Flogging a Dead Cow

Even though Argentina is no longer run by a vicious dictatorship with a liking for torture and detention without trial, Her Majesty's Government does not necessarily object to an investment here and there, particularly if it helps the fossil fuel industry. Although shale fracking has proved a bit of a fiasco on the mainland of the Recrudescent Imperium of Westminster, the Falkland Islands and the Falkland Islands, Argentina has some of the biggest shale reserves in the world, and frackers have already managed to vandalise the ancestral home of at least one lesser breed. Accordingly, and as befits the UK's position as a global leader in outsourcing pollution, Her Majesty's Government has plans to invest a green energy fund in the likes of Shell and BP, rather than wasting time and resources on meetings with renewable energy companies. Over the past two years, oil companies in Argentina have contributed more than £40,000 towards the British embassy's birthday rah-rah for the Queen Gawblesser, so clearly everything is fine.