Ed Balls - A 'Muttering Idiot'?

la gran siete

No different. To do anything with BL you need to calibrate a person like you would a lie detector. Gut instinct is often far better. You have to meeting greeting and talking a lot to build up a better instinct. During training we were taught to tell what a person was thinking ( good, bad, neutral thoughts- not actual thought). To pass the test required 8/10 consistently.

karkus30

eye contact says a lot more ,its called body language.The eyes and mouth never lie whereas anyone can give a firm handshake if they want to. Its all a matter of being able to read body language which most of have lost the ability to do so.Much as i dislike limp wristed handshakes or what i call half handshakes i dont read much into them as I have friends who do them and I would describe them as effete in the slightest

Sonic67

I was trained to do it.

pragmatic

Balls fined £900 over car accident
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls fined £900 with five penalty points for failing to stop after car accident in West Yorkshire.

domtheone

The bit about shoesmith would have probably been more thread appropriate, but you've got to laugh, what is it with MPs and their cars.

Be funny if it was Yvette Balls points he'd trousered.

Sonic67

Many of them quite clearly think they're above (or at least on another level) the law.

I'm not surprised that one of them gets caught now and again on the roads.

As much as I despise the man, it seems a fair (hell maybe even a tad harsh) punishment for Balls for this (by all accounts I've read) sundry matter.

loz

Dear Ed,

say your wife was driving at the time and everything will be okay

Yours

Chris Huhne

pragmatic

from BBC news...

Last year, Mr Balls was given three points for driving through a red light on the Embankment in central London.

He was also caught speeding in West Yorkshire, for which he paid a fine and attended a speed awareness course rather than accept penalty points.

In 2010 the then Children's Secretary was fined £60 for using a mobile phone while driving.

loz

He needs to become a minister pronto, then he'll get a driver.

pragmatic

or use public transport, like normal working class folk he represents...