15 December 2006

Good King Burning Arse

You (and everyone else) missed yesterday's debate about domestic carbon emissions in the Commons. The most interesting tidbit is down near the bottom where Lib Dem MP Martin Horwood mocks a poem that the government has allegedly come up with to demonstrate the effects of climate change on Christmas. Quoting now:

Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the Feast of Stephen
Sunbathers lay round about
Tanned and crisp and even
Brightly shone the moon that night
With mosquitoes cruel
When a poor man came in sight
Malaria killed his mule

Rubbish poetry or carol or whatever but probably the best thing to come out of the Blair junta in quite some time. Unfortunately a quick search only comes up with this error page and Horwood is vauge about its origins. Any help from DEFRA? Send me a working link if you find it.

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