]

I hope not. His talents would be wasted on TV. Same as Portillo clattering about Europe on railway journeys.

[ichkeria]

Well, his talents might be wasted on TV, but give me Portillo on a train rather than in the government any day!

[jomifl]

Excellent career move..he can spout a load of bilge, bully people and blame someone else when everything goes pearshaped. I expect Delia will out in the woods of Midsomer Norwich collecting wild mushrooms very soon.

[New Judge]

Perhaps he and his Lady Wife, Mrs Pixie Balls-Cooper, will now have sufficient funds to take into one of their home a Syran refugee family, as they had promised to do during the summer:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/06/nicola-sturgeon-and-yvette-cooper-offer-to-house-syrian-refugees

Not sure if "Wee Burnie" Sturgeon has fulfilled her end of the pledge yet.

[retrocop]

Personally NJ I feel Ed's pledge is a load of .....surnames. :-)

[jim360]

http://newsthump.com/2015/12/28/norwich-city-declares-bankruptcy-after-appointing-ed-balls-chairman/

[Quizmonster]

You disappoint me, NJ. Perhaps I've just missed earlier occasions, but I have never associated you with the use of derogatory name-calling so favoured by others of the right-wing persuasion here on AB. Sad.

[New Judge]

It's a joke at politicians' expense, QM. I make them at the expense of many politicians regardless of their persuasion because, quite frankly, that’s all many of them are fit for. As is evidenced here. In the height of the summer when the refugee fiasco was at its peak we have the likes of Sturgeon and Cooper proudly stating they will take in a Syrian refugee family (OK, with some caveats that it must be “part of a wider strategy, etc. etc., but the soundbite was well planned). Well, here we are three or four months since the article and following the arrival of a number of Syrian refugees and their “proud” pledge is yet to be fulfilled. Unlike the poor *** on the Isle of Bute who have had a number of families foisted on them in completely inadequate circumstances. As I said, nothing but a joke.

[Quizmonster]

If that's the case, NJ, how about having a dig at Cameron for his endless lies about the UK's flood defences, which Mother Nature is currently revealing as almost criminal? As regards a derogatory nickname for him, what would you suggest? I did consider the 'swinish' one, but it has been rather done to death in recent weeks.
I know you're no fan of Cameron, but - given the current state of UKIP - I'm sure you could find something similar to criticise about Farage...he's a (would-be) politician, too.

[New Judge]

I don’t think “Pixie” or “Wee Burney” are at all derogatory, QM. I cannot, incidentally, claim credit for their invention. That honour goes to a well known journalist. But they both describe the physical appearance of the two politicians (provided, that is, you know where “Wee Burney” originates from).
I think, perhaps, “Lord Snooty” would be appropriate for Mr Cameron. He certainly bears a passing resemblance to the well known Beano character, though I’m not quite sure whether any of his “pals” fit the bill. I’m not really sure about Mr Farage. Of course he has not had the opportunity to break any promises as the others mentioned have.
Incidentally I do find the comparison between Lord Snooty breaking his pledges and Pixie and Burney breaking theirs is not quite valid. Lord Snooty, of course, has broken political and manifesto type pledges which almost all politicians are prone to do all the time. The undertakings the other two made were more personal. They led people to believe that they would be more than willing to accept a family of Syrian refugees into their homes. They have had plenty of opportunity to do just that as quite a number of Syrians have arrived under the government’s scheme. I’m sure they could have used their contacts to acquire some of them in order to fulfil their pledges but it seems they’ve been otherwise occupied. Personally I strongly believe we may never see their promises met. But I could be wrong.