The thinktank believes that the 2% precept is based on "completely implausible assumptions made by the Treasury".
And its plot is so elaborate and implausible it makes the libretto of "Il Trovatore" read like a first-grade primer.
For a moment, she was caught in the corner, reaching up toward the ledge, and then suddenly the implausible was made to seem routine.
Though it's more literal, "O Jerusalem" rests flimsily on webs of circumstance that are, at best, implausible, and makes some embarrassing mistakes about the conflict.
In 2009, for example, the respected American leftist publication Counterpunch published an article by Alison Weir of the organisation If Americans Knew defending the unsubstantiated and implausible claims made by the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet about Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinians in Gaza to harvest their organs.
Her posse of buddies — a ragtag gang that includes her brother and a bunch of other dudes — surround her without hitting on her, which seems at first implausible, but makes sense as her persona emerges as a mix of sisterly, collegial and abrasive.
But mostly the flickering anecdotes and commentaries illuminate the implausible incongruities that make up Havel's strange and appealing personality.
Administration hawks attempted to justify the easy war by portraying it as a part of the hard war, doing their implausible best to make Saddam and Osama seem like co-conspirators in a single threat.
Yet, driven by an increasingly implausible attempt to make projected public expenditure figures add up, we are now supposed to believe that Mr Brown has a reborn belief in slimming government waste and fat.
The Danish show can get a bit slow and melodramatic at points — and clarity of structure does not make implausible coincidences more believable, it just makes them more obvious — but it offers a kind of formal, old-school satisfaction that the jumpier, more cryptic (as opposed to more mysterious) American adaptation has lacked.
