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| “It's bracing in Banffshire,” says Braced of Banff. |
It seems that at least one politician reads this
blog: Scotland’s Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Stewart
Stevenson.
Since I posted on 14 May drawing attention to his robotic habit of
mentioning fatuous weather details on his Twitter slot almost every day—just to
show he is a man who cares for the climate, I presume—he has stopped.
Just over a week later, he made the last in his interminable series of weather tweets. On 23 May we learn that it is “another beautiful day
out there”, and then SILENCE. Apart from 3 June when the Minister reports from his
constituency that it is “windy and cool out there” and then notes that “in
Banffshire the sun’s shining” (odd as his constituency is Banffshire),
that is it.
Perhaps a hundred tweets have gone out since 14 May
letting the world know what our hero is up to. (And revealing whose “tatties”
he digs—answer: “my spouse”; yes, really, his “spouse”. How bureaucratic
can you get!) But other than 3 June, not one bulletin about the weather. Has
the climate come to an end? Or is he just embarrassed? Before that last
celebration of a “beautiful day” we had, on 22 May “sunny out there again”; on
21 May (rather mysteriously) “A bit of radiation fog [!] out there - should burn off by 10 a.m.”; 18 May, “A bit
damp out in Banffshire”, and so on, ad nauseam.
The real question is why the Minister is reading
this blog when he ought to be applying his mind to the issues raised by the
proposed Sound of Barra Seal Sanctuary, which he appears to be totally
uninterested in. Maybe the reason is that Barra is not in Banffshire. Think
locally; act vocally.
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