Entirely Appropriate

Well, here's a thing: the Glorious Successor's recent decision that the greening of Britain might not be altogether incompatible with the profiteering of BAA may possibly have been motivated by something slightly other than a cool and objective assessment of the interests of the country at large. Yes; I find it hard to believe, too. Nevertheless, several members of the Commons appear to be developing some rudiments of backbone about it, so the matter is clearly a serious one. There is, for instance, a certain Tom Kelly, formerly a spokesbeing for the Reverend Blair, who is now BAA's head of public relations. There is a certain Joe Irvin, who used to be BAA's head of "corporate affairs", whatever that may mean, and is now "a key adviser to Gordon Brown". BAA employs a "financial PR company", whatever that may mean, which is headed by one Roland Rat, or something of the sort, who is a friend of Lord Mandelbrot the Infinitely Resurrected. There are others, too. Fortunately, BAA note that last week's decision in their favour demonstrates that "government and government alone makes the critical judgements that affect airport growth"; which could hardly have been demonstrated had the decision happened to go the other way.