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Another Balls Up!!!!

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  1. shiney

    shiney President, Grumpy Old Men's Club Staff Member

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    He's done it again!

    Ed Balls has been caught running a red light (not the type over a door :heehee: ).

    In the last few years he has been caught speeding, driving whilst on the phone and now skipping a red light.

    Unless you're a conspiracy theorist and think that the police are purposely looking for him to commit an offense it seems to be a bit of a coincidence for them to be the only times he has done it.

    I would guess that a person would need to be committing these offenses fairly frequently for him to be caught three times in under three years.

    Does this reflect on his opinion of the laws and do you think it changes whether you believe what he says?
     
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    He obviously thinks he's more above the law than the rest of us. We'd quickly get punished for any of these. Has he been published for these offences? He's no better than us, and if he were to start spouting off about laws, I'd be hard-pressed to take him seriously!
     
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    But Ed Balls seems to have gotten away with it?
     
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    No doubt , he does it all the time, and just ignores the law, not because of his position, just the type of people the family are, and sadly the way many younger people are today

    I came close to taken out on a roundabout today, I was on the roundabout with right of way and a lady in a NEW Audi RS 4 Avant joining the traffic obviously knew I had to give way to someone in such and expensive car
    I did not, and the ever so nice lady gave me the Finger :-) I just wish I was driving the thirty year old LandRover Defender at the time, one more dent would not have bothered it

    Jack McH
     
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      I think Ed Balls is about the same as any other politician from any other political party. If any one of them told me that grass was green, and have to go out and check.
       
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