I England har det omsider blitt tatt ut tiltale mot Hr. Huhne, og statsministeren der er såpass ryddig at den lite populære klimafanatikeren Hr. Huhne ikke lengre sitter i regjeringen. De av oss som innemellom leser klimarelatert stoff i Daily Telegraph vet at dette er en stor dag for James Delingpole som skriver:
So there we go. Among the people who will not, I suspect, be shedding any tears at Mr Toad's long-awaited departure from the Cabinet are:
David Cameron
Everyone in the Cabinet, even including Michael Gove who likes – and is liked by – almost everybody in Parliament.
Everyone in the Conservative party
Everyone in the Labour party
Everyone in UKIP
Pretty much everyone in the Lib Dems.
His ex-wife.
Every newspaper including the Daily Mirror – which really ought to like him given how pathologically left-wing he is but has happily made an exception owing to the man's unremitting, weapons-grade vileness.
Everyone who was at Westminster with him. (In his Chris Paul-Huhne days.)
Everyone who ever worked with him at the Guardian, the Independent, the Economist and the Liverpool Echo.
Everyone who lives anywhere near one of his wretched ruddy wind farms (with the possible exception of rent-seeking beneficiaries thereof, such as Sir Reginald Sheffield Bt).
Everyone whose electricity bills – ie all of us – have been artificially inflated by his pointless green tariffs
Everyone who worked with him when he was an MEP
Everyone who worked with him at Fitch
Everyone who knew him at Oxford or the Sorbonne.
Pretty much everyone else we haven't mentioned already.
It is indeed a singular achievement for one man to rise so high in the reasonably clubbable, popularity-dependent world of politics while yet remaining so heroically charmless in almost every possible way.
But Huhne has managed it. That is why today on this happiest of days, let us all raise our glasses and let joy be unconfined.
Så dette er en bra dag for det engelske folk og klimaet vårt.