Winning Isn't Everything, You Know

Much as the Cabinet's millionaires have lectured the proles over the latter's undue attachment to material things, so the greenest government ever has decided that one can, after all, be too green for one's own good; because, after all, the Bullingdon Club won't be the ones who drown. Daveybloke's chum next door has shrugged off the issue of climate change in favour of "the cheapest energy possible", which apparently is what Centrica and its cronies are providing us with on Planet Osborne. The smirking schoolboy also expressed concern that Labour's rather timid measures would turn British aluminium smelters into immigrants; and, remarkably enough, he dropped the hint of a doubt as to whether the troubles of those who became unemployed as a result would be significantly mitigated by the impact of Universal Credit. The policy suggested by the greenest government ever, as one might expect, is to reduce yet further the obligations which the energy cartel has towards its captive market, and to stop building windfarms. It seems that the global race so often invoked by Britain's Head Boy is the sort of game at which even the British can sometimes lose gracefully, at least as far as championship husky-hugging is concerned.