No, Tony Blair is an American style Democrat, which make him a "Liberal" in transatlantic-speak.

The other question of course is, if you use a Kyser, do have have it pointing towards you or away - I go for away from me, because that way I can use my right hand to move it and I find that's quicker. But does that have a political implication?

I think Richard's figures aren't quite right - we had a thread about petrol (gas) and forth, and I thinki the figure for CO2 anyway for the States is about 24% - which is still pretty high, because America is nowhere near 20% of the world's population.

Any genuine conservative of course ought to be sttrongly against pollution. The label has been hi-jacked by people with very strange and totally non-conservative attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic.