In the red corner..... The Conservatives

The Friends of the Earth organisation decided to give a timely scorecard to each of the main parties.

Greens topped the poll quite easily. SNP, Labour and Lib Dems did pretty well but a really shocking score of 0 out of 10 for the Tories. With a grading of green through amber to red, the Conservatives' green policy is as scarlet as their faces should be after this story came out.

I can imagine this inconvenient truth for Annabel & co will come up time and time again in the hustings between now and May 3rd. And quite rightly too, the general public does need to be dragged kicking and screaming into saving the planet, it's just a harsh truth that we grudgingly accept but largely aren't doing that much about (myself included). So I don't really care what the parties say just now, just so long as whoever wins power gives us a good kicking with regard to recycling, economically unfriendly cars and long-haul flights.

We might not vote for it but we need it, and deep down we know it's the right thing to do...