Sensible Measures, Feasible Pledges

Astoundingly enough, the Committee on Climate Change has declared itself not entirely satisfied that the Government's renewed pious noises about greening the economy are going to be translated into anything so vulgar and un-British as action. Even assuming that ministers do everything they say they're going to do (credo quia absurdum), the UK will still fall short of its legally binding targets, according to the chair of the CCC who seems to think there is some sort of reason why, after all this time, the Government might start matching its actions to its words. Having promised the greenest government ever, the Bullingdon Club proceeded to frack the proles, slash funding for solar energy, cancel a major capture and storage initiative and attempt to privatise the nation's forests; while the London Haystack's eight years of self-promotion and thumb-twiddling helped to ensure that pollution in the capital defied the beastly Euro-wogs and their suffocating clean-air laws. In accordance with standard procedure under the dead-eyed warden, the present administration has decided to substitute rah-rah for planning; a sensible enough policy given that the dead-eyed warden herself has substituted a jabbering homunculus for an Environment Secretary.