Two-faced Tony

Last week, Tony Blair addressed the Climate Change and Governance Conference with strong words, saying that the long-term consequences of climate change were "extremely serious", that failing to take action would be "absolutely disastrous", and that he

"[didn't] want it on my conscience, or my generation's, that we knew about it but did nothing and left our children to deal with the consequences."

But according to the Independent, just weeks before he had blocked a plan to cut the UK's emissions by conspicuously failing to back his Environment Minister's strategy to ensure that the UK met its CO₂ reduction target. Worse,

Privately the Prime Minister shows little interest in measures to cut pollution, preferring international talks, where he increasingly mirrors the position of President George Bush.

So much for "showing leadership" on climate change. Instead, he's just being a two-faced little weasel - saying what the public wants to hear, while doing exactly the opposite. What's surprising is that anyone believes a word he says anymore...