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What is it with the NuLabour political zombies ? No sooner has the collective fury of the public against the appointment of Tony Blair as the unelected "President of Europe" started to be felt, then a couple of stories are planted in the media, citing anonymous sources, e.g. The Times: David Miliband touted for EU foreign post as Blair's chances wane and The Guardian: David Miliband tipped as EU foreign minister

Technically the job title iis "High Representative for Foreign Affairs".

Is this some sort of plan B, bearing in mind that it is inconceivable that both position would be filled by candidates from the same EU country at the same time.

David Miliband is an awful NuLabour apparatchik, who has crept smoothly from University to Think Tank to political commissar, to Minister
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Whilst Minister for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)., Miliband was responsible for the scandals and fiascos at the Rural Payments Agency, which involved incompetent,out of control civil servants and managers. This agency, for which Miliband was responsible for, manged somehow, due to its bureaucratic red tape and IT disasters, to utterly fail in its only mission, to properly distribute European Union Farm subsidy payments, its only function. It did this so utterly incompetently, that the European Commission ended up fining the UK government as a result, after causing unnecessary financial hardship to the United Kingdom's farmers.

Whilst in charge of DEFRA, Miliband also came out withy an incredible control freak plan for a tradable Personal Carbon Credit Card, which would also track the smallest details of people's daily lives, e.g. buying food, or fuel or travel etc.This wold have instantly have created a black market for spivs, and speculators, and would have been abused by private sector and state snoopers, intent on prying into people's private lives. No doubt there would also have been some Soviet GOSPLAN style rationing attempts to fly in the face of economic forces of supply and demand, This would not have saved the planet from global warming, but it is indicative of the NuLabour bureaucratic control freak mindset, untainted by practicality, open to abuse and corruption, which they are willing to force on to the rest of us.

That alone should disqualify Miliband from representing the European Union as a whole, but there is more evidence of his incompetence and liability as an international diplomat.

Promoted to Foreign Secretary, to prevent him from challenging the incompetent Gordon Brown for the unelected leadership of the Labour Party, David Miliband has been a disaster in that role.

Incredibly, he managed to personally insult the President of India, and their Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, after the Mumbai terrorist attacks - see, for example The IndependentMiliband's trip to India 'a disaster', after Kashmir gaffe

The relations diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation have fallen back to Cold War era levels, for which Miliband must take some of the blame personally.

His recent fawning on President Barack Obama at the United Nations Security Council session was also embarrassing to watch.

Just because he grins and smirks a lot, does not make him personally charming, and he is an utter public relations disaster, as shown by his posing for photographs holding a banana., for no good reason except self promotion.

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MELANIE PHILLIPS: Arrogant, ignorant and out of his depth, is Banana Boy Miliband our worst Foreign Secretary ever


How can this qualify him to represent the European Union in talks or negotiations with major powers like Russia or India ?

None of this makes him in any way suitable for the "European Union Foreign Minister" role.

The European Union faces many big problems in the future, but Tony Blair and David Miliband are is part of those problems, not an answer to them.

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Instead of quietly dropping his stupid evil idea for "Carbon Credits" it looks like David Miliband is coming up with the daft totalitarian rubbish that passes for NuLabour "strategic thinking", which was once the preserve of David "Mastermind" Blunkett.

Miliband plans carbon trading 'credit cards' for everyone

Patrick Wintour
Monday December 11, 2006
The Guardian

Every citizen would be issued with a carbon "credit card" - to be swiped every time they bought petrol, paid an energy utility bill or booked an airline ticket - under a nationwide carbon rationing scheme that could come into operation within five years, according to a feasibility study commissioned by the environment secretary, David Miliband, and published today.

In an interview with the Guardian Mr Miliband said the idea of individual carbon allowances had "a simplicity and beauty that would reward carbon thrift".

He acknowledged the proposal faced technical difficulties, but said ministers needed to seek ways of overcoming them.

Who is going to pay for the army of Soviet GOSPLAN style bureacrats who will have to assign a "carbon ration" to every individual manufactured item and service, and to administer the individual means tested, intrusive personal carbon rationing system ?

Since nobody is willing to pay for this voluntarily, then it will require a Soviet style police state to try to enforce it

The Independent has an article which quotes David Miliband on his controversial plans for "Individual Carbon Credits".

Presumably, this uncritical article, has been pumped out by the David Miliband's public relations spin doctors at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which ended up in after the latest NuLabour Cabinet re-shuffle.

Mr Miliband will suggest banning products such as inefficient light bulbs and electrical appliances which waste power while on standby.

Will this really save any energy at all, given that many devices which would have been left on standby, will , instead be left on at full power instead ?

He will suggest new environmental taxes to shift the cost of pollution on to consumers and propose that consumers might make automatic payments to offset pollution.

Who could possibly have guessed that NuLabour's policies would involve even more taxes aimed at consumers ?

He will say: "In the short term it is likely that a mixture of the above tools will be needed. But in the long term, we should look more radically at the option of tradable personal carbon allowances. Imagine a world where carbon becomes a new currency. We all carry carbon points on our bank cards in the same way as we carry pounds. We pay for electricity, gas and fuel not just with pounds but carbon points."

Remember that this is a Government which has spectacularly failed to implement something as comparatively simple as to the poorest families. Instead, there has been massive complexity, red tape, bureaucracy, genuine hardship as a direct result of bureaucratic incomptence, and massive, multi million pound frauds.

How would "Individual Carbon Points" be anything diffreent, except on an even larger scale ?

Why should such a complicated "Soviet Communist GOSPLAN centralised planning" style scheme like this one, ever have a chance of working at all ?

Why should anyone have to submit to the snooping of a bureaucratic "Carbon Means Test" , with all the dangers of privacy violations which that will inevitably create ?

Which "private sector" partners has David Milliband got in mind who would profit from such an artifficial market in "Carbon Points" ? Will they be tapped up for loans or donations to Labour Party funds ?

What is this inane and impractical talk of a nightmare "world where carbon becomes a new currency" ?

Surely Miliband knows that even in the UK, there are lots of people who do not have a bank account let alone "bank cards" on which their "carbon points" will somehow, magically, be traded securely.

Where is there any evidence that normal market pricing mechanisms will not achieve the aim of reducing carbon emissions in the UK?

We will be watching David Miliband's taxpayer funded blog, to see if he bothers to try to justify this "Individual Carbon Points" alternative currency malarkey.

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