The election is approaching and politicians across the land are trying to outbid one another their attempts to come up with the most eye-catching (for which you should read "foolish") wheezes for the future of the country. Ed Miliband is something of an expert when it comes to foolish and he and his sidekick Caroline Flint - the Dastardly and Muttley of the energy debate - have decided that the way forward is to have prices in the energy market set by a bureaucrat.
A Labour government would give the energy regulator new powers to force firms to cut electricity and gas, Ed Miliband will say.
It follows Mr Miliband’s pledge to freeze energy prices for two years if he is elected.
The Labour leader will use a speech to say that if he wins the election he will pass a new law giving Ofgem a “legal duty to ensure fair prices this winter”.
It's stupidity piled on foolishness piled on insanity. It's bonkers, all the way down.