Fracked, Flooded and Feeble

Although the Tin-pot Tessie régime has abandoned various policies of its Bullingdon Club predecessors - notably the Osbornomic policy of running the economy largely on boasts and smirks, and the rather cheap and transparent pretence of having any significant areas of disagreement with the UKIP baboons - a certain reassuring consistency has emerged when it comes to facilitating climate-related disaster. Having appointed the drivelling Andrea Leadsom as next in line after the blithering Elizabeth Truss, the crackpot Owen Paterson and the failed forest-flogger Caroline Spelman, the Government plainly intends to continue rolling back the green crap. Investment in renewable energy has already been cut to bits by the Bullingdons, and will be progressed to virtual non-existence over the next three years. Investment in high-carbon energy is also slowing down, but far more reluctantly, and apparently for no other reason than that the prevailing religious orthodoxy specifies that maintaining the country's infrastructure is no part of the legitimate business of government.