Lib Dem Fun (3)

Just to round off the day by poking a bit more fun at the Lib Dems, as a footnote to their tax policies is this:

No to unfair bills. We will stop banks and energy companies raiding your pocket with unfair bills and charges. We will put a stop to unfair bank charges and make sure energy companies charge you fairly so people who use the least pay the least.

There's no hint as to how they distinguish between 'fair' and 'unfair' bank charges, or what they propose to do about them, so that's a fail, As to 'unfair' energy bills, let's not forget that top of the list of things that the Lib Dems stand for are these nuggets:

Environment Making real commitments to stop climate change

Economy A sustainable, green economy for Britain

Which almost certainly boils down to forcing energy companies to subsidise windmills and all the other 'green' tomfoolery, which, however you estimate it, will be passed on to consumers and will add hundreds of pounds to every household's annual domestic fuel bills. So on the one hand they are in favour of higher domestic energy bills but on the other hand they are against them.

Or is there some double-think at work here whereby energy bills would be 'high but fair' if the Lib Dems were in charge, as against 'high but unfair' under some other unspecified party? This is all EU-driven anyway, so I don't really see the point in having a policy on it at all, you might as well have a policy on changing the tides.