Blair's climate legacy
A look at the first chapter of the 2003 Labour government's energy white paper reminds use of both Tony Blair and the green lobby's characteristic deep arrogance and intransigence. It's pathological.
The last post looked at Tony Blair’s introduction to the 2003 Labour government’s energy white paper, ‘Our energy future — creating a low carbon economy’. One of the characteristics of Blair himself and the policies of his government is their persistence, despite the manifest failure of his projects and the democratic deficit which widened to become a feature of British political architecture, not a bug. By creating a constellation of public agencies — quangos — and stuffing them with cronies of one kind or another, the political establishment’s intransigence has carried forward his warmongering, remaining, and climate zeal.
So what else did the white paper say? This article examines the chapter that followed Blair’s foreword, ‘cleaner smarter energy’.
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