The Green Deal

[Feltwell]

Greg Barker, climate change minister, promotes the Green Deal with the idea that one can hoover in one's knickers.

He needs to be careful with that - men have ended up in casualty with nasty injuries and unbelieveably weak excuses as a direct result of hoovering inside one's underwear.

.....and expressions permanently fixed just like Kenneth's above!

 

[biffvernon]

Prime minister asks Cabinet Office for urgent briefing on how to rescue flagship energy efficiency scheme

David Cameron has stepped in to rescue the Green Deal by commissioning the Cabinet Office to put together an urgent briefing on how the scheme can be modified to avoid a collapse in insulation installations.

The move comes just weeks after the success of the flagship energy efficiency policy was put at risk by the prime minister’s intervention to block the so-called ‘conservatory tax’ that was touted by ministers as key to driving take-up of the Green Deal.

The Cabinet Office interviewed senior figures in the sector over the weekend to establish what must be done to make the scheme viable amid increasing concern that it will prove a damp squib when it launches in October this year.

http://www.building.co.uk/exclusive-cameron-in-urgent-bid-to-save-green-deal/5036281.article#

 

[biffvernon]

Interesting list of Green Deal shortcomings from the purveyors of PassivHaus, Eurobuild:
http://www.eurobuilduk.co.uk/deal-or-green-deal/