UK - Aggressive New Stance From Cameron On Climate - 4 Years Delay In Deciding On Targets

[Nihil]

9. For those outside the UK ...

... quite apart from the frustration from yet another political delay (add it to the list),
that delay is pushing the "decision on targets" out to the next election cycle.

The importantance of this little point is that the only obstruction to the Tory plan
of "more fossil fuel" (driven strongly by Osborne's love affair with gas) is the minor
obstruction currently offered by their "coalition" partners, the Lib Dems ("who want
clean energy sources such as renewables and nuclear" - their quote, not mine).

The next election will see the Lib Dems wiped from the map due to their perfidy and
downright treachery since the last election - they've betrayed almost every electoral
promise and just above every voter who saw them as a sane alternative thus they
will be justifiably punished by exile to the same political obscurity that their Liberal
predecessors inhabited for decades.

This means that, absent a *major* effort from the non-Blairite fraction of the Labour
party, the Tories will get in and the future for anything related to the environment
(rivers, marine protection, clean energy, pollution control, recycling, ...) would be
decidedly bleak.

Boy is that a cheerful thing to look forward to ...