Environmental Non-Hostility

In keeping with the Conservative Party's rigorous environmental standards, which include killing children with illegal pollution levels and allowing water profiteers a decade or three to stop dumping raw sewage into rivers, the Secretary of State for Greenrinsing has been lecturing the financial sector on what else the Government isn't going to bother about. There is a substantial amount of protected land somewhere or other, and much of it is not in a condition to satisfy even Thérèse Coffey; this means that some targeting will have to be done in order to target some of it. Coffey also mentioned farming payments, which the Government has spent the past few years thinking through, with the usual inestimable results. Doubtless with her post-parliamentary career in mind, Coffey informed financiers that they would be "encouraged" to continue protecting the environment to the extent they find convenient. This is obviously more efficient than any system involving legal compulsion, which would force the financial sector to break laws, pay fines and endure the endless bother of taking another bailout from the taxpayer.