Manifesto Commitments

How wonderful:

The government will admit today that it will fail to meet its much
repeated manifesto commitment on cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

Then they try to browbeat the Lords into passing the compulsory ID cards bit, claiming it is a manifesto commitment while in fact, the commitment was to voluntary ones.

Consistency: A virtue or the hobgoblin of little minds?

4 responses

  1. And then there is the ID card maniesto promise which is being met mostly by redfining the word “Voluntary”
    http://www.di2.nu/blog.htm?20060328

  2. One of these days I’ll learn to type and not post too quickly…

  3. Dan Collins Avatar
    Dan Collins

    I don’t know whether it’s generalizable, but consistency is a good thing in oatmeal.

  4. Right. Because the government could easily have hit the target if they’d wanted. Carbon emissions are all controlled by Tony Blair, who has a big brass tap in his office, marked “POLLUTION” which he can turn on and off.
    Christ.

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