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Originally Posted by Chris
Be as suspicious as you like but don't take Ed Balls for an idiot. He's an English Labour politician who knows that his chances of future high office are much better with 50-odd Scottish Labour MPs sitting in Westminster than without them. There is absolutely no way he is going to do anything to make the SNP's job easier here.
The pre-briefing that has gone on over the past 24 hours is quite stark. Whoever is responsible for it has been able to point the BBC, the Grauniad and the Daily Wail (all of whom seem to have been at the front of the queue for handouts) not just to the conclusions of a report by Treasury officials, but also to forthcoming comments by the Treasury spokesmen of all three main parties.
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"An idiot" is about the last (yet possibly most endearing) thing I'd take Ed Balls for.