As Napoleon said: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

And the Gillard government, through its sinister attacks on free speech, lies and hyping of the global warming scare, is the enemy of all who prize reason.

But I’ll play fair, and tell Labor: you are wrong. Your carbon tax is poisoning not just your vote but your culture, making you almost unelectably irrational and authoritarian.

Look at Queensland, where the Bligh government went from 51 seats to perhaps eight. What more warning does Labor need to drop the carbon tax?

Yet it refuses to hear even that scream.

“Overwhelmingly, this election was fought on state issues,” insisted Trade Minister Craig Emerson, trying to save Prime Minister Julia Gillard from the flames. Gillard’s carbon tax could not be blamed, since there was “no mention of federal issues in Campbell Newman’s victory speech, nothing on the bunting, nothing on any campaign material”.

False, but Gillard agreed: “The fight was overwhelmingly on state issues.”

Yes, echoed sympathisers on the ABC, Sky News and even the Financial Review, whose Laura Tingle told a nodding panel on the ABC: “I don’t think anybody can claim … this was about the carbon tax.”

Fact: No one denies Queensland Labor lost mostly because of its own broken promises, bungling, age and viciously personal attacks on LNP leader Campbell Newman.

Yet the LNP did campaign against the carbon tax, too.

Here, for instance, is Newman on February 24: “It’s 12 months today that Julia Gillard and her colleagues, with the Greens, went out into the courtyard at Parliament House and showed that they had misled, in fact lied to the people of Australia.

“The carbon tax is bad for Queensland. It’s bad for jobs … I’m here today to say that we will fight every single day, if we’re elected, as the government of Queensland, to fight against this tax.”

The LNP environment policy pledges the LNP to fight the “great, big, new carbon tax” and attacks “the Bligh Labor government (for) not standing up to the Gillard government”.

LNP deputy leader Tim Nicholls repeatedly warned the carbon tax would hike the cost of living, and federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott used Newman’s campaign launch to urge voters to remember that on election day.

“We have a message for the Labor Party today, you do not save the environment by killing the economy,” he said.

LNP candidates also hammered the carbon tax. So, how curious that commentators and Labor apologists missed it, or pretended to.

But that’s the global warming scare. Ignore the evidence that doesn’t fit the theory. It’s also modern Labor, so corrupted by the warming faith and the green cause generally that it’s become deaf, deceitful … and worse.

It is always a danger among parties of the left to give in to the totalitarian temptation, and force unwilling voters to accept what the party loftily decrees is good for them.

Grand moral causes make that temptation even harder to resist. Socialism once unleashed armies of totalitarians, until it collapsed, and now its place is taken by global warming.

What can’t you excuse yourself if you’re saving the planet from armageddon?

Gillard could steal the last election with a lie – “there will be no carbon tax under a government I lead” – because it was for our own good. She can now ignore the public’s opposition for our own good.

And her government can contemplate media restrictions bound to stifle warming sceptics for our own good. We’re saving the planet, aren’t we?

Labor figures, former powerbroker Graham Richardson for one, now tell their party that to save itself it must “stand for something”.

But Labor already stands for saving a warming planet with a huge tax and massive wealth transfers to shut “dirty” power stations and force our economy into more expensive power.

That’s massive. So, Labor already stands for something. But it’s something killing its vote and its soul.

The carbon tax is the emblem of this toxic creed, and voters demand Labor junk it. They know it will hurt without slowing a warming that actually stopped a decade ago, anyway.

But what does the Gillard government reply in its mad unreason? We can’t hear you. We won’t.