<p>The EU’s idiotic celebrations over their "agreement" to cut carbon emissions was greeted with insufficient scepticism by a badly briefed media.</p>
<p>There was no attempt to interview and pillory the Ministers of countries who will fail to meet their Kyoto targets, no tough questions for Becket about the UK’s failure to meet its Tony Blair imposed super Kyoto target,no questions on why they might be any better at hitting these new targets than they were at the old ones.??There was an ??extraordinary comment by one TV journalist that Mr Blair had made the wise choice to walk to the meeting. By the time we saw him he had replaced the swimming shorts with a suit somehow.</p>
<p>These people are outrageous in their brass neck. The very day the UK heralded these new targets as a great breakthrough for the planet the government had to tell us?? that in a majority of government departments, including the Environment department guarding the green flame, carbon emissions have been rising under Labour! As there is no evidence of them taking any action to curb this, I presume they intend to try to hit the new targets by telling the rest of us to shape up or else, as they carry on flying around to meetings to set ever tougher targets. It looks as if the strategy is to make flying and driving so dear for the rest of us that it will clear the roads and the skies for Ministers.</p>
<p>It is over a year since I challenged the government to show the rest of us how to live in a green way. I asked them to put in the low energy lightbulbs, turn down the heating, cancel the air conditioning, give up the plane and the car where possible, have fewer buildings to heat, turn the lights and heating off when they go home. At least that would have saved the long suffering taxpayer some money. Even that proved too much for them. The massive waste of energy around Whitehall is a disgrace on economic grounds, whatever you may think of carbon theory.</p>
<p>Instead of posturing on the EU stage, British ministers should start to do some better housekeeping at home if they want us to believe them when they claim to be frugal and green.
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