Cameron doesn’t have very green fingers (when washing up)

Reading a review of Cameron on Cameron (Let’s face it, I’m never going to buy the thing), which sounds pretty crap by the way, one thing I did notice was a reference to him having Fairy Liquid in his kitchen.

Surely a man as obsessed with presentation as Cameron would have made the switch to Ecover by now? It’s a small issue, but I’d have thought anyone with a genuine interest in lessening their impact on the environment would have considered things like chemicals in household cleaning products. It’s hardly like no one has heard of Ecover.

However, the public won’t notice what goes on in his kitchen, whereas they will notice a great big wind turbine stuck to his chimney.

Whereas Ecover is only 8p more a litre than Fairy Liquid, a wind turbine would have cost him thousands of pounds. But he can afford it as he is worth over £3 million, and his father-in-law is a Viscount.

Tory Climate Change deniers

Believe it or not, in this green hued Conservative world they do exist.

Very late on getting round to posting about it but five Conservative MPs voted against the Climate Change Bill when it received it’s second reading a while back.

It’s no more than a minor embarrassment to David Cameron and if anything he probably won’t reminding the country the battle he faces to modernise the Conservative Party.

The five climate change ‘deniers’ are Christopher Chope, MP for Christchurch, Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, Peter Lilley, MP for Hitchin & Harpenden, Andrew Tyrie, MP for Chichester and Ann Widdecombe, MP for Maidstone & The Weald, the most famous of whom is the latter.

Any people in these constituencies who hope to see action taken to mitigate the causes of climate change have cause for worry as to how well they’ll be represented in Parliament though, even if their MPs follow their parliamentary duties and pass on concerns to the relevant ministers, in terms of pushing for environmental action, anyone with an interest in this area would be better off voting elsewhere despite what David Cameron says.

Yesterday was a good day to bury good news it seems

Read in the papers today that it was announced yesterday that our carbon emissions had fallen 2% in 2007 on 2006 levels. We need drops like that year on year to make sure we even have a chance of meeting our targets.

I was pleased, and also quite surprised. Usually when you have bad weather a lot of the year then emissions rise, as people spend more on lighting and heating bills to counter the cold, miserable weather. Yet despite an absolutely terrible summer our emissions still dropped. Hopefully they’ll drop further this year and we can start to see a speeding up of emission drops as renewable investment picks up along with other carbon-busting measures.

The ‘Greens’ disappearing act

If there’s one thing I’ve noticed as Gordon Brown and the Government have taken a battering lately over the backdated car tax issue, where older vehicles pay more tax according to how unenvironmentally friendly they are, it’s the absolute silence from the environmentalists who have been campaigning for policies like this for the past few years

The Conservative Local Election Launch.

It really annoys me every time David Cameron wheels out his ‘Vote Blue Go Green’ line, which is only around election time funnily enough.