Pressure mounts on David Cameron following key environment u-turn

Conservative Party leader David Cameron was today facing mounting pressure following the creation of a new website that has exposed his latest and likely most damaging u-turn to date, the quiet dropping of his cast-iron pledge to commit the Conservative Party to binding annual carbon reduction targets.

[ClickPress, Mon Nov 20 2006] Conservative Party leader David Cameron was today facing mounting pressure following the creation of a new website that has exposed his latest and likely most damaging u-turn to date, the quiet dropping of his cast-iron pledge to commit the Conservative Party to binding annual carbon reduction targets.

Cameron stands accused of seeking to mislead the British public with false 'green' credentials by creating a media impression with speeches, interviews, a campaign website and proposed Tory Climate Bill with specific demands for binding annual carbon reduction targets only to completely drop the demand following a leaked memo that revealed the Tories plans to step back from such a pledge.

In October 2006, during his keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference Cameron pledged "binding targets for carbon reduction, year on year" and was reported to have committed his own party to such targets on the 15th November 2006.

Such demands for binding annual targets in place of a single long-term target was rejected by the British government but Cameron stressed that binding annual targets were the only possible way to achieve carbon reduction goals.

To cement his commitment to such binding targets Cameron established his own Climate Change Bill with a key section pledging "a statutory target for carbon reduction across the United Kingdom economy in the following year and for all succeeding years to 2050".

However, following the release of the leaked Tory memo by the Labour Party which revealed the Conservative Party's real intentions to step back from any such binding targets, David Cameron u-turned and quietly removed any reference to binding targets from both his proposed Climate Bill and campaign website established specifically to demand these binding targets.

Cameron's u-turn on his claimed core area of interest, the environment, was not discussed on any of the leading British Conservative-leaning blogs or websites. As a result, ukiphome, the unofficial and unauthorised support group of the UK Independence Party which itself opposes binding annual carbon reduction targets decided that it was vital to inform the British public of what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to mislead the British people.

"I was shocked at the way Cameron quietly dropped a policy that he claimed was the only method to save the environment just a couple of days after the press reported that he had committed his party to such a course of action." Said Chad Noble of ukiphome, the group that came to global attention following the creation of its webcameron.info spoof website that sought to highlight the lack of sincerity in Cameron's political strategy.

Ukiphome therefore established the website CanIHaveTheNonBindingBillPlease.co.uk to detail David Cameron's lengthy and specific calls and pledges for binding annual carbon reduction targets and his subsequent removal of this pledge.

"David Cameron has built an electoral strategy centred around the theme of caring for the environment, but this u-turn, which was performed in the most quiet way, I believe, was a crude attempt to mislead the British public to believe that the Conservative Party really had changed.

It would seem that David Cameron's Conservatives really are a Tory Trojan horse, painted in themes and policies the British public are seeking, in a bid to become the next government, when the truth contained within is fully consistent with the old 'nasty' label that has long been applied to his party."

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