Skeletons in the political closet

It’s cold outside, and for the sake of distraction I seem to be ploughing my way through the West Wing, and romantic tales of political skulduggery.

On Friday Chris Huhne resigned as Energy secretary, under the suspicion that he may have committed a crime 9 years ago. Yesterday 101 Tory MPs revolt against government policy on renewable energy, and the cause of dirty power surges ahead.

Now I’m not much of one for conspiracy theories, if for no reason than I think such things are difficult to keep secret, but I do believe in the establishment. A disorganised network of the great and good, who went to school and university with each other, who play golf, share lodges, port, cigars and the after dinner scheme.

I also believe in both political realities and the advantages of a journalist sitting on a good story, until it becomes worth something. Nine years is a long time for the police to consider whether a crime has been committed, especially when an MP is involved, albeit 9 years ago he was more of irrelevance to the political process.

So someone has been sitting on the story, and the case for 9 years, and now is the time they’ve decided to roll it out. Innocent or guilty, his reputation is tarnished, and the green agenda has suffered. The question is who? And why? And in the coincidence to the Tory MP rebellion is their a hidden hand of the big energy utilities, the nuclear industry? The fossil fuel lobby? Or simply that network of old chums looking out for one another.

I can’t really conceive why anyone would oppose a clean energy future, but that conspiracy exists. Someone, with money and power, orchestrated the hack on the University of East Anglia, and planned a media strategy around those emails in the lead up to Copenhagen. So if one conspiracy exists, perhaps there is some sanity to thinking the events of the last 48hrs, are the work of the same vested interests.

To conclude I’d hesitate to call Huhne a martyr of the energy revolution, but with a list of 101 MPs to play with, and a new list of marginal to consider, we know where the reactionary bourgeoisie might be found.