A Clear Dividing Line

It seems Daveybloke's new and improved gallery of grotesques may be demented enough for even Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition to find one or two areas of divergence. The Upper (formerly Lower) Miliband has been making interventionist noises, though of course not too far or too fast. Encouraged by the appointment of a millionaire shoe salesman and climate change denier to the Department of the Environment, Miliband felt bold enough to push a few green buttons and to lambast George the Progressively Regressive for his evident belief that Albion can muddle through even as the seas boil around her. In case we hadn't noticed, Miliband's climate change spokesbeing, the Blairy thuggette Caroline Flint, pointed out that there was now a clear dividing line between Labour and the Conservatives; and indeed, there is a distinction to be made between Miliband's habitual too-little-too-late and the coalition's frothing fanaticism. It may be an academic distinction, and it almost certainly will make no practical difference to the disasters ahead; but at least the distinction is there if you squint hard enough. Next year, presumably, the Upper (formerly Lower) Miliband will be petitioning the oil companies for permission to hug a husky in their Arctic fiefdom, provided he can set foot there without drowning.