Property Damage

Others besides the London Haystack have noticed that climate change may mean slightly worse than a bracing bit of weather for the folk in Wonga Wonga Land. A jury has acquitted the Kingsnorth steeplejacks, who climbed up the rampant smokestack of a coal-fired power station and daubed upon it a name now virtually synonymous with floppy impotence. They defended themselves with the "lawful excuse" that they were "trying to prevent climate change causing greater damage to property around the world". Zac Goldsmith, who gives environmental advice to Daveybloke when Daveybloke is doing his environmentalist thing, told the court that "By building a coal-power plant in this country, it makes it very much harder in exerting pressure on countries like China and India to reduce their burgeoning use of the fossil fuel"; and the verdict is "expected to embarrass the government", at least by those who still believe the Government can be embarrassed as opposed to merely annoyed. Now that we know it works, the "lawful excuse" defence will presumably be abolished at some point; if not before the next election, then as soon as the Daveybloke administration is forced to balance the needs of helpless, downtrodden corporations with the interests of the folk in Wonga Wonga Land and a few hundred species of no proven market value.