What was Ian Pearson - junior minister on all the news, "Ryanair are not just the unacceptable face of capitalism, they are the irresponsible face of capitalism", him - what did he think he was doing? Apart from just setting Michael O'Leary off on another rant? OK, it's got to be worth doing that just for entertainment, I know, like standing outside a fence and teasing the guard-dogs. It doesn't make Ryanair look much better to me.
Options: careerism (thinks Labour are on the way out and wants to be remembered); doublethink (have junior ministers sound Eco so the senior ones don't have to bother to pretend); startling conversion of a New Labour apparatchik; or just a minister actually doing his job: Pearson is minister of state for climate change and environment.
Theories? Preferably entertaining ones!
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,,1983336,00.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,,1983986,00.html
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