Ed Miliband’s excuse for energy price cap rise is guff – facts just aren’t his way

Hypocrite Ed

“TODAY’S emergence successful the vigor terms headdress volition mean hardship for millions.”

So raged Ed Miliband successful 2022 when, contempt the mitigations of Covid and war, it was a instrumentality to bushed the Tories with.

When the cap rose again aboriginal that twelvemonth helium said: “We are heading for a nationalist emergency. Labour has called for an urgent frost to vigor bills.”

Now Miliband is Energy Secretary, though, bills are neither frozen nor ­falling arsenic helium promised astatine predetermination time.

Instead the headdress is rising again. And helium has recovered an excuse: “The rollercoaster of planetary fossil substance markets.”

What guff. We cognize facts aren’t the Miliband way. But here’s 1 for him that’s unassailable:

His Government has near shivering pensioners to carnivore the afloat brunt of these accrued tariffs by stripping them of their wintertime substance allowance.

That wasn’t the responsibility of fossil fuels oregon Tories.

Labour conscionable needed the currency to wage disconnected the unions.

Court fiasco

WHAT a jaw-dropping messiness Keir Starmer has plunged america into implicit the apprehension warrant for Israel’s PM.

The International Criminal Court has shredded its ain estimation with its fact-twisting battle connected a antiauthoritarian federation defending itself against genocidal terrorists inactive holding its radical hostages.

Instead of calling it out, Starmer feels compelled to backmost it without question.

So does his chap lawyer, Foreign Secretary David Lammy.

So present if Benjamin Netanyahu, person of 1 of our closest planetary allies, sets ft successful Britain we volition person to apprehension him and alert him to The Hague for proceedings implicit alleged “war crimes”.

Crimes supposedly committed successful the defence of Israel which Starmer’s Government has repeatedly said is that country’s undeniable right.

And by naively backing this kangaroo tribunal implicit our friends, Labour risks a disastrous rift with our No1 planetary state America too.

Even Joe Biden branded the ICC’s ruling “outrageous”.

Imagine what Trump thinks of it, and anyone who supports it.

Farm self-harm

WHY would immoderate sane Government tax household farms to extinction, past manus that wealth to overseas farmers?

The astir wildly optimistic forecast of the gross from the Budget’s inheritance tax sting connected our nutrient producers is £520million a year.

The Treasury volition harvest that, past springiness it to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to walk connected aid.

By coincidence that projected yearly fig is astir precisely the sum being showered connected farms abroad.

We are straight backing overseas farmers and getting our ain to wage for it.

It is, rather simply, mad.