The Forefront Is Not Where We Thought

Given Tony's recent rhetorical orgasms over the charms of Mother Earth and his personal determination to stand shoulder to shoulder at the forefront of the battle to preserve them for posterity, it should surprise nobody that, when it comes to being at the heart of Europe on renewable energy, Britain leads from the rectum. The European commission proposes to compel states to generate a fifth of their energy from renewable sources by 2020. The policies so far introduced by Tony's government would achieve perhaps a quarter of that target; hence Tony's government is demonstrating its sense of social responsibility by arguing that "member states should have the flexibility to deliver their own energy mix". Surely it should be obvious, even to the most anti-social European commissioner, that climate change would be far more efficiently dealt with if everyone were permitted to go their own way, and set targets of ten per cent, five per cent, or aim at doing nothing at all, while we wait for the Blair Foundation to discover that burying nuclear waste in landfills is actually rather beneficial.