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Daveybloke's senior policy adviser on greenwashing has resigned; unsurprisingly given the general state of the Bullingdon Club's grip on reality, nobody seems to know whether he has resigned because the greenest government ever is insufficiently radical in its green agenda or because it is insufficiently zealous in its consideration for the likes of BP and Cuadrilla. Ben Moxham is the latest in a series of advisers to quit the Department for Energising Climate Change; he is a former aide to Lord Browne, who is a former BP chief executive and a partner in a venture capital firm which backs the frackers, so obviously it is difficult to judge where Moxham's priorities might lie. Ed Davey (not to be confused with Ed or Davey) recently tried to sneak in someone from the Committee on Climate Change in order to make some sort of show about being concerned with the issue; but the Bullingdon Club vetoed the appointment, though whether for reasons of fossil-fuel incorrectness or routine humiliation of the department's Deputy Conservative doormat is as yet unclear.