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Vote Blue, get Grey
Cameron's dreams turned to ashes yesterday.
The FT has the story:
David Cameron, Britain’s Conservative leader, put the fight against climate change at the heart of his new European political movement on Tuesday but found to his discomfort that his Czech allies do not share his zeal.
Mr Cameron joined forces with the ruling centre-right Czech ODS party in Brussels to launch a Movement for European Reform, listing the environment as one of its three main priorities.
But the tensions within the movement became obvious when Czech journalists pointed out that Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president and ODS founder, recently described climate change as a “false myth”.
There was an apt response to the "new" european message from Dave.
Geoff Hoon, Britain’s minister for Europe, said his policy agenda sounded exactly the same as that of Tony Blair’s Labour government.
Vote Cameron, get Blair?
Adding to the irony, the same page of the FT gives Angela Merkel - leader of the biggest party in the group Cameron says he would like to leave one day - major coverage for her own plans to fight global warming.
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It's not a commitment shared by members of his own Party either. Former Leader Michael Howard and possible replacement Damian Collins have completely ignored the contribution of aviation to climate change by backing a controversial planning application to expand Lydd Airport in the Folkestone and Hythe constituency.