We know there’s more joy in heaven about one sinner who repents than about 99 just persons, but William Hague lauding the government’s green record and calling on colleagues (in a leaked letter) to “avoid losing global leadership on the environment” takes the biscuit. This is a government that seduced voters before the last election […]
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Hague on about ‘green leadership’ a bit rich when Tory record is deepest brown
May 16th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.
Tories in full-scale attack on green policies
Apr 17th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.How can Cameron believe that anyone takes seriously his claim that he runs the greenest government ever? If that’s not meant to be a rancid joke, he must be even more out-of-touch than we thought, even after the budget, the No.10 dinner parties, jerry pans and pasties.
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The most environmentally destructive government ever?
Mar 8th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Two days ago Ed Davey, the replacement for Huhne as Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, repeated again the Coalition’s boast that it was the greenest government ever. Even by the standards of current self-congratulatory political rhetoric, that’s pretty vapid. It’s worth exploring the actual record. The Coalition Agreement proposed to increase the […]
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Energy and climate change policy run by the energy companies?
Feb 9th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.One of the unnoticed offsets from the Huhne resignation is that the grip on the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) held by the Big Six energy companies may intensify in the hiatus created before a new minister is sufficiently in harness to take effective charge. Already, even under the firm control of a […]
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Greenest government ever? This lot is deepest brown
Dec 6th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.David Cameron’s the front man for this government, doing his PR act flitting from one issue to the next, trying to plug the holes in the dyke whenever they regularly appear. George Osborne is the real power behind the throne, the custodian of the government’s agenda. So when Cameron gets himself photographed cracking the whip […]
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Climate blindness: the Pharoanic curse
Nov 22nd, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Is it all over then? The climate change summit in Durban, due to start within a week, appears resigned to the collapse of the Kyoto process for international action to arrest and reverse the damaging and dangerous impacts of global warming. Allegedly the UK along with the EU,US, Japan and other rich nations have all […]
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The disconnect of politics from the reality out there
Nov 11th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.It is almost incredible how the perfect storm is coming together from so many sources at the same time. The near-bankruptcy of the Italian economy could bring down the Eurozone. Yesterday’s official down-grading of growth in the EU to no more than 0.5% a year, and even of Germany to only 1% a year, heralds […]
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De-carbonisation of Britain – terrific, but will it be delivered?
May 16th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Yesterday’s announcement that Ministers have decided to accept in full the proposed 4th budget of the Government’s advisory body, the Climate Change Committee, is very welcome. It means putting the country on course to cut carbon emissions from 550m tonnes a year now to some 390m tonnes by 2027 – a cut of 29% – […]
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Philistine Tories ready to rip up environment
Apr 19th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Yesterday’s launch of the government’s ’red tape’ consultation is a classic. There are three types of consultation. One is where the government is obliged to hold such an exercise, knows the likely result, but has not the slightest intention of taking account of it (e.g. on GM or nuclear). A second is where the results […]
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Snow Fun For New York Mayor Bloomberg
Jan 10th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.The flat earthers who refuse to believe that there is global warming or that sea levels are rising have had a good couple of months in the Northern hemisphere. They will be cheered to find that increasing numbers of people when polled seem to share their views. This is all largely based on the early […]
