Ed Balls in traffic crime shame!

Well, it may not be a crime to many. Also not much shame in it either. Ed Balls was caught using his mobile phone whilst driving a car and has been fined the princely sum of £60. I doubt very much if he is ashamed of his behaviour. This particular law, that of not using your mobile phone whilst driving, is flouted on a daily basis. Those I spot are usually either the arrogant types or the selfish types. Either way, these people are the sort that only obey the laws they want to obey.

Ed Balls has a touch of arrogance about him. It is inconceivable that it did not cross his mind to think that he shouldn't be talking on a phone in a car before he did so. He just thought he could get away with it. He thought "why not?" and just did it anyway. Is this the sort of man who should be in Parliament?

The Conservatives are targeting so-called safe Labour seats. Ed Balls' seat is one of them. It's a pity he wasn't given a more suitable punishment than a £60 fine. How about the stocks for ten days? Then put in an ample supply of rubber balls for chucking at him. Nothing hard or hurtful, you know. Just enough to let him get the message.

In some ways Ed Balls lives up to his name. Not in the way most would think. No, definitely more like a rubber ball. Whatever shame befalls him he bounces back. Whether it be MPs' expenses, sacking people, policy detail, cabinet confidentiality or just taking the law into his own hands, Ed Balls bounces along with a cheery smile (or is it a smirk?).

Well, let's hope the Conservatives can bowl him a googly. Then his rubber balls won't come a bouncin' back!