Green is the new red

Writing on The Free Society blog today, Simon Hills (associate editor of The Times Magazine) warns that "Climate change is a catch-all for more taxes, more quangoes and more government jobs. Just as communism was about the functionary rather than the proletariat, so green politics are empowering a whole new generation of busybodies."

In London, says Simon, "Red Ken Livingstone has become Green Ken Livingstone." Unfortunately, he adds:

Green Ken and Red Ken are one and the same without the need to mention the word – let’s whisper it – socialism. Ken might not be able to stop the City Boys from larging it up at Spearmint Rhino, but by God he’s going to make sure they go there by bicycle. The politics are the same, it’s just the colour that has changed.

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