I've just caught up with Jonathon Porritt's report for FoE on the first year of Cameron's "Greenest Government Ever". It's not a pretty sight (and I include the annoying little symbols that the report uses to denote progress in that evaluation!). The Government having got rid of the SDC it doesn't really have any body to check on its progress so this report has to be welcomed for filling that hole, if for nothing else.
Perhaps one just starts at the end with Porrit's concluding remarks: " Writing this Report has been a disheartening process. In an ideal world, I would have wanted to demonstrate to Friends of the Earth the usual mixed balance sheet one might expect after just one year. But the 77 individual items pretty much speak for themselves: the bad and the positively ugly indisputably outweigh the good. At this stage, the likelihood of the Coalition Government living up to its “Greenest Government Ever” pledge is vanishingly remote."
Porritt is particularly scathing about DCLG, the Treasury and DoE (back to Planet Pickles?). Certainly Cameron seems to be hiding behind a number of the Tory's "ugly beasts". Indeed, he has been practically invisible on Green issues ever since his original announcement. Why? Does he not understand? Or is he just a good PR man with no underlying commitment? Whatever, now is the time for some leadership just to prevent this Government being the beigest ever!
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