David Cameron brushed off criticism today that his image as a bicycling environmentalist was mere "spin" because he still used his official car to ferry around his clothes and paperwork. The Conservative leader said he bicycled to work because he enjoyed it but the amount of paperwork required in his job as leader of the opposition meant he needed his official car to transport it to the House of Commons
The obvious solution is big paniers as John Humphreys is reported as suggesting in the article or one of those bike-trailers. Come on David, you can do better than that: there's absolutely no point cycling for the environment if you have a car to move your papers around. In any case it does, as I suspected, seem that Mr Cameron is running ahead [or should that be cycling] of his party on such things as this article indicates.
David Cameron's emphasis on environmental issues risks eclipsing traditional Conservative messages on crime and discipline, the shadow defence secretary, Dr Liam Fox, said yesterday, warning that the party risked being "tilted too much in one direction".
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Cameron rejects accusations of green spin:
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