3/10 for Ed Balls

And now for some corporate cross promotion. Our colleagues at Sky have issued Top Trumps, scoring individual front bencher on charisma, looks and Parliamentary skills. Adam Boulton has (bravely) ranked various senior politicians on charisma.

Amongst the most ambitious of the "next generation" of Labour pols, he puts Ed Balls, the Prime Minister's right hand man and friend of many journalists, well behind David Miliband, although Douglas Alexander, another singularly driven individual, fails to feature at all. Amongst opposition, he curiously ranks Caroline Spelman ahead of Nick Clegg, while Lembit features worryingly highly.

So do you agree with the following charisma scores?

2: Des Browne, Hilary Benn

3: Theresa May, Oliver Letwin, Harriet Harman, Nick Clegg, Ed Balls

4: Ed Miliband, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw, Caroline Spelman, Jacqui Smith, Alex Salmond, James Purnell, Hazel Blears

5: Lembit Opik, Alan Johnson, John Hutton, Ian Paisley, Menzies Campbell

6: George Osborne, George Galloway, Charles Kennedy, David Miliband, Boris Johnson, David Davis

7: Gordon Brown, David Cameron, William Hague

Comments

[Nick]

1: Des Browne (he's in his own special league)
2: Alistair Darling, Caroline Spelman (I cant really comment to be honest), James Purnell (ditto), John Hutton,
3) Menzies Campbell, Hilary Benn, Thersa May, Ed Balls, Jacqui Smith, David Davis, Harriet Harman
4: Oliver Letwin, Nick Clegg, George Osborne, Ed Milliband
5: Lembit Opik, David Milliband
6: David Cameron, Alan Johnson, Ian Paisley,
7: Gordon Brown
8: Boris Johnson, William Hague, Charles Kennedy (the chatshow mafia)
9: Alex Salmond, George Galloway (the charlatans but hey they'd be nowhere if they didn't have bags of the stuff)
-1: Hazel Blears (she's inspiring, she inspires me to throw things at the tv.