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Asked where we were on climate change, the PMOS said that we were where we thought we would be. Negotiations were still going on, they were serious negotiations. Precisely because they were serious negotiations we would not give a running commentary despite stories which attempted to say where we were, as he had anticipated there would be. It was far better to simply put our heads down and recognise that what mattered was what we emerged with next Friday.

Asked if we expected to make any progress on climate change given the United States’ position on climate change, the PMOS said that some people might have missed it but the Prime Minister had stood beside the President in the White House and had acknowledged that in respect of the science we started from a different place. We freely admitted that. The important point was the fact that we both agreed that we needed to move to alternative forms of energy, we agreed that we needed to move to a low carbon emissions economy. We could now go on to form a consensus about what we needed to do next and how we could maintain that progress and take things forward. These were the key challenges.

Asked if we would be focusing more on climate change this week given the developments so far with Africa, the PMOS said he would not get into ranking the different issues. We had established at the start of the year that our two priorities for the G8 were movement on Africa and movement on climate change, we should see where we got to next week.

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"Asked where we were on climate change, the PMOS said that we were where we thought we would be".

And these idiots get paid how much?! Christ on a bike, my cat could have come out with something that meaningful. But it says it all really. The most important issue ever to face mankind – and we get political bullshit in reply to questions. Please oh please Osama, do us all a favour…!!!
Comment by PapaLazzzaru — 2 Jul 2005 on 3:51 pm | Link
Too true.

All of the PMOS’ comments on these issues amount to ‘I haven’t got a clue’.

This is pathetic. If the PMOS does not have proper answers to straight questions he should be fired. The issues are pretty simple and obvious after all.

Of course the trouble is that none of these guys hae ever learned to say ‘Sorry, I don’t know, I’ll find out and get back to you’, and then to do what they say.

These people are utterly incompetent – your average to mediocre PRO could dream up more interesting answers than this pap.

Sack them right now, they’re not worth their salaries.
Comment by Chuck Unsworth — 2 Jul 2005 on 8:34 pm | Link

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