Empty Handed

I should just like to make it quite clear that, in the obviously highly unlikely event that a) 2,500 other people sign-up for this (not sure what will happen to the extra £20) and b) I’m the one drawn out of the hat, that I do not wish to avail myself of the prize…

When I first read about the idea at Chicken Yoghurt, I just assumed it was going to be to raise the money to send Justin to dinner with the Tory leader, and I rushed over to Pledge Bank to get my name down. With hindsight, of course, it’s pretty obvious he wasn’t going to ask for that, and the draw is obviously the right thing to do. If I do win, I’m going to donate the prize back to Justin, because he would clearly make much better use of it than I ever could, and it was really the thought of this that made me want to sign in the first place.

Anyway, as mentioned earlier, it’s not terribly likely to happen, judging by the 2,492 signature shortfall the pledge currently enjoys.

You should sign it.

Driving into work this morning and listening to the BBC’s Today programme on radio 4, I heard an absolutely stunning quote from Environment Secretary David Miliband. It was so utterly moronic that I couldn’t really believe that a real life actual person would have said it, so I looked it up when I got to work, and it appears that it was a genuine, verbatim, quote (although the BBC don’t reproduce it in their article).

Speaking about climate change (OMG, there’s something funny going on with the weather!), Miliband said:

It’s important not to be alarmist about it but it’s important to be alarmed.

Huh?

Go on, see for yourself! (it appears he said it during an earlier interview on The Today Programme, which I didn’t catch, but, boy, am I going to catch the pod-cast later.)