Darling wins one
James Forsyth 11:34am
Over at Boulton and Co, Jonathan Levy reports that Alistair Darling has successfully faced down Gordon Brown over who should lead an inquiry into the economic effects of climate change. Darling wanted Adair Turner but Brown is still unhappy with Turner over his pension reform report which was too free thinking for Brown's tastes. However, the puppet Chancellor has stood his ground and Turner will reportedly be announced as the head of this review later today. All this acts as further proof of Iain Martin’s thesis that after his nightmare start and the briefing against him, Darling is now determined to fight his corner.
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EyeSee
March 10th, 2008 12:33pm Report this commentI can write the report now. If we spend £1 over the next ten years combatting Climate Change, we will have overspent to the tune of £1.
Mike
March 10th, 2008 12:52pm Report this commentUnfortunately the government will spend (waste) £billions of our money "combatting" climate change. This climate change hypothesis which is now being seriously challenged not that you'd notice on the BBC or MSM. Supposedly ever rising CO2 leads to ever rising temperatures. Unfortunately this does not explain how global temperatures are currently falling.
Verity
March 10th, 2008 1:12pm Report this commentEyeSee - You took the words right out of my mouth. I wonder how much money Britain alone has frittered away on this absurd, controlling, one-worlder concept.
Max Kaye
March 10th, 2008 1:15pm Report this commentEyeSee - you are so wrong. If we don't spend billions 'combating' Climate Change then it will be clear to everyone that all those government bodies, environmental lobbies and other people employed to administer 'campaigns' occupy pointless and wasteful positions paid for by the taxpayer. This doesn't include the hundred of businesses growing fat on subsidised environmental tat like wind farms and those awful 'low energy' bulbs.
Glyn H
March 10th, 2008 1:27pm Report this commentJust read the Manhatten Declaration of 4th March which called for the rejection of the IPCC dramatics. But one can normally rely on this government to do whatever is against British interests; Identity cards, public education, massively mishandled economy over years, defence spending (despite high political demands), lies about the EU (which is as corrupt as the UN) - the list is endless. Eyesee has it in 1!
Dave B
March 10th, 2008 1:28pm Report this commentThe Telegraph had a good piece on 'Global Warming'.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/03/09/do0902.xml
David Mallory
March 10th, 2008 4:35pm Report this commentWhy do we need *another* report on the economic effect of climate change anyway? Wasn't that what the Stern Report was about? Or have I missed a nuance?
Chuck Unsworth
March 10th, 2008 4:59pm Report this commentSo, Darling is now going to 'fight his corner'. For what?
TGF UKIP
March 10th, 2008 7:23pm Report this commentThe blunt and increasingly unavoidable fact of the matter is that we are going to be ever more bullied and coerced by the "Greens" for the simple reason that they have no political opposition. The proper role of a conservative Conservative Party on the whole global warming/climate change farrago would naturally be a sceptical one. It would require incontrovertible evidence of an imminent crisis before it would countenance measures which inflicted so much economic cost, inconvenience and disruption on individuals and businesses. Unfortunately, we don't have such a Conservative Party in fact we don't have any conservative party in this country at all. We have three headbanging social democrat parties, each trying to outbid the other to reach ever more green extremes. Any of you Tories who are agnostic on the whole global warming con trick would do well before you fulminate about any new Government idiocy to consider Dave's role in forever bidding up the green lunacy ante. P.S. Given we are heading for an energy generating crunch c2015, it's going to be interesting to see the Tory reaction to the Government's go ahead for a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth.
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