Politics and Self-Interest

Ed Balls - the former Labour minister - appears to have cost tax payers hundreds of thousands of pounds.

How so?

For his role in sacking the a senior official in Haringey Council - over the death of Baby Peter -  whose neglect and abuse shocked the nation only a few years ago.

Three Court of Appeal judges agreed yesterday - unanimously - that the senior official (Sharon Shoesmith) had been unfairly sacked from her £133,000 a year job.

The former senior is now likely to receive hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation - but the taxpayer will pick up the tab - not Ed Balls or his government advisers.

Which is often the way of these things.

Because the politicians want someone's head on a plate - in fact anyone's head on a plate - so long as it's not their own.

And the same politicians are also happy to act 'tough and decisively' - safe in the knowledge that if it all goes wrong and costs the taxpayers a fortune - then they won't be held to account for their actions.

Someone else will be to blame - of that you can be sure.

So this terrible tale has ended as it began - in complete chaos.

Sadly, no one has emerged looking as though they had anything - but their own narrow self-interests at heart.

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