[anatole kaletsky] keep your eye on balls and osborne too

Another interesting snippet from UK Daily Pundit:

Future Chancellor Ed Balls and future Prime Minister, George Osborne, must have behaved themselves at last year's Bilderberg conference - they've been invited back.

UKDP links to the full list, under the title: Welcome to the Lunatic Fringe.

Despite the accurate description - it is indeed madness to pursue an agenda of the financing of wars and the reduction of the population in holocaust proportions and why you'd wish to enslave mankind is beyond me if we can't even get our own lives in order - it seems to me to be a little different.

The Bilderbergers are not the only group - the CFR and Trilateral spring to mind but one can add Club of London, Club of Paris and International Adjustments - and if you're a young, say, Ed Balls and have your eye on the prize, the talent spotters will contact you.

It seems not unlike the things we do as bloggers. To further ourselves, we do Facebook, MyBlogLog, RSS feeds, bloglines and all the little tricks to get the traffic moving.

It's also a series of clubs. As GK Chesterton put it:

You did not have to be anyone in order to be one of the Twelve Fishers; unless you were already a certain sort of person, you never even heard of them. It's president was Mr. Audley. It's vice-president was the Duke of Chester.

There was a brief time when I was a young man of promise [later to be a young man of promises, as Churchill put it]. One didn't belong to one group - one hoped to belong to all.

There's a certain kind of man [and woman] for whom exclusivity is an end in itself. This is what these people play on - the carrot is the clubby hush-power and the cut and thrust of repartee with the highest and the best.

The stick is the constant reminder of the great unwashed and where you'd end up should you not play ball. Cleese's skit about the Architects is right on the money.

Mr. Kaletsky and Mr Balls are playing ball. Mr. Osborne appears to be doing so as well.