Letwin Settles Up – Bins Carbon Reduction Global Agreement
Another nail in the husky coffin as Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Letwin concedes defeat to Nigel Lawson and accepts that the Kyoto Treaty is dead and nothing will be following it. Back in 2008 the two men made a bet, the details of which were published in a Standpoint interview:
Oliver Lewtin: I’d be very happy to have a wager, and I offer you a £100 bet that before either of us is dead, whichever is the first — our estates can pay — we will see a very substantial agreement on carbon reduction.
Nigel Lawson: But I don’t think I want the bet to be “in my lifetime” because I’d like to get the £100. I’m sorry it’s such a modest amount you’re prepared to wager — it shows how unconfident you are — but I would like to be able to collect before I die. So I think we should say “by the time Kyoto runs out”, because there is meant to be no hiatus; there is meant to be a successor to Kyoto. So “by 2012 we will have the agreement” — maybe I’ll die before then, of course —but 2012 is the acid test.
Oliver Letwin: On the same basis, Nigel, I’m perfectly willing to take that bet too. The reason I’m willing to take the bet is that I know that the only way it can be made to happen is if we try to make it happen and if we build up the moral authority to make it happen by taking the steps ourselves.
Letwin has apparently now agreed to settle the bet. Lord Lawson is on a bit of victory lap this afternoon:
“Oliver is one of the nicest people in politics, and one of the cleverest. It is, however, disconcerting that UK climate change policy - which makes no conceivable sense in the absence of a binding global agreement – has been based on the advice of someone so totally divorced from any understanding of practical realities.”
Well quite.
I will bet Ed Balls £1,000 he never gets to be Chancellor.
I will take that bet. Ed Bals is the only man in British politics capable of being the new iron chancellor required to get us out of this Tory led mess.
You’re on.
Post your email address.
j-j-j-jimmy-b-b-b-balls@labia.org
Fucking Wetwin fucks up again!
I’ll get you out of the mess which Gordon and I got you into. Honest.
£ 1,000 ?? Huh !! I’ll bet the bank – RBS, Lloyds, Halifax, all one them put together. Mind you, we bet those banks once and the Taxpayers had to pick up the bill.
As above !
Do you think that the surname misspelling will enable you to avoid paying what you have not got anyway?
Excuse me while I change my trousers, the other got wet quite quickly on reading our Jimmy’s remarks on Balls the bouncer.
It’s a trap. see above.
Eventually, socialists run out of other people’s money.
Who is ‘Ed Bals’ ???
Looks like Jimmy’s pooper’s gone. Come on Jimmy put your money where your mouth is.
You think I will win the next election? Don’t see your GP whatever you do Sir, he may section you…
I will be the next pwime minithter !!! The unions have pwomithed it to me !
Shut up you Socialist meanie. We are so far ahead in the polls. You don’t stand a chance.
I gave him £1,000 to fuck me but he couldn’t get it up, so I gave him one instead.
I had you in the back of my cab once. Took me ages to get the smell offf my cock.
I bet that Gold would not increase in price
A politician keeping his word? *shocked face*
Lawson is on ze list.
You are on ze A list. You will be corrected.
Bring back Presclott.
They say that the Life of Pi lasts 2hrs 6mins. I can shorten that to 1.2 seconds.
Rumour is that Prezza may be on Celebrity Big Brother ….. BIG being the word for Prezza, natch.
He a’int BIG. He’s my little ole chippolata Prezza
Many of the comments on this blog seem to be pre-planned with little relevance to the article in question.
For example: ‘Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him? More like Muhammad Piss Be Upon Him!!!! Am I right??????’
‘Hey guys look at my blog @KebabTime2′
‘Vile Gordon Brown stole my gold and my Crunchy Nut and all my pets’
Most baffling. Keep up the good work and don’t drink too much gents
A self-fulfilling prophesy.
Indeed, Mr cat.
Do bugger off
Alaska has been cooling back down since 2000:
http://www.livescience.com/25907-alaska-climate-pdo.html
Precisely. I told the Cabinet that those pictures of the lack of any Arctic ice cap was a NASA photoshop job as well. They believed me too when I said the NHS is safe in my hands. Oi Hunt why is my appointment 4 years when it was 14 weeks three years ago?
Nooooooo, CO2 causes runaway climate warming, we’ve been telling you this for decades.
CO2 causes warming, only it’s not been warming for fifteen years, because CO2 has cunningly learned to disguise it’s warming effects, by masking them.
It really should be hotter than Hades now, if only clever old CO2 hadn’t outwitted us all by disguising itself.
But it will be boiling hot I tell you, in, in, err, oh, umm, how about a hundred years from now, when everyone alive today, is dead?
That was the troubloe last year with the snow at Heathrow we didn’t use CO2 as it causes runway climate change…
“has been based on the advice of someone so totally divorced from any understanding of practical realities.”
Ah that’ll be militwit then. He was the environment minister under gordon running round the world predicting climate change was going to do us all in!!
Yes thank God we haven’t had any rain this Winter. The trees are so beautiful in Umbria.
AGW MAN MADE GLOBALWARMING IS A LIE AND ITS MADE UP BY SOCIALISTS AND GAYS AND ARGENTINIANS YOUR ALL BEING FOOOLED MY BROTHER WILL BACK ME UP HES CALLED DICK
Grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, poor diction & sentence formation – at least give Mr Delingpole his due – he is a fine writer.
You on the other hand are a victim of New Labour’s education policy.
I am a VERY fine writer who was educated at Malvern and Oxford with the FUTURE prime minister I’ll have you know.
That will have been Ed Megashambles!
I’m keeping quiet hoping that you’ll forget about me.
Haven’t noticed you around here before, ehr kid, in’t it?
Possibly more literate than Guido. You concede victory, not defeat. You allow that the other chap has the victory. This I learnt, at primary school, when I was 10. You will no doubt suspect that it was at primary school some time ago.
So take those rusting windmills down and lets drill.
Sacrilege !!!
Coal, gas, nuclear. Everything else is pie in the sky, a very minor contributor, horrendously expensive, or decades off commercial reality.
The only way wind and solar will ever be viable, is when we have found a way to make the wind blow and the sun shine, 24 hours a day. Until then, it is all make believe.
I read this morning that the next climate change scare is that met office and beeb are saying the wet mild weather is here to stay permanently and it will prevent us from growing any fruit and veg and will destroy our lawns. ++++Laugh++++
The met office are saying that? Oh Gawd – stand by for hosepipe bans by June, then.
Mind the mower on the concrete moles.
Expect 3 feet of snow next week then.
3 feet of snow? Gideon doesn’t buy that much charlie anymore and btw The Express said there were going to be 20 foot snow drifts so it must be true
Yippee !
Let him win Ollie!
can we get our money back on those stupid windmills we bought from Germany? can we introduce some competition to the energy market/ can my 84 year old mum afford to heat her flat?
You want more competition in the energy market, which in turn will increase prices? Are you a socialist? The best way forwards, I feel, is the present system of cartelism. That way everyone is ripped orf.
Have I told you that I have a nice little earner?
No I am quite busy enough with Michael Green’s nice little earners. All profits going into the children’s trust funds so no tax to pay to Gid The Flid. It was actually GTF who told me how to do it…
One thing that utterly bemuses me about this. How can so much policy be made with so little examination of actual scientific knowledge (and, by extension, lack of knowledge)?
It’s a great way of raising revenue.
….and peoples’ blood pressures.
‘It’s a great way of raising revenue.’
It’s a great way of killing off the poor, sick and elderly too. All in a caring, compassionate and progressive way, of course.
Can you specify any policy from any of those groups of thieving scum at Westminster which are based on any sort of scientific evidence?
I can. Right to buy was proven as such. If you sell houses and don’t build any the you have a price crunch. What prize do I get? Another five years? Oh goody goody gumdrops
Copper Knickers – it’s not just Westminster, it’s Brussels too. Under EU law we have to close down most of our coal-fired power stations in 2015. That’s about 40% of our generating capacity taken out in one fell swoop, with nothing to replace it.
Stand by for electricity rationing – using smart meters, they can do it remotely by restricting the amount you’re allowed to consume at times of high demand. That, and shutting down energy-intensive industries.
Really? Which EU law is that? Oh you made it up..very funny
Don’t forget the fish.
Didn’t make it up. Something to do with not emitting Carbon Dioxide, or some such bollocks.
Trouble is, our governments are not savvy enough to just ignore it.
How is 40% most?
Did you take Mathematics at Eton?
100% of our generating capacity is made up of coal, gas, nuclear, pumped storage hydro-electric and some bits and bats.
Suggest you check your mathematics.
So what EU law was it?
I see cast iron Dave has told the Falkland islanders that they have his support 100%.
If I were them I’d start packing their bags then.
Like when I said the NHS is safe in my hands then I sell it orf to my mates? Ya
I take it they are not going to get a referendum on the matter then after all?.
Actually they’ll get the same one I promised on the Reform Treaty. So there you Socialist meanie
Err, Dave, I hate to break this to you, but you’r a Socialist too old boy. A rather posh one granted, but one nonetheless.
* you’re, doh!
No Tories be them Blue Labour or Red Tories are Socialist. I know because Frank Field told me so. So go away you Soviet peasant
Hi gweed ….
In the foto above is it to be construed that an ex chancellor is indulging in a victory fuck of an ex banker turned politico …. Or is the banker claiming his loser s. consolation prize “??
I am amazed at how all the comments and stories in this blog are true..and then I woke up
..and then realised, to your horror, you were actually on Comment is Free.
Oliver Letwin? oh strewth.
Britain could still unilaterally cut its carbon footprint by maybe shipping in more people from abroad.
That’s my plan entirely. Another 1.5 mill immigrants in 5 years should do it. Theresa and her shoes are wrecking the Home Office database for illegals so things should be just enough for that carbon reduction
Not to mention the parquet floors.
When the fiasco at Heathrow was going down Summer of 2010 her shoes were getting caught in the rolling floor. Bloody nightmare she is sometimes. I blame Alistair Morgan myself..all that pressure
It was very good of the USA to hit its Kyoto target, the more especially as it never signed the treaty.
I rarely hit my Nokia targets. Where did I go wrong ?
You need stereoscopic vision, twit.
We are meeting our target of building a new coal-fired power plant every week and our economy is booming.
Two millionaires settle silly little bet…
They are behaving like Randolph and Mortimer Duke.
Wacist
‘Envy is the ulcer of the soul’. Socrates
““Oliver is one of the nicest people in politics, and one of the cleverest.”
Yes so nice that he lets total strangers into his house in the middle of the night to errrr use the toilet ?
Mmmmmmm !
Half the members of the institute of business directors think George Osborne is doing a crap job
Only Half , what a set of fuckwits
I can tell you he is doing an excellent job. We have certain targets and we have to better than Labour at things. At the moment we are far better than Labour at fucking up the whole country rather than just England. I can’t wait tosee those disabled tears of joy when we take £58 a week of them. We all know that anyone that uses the NHS will vote Labour so best kill them off asap.
Oh yes Nigel the spazzer Lawson – errrr wasn’t he the bloke who preceded over the economy, and whose policies lead to the 1990 recession where inflation was 10% and 15% interest rates.
No that was Major and Interest rates only reached 15% for three hours…
And thankfully we fell out the ERM !
Yes I advised Norma to do that. We had already wasted £120 Billion on trying to out do Jerry…Luckily all the pounds we bought were completely worthless.
Er, I think you mean “presided”?
Me, I ‘ad a grand time wiv Keee Yoto, me. Loads of goodies, first lass travel, posh ‘otels an’ all on expenses.
£100 ‘modest’?
Jeeeeeeeeeez, you fuckwit.
Don”t be unkind to her dad. She’ll drizzle all over your back burner if you’re not careful.
Yeah man but Olieeever is a right on progressssive an he support da bum boys marrying innit.
Hope he’s putting the old policy in the appropriate recycle bin, fascist.