Petrol prices and boiled kittens

So the chancellor is being really generous, and not putting petrol prices up by three pence. This, says he, will "help families and businesses".

No it won't. Since when has not doing something become a positive? Does that mean that by not beating up little old ladies or robbing banks I'll be helping to cut crime figures? Or does my not boiling kittens make ours a more humane society?

The world's gone mad.