Why MPs are Wankers

This time I couldn't help myself.

I know its rude to call someone a wanker, but really the absurdity of it all beggars belief.

But I should at least explain myself.

This week, the almighty mother of all parliaments, Old Princess Windy Drawers Herself, The Bods at the Palace of Westminster, decided unilaterally to instruct the subjects of this fiefdom to

reduce carbon emisions by 60%, though MPs wonder if tht's enough (click link)

Still, I am sure they mean well, scrabbling to get to the front of the green party photoshoot (note I didn't write Green Party).

But this is not just a meandering babble.

I just wanted to pose the question: How green is the building we all pay for that they blow off their hot air in?

Lets put it this way:

• The 'appalling' energy wastrels of Westminster
  was the Telegraphs report title in 2005. They give a series of comparisons, I have picked:

The Commons alone used enough electricity to supply a town of 5,000 households for a year and it costs £181.53 for each MP and peer just to heat the Palace of Westminster.

The Mandarins are howver not standing on their laurels, and have proposed a series of measures, you can look at them by clicking here, but I have pulled out a few points. Being done:

1. Replacement of hot water calorifiers with heat exchangers;
2. Improvement of the Press Area ventilation;
3. Installation of secondary glazing;
4. Working with the Carbon Trust {they can tell that to the newly ventilated journalists}

Being considered:

1. installation of roof insulation;
2. Draught proofing of windows;

Amongst other things.
Well really.

How about moving out of a drafty old building that can never be energy efficient except when it is set on fire for a big marshmallow toasting fest one bonfire's night, sacking all the old fat Shelobs mooching around its dusty damp corridors, and everyone going somewhere else built for purpose to a budget agreed in advance and kept to by contracted agreement and in law (they can pass them after all).

You see, they don't mind telling us how bad we are at taking care of the environment, but, well, they are wankers, aren't they?

In the meantime, here's another raft of headlines telling us how bad we are, with links:

• we throw food in the bin
• rubbish is OK left in the street for 2 weeks in summer, says perilament, councils can save by not collecting it, but charging the same amount in council tax