Gordon Brown's budget today was a very poor effort all round and involves quite a bit of trickery. The so-called 'green' measures were on a pretty small scale eg in 1999 'green' taxes amounted to 9.6% of total taxation but after this budget will still only be 7.5% (figures from the BBC), so not even back to where we were 8 yrs ago!
If you want to see a truly Green budget as well as the Green reaction to Gordon Brown's efforts go to:
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2921 - a budget costed in £ and in carbon and with a scale of change needed to tackle climate change.
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2922 - the Green reaction to the Brown budget and his failure to begin to tackle climate change, despite the recent talk about it being the biggest threat humanity faces.
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