Green Tories

Struck by the recent success of her daughter, looks like old Maggie tried to make her own comeback by trying to do her own "I'm a Celebrity get me Out of Here" by kicking the bucket.

Expect (another) outpouring of 'national grief' if she does the decent thing. Tramp the Dirt Down.

Either that or she was trying to oust the Coke-Snorting Etonian from the headlines, yes the vacuous golden-boy has announced his Green Tory Team this morning whilst Blair's pledge of working to prevent the growth of climate chaos founders again on the oil-slick of America's Texas Cartel Administration in Montreal.

'Quel-Surprise' as the Nuclear Fuelled Cheese-eating Surrender-Monkeys say.

But rather than gloat at Blair's hilarious strategy of winning over the gas-guzzling yanks, instead wonder in amazement at the excitement created by the appointment of Zac Goldsmith, editor of his daddys magazine The Ecologist. Zac joins ex-environment minister John Gummer on the Tories new Green Team.

But before everyone wets their re-cycled organic y-fronts, just remember that the Tories are a party of (big) business. Mr Cameron says he wants a new group chaired by Mr Gummer to "formulate a long-term strategy that will make Britain a better place to live without constraining economic growth".

That might be the rub right there. You see at some point we're going to have to deal with that little old problem of 'economic growth'. Methinks that that might just be behind how we've managed to destabilise the entire climate system.

The Ecologist - beloved by Deep Greens, Spiritualists and members of the Green Jet-Set Lecture Circuit has never got its head round issues like environmental justice, so it's not surprising Zac could make a jump from Green to Blue. John Gummer you'll recall is the guy who was willing to feed his own daughter a BSE Burger on camera.

Speaking of Mad Cow Disease, wouldn't it be a fitting coup de grace to Mad Maggie if coal was resurrected as a potential clean energy source?