Fraser’s most recent post is one of the funniest things I’ve read this week. Regardless of the detail lurking in the government’s numbers, this is the sort of thing that proves that this is a decrepit, exhausted government. Who would have thought that it would all end with cabinet ministers haranguing people about blog posts? And not just once, neither, but five times? Shouldn’t a minister of the Crown have better, more important* ways of filling their days?
Ed Balls has just called me up about my post from this morning, hopping mad. He instructed me to “take that post down now”. I thought he was joking: has there been some change to the constitution where ministers now have power over the media? But he was deadly serious. “You should not call me a liar,” said Balls. I told him that if he doesn’t want to be called a liar, “he shouldn’t tell lies”…
Balls told me if I keep the post up, it will “expose” the sort of publication that we are – and our “political” bias.
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