Outgoing Cabinet Minister for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls had a string of visitors to his home in the early hours of Bank Holiday Monday morning, as a squad of heavily armed police rammed his front door in and helped themselves to his computer equipment, his car keys, five large filing cabinets and his three sleeping children with the aid of social workers.
As Mr. Balls and his wife were led out screaming in handcuffs as the sun rose over the otherwise quiet street in Castleford, Yorkshire, he was heard to say "I never thought it could happen to me!"
Police say they have also impounded his car for forensic examination and seized his mobile phone records.
Karma's a bitch, Ed.
