rent-seeking scuzzballs, Tag

Some of you may have caught an impassioned, frustrating and despairing piece I wrote the other day wondering why I bother. It was a variation on the point I made in this blogpost on Obama's mendacity, which I'll repeat because...

Suppose an alliance of green activists and corporate fat cats were to write to the Chancellor with the following demands: "We the undersigned feel very strongly that British consumers should pay more for their energy bills...

Nothing definite yet, just a hunch, but any day now I reckon, I shall be on the receiving end of a lengthy litany submitted to the Press Complaints Commission by one of the most loathsomely vile and leprous organisations...