Christopher Booker,Telegraph
"I was naturally intrigued to see the Sunday Telegraph quoted online as reporting that the Department for Energy and Climate Change is showering money on consultants to come up with ways of raising the morale of its staff, because they are “too ashamed to admit where they work”. Although they are “responsible for some of the government’s most important policies”, their ministry is held in such low esteem by the public that this has left them feeling “miserable and disengaged”.
Why had I not read this remarkable story before? Then I noticed that the Sunday Telegraph in question was the one published in Australia. It was reporting on collapsing morale not in our own climate change department but its equivalent in a country where the Labour government’s obsession with solar panels, wind turbines and other green policies has recently led, in Queensland, to the greatest electoral rout in Australian history. This is viewed as a portent for the defeat at federal level of the government of Julia Gillard, whose swingeing “carbon tax” – the one she promised she would not introduce – has been a major factor in its declining fortunes.
Australia is thus the first country in the world where unpopular environmental policies have become a political game-changer, an opportunity we here in Britain have so far been denied by the greenie unanimity of all our major parties. "
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