The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics sent out an email last night drawing our attention to their new video, dubbed an “attack ad” about Ed Balls. The Centre is “committed to helping voters, bloggers, and journalists be their own watchdogs, by improving access to existing information and digitising new information, and by using new website tools to enable all of us to collaborate in fostering greater transparency”.
Laudable indeed. Please go and donate.
Here’s what they had to say about the new Ed Balls ad:
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“Attack Ad running from 6 pm tonight [4 May] in Morley and Outwood on local media websites Yorkshire Post, Yorkshire Evening Post, Morley and Outwood Observer and Wakefield Express from 6pm.
Transparency and anti-corruption campaigners at the Sunlight Centre have bought advertising space for a video which attacks Ed Balls for expenses abuses including flipping his house three times, claiming for a remembrance poppy wreath and taking an £89,000 payment for producing two pamphlets for the Smith Institute in 9 months. The Smith Institute charity was closely linked to Gordon Brown and was criticised by the Charity Commission for supporting Brownite political projects. Gordon Brown’s allies Lord Myners and Wilf Stevenson resigned from the Smith Institute follwoing the report and it was widely considered to be a slush fund for Brown’s leadership ambitions.
The advert includes footage of Ed Balls at Oxford University wearing a Nazi uniform.”
For me Ed Balls’ greatest crime here was shamefully and disgracefully claiming £33 for a Remembrance Day poppy wreath. How low can anyone stoop?
Enjoy:
I’m really looking forward to today’s issue on Jacqui Smith…
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