The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

Link: Why you can’t believe a word Ed Balls says – Telegraph.

In politics, any truth the electorate would not like is only ever told by accident or indirectly. Ed Balls exposed the true spirit of the Labour Party this week in two telling ways. Firstly, his instinctive response to being told that the tax burden in Britain is the highest in history was to shout out "So what?!" Secondly, he went straight to the reporters of Hansard to have official history "corrected" to read that he shouted "So weak!" I wonder if the reporter who fulfilled that ministerial instruction has read 1984?

In his choice of lie, "Named by a just God" Balls may, perhaps, have subconsciously disclosed a third truth. The man thinks himself an intellectual. He is a fool; and a weak fool too (and Mrs Paine – a shrewd judge – thinks he has "mad eyes").