Fuel To The Fire

Today, Centrica adds yet another to the unanswerable arguments for public ownership. Others include its hugely profitable, and no less commendable, interests in nuclear power and in gas exploitation, which latter the Government yesterday promised considerably increased public subsidy.

Quite right, too. But not without a fight against the Cabinet Minister most directly responsible. Remember, a Government headed by the man who not only turned up to the Durham Miners' Gala, but who told it that he was going to reopen the pits, is the only Government that you can really trust on these matters. All else is pink and green.

Furthermore, public ownership is British ownership, it safeguards the Union, and its means of defending both the sovereignty and the integrity of this nation frequently even had the word "British" in their names.

Moreover, remember that wildly inflated fuel prices, falling particularly hard on the poor (including very many of the old), are being enforced as part of the war against secure and skilled employment, against the paternal authority thus possessed of the necessary economic basis, against global economic development, against travel by us common people, and against our access to the meat that we are designed to eat.

Both by his attendance at, and by his words to, the Big Meeting, Ed Miliband made it perfectly clear that he was starting to get the message and to see the point. Neither of the mincing metrosexual parties has ever even begun to do so. Neither of them ever will. Neither of them ever can.