Too much hot air!!!

According to popular opinion the government’s failure to meet their climate change targets is because Tony Blair couldn’t motivate a cheerleader.

But what did an angry mob ever get right?

It’s not the pep in the PM’s pencil that is lacking but his ability to understand really complicated stuff – like facts.

While Tone wages war on motorists he should be looking on his own door step. No, I don’t mean Two Jags love of motoring, I mean houses. The poor design of ‘modern houses’ means that they emit more greenhouse gas than cars and passenger jets.

Simple sustainable thinking would say that cutting emissions from houses is a good idea. And as an added bonus that would reduce the energy required for heating.

Energy is where Mr New Labour needs to show some old fashioned balls. Nuclear power will not please the tree huggers and teenage girls of suburbia, but it is the best option.

The public perception of Chernobyl is not helped by hyperbolic coverage and scaremongering which has left an indelible scar of the image of nuclear power. But that was 20 years ago and we need to move on.

Nuclear power is safer today. Coal mining accidents kill more people every year than the one off Chernobyl blast. And try telling people who lived in the shadow of the Vaiont Dam that hydroelectric power and the like are better. But that didn’t get the glowing coverage that Chernobyl did. Even though it killed more people.

Come on Mr Blair. The facts are in front of you. All you need to do is put a few noses out of joint and make the right choice for once.