Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/ed-balls-the-nazi/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cogs Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 It was reported rather differently in other outlets, basically to the effect that he was a Tory and the pics prove it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sillybear2 Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Makes that Bullingdon picture look like a teddy bears picnic, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woot Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/ed-balls-the-nazi/ Is it really him? - he's gained a bit of weight. Bizarrely, although I am usually happy to weigh into any Balls-bashing, on this occasion I can't help but think that I wouldn't like to be judged by all that I said and did in 1986. (Although you'd have found me on the CND\Greenham\poll tax march end of things in the 80s rather than the Nazi sympathizer parties). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cogs Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Makes that Bullingdon picture look like a teddy bears picnic, doesn't it? Not really, Ed is a silly student in fancy dress, people's concerns about the Bullingdon Club aren't to do with the uniform as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sillybear2 Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 Not really, Ed is a silly student in fancy dress, people's concerns about the Bullingdon Club aren't to do with the uniform as such. So one is a Thatcherite Tory dressed as a Nazi and the other is a Thatcherite Tory dressed as a toff, big difference, I do apologise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cogs Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 So one is a Thatcherite Tory dressed as a Nazi and the other is a Thatcherite Tory dressed as a toff, big difference, I do apologise. You still aren't grasping it, the issue with Bullingdon Club isn't they are "dressed as toffs". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woot Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 You still aren't grasping it, the issue with Bullingdon Club isn't they are "dressed as toffs". Absolutely right - one fancy dress party, which is all the evidence the photo provides, is a fair leap from the social and economic assumptions of Bullingdon affiliation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 This Private Eye one's better ... http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1263 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 Big deal. German / nazi soldier was a standard kid's fancy dress costume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Noodle Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 This Private Eye one's better ... http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1263 There was something deeply, deeply disturbed about that last bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mrs Bradley Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 Absolutely right - one fancy dress party, which is all the evidence the photo provides, is a fair leap from the social and economic assumptions of Bullingdon affiliation. Yes. If we are going to give the thumbs down to Ed. B. let's FGS make sure it is a real reason, not some trumped-up piece of nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okaycuckoo Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 Is it really him? - he's gained a bit of weight.  Bizarrely, although I am usually happy to weigh into any Balls-bashing, on this occasion I can't help but think that I wouldn't like to be judged by all that I said and did in 1986.  (Although you'd have found me on the CND\Greenham\poll tax march end of things in the 80s rather than the Nazi sympathizer parties). Not sure which is worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Gordon Pugh Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 It is a Wehrmacht uniform. Regular German army. If it was a Nazi uniform, it would either have 'SS' lapels or a rank on the right arm (had its own rank structure), or have a nazis arm band, indicating a member of the Nazis party. Officers also had a skull on the cap below the eagle. Fffs, why do journalists not do any research? And why do you believe everything you read? GOOGLE IMAGES it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 This Private Eye one's better ... http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1263 Millipede, Brown, Prescott, Balls and co seem to have some strange physical affinity with the simian world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cicero Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 This Private Eye one's better ... http://www.private-e...ikes&issue=1263 Conjoined at birth and successfully separated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingsgate Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 It is a Wehrmacht uniform. Regular German army. If it was a Nazi uniform, it would either have 'SS' lapels or a rank on the right arm (had its own rank structure), or have a nazis arm band, indicating a member of the Nazis party. Officers also had a skull on the cap below the eagle. Fffs, why do journalists not do any research? And why do you believe everything you read? GOOGLE IMAGES it. You are right, strictly. Although "fancy dress" "nazi" uniforms (like what Prince Harry got caught out wearing) are often a totally inaccurate pastiche of stuff. Whatever, if you choose to wear ANY world war two era German military uniform, then 95% of people would say that you are dressing as "A Nazi", wouldn't they? That said, its only fancy dress. I mean, people dress up as devils to go to parties, this does not mean that they are actual satanists. And many girls who dress up as "tarts" for fancy dress parties are not prostitutes in real life, either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northwest Smith Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 Say what you like about the Nazis, Ed Balls was never a member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sillybear2 Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 Say what you like about the Nazis, Ed Balls was never a member. You mean he's not some superior breed? :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mrs Bradley Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 You are right, strictly. Although "fancy dress" "nazi" uniforms (like what Prince Harry got caught out wearing) are often a totally inaccurate pastiche of stuff. Whatever, if you choose to wear ANY world war two era German military uniform, then 95% of people would say that you are dressing as "A Nazi", wouldn't they? That said, its only fancy dress. I mean, people dress up as devils to go to parties, this does not mean that they are actual satanists. And many girls who dress up as "tarts" for fancy dress parties are not prostitutes in real life, either! Too true, but people are being reared to be super-aware of things that don't matter a stuff, whilst child and animal cruelty reaches record levels. Life these days is fraightfully earnest and highly monitored. PCdom has reared its head and like so many politically contrived 'mechanisms', it is to society's detriment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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