Mother Hating Psycho John Hutton Hates The Environment

Yep, not content with hating everyone who is on benefits or who was on benefits, or who might one day think about being on benefits, John ‘Mother hating psycho’ Hutton having moved from work & pensions (notice how that dept, doesn’t even mention welfare or social security anymore) to be secretary of state for business (hmmm, goes from welfare to working with business, keeping labour flexible and fearful of unemployment eh?) has found a new target for his unreasoning rage borne of his shame over his mother’s reliance on benefits. Now he hates the whole planet and every living thing on it, you’ve gotta admire that level of ambition-

According to the papers, John Hutton, the secretary of state for business, will tell Mr Brown that Britain should work with Poland and other governments sceptical about climate change to “help persuade” German chancellor Angela Merkel and others to set lower renewable targets, before binding commitments are framed in December.

It admits that allowing member states to fall short of their renewable targets will be “very hard to negotiate … and will be very controversial”. “The commission, some member states and the European parliament will not want the target to be diluted, though others may be allies for a change,” says a draft copy of Mr Hutton’s Energy Policy Presentation to the Prime Minister, marked “restricted – policy”.

The revelations came as scientists announced that carbon emissions were accumulating in the atmosphere far more quickly than predicted. The sharp increase found by the Global Carbon Project is attributed mainly to Chinese coal-burning and a weakening of the ability of oceans and forests to soak up carbon dioxide.

The leaked papers admit to “a potentially significant cost in terms of reduced climate change leadership” if Mr Brown is seen to be driving a plan to let European member states fall short of their renewables targets.

Brilliantly it is the economically devised bullshit system of emission trading that the renewable targets undermine, so rather than junk the system they show deference to economic trade (and nuclear power) over… well y’know, that earth thingy we all live on-

One of the main objections of government to meeting the renewables target set by Mr Blair is that it will undermine the role of the European emission trading scheme. This scheme was devised by the Treasury under Mr Brown and allows wealthy governments to pay others to reduce emissions. “[Meeting the 20% renewables target] crucially undermines the scheme’s credibility … and reduces the incentives to invest in other carbon technologies like nuclear power”, say the papers.

The government is clearly worried about its ambition to introduce more nuclear power as soon as possible. Mr Hutton will tell Mr Brown that he expects a second legal challenge by Greenpeace. “[It is] most likely to be on the basis of pre-judgement, concerns about waste, a flawed consultation process or inaccuracies.”

Ooh wait did he just admit it was a flawed consultation process? Mother will be displeased, time to see who’s booked into the motel, is that the shower I hear running…