Monday 2 December 2013

All Wrapped Up

Congratulations to Baroness Rawlings, who says that the way to save money on your energy bills is to use an electric blanket.
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous2 December 2013 at 23:41

    An electric blanket is probably more use than a useless gimmick like a "temporary price freeze" (when we can't control global energy prices, and the Big Six will just jack up the prices before 2015).

    Miliband doesn't have any policies-he just has gimmicks.

    Notice the Tories could easily copy or counter anything and everything he's offered.

    Whereas, if he promised to do anything conservative, like abolishing the 1969 Divorce Reform Act, or punishing criminals, or leaving the Convention on Human Rights, or leaving the EU, he'd cause immediate chaos in the Tories.

    Indeed, he'd have caused chaos if he'd just opposed gay marriage (even completely insincerely).

    No, he'd have split the Tories asunder.

    Which is why it most instructive that he does none of these things.

    Opposing a benefit cut for people with spare bedrooms, or promising to cut an energy bill are the sort of non-ideological gimmicks that anybody can copy.

    Just like Clinton and Reagan always won elections by offering tax cuts in advance.

    Indeed, as Peter Hitchens said at the weekend, is it really that hard to see Rachel Reeves and Chuka Ummuna in a Tory Government or Liz Truss in a Labour one?

    There's no ideological difference on serious issues at all.

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  2. David Lindsay2 December 2013 at 23:43

    It is politically impossible to imagine Chuka Ummuna in any Government other than a Labour one.

    And it is politically impossible to imagine Liz Truss in any Labour Government since 2007.

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  3. Anonymous3 December 2013 at 00:05

    It is not remotely.

    Liz Truss agrees with Labour on everything.

    All-women shortlists, free childcare, "equalities" law in particular and radical feminism and multiculturalism in general, political correctness instead of Christianity, Human Rights instead of British law, EU passports instead of British ones (and thus no more British borders) egalitarian "anti-elitist" left-wing schools in the image of Antony Crosland instead of selective, elitist schools, easy divorce, easy abortion.

    I could keep going and still couldn't find a thing they disagree on.

    She could be a Labour Minister; it's not like anyone would notice.

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  4. David Lindsay3 December 2013 at 00:08

    Silly little boy.

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  5. Anonymous3 December 2013 at 00:27

    Must be enchanting to live in Little Anon's world, where the cuts are not happening so the parties are the same.

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