Balls on 3

[ardcarp]

Quite surprised to hear Ed Balls (with Rob on Essential Classics today) choosing Dyson in D Mag and Nunc. He waxed lyrical about our tradition of church music....and I thought he was a hard man!

[Barbirollians]

A bit of an old fashioned politician - he has a hinterland .

[cloughie]

I think he is man who likes his music!

[ahinton]

In all the various interviews with him of late he seems (unless I've missed something) to have drawn a veil over his violin playing; I understand that he used to play in the now disbanded Financial Times String Quartet...

[cloughie]

IN all the various interviews with him of late he seems (unless I've missed something) to have drawn a veil over his violin playing; I understand that he used to play in the now disbanded Financial Times String Quartet...

May have switched instruments - he said he started to learn the piano when he became shadow chancellor.

[Serial_Apologist]

May have switched instruments - he said he started to learn the piano when he became shadow chancellor.

I always thought of Balls as the shadow boxer - maybe that's why he took up celebrity culture.

[Nick Armstrong]

I think he is man who likes his music!

He was an annoying youth though, notably on the occasion I gave him n00 lines for being a noisy, talkative brat in morning assembly

[teamsaint]

He was an annoying youth though, notably on the occasion I gave him n00 lines for being a noisy, talkative brat in morning assembly

Oh I'm starting to warm to him.......

[gradus]

He was an annoying youth though, notably on the occasion I gave him n00 lines for being a noisy, talkative brat in morning assembly

Lines eh, presumably too recent for a good thwacking like wot we 'ad for too much rabbit at Assembly.

[BBMmk2]

Like all politicians, they are human, he said, in today's programme and it sounds like a chap you could have a pint down the pub with.

[Serial_Apologist]

Like all politicians, they are human, he said, in today's programme and it sounds like a chap you could have a pint down the pub with.

As a text I don't think that line would be sufficiently original for Richard to set to music...

[ahinton]

As a text I don't think that line would be sufficiently original for Richard to set to music...

!!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Like all politicians, they are human, he said, in today's programme and it sounds like a chap you could have a pint down the pub with.

"Sounds" is, I think, right - Balls will tell an audience of "Classical Music" listeners that he loves "Classical Music", appear on Strictly to show that mass audience that he's a regular guy - he'll gladly have a pint down the pub with you, Bbm, and the next night address a Temperance Society meeting on the evils of drink. He might keep very quiet about his threats, whilst "Children, Schools, and Families" Secretary, to take legal action against teachers who didn't do as he told them to do: that's the real measure of the man, and one for which I would be more likely to pour a pint over his head than drink one with him.

[cloughie]

"Sounds" is, I think, right - Balls will tell an audience of "Classical Music" listeners that he loves "Classical Music", appear on Strictly to show that mass audience that he's a regular guy - he'll gladly have a pint down the pub with you, Bbm, and the next night address a Temperance Society meeting on the evils of drink. He might keep very quiet about his threats, whilst "Children, Schools, and Families" Secretary, to take legal action against teachers who didn't do as he told them to do: that's the real measure of the man, and one for which I would be more likely to pour a pint over his head than drink one with him.

He'll not be relying on your vote anytime soon then, ferney. Mind you he'd probably set a good AA conundrum!

[kernelbogey]

"Sounds" is, I think, right - Balls will tell an audience of "Classical Music" listeners that he loves "Classical Music", appear on Strictly to show that mass audience that he's a regular guy - he'll gladly have a pint down the pub with you, Bbm, and the next night address a Temperance Society meeting on the evils of drink. He might keep very quiet about his threats, whilst "Children, Schools, and Families" Secretary, to take legal action against teachers who didn't do as he told them to do: that's the real measure of the man, and one for which I would be more likely to pour a pint over his head than drink one with him.

D'you have evidence for all that Ferney...?