Balls On Immigration

Actually, he does at least express the Brownite view of the EU, that the best thing to do about it is to ignore it and carry on as if it did not exist. No doubt also the approach of that other key Brown ally, Ed Miliband.

Will Balls now come to see - or, since he probably does see it, to admit - that the erosion of wages and working conditions, and that the intolerable strain on housing and other public services, are inherent in the Eurofederalist project itself and in the neoliberal economics behind it? Will the younger Miliband?

Balls's newly stated view is still not a patch on the actual voting records of Diane Abbott and John McDonnell, never mind John's nomination by no one who is not a fully paid up Eurosceptic, one of whom is active in Balanced Migration.

And Balls is still signed up to Turkish accession. Bringing with it the IHH, which the neocons might consider is entirely a product of their beloved dismemberment of Yugoslavia in the Islamist interest.