Just watch, Miliband’s Winter Fuel Allowance will end up being Labour's own goal.

You have got to love Labour. It never fails. Throw them a bait and sooner or later they’ll bite.

What Labour and the two Eds don’t realise is that the Winter Fuel Allowance means testing is a can of worms they really don’t want to open, because once opened its messy and guaranteed to backfire.

Why do they think with all the welfare reforms the Winter Fuel, TV License fees and the Freedom Pass are the only benefits IDS tiptoed around and did not touch? Did they even wonder or ask why despite pressure even from some Tories, he left these three well alone?

He did it, because means testing is a very tricky business. And government, any government is rubbish at administering it. Means testing is difficult to fairly and correctly assess. It is intrusive at best and for some pensioners can be very demeaning.

If Labour is hoping to point score with this move, they picked the wrong benefit and group of people to flex their muscles at.