11 Comments

• Joe Otten 21st Sep '08 - 12:05pm

  And this is just in response to high poll ratings. We haven’t seen the half of how quickly they will revert to form if they get into government.

• Toby Philpott 21st Sep '08 - 1:16pm

  Well, well, well. When push comes to shove the Tories “green credentials” rapidly melt away. What a surprise. NOT.

• asquith 21st Sep '08 - 2:02pm

  Waiting to see if Zac Goldsmith will maintain his principles & dignity by leaving Cameron’s charade & joining the LDs or the Green Party.

• Mark Wright 21st Sep '08 - 3:07pm

  I dont think we’re surprised by this. It was just a matter of time.

• David Evans 21st Sep '08 - 5:02pm

  Conservative Home does say, “The “Green Shift” (higher taxation of pollution and lower taxation of families) will nonetheless be restated as a medium term goal.” Which could be interpreted as ‘We will pretend we are green to get the votes in, but then not do anything if we take power.’

  Don’t ever believe they will drop anything definitely as long as they can squeeze a few votes out of it.

• Oranjepan 21st Sep '08 - 5:24pm

  Why is Cameron giving an open goal to us?
  Is he incompetent, or does he fear winning a landslide which gives the more extreme wing of his party an exaggerated influence?

  Anyway, this is great news for us because whichever way you look at it he is clearly in retreat.

• Greenfield 21st Sep '08 - 8:00pm

  If this turns out to be true (& I hope not – for the sake of the Planet)- perhaps the new Tory slogan will be ‘ Go Green & vote Tory sometime possibly in the future – maybe’.

• Geoffrey Payne 21st Sep '08 - 8:07pm

  I am inclined not to read too much into this with such a small amount of information.
  Within the Conservative party there is a tension between the green wing of the party who wrote the environmental policy, and the economic wing of the party who are obsessed with free markets and know little about the environment.
  Thank goodness our party is not like that.

• Joe Otten 21st Sep '08 - 8:23pm

  Geoffrey,

  Amen, brother.

• Pete (the Colchester one) 22nd Sep '08 - 12:09pm

  I can see the Conservatives ripping up pledge after pledge as Labour gets the UK taxpayer further and further into debt.

  With every announcement Labour get the population into debt for generations to come. The Government have also hidden vast amounts of expenditure in PFI contracts and in ‘taxcredits’.

  Whoever wins the next general election will have to spend a decade clearing up the mess Mr Brown has left behind and I dont pity them.

• Devil 25th Sep '08 - 9:03pm

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