Ed Balls - the consummate career politician

Just how low can you go?

Ed Balls. There is no lower. A snake's belly is stratospheric in comparison.

Having threatened the teaching profession with massive redundancies in September he now announces he wants another 2.6 billion for his department. Note that fact - for the department; not schools. Will he get it? Of course not. So what's it all about? Asking for money he knows he's not going to get. Embarrassing his Chancellor in such a weird way...Well of course it's about the career prospects of one Ed Balls. The first salvoes in the post-election battle to be the Labour party leader. No intention whatsoever of doing anything worthwhile for schools, teachers or children. Intent only in improving his own prospects.

He is without doubt a self-serving, over-promoted geek without the first inkling of real people in the real world; has no experience of schools bar the one he attended as a child, and his only contact with Whitehall should be painting the outside of it. With someone as useless as Balls is in charge, the educational establishment - the consultants and advisors and paper pushers and various hangers-on, can lap up the sweet, sweet cream of "investment", slap in their first class expenses developing all those insane and useless initiatives in the full knowledge that Blinky Balls will wipe up their mess and shower them with even more money; money that should be being spent in schools and isn't.

Odious, self-serving and the greatest impediment to achievement and social mobility since slavery.

Whilst Nero Brown fiddles and over promotes his horse (Ed), the teaching profession wait like detainees behind a barbed wire fence waiting, longing for liberation from these fucking idiots and their insane schemes.

And what if the Tories really do take on the Educational Mafia? Well believe me you're going to need a truckload of axes for the DCFS, and that's the bare minimum needed to tackle just the filing cabinets on the first floor.

It'll take a full term of Parliament to hack your way through the inter-twined shitheap they've created over the last 12 years.

A bonfire of the initiatives? The smoke could fill Whitehall for a decade.