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Cooperballs

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Yvette Cooper / Ed Balls
Name Cooperballs
Description NextGen's power couple

Cooperballs is a canon pairing between Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls. They've been married since 1998 and have three children. Favourite bonding activities include feeding MPs lasagna and plotting.

History[edit | edit source]

Ed and Yvette at their wedding

They first met on the top of Hampstead Heath. Yvette said that she was "sitting on a bench with a friend and he walked past with other friends who we both knew."[1] but they got to know each other when they shared an office, at the time Yvette was working for Harriet Harman and Ed was working for Gordon Brown.

Harriet Harman frequently sent Yvette to give Ed "pastings", but for a long time was not aware that they were dating. She found out when she phoned Yvette at her home and Ed answered.[2]

Their relationship developed as Ed gave Yvette lifts home in his Renault 5 automatic:

We'd just wind down the windows - I would like to say the roof was down, but it wasn't - and, very loudly, driving along the embankment and up to the City, we'd play Elvis's Can't Help Falling in Love. We would each sing the harmonies:

Take my hand, take my whole life too,
For I can't help falling in love with you.

We would harmonise the "love" bit.

They are both big Elvis fans. Ed has said that his fancy dress costume of choice would be "Elvis in his later years." and Yvette, when asked where she would go if she could go back in time, replied, "Elvis's concert at Madison Square Garden in June 1972." Yvette would want to be played by the actress Jodie Foster in a film about her life, because "Ed is a fan."[3]

Ed proposed to Yvette at his 30th birthday party, in front of their family and friends, including Ed Miliband.[4] They were married in Eastborne.

Support[edit | edit source]

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The couple like to show off their cheesy dancing at party conferences:

Embarrass each other on Twitter:

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...and dress up as the Von Trapps:

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Fanon[edit | edit source]

In the Media[edit | edit source]

The Meme[edit | edit source]

AUs[edit | edit source]

RP[edit | edit source]

The RP bases much of Ed (ontheballscity) and Yvette's (coopertrooper) relationship on their canon relationship, but Ed is in love with Andy Burnham (killandburnham) as well as with Yvette. After Ed spends New Years Eve night with Andy, Yvette finds out and confronts him about it. Ed, afraid that she will end their marriage, promises to never again act on his feelings for Andy.

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