GORD’S GREEN BUDGET

It’s time to stock up on comfort food, Gordon Brown is promising this month's Budget will plot a "green" route to economic recovery.

BBC NEWS Trials of electric cars, a roadside network of vehicle-charging points and incentives for environmentally friendly carmakers are among planned measures.

Mr Brown told the Independent there was scant room for further fiscal stimulus.

Instead, he said, the Budget on 22 April would be "a job creator, a quality of life improver, and an environment-enhancing measure.”

Mr Brown told the newspaper: "It is not just what we do to give real help to people and business now, but about setting a path for the future as well.

"We always take into account both what we need to do now and what is the best future for the fiscal position," he said.

What a load of old tosh! How many car manufacturers can afford to “trial” electric cars? Road-side charging points-and how much will the electricity cost.

Probably about the same as petrol or diesel, because they have to get the revenue.

The other problem is that how “green” is the electricity going to be when it is produced by coal or gas fired power stations? Unless they attach a wind generator to each “charging station” the damage to the environment will still be the same.

Shadow energy and climate change secretary, Greg Clark said: "Now that the governor of the Bank of England has aborted Gordon Brown's plans for a ruinous new debt-funded fiscal stimulus, the prime minister is desperate for something to say in the forthcoming budget.

"He has clearly alighted on Conservative polices announced by David Cameron in January to turn Britain into a low-carbon economy. These include a national network of charging points for electric vehicles, and a smart meter for every home.

"We hope Gordon Brown will implement our programme for a low-carbon economy in full, but in the past his environmental promises have proved to be hollow."

Last month, Bank of England governor Mervyn King warned against further public borrowing to fund measures to boost the economy while being questioned by MPs from the Treasury Committee.

Simon Hughes, for the Liberal Democrats, said the Budget needed to contain "more than just token gestures towards acknowledging the environmental crisis.”

He said: "This government's record on the environment has been a disaster, with the approval of the third runway at Heathrow and a massive road-building programme."


As usual from Gord’s Gov, half thought out ideas, designed to “spin” us into believing that he cares, when the truth is he doesn’t have a clue, the Government is lost and overwhelmed by disaster after disaster and we are going to be the ones that pay for it.


“It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfil.” Oswald Chambers


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