Is Ed Balls briefings against the Milibands?


by Sunny Hundal    
9:45 am - June 17th 2010

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James Macintyre at the New Statesman reports Ed Balls telling this to Total Politics magazine:

Between the brothers there has been a little bit of off-the-record briefing going on. Hopefully, the two of them will say to their supporters to stop it. It is pretty unedifying.

But where’s the evidence?

The Sun reports on the same story:

Ed Miliband’s supporters have been slagging off his brother David’s “eccentric personality”.

And David’s fans are mocking Ed’s “dodgy decision-making”, according to former Education Secretary Ed Balls, who is also in the running.

Supporters of David and Ed taking pot-shots at each other shock! This probably happened over Twitter.

How is that “off-the-record briefings”?

It looks like a classic case of accusing others of flinging mud while doing it yourself.

Perhaps Ed Balls wants to push the “Miliband brothers in huge clash” narrative. This looks like a pretty crude way of doing it.

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1. Gould

I would be very surprised if Balls was stirring in this way. He must realize that the only chance he has of winning is down to the quirkiness of AV, so he’ll need lots of second preferences. He’s also canny enough to know that this is his big chance to position himself to be everyone’s choice as shadow chancellor.

2. Paul Sagar

Is Balls briefing against the Milibands?

Hmm.

In the words of Eric Cartman: Does the Pope cover up sexual abuse scandals and crap on the hopes and dreams of 200 deaf boys?


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