When the Labour leader said no, a lowing sound could be heard, the noise of an audience uniting in sceptical rejection of the man before them – a reminder that one of Miliband's greatest errors since 2010 was his failure to debunk the narrative that blames Labour profligacy for the country's fiscal troubles.
He blames the influx of cheap silk from China for the failure of his business.
Burrowes blames the scarcity of advertising dollars for the closure of mX.
He often blames developments he dislikes on the so-called "parallel state" supposedly made up of traitors, misfits and miscreants, more often than not in league with Fethullah Gülen, an exiled former ally and fellow Islamist with whom he is now involved in a long-running feud.
He's also on the telly sometimes, but often not (he blames his haircut).
Hilton blames housing associations for allowing regeneration disputes to flourish.
Carswell blames a "persistent portrayal" of Ukip as "beyond the pale" by "leftwing newspapers and news programmes".
The agency blames the network for 20% of the deforestation in Brazil's Amazon in recent years, though the statement issued on Monday did not provide the estimated scale of the devastation.
Jonathan Chait, in an analysis we neglected to link to earlier, blames the gap on the flood of advertising in swing states, which he reasons has made the electorate more hardened in their preferences and less prone to switch sides.
She is deeply religious, but blames European-imported Christianity for much of the discrimination she and other Indigenous transgender people face in their own communities.
He blames "the deterioration of standards" on cost-cutting: "The respect for a musical score must come from the director … If the director has no power and has to surrender to budgetary constraints, this is where we have the problem".
