Perhaps it's love. It's certainly something pretty fucking odd: CF finds himself in the unlikely, nay, bizarre position of agreeing with that git Alastair Campbell twice in two days.

Having already nodded approvingly at Bad Al's views regarding David Law's Gaygate debacle, CF was interested to learn, via John Rentoul, of Campbell's detestation of a man we all detest, would-be King of Next Labour, Ed 'Blinky' Balls. As Rentoul says, here are the highlights:

26 April 1995: Ed Balls "drivelled on endlessly". Blair said afterwards that he "only wanted grown-ups to attend his meetings".

16 July 1996: Balls was "full of bile" about Blair.

6 November 1996: "Ed Balls spoke drivel, a never-ending collection of words that just ran into each other and became devoid of meaning."

It's a dilemma, isn't it? On the one hand, no-one should believe a fucking word that git Campbell says. On the other hand, it's quite obvious that that's exactly what that other git Balls is like.

Both Labour, both gits.

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