The Horsell's Mouth Politics, pedantry and personal interests

Is it me or is Gordon Brown’s spiel about the environment particularly uninspiring? All the stuff about “no plan B“, warning us of “catastrophe” and calling on the world to achieve a “momentous” agreement?

We’ve been hearing this kind of rhetoric for years – first from Tony Blair and then from the PM. To be fair, John Major’s government did practically nothing to bring the green agenda to the fore and Labour has pushed European legislation to force recycling and better environmental standards. I’m heartened that DC sees this as a plank of his manifesto.

But really, is tired cliches all the PM can manage on this subject? Where are the ideas, the suggestions, the commitments? If he can’t get excited – or exciting – on this subject, what hope is there for him?

Or perhaps he realises that without the rapidly-developing nations on board, the Copenhagen gathering is little more than a fortnight of lame talk.