Jonathon PorritPerhaps it should really have been 'Vote Blue, Go To Hell Greens'.
The new government which promised us would be the "greenest ever" has decided to scrap the Sustainable Development Commission.
The reason of course is money - the SDC cost us a whopping great £4 million a year. And for that money, they had come up with a plan to save the government £29 million by reducing carbon emissions and water wastage.
But their big crime in the eyes of the government was to be tinged with a hint of green, so they had to go. Jonathon Porrit, a former head of the SDC, takes apart Caroline Spelman's reasons for the axeing.
As he says:
So let’s not beat around the bush: their justification for getting rid of the SDC is transparently vacuous, if not downright dishonest. This is an ideological decision – in other words, a decision driven by dogma not by evidence-based, rational analysis.
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