IS CAPITALISM SUSTAINABLE?

Just as Paxman unleashed his St Georgic salvo, one “heid-bummer” of the Ruling McRaj (as John Reid would no doubt have it in his impenetrable Glaswegian brogue), is parting from the party script.

Gordon “Prudence” Brown today continued his own crusade to explain why he’s less of a lying shit /more electable than Blair.

Recently the Chancellor has been expressing his different approach to foreign affairs (more bulldog less poodle) and you’ll recall last months simultaneous rush to save Africa by the Neighbours from Hell at 10 and 11 Downing Street.

Brown is banking on all of Blairs chickens coming home to roost at the upcoming election and his landslide being turned into a quagmire. But however successfully Brown manages to distance himself from the increasingly doomed New Labour project, he really can’t manage to square the circle that is “sustainable development”.

After trying to talk-tough and re-position himself as greener than thou at the G8 Environment Conference , poor Gordon has come unstuck. Today the Green party urged the chancellor to "lead the G8 presidency by example, not by empty rhetoric", adding: "A few specific measures - such as scrapping Labour's £30bn roadbuilding scheme or introducing a tax-regime favouring bio-fuel which reduces CO2 emissions by 90% - would drastically reduce the UK's CO2 emissions."
Matthew Robins, of climate campaign group London Rising Tide, said: "The government is imposing a huge new road-building programme and a comprehensive expansion of airports, yet it feels it can portray itself as the saviour of the environment."

Well quite.

Benny Gilbert, of the G8 Climate Action Group, which is holding a protest outside the conference, said: "The noise demo will meet the system's violence with creative defiance. People will take to the streets in solidarity with the millions around the world already suffering from climate change."

Read Guardian article here.

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left by Jo on 16 March 2005