Balls V Osborne

It is important that the political agenda attempts to get back onto serious issues and ones that are going to dominate next year's election.

The main one being the battle over spending and the fight was launched in the papers this morning.

In the blue corner,George Osborne who tells the Times that

The big discussion in British politics for the foreseeable future will be how to tackle the debt crisis and deliver quality public services when spending is tight,

Whilst in the Red Corner,the usurped Chancellor to be Ed Balls who tells the Guardian that whilst he is willing to invest in young people

the Tories are committed to cutting spending – not just in the future, but right now in the middle of a recession. Instead of investing so we can recover more quickly and more strongly, the Tories are ­ideologically wedded to cutting spending to fund tax cuts for the few.