Terrorists, racists and extremists - anyone who disagrees with ZaNuLiebour gets branded one of these eventually. Disagree with them and own a camera AND believe in national sovereignty, then you're the lowest of the low.
However, here we go with the latest label de jour.
Ed Miliband, the "Energy and Climate Change Secretary", has a particularly sinister word for those who don't buy the whole "man made global warming" religion.
The Times reports that more than half of British voters do not believe the hype about impending doom and apocalypse that those who believe we need an Orwellian system of carbon taxes to save the planet would have us believe.
According to their poll, only 41% believe what has been rammed down their throats by all media relentlessly for the last couple of years. A similar number - 32% - do not think that a link between man and global warming has been proven.
Cue the response from mini-Miliband.
He is quoted by the newspaper as saying: "The overwhelming body of scientific information is stacked up against the deniers and shows us that climate change is man-made and is happening now."
Obviously, you could do a Google search for Lord Monckton to find out what he says about "the overwhelming body of scientific information".
What interests this blogger is the label.
Note it again.
The data, mini-Miliband claims, is "stacked up against the deniers".
See the word? Deniers.
Think about that. Think of the sinister connotations.
The political use of the word 'denier' normally follows the word 'holocaust'.
Obviously, the holocaust was an absolutely repugnant chapter of modern human history. Very few would seek to deny it occurred and those who do are usually viewed in a very unsavoury light.
That is why those on the side of the debate that insists we must tax everything because of "man made global warming" use the word - it's connotations.
You'll see that word come up more and more. It is becoming part of everyday language for those who seek to win the debate.
When you deconstruct what is actually being said, it boils down to emotional blackmail.
The use of word adds up to this. Believe what we tell you and agree with what we say without question otherwise we are going to label you as something rather sinister and repugnant.
What a way to prove your point and convince a sceptical public that is - by deliberately branding any political opponent or those with opposing viewpoints as a this, that or the other.
Keep watching the grammar. This Labour lot do it an awful lot.
Civil liberties, democracy, the EU and national sovereignty and the environment movement.
Keep watching reports on those topics and keep looking out for the labels that are used to emotionally manipulate the populace and try to close down discussion or debate.
It's a trick as old as politics itself. Have a look through your history books. It was commonplace throughout all political systems throughout the ages to brand an opposing viewpoint as this, that, or the other.
Only difference is, these days, that those in power have the mass media to spread their message globally in the space of ten minutes.
We don't like the word "deniers" in this context. Using it to try to shut down free thought and personal intellectual interrogation of a debate really is utterly repugnant and - we could contend - only damages the movement of those who seek to brand people so.
After all, how weak is the science and argument on the side of those who need to point and call people "deniers"..?
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