Brown Vs Cameron

The fight is on. The Chancellor and the Leader of the Opposition battled it out yesterday as they revealed their opposing plans to improve the environment.

David Cameron’s promotion of green air travel is a controversial one.

It is inevitable that he’ll be making enemies among the airplane industry – we could be seeing the end of an era as cheap flights go.

With the Labour party currently being the unpopular kid in the political playground, Cameron’s bid to introduce taxation on domestic flights may see his popularity grow with environmentalist.

However the Conservative party as a whole doesn’t seem as green as its ambitious leader. Could it be that they are using Cameron and his green policies as a pawn to gain votes and public support?

My lecturer told me about an incident in Richmond, where the local Liberal Democrat council were contested by opposing Conservative’s over a scheme to raise tax on larger vehicles. Although some vehicle owners feel hard done by the rise in taxation is all in the effort for a greener and healthier environment. With Cameron preaching green ethics, why is it the rest of his party are showing anti environmental attitudes?

Brown’s agenda didn’t include any green air travel proposals and he was heavily criticized for merely “recycling policies he had announced in March 1995”.

Despite verbal punches being thrown from both sides, at least we are witnessing a fight that will, which ever way the politics swing, result in a cleaner environment.