Britain lobbies against EU green aviation targets

Those cheese-eating surrender monkeys in the EU are at it again! Not content with straightening our bananas and making us all speak Flemish, they're now trying to take away our God-given right to fly polluting planes everywhere. You couldn't make it up!

Luckily, those plucky chaps in Whitehall are on the case. They've been pressing the flesh, trying to persuade all those Eurocrats to exempt aviation from a general target of 20% renewable energy by 2020. But that's not all - they're also trying to make targets on clean energy in homes optional, so we don't actually have to follow them.

They're doing a great job: so far they've managed to reduce our reduction from 20% to 15% because we've historically been so crap on renewables, and are trying to persuade Brussels that nuclear energy and electricity from carbon-capture and storage coal is renewable. Three cheers for the civil servants - they're showing Jonny Foreigner what's what!