Creaky Joints

Joined-up thinking must be quite a difficult feat in a government with only two genuine policies, viz. Stay in Office and Wogs Out; it must be even more difficult when so many at Cabinet level can barely aspire to joined-up talking. Hence, no doubt, the latest disarray in Britain's decarbonisation policy, which has seen emissions fall over the past three decades thanks to the fortunate coincidence of the need to avoid coal and Her Majesty's Government's fetish for miner-kicking. Emissions have now fallen consistently for six years, but the rate of progress is slowing because almost everything outside the energy sector is either standing still or going backwards. Presumably Her Majesty's Government expects domestic power use to fall, in accordance with market forces, once it becomes unaffordable to a sufficient quantity of proles; but at the moment the biggest single polluter is the transport sector, despite the assiduous ministrations of the brilliant Chris Graybeing. Mere experts claim that further reductions will be more politically difficult because of the complex liaison and co-ordination that will be necessary once Her Majesty's Government completes the initial stages of digito-rectal extraction; nevertheless, with Graybeing's shipless ferrying initiative, motionless motorway innovation and bootless attempts to run everyone off the railways, a characteristically brilliant start has been made.