Flighty Blighty

Business leaders have voiced alarm at the legal judgement that present plans for expanding Heathrow are incompatible even with our obligations under the pathetically inadequate Paris agreement. It is understandable that business leaders might have some small difficulty in parsing a judgement which carries the hitherto unthinkable implication that doing something about the climate emergency might involve doing something about the climate emergency; especially as the People's Government under Caudillo Cummings is no longer interested in holding the business community's sweaty little hands. Where infrastructure is concerned there is no such thing as society; as may readily be deduced from the presence of Grant Shapps as transport secretary, with Michael Green in charge of taking one step back and Sebastian Fox in charge of taking two steps forward wherever there's a convenient precipice. All three are agreed that the Government will not appeal the judgement, because the Government's lack of interest in planning for the economy is exceeded only by its lack of interest in planning for the climate emergency.