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Brown's Latest Promise

>> FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009

Just listened to the coverage on Radio 4's PM and 6pm news programmes about Brown's £1.5b climate change splurge. Plenty of criticism was broadcast, but only from those who think that even more of our money should be given away to enrich third world kleptocrats and keep an endless supply of useless bureaucrats in employment. The pathetic Tory "opposition" obviously can't be relied upon to voice the concerns of millions of taxpayers where this climate change moneygrab is concerned, but did the BBC even try to find an opposing opinion? And why was there was no analysis on where the money is coming from or how many times Brown has already promised this same slice of dosh?

Update 18.45. I wrote the "pathetic Tory 'opposition'" line before reading the actual response from Greg Clark MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. It's even more pathetic than I feared (via Tim Montgomerie):

"It is important to have agreed that adaptation funding is necessary, but it is vital that participants at Copenhagen now agree on an international financial mechanism that can dependably result in the necessary flow of funds."