An Insidious Plot

With the stock markets making such a spectacular show of the wonders of deregulation, the Heathen Chinee have rather tactlessly agreed a plan to cap their energy consumption and limit their greenhouse emissions. According to one expert, the cap will even "add certainty", rather than enhancing the competitive values of tax reduction for real people combined with fear and discipline for the lower orders which have wrought Britain's present environmental and economic miracle. There have also been mutterings about aiming for a more sustainable pace of growth; although growth is hardly a problem in Osborne's Britain, this could be taken to imply that a stable and predictable economic outlook has some sort of advantage over the grab, bubble, panic and bailout cycle which has done such wonders in the West. It is all very sinister indeed.