Day 25: Ed Balls

[DownWithTheLeft]

When does Andrew Bonar Law come up?

Its 2007 not 1907.

O, I thought we were doing PMs

[Michael Z]

There was much talk of him becoming the next Chancellor of the Exchequer, I believe. I'm not sure what came of it.

Only a question of time.

Btw, his name has been the butt of jokes for a while now. Michael Heseltine (the man who felled Thatcher) once made the remark "It's not Brown's - It's Balls!" over a speech Balls had written for Brown.

But I can only imagine what the poor chap must have gone through at school. Chances are the experience turned him into a bitter, vengeful, hate-filled sociopath with a Napoleon complex, which would explain why he went into politics.

Are you really so confident that Balls will be Chancellor? I also heard a lot of buzz about Alistair Darling as the next Chancellor, and it sounds as if Balls is an outside shot.

He won't be the next immediate Chancellor, but he's definitely being "groomed" for the role.

So you mean they are grooming Balls?

LOL. Good one.