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 ====== Ed Balls' Talk ======
-Ed Balls came to UEA to give a talk on 17th of May 2017. There was a book signing session afterwards. Of course I had my book signed. Overall he's a lovely person. It makes me miss the New Labour. The New Labour was brought down by a series of small mistakes, and a few big mistakes. Anyway, I remember three stories Ed Balls told us quite poignantly. I decided to write them down before I forget them.
+Ed Balls came to UEA to give a talk on 17th of May 2017. There was a book signing session afterwards. Of course I had my book signed. Overall he's a lovely person. It makes me miss the New Labour. I know I moaned about them a lot while they were in power, but they really weren't that bad. The New Labour was brought down by a series of small mistakes (selling off the Gold Reserve), and a few big mistakes (Iraq War). Anyway, these are my three favourite stories from Ed Balls.
 ===== Near Death Experience with Gordon Brown =====
 So Ed Balls was with Gordon Brown in a Concorde flight back in 2002. The airplane suffered a compressor stall.
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 Ed writes in his new book, called Speaking Out: “Gordon said ‘well, here we are’ and I said: ‘Yep, maybe this is it’.”
 When the plane got to 24,000ft Gordon turned to Balls and said: ‘What do you think? Should we finish my speech?”, recounts Balls.
-Fortunately the plane started falling, disaster was averted, and the speech was finished.
+Fortunately the plane stopped falling, disaster was averted, and the speech was finished.
 <cite>Radio Times [(Concorde1)] </cite>
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