Guardian: Has a positive piece on Ed Balls and his prospects of being Shadow Chancellor the Exchequer. The Coalition Government would love Balls, he has been to close to Gordon Brown over the years, he would bring a lot of negative baggage, he is a symbol of the toxic Blair/Brown War. Lets be honest here folks, Balls has been very effective as Shadow Education Secretary in attacking the new Education policy of the Coalition but the economy is something else, he often quotes that he was right on the Euro, well what has he been right on since, the IMF, the Bank of England supports the spending cuts of the Coalition, Balls only works if they are wrong, while running for the Labour Leadership Balls has stated that there should be in essence no cuts, therefore if the economy turns around due to the Coalition Government policies the Labour Party is a dodo. The choice of Shadow Chancellor could decide the next election for Labour, does Labour want the ghost of Gordon Brown at the table.
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