Friday, May 05, 2006

DEF(Con)RA 2

With all the other excitement of the day (and we have had more than enough here) regarding HMG and a few, shall we say, 'higher-profile-for-all-the-wrong-reasons' ministers, it looks like in the reshuffle we're getting a new boss of DEFRA.

In bidding Margaret Beckett a fond farewell, it seems somehow apt that she becomes Foreign Secretary, considering the air miles she was so fond of cranking up whilst telling the rest of us what we should do to save the planet. It remains to be seen how well she performs in the new role, which now gives her new and improved ways to proactively blow it up in short order.

As it reads like a press release from the department, I do have to raise a 'brow at this: "In her time at Defra, Mrs Beckett has presided over a doubling of household waste recycling rates in England and the first real cut in the tonnage of waste being sent to landfill."

All I can say is, after all this time and all the money, I should blooming well hope so!

Let us be optimistic that her successor, David Milliband, only the second boss that DEFRA has ever had, will be able to move things forward in directions that we at Junkk.com will feel better in terms of ROI.

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