“TODAY’S rise in the energy price cap will mean hardship for millions.”
So raged Ed Miliband in 2022 when, despite the mitigations of Covid and war, it was a stick to beat the Tories with.
When the cap rose again later that year he said: “We are heading for a national emergency. Labour has called for an urgent freeze to energy bills.”
Now Miliband is Energy Secretary, though, bills are neither frozen nor falling as he promised at election time.
Instead the cap is rising again. And he has found an excuse: “The rollercoaster of global fossil fuel markets.”
What guff. We know facts aren’t the Miliband way. But here’s one for him that’s unassailable:
His Government has left shivering pensioners to bear the full brunt of these increased tariffs by stripping them of their winter fuel allowance.
That wasn’t the fault of fossil fuels or Tories.
Labour just needed the cash to pay off the unions.
WHAT a jaw-dropping mess Keir Starmer has plunged us into over the arrest warrant for Israel’s PM.
The International Criminal Court has shredded its own reputation with its fact-twisting assault on a democratic nation defending itself against genocidal terrorists still holding its people hostages.
Instead of calling it out, Starmer feels compelled to back it without question.
So does his fellow lawyer, Foreign Secretary David Lammy.
So now if Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of one of our closest global allies, sets foot in Britain we will have to arrest him and fly him to The Hague for trial over alleged “war crimes”.
Crimes supposedly committed in the defence of Israel which Starmer’s Government has repeatedly said is that country’s undeniable right.
And by naively backing this kangaroo court over our friends, Labour risks a disastrous rift with our No1 global ally America too.
Even Joe Biden branded the ICC’s ruling “outrageous”.
Imagine what Trump thinks of it, and anyone who supports it.
WHY would any sane Government tax family farms to extinction, then hand that money to foreign farmers?
The most wildly optimistic forecast of the revenue from the Budget’s inheritance tax sting on our food producers is £520million a year.
The Treasury will harvest that, then give it to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to spend on aid.
By coincidence that projected annual figure is almost exactly the sum being showered on farms abroad.
We are directly funding foreign farmers and getting our own to pay for it.
It is, quite simply, mad.
