Running Backwards to Stand Still

One of the surest ways to be listened to in government, of course, is to advise the government to do exactly what it intended doing all along, or else - should the government happen to be composed of blustering schoolboys, jabbering cretins and self-pitying thugs who might fail to grasp the subtleties of that approach - to advise the government to do more of whatever it is doing already. Evidently such is the reasoning of the Committee on Climate Change, which has advised the Clegg-pledging token filly at the Department for Exacerbating Climate Change that the UK's carbon budget is the only non-corporate budget in the country that won't need tightening. New policies will be needed to meet the target of a 57% cut in emissions over the next sixteen years, and of course the Bullingdon Club and its henchbeings have made a jolly start with all the green crap they've ditched. Should the token filly's future climate policy be patterned after the Osbornomic miracle, it can only be a matter of time before climate change is solved by blaming it on the wogs and scroungers who are weighing the country down and causing hard-working British families to sink into the sea.