Gordon Brown in oil doublethink shocker!

BBC News Online 22 April - 'Climate change fight “moral duty”... Chancellor Gordon Brown has spoken for the first time of the "moral need" to tackle climate change.'

But don't get too excited. Unfortunately, 'Mr Brown resisted calls for higher fuel tax, saying he had to balance economic needs with environmental ones.' So, there's a moral need to deal with the problem, but economics means I won't.

Just where Brown's real allegiance lies (if there was any doubt) comes clear in another link from the BBC News front page this morning, 'G7 warning over rising oil prices' where Brown is quoted again, '...demand pressures on oil are such that we need a long-term solution to this, better transparency, more production, more drilling, more investment, more petrochemical investment in particular,'. Hasn't anyone told him that burning oil causes climate change? This article doesn't mention climate change at all, but then, it does appear in the 'Business' section, where one can't really expect much recognition of something so nebulous as 'moral need' when oil prices are at stake.

Touchy-feely comment for the masses, hard-nosed business-as-usual for the oil companies, just two clicks apart. Truly Brown is all things to all people, and the BBC is the home of cutting-edge systemic analysis.