Do folks at The Guardian not speak to each other? We’ve always known the place had a pretty poisonous atmosphere, but don’t they ever compare notes? This morning, left-wing harpie columnist Jackie Ashley writes this:
Which can only mean she can’t have read this, by the paper’s excellent chief political correspondent, Nick Watts, on the front page of the same edition of the same newspaper:“Cameron has simply ditched his green agenda. On green taxes, persuading people to turn from cars and cheap air travel and even on issues like airport expansion and nuclear power, they have gone silent.”
“A third runway at Heathrow airport would be scrapped by a Tory government that would instead build a £20bn TGV-style high speed rail link between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
“In one of David Cameron’s boldest moves on the environment, the party will today unveil plans to cut 66,000 flights a year from Heathrow by tempting passengers on to the first new rail line north of London in more than a century.”
OK. So maybe Watts and Ashley don’t speak to each other and Ashley was just ignorant of her own paper’s scoop. But didn’t one of the Guardian’s many editors spot the conflict between the two articles and seek to reconcile it? Or is the atmosphere so poisonous that they simply wanted Ashley to look stupid? If so, they succeeded.
P.S. The Tory plan involves high-speed lines that only go as far North as Manchester and Leeds. Guess they really have written off Scotland … perhaps they assume it will quickly go independent the moment there’s a Tory government in London.
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