By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982
Congratulations to Sunder Katwala of the Fabian Society, who has produced a survey revealing that all ten of the Top 10 Tory bloggers are climate change sceptics.
Sunder says:
“None of the top ten Conservative bloggers believes the theory that man-made global warming is an established fact; all ten reject David Cameron’s view that the issue should be an urgent priority if the party were in government…the Tory blogs range from different varieties of agnosticism to the absolute certainty that climate change is a fraud, expressed in rising backbench star Douglas Carswell MP’s attack on a “lunatic consensus”.
This is a politically inconvenient truth for the Tories as they look to form a cogent position on the environment. Sunder says:
“As a matter of politics, the lack of support for party policy from the most prominent netroots voices on this high profile issue suggests there will be vocal pressure from the party to play down the climate change issue.”
Read the full post on Next Left.
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