Edited sentence: Balls has been heavily critical of David Cameron and George Osbournes handling of the economic crisis, especially on their austerity measures, although these often simply appear as nothing more than political opportunism.Many have pointed out that he is hardly qualified to judge the Coalition on it handling of Britain's finances following his record, along with Gordon Brown, of stacking up huge amounts of unsustainable debt during Labour's time in power, which ultimately led to the need for deficit reduction and the like