You might be forgiven for thinking that the Conservative party has spent the past month or so taking all the green rubbish – or ‘crap’ as one source close to the Prime Minister was quoted as saying – out and forgetting it ever loved environmentalism. But visiting Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker’s office is a reminder that the party hasn’t quite purged its green, climate-change conscious past. He still has a green Union Jack cushion on one chair, and another with ‘Save the Planet’ embroidered on the case. There’s still a picture of the Prime Minister with a husky on a side table. Clearly Barker still thinks that you can vote blue and go green, even after the past month.
As one of the best-known green modernisers behind that ‘vote blue, go green’ slogan and those huskies, Barker is clearly unimpressed with the ‘green crap’, which The Sun reported in November was an order from the Prime Minister to aides to ‘get rid of all the green crap’ (and which the PM was rather vague about in his interview with Fraser).
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