A £15 million project to build hundreds of new zero-carbon homes has fallen flat after only 15 qualified in the first year, The Times has learnt. Gordon Brown’s scheme [...] failed because the Government’s specification for a zero-carbon home is not practical, the building industry says.[...] A better, cheaper alternative would be subsidies to improve the air-tightness of existing buildings.
Yet another example of how grabbing headlines with expensive programs to combat a non-existing threat will land you in a pot of boiling water. With the economy going to the dogs and the embarrassment of the pre-budget report, Britons will not like hearing that 15 million of their money were so badly spent. Coupled with today's news of free flip-flops for drunk women (to prevent falling over when wearing high heels), Gordon Brown's Labour will definitely face the toughest question from its voters: "WTF?"
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