Slippery Dave turns green

tygerland Wed Nov 01, 2006 at 03:08:02 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Has Blair gazumped Cameron again?



With The Stern Report being published and the government jumping onto the environment tax bandwagon, it's seems David Cameron's reinvention of the Tories as the Party of the Environment has been dealt a blow.

In fact, every one knows that the biggest challenge facing climate change worriers is convincing the American body politic of the need to change.  And The Economist believes that this was the whole point of The Stern Report - to sell the economic benefits of tackling carbon emissions now.  

Yet again Blair gazumps Cameron.  The pretender still has so much to learn.


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Slippery Dave turns green | 4 comments (4 topical)

Re: Slippery Dave turns green (#1)

by swatantra on Wed Nov 01, 2006 at 07:54:44 PM GMT

Depends if the Govt has the guts to introduce Green Taxes, curbing cheap flights and road taxing per mile and work place parking and increase in domestic petrol duty. If all this and brown gets away with it we're laughing all the way to the polling station. But I've a feeling they'll chicken and it will be either delayed till 2016 or implemented in phases too weak to be effective.


Re: Slippery Dave turns green (#2)

by Loz on Wed Nov 01, 2006 at 11:43:41 PM GMT

Perhaps someone can correct me, but didn't gordon brown approve this report last year, before cameron took over?

If so, then why does cameron think he can claim brown is 'following' him?


Re: Slippery Dave turns green (#3)

by Mark Wadsworth on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 11:13:24 AM GMT

Just remind me, which party was it who abandoned the fuel duty escalator?

And which party was brave enough to introduce VAT on gas/electricity, albeit at a reduced rate for domestic?


Re: Slippery Dave turns green (#4)

by Glass House on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 02:20:24 PM GMT

Ha Ha Ha.

You're telling me they did that for environmental reasons?

Come On!


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Slippery Dave turns green | 4 comments (4 topical)