http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2006/07/31/2976 Every day the Prime Minister's Spokesman meets a small coterie of political journalists known as 'the lobby' for a topical chat, or 'briefing'. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:49:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2006/07/31/2976#comment-4573 SmokeNMirrors Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:04:42 +0000 http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2006/07/31/2976#comment-4573 Right. A discussion on climate change with the boss of BP. There's no possible conflict of interest there, now is there?! A bit like asking a British or American politician to give an impartial opinion on Israeli agression in Lebanon... Come on, look at that one sentence; \xA317 TRILLION woth of investment over the next 25 years. With sums like that, does anyone REALLY think that the ENVIRONMENT is actually going to get a look-in?! Apart from maybe to think about ways to exploit it yet further... P-u-h-lease!!! Someone stop the world, I wanna get off... Right. A discussion on climate change with the boss of BP. There’s no possible conflict of interest there, now is there?! A bit like asking a British or American politician to give an impartial opinion on Israeli agression in Lebanon… Come on, look at that one sentence; \xA317 TRILLION woth of investment over the next 25 years. With sums like that, does anyone REALLY think that the ENVIRONMENT is actually going to get a look-in?! Apart from maybe to think about ways to exploit it yet further… P-u-h-lease!!! Someone stop the world, I wanna get off…

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