Charitably speaking, it must have been the fear.
There was Ed Miliband sitting in his suite in Brighton, preparing his 'leader's' speech. He knew he had successfully overcome the Neil Kinnock moment. He had managed to successfully walk on the beach, while being photographed and hadn't fallen over! But............
He also knew that Damian McBride, was publishing and promoting his memoirs. If these were to be full and candid, what tales of complicity might they tell? How might Rasputin's henchman implicate him. Ed knows it doesn't have to be true, just said or whispered. What a worry.
How is the Leader to plan for the post-2015 election turnip harvest, which will be a record, he already knows, if he is being bothered about these kind of things?
So, in pops a speechwriter with the latest draft. The speech-writing aide is also worried. Putting the knife into brother David's back, seemed the best thing at the time and certainly Len and the other big money-guys all supported it but look at the polls! It's not as if becoming a writer for the Guardian is an option. They are suffering losses, especially now that all that government jobs advertising revenue has dried-up!
So between them, they come up with a wheeze. Let's promise to freeze energy prices! At a stroke, Labour's ratings will soar and with them, Ed's. For how long will we freeze them, someone asks. 4Ever, aide Owen, stridently says. "This is just the start, food prices have been rising as well, so let's freeze them, too! And let's be balanced, so abandon the fascist Tory freeze on council tax rises, after all, we don't want to frighten the vicar!"
In a resurgence of fratricidal-like vigor, Ed says No! We will freeze for 22 months! I have it on good authority that within 22 months of the establishment of our Socialist utopia, we will be able to produce sufficient quantities of both left and right foot clogs for the masses to wear. This will keep them happy, when the freeze ends!
Perhaps it didn't happen quite like this but ...............
Miliband knows better than most that the more significant part of average energy bills is represented by environmental taxes - more than 10% of the cost. Then there is VAT at around 6%. The profit element comes in at less than 5% (and don't forget that this profit has also been taxed and any subsequent dividends paid, will be taxed!).
Miliband knows because it was he, as the minister at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, during the last Labour mis-government, that brought in the legislation that imposes such punitive (and futile) green taxes.
I guess you can take the minister out of power but you can't take the spin and mendacity out of the minister?
Oh, and related to the above and before anyone bothers to question the futility of these green taxes. Tell me, how can scientists be 95% certain that global warming is man-made?
Firstly, their own evidence (embarrassingly) doesn't actually show any sustained warming unless they slice-up the data to fit the required answer - so from June 22nd 2013 through July 5th 2013, temperatures rose at an alarming rate and the freezer at Blackpool's Iceland store was unable to cope and the internal ice-caps started to melt - ergo man-made global warming!
Secondly, what kind of science is it that is 95% certain? Can you be 95% dead? 95% pregnant? Can we be 95% certain that the tensile strength of an object is X? How was this 95% figure derived? Using some kind of probability analysis, maybe? Given that the data used by the IPCC and their fellow green-gravy-train travelers, has been found to be almost completely flawed, wrong and sometimes just plain manufactured, one would have to take any such analysis with mountains of salt!
I am not a scientist but recall from my schooldays that scientific experimentation was about proving something with a 100% degree of certainty. Simply put, if I construct a compound of X% of this chemical and Y% of that one, I can expect to always see the same results and can prove and replicate my experiment. Has science changed? If I put a little bit less than X% or Y% into the compound and got different results would it be okay so long as they were 95% right?
There was Ed Miliband sitting in his suite in Brighton, preparing his 'leader's' speech. He knew he had successfully overcome the Neil Kinnock moment. He had managed to successfully walk on the beach, while being photographed and hadn't fallen over! But............
He also knew that Damian McBride, was publishing and promoting his memoirs. If these were to be full and candid, what tales of complicity might they tell? How might Rasputin's henchman implicate him. Ed knows it doesn't have to be true, just said or whispered. What a worry.
How is the Leader to plan for the post-2015 election turnip harvest, which will be a record, he already knows, if he is being bothered about these kind of things?
So, in pops a speechwriter with the latest draft. The speech-writing aide is also worried. Putting the knife into brother David's back, seemed the best thing at the time and certainly Len and the other big money-guys all supported it but look at the polls! It's not as if becoming a writer for the Guardian is an option. They are suffering losses, especially now that all that government jobs advertising revenue has dried-up!
So between them, they come up with a wheeze. Let's promise to freeze energy prices! At a stroke, Labour's ratings will soar and with them, Ed's. For how long will we freeze them, someone asks. 4Ever, aide Owen, stridently says. "This is just the start, food prices have been rising as well, so let's freeze them, too! And let's be balanced, so abandon the fascist Tory freeze on council tax rises, after all, we don't want to frighten the vicar!"
In a resurgence of fratricidal-like vigor, Ed says No! We will freeze for 22 months! I have it on good authority that within 22 months of the establishment of our Socialist utopia, we will be able to produce sufficient quantities of both left and right foot clogs for the masses to wear. This will keep them happy, when the freeze ends!
Perhaps it didn't happen quite like this but ...............
Miliband knows better than most that the more significant part of average energy bills is represented by environmental taxes - more than 10% of the cost. Then there is VAT at around 6%. The profit element comes in at less than 5% (and don't forget that this profit has also been taxed and any subsequent dividends paid, will be taxed!).
Miliband knows because it was he, as the minister at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, during the last Labour mis-government, that brought in the legislation that imposes such punitive (and futile) green taxes.
I guess you can take the minister out of power but you can't take the spin and mendacity out of the minister?
Oh, and related to the above and before anyone bothers to question the futility of these green taxes. Tell me, how can scientists be 95% certain that global warming is man-made?
Firstly, their own evidence (embarrassingly) doesn't actually show any sustained warming unless they slice-up the data to fit the required answer - so from June 22nd 2013 through July 5th 2013, temperatures rose at an alarming rate and the freezer at Blackpool's Iceland store was unable to cope and the internal ice-caps started to melt - ergo man-made global warming!
Secondly, what kind of science is it that is 95% certain? Can you be 95% dead? 95% pregnant? Can we be 95% certain that the tensile strength of an object is X? How was this 95% figure derived? Using some kind of probability analysis, maybe? Given that the data used by the IPCC and their fellow green-gravy-train travelers, has been found to be almost completely flawed, wrong and sometimes just plain manufactured, one would have to take any such analysis with mountains of salt!
I am not a scientist but recall from my schooldays that scientific experimentation was about proving something with a 100% degree of certainty. Simply put, if I construct a compound of X% of this chemical and Y% of that one, I can expect to always see the same results and can prove and replicate my experiment. Has science changed? If I put a little bit less than X% or Y% into the compound and got different results would it be okay so long as they were 95% right?
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