Wind Energy

In another radical divergence from Blairite policy, the Glorious Successor is ignoring his problems at home - and, less importantly, the problems of those British workers whose British jobs don't earn them six-figure salaries - in favour of spouting platitudes on the world stage. "The world is suffering a triple challenge: of higher fuel prices, higher food prices and a credit crunch," he lectured his fellow G8 senior management personnel. With his usual verbal adroitness, he vouchsafed the solution: "instead of sidelining climate change and the development agenda, the present economic crisis means that instead of relaxing our efforts we have got to accelerate them". Anyone who lives near Heathrow is only too well aware of Gordon's commitment to accelerating climate change. As to the development agenda, Gordon has noticed that "Africa needs help to develop its agriculture", and has also deduced that "if we don't produce enough agriculture, we are going to have food shortages", our diet being apparently rather rich in agriculture. Gordon also observed that "we can't solve the problems of food and fuel shortages unless developing countries are involved", because we need their land to produce biofuels. Gordon feels that "there are good and bad biofuels"; presumably the good ones are those produced where people have the Britishness to starve quietly. Gordon also believes that, doubtless thanks to his own contribution, Britain has "the potential to become the world leader in wind energy".