On Desert Island Discs, ballroom dancing champion and LibDem treasury spokesman, Bertie Bott Vince Cable was asked to choose one luxury to take with him to the island.
He mused that, because he would be unobserved on the island, he could be as politically incorrect as he liked and therefore would have an Aston Martin and drive around at high speed. Were there no metalled roads, he would make do with a very fast horse. Pushed to choose one or the other, he went for the Aston. As would your humble servant, I should add. You tend not to fall off an Aston and anyway most horses can't do 190 mph.
But I do not claim to be a devotee of the New Religion. I do not preach the salvation of the world through the enforced reduction of carbon emissions, unlike the political party of which Vince is leader manqué.
Not being a Liberal Democrat, I do not have to change my 'scientific judgement', my politics or my religion depending on my audience at any given moment.
It's obviously neither a matter of science nor of principle with Vince that one must reduce one's carbon emissions to save the planet. It's not as though it's a bad thing to pollute the atmosphere or anything. No, no. It's absolutely fine to belch out clouds of CO2 in the middle of the Pacific - or anywhere, really, as long as no-one can see you doing it.
But what the hell - good luck to you, Vince. Go ahead, mate. Have the Aston. I would. We are as one in the matter of cars and speed. And I am cheered to know that we are as one in believing that the New Religion is, in fact, a load of arse whose only purpose is the control of other people.
To be clear: no other people around means no-one to control and therefore no need to lie to them nor to pretend to believe in the New Religion. Right, Vince?
But sorry, Vince old chap - there is one tiny difference between us. You peddle Bertie Bott's LibDem Snake Oil in whatever flavours and colours you think will please whoever's buying - Tory, Labour, floating voters - whereas I am not a fucking hypocrite.
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