FOOD LEFT-OVERS

So WRAP (the Waste and Resources Action Programme) is going to send people out knocking on doors and telling them how to use up food waste and scraps rather than throw it away. A very laudable aim but smacks to me of yet more nanny state. At first it will be a pilot scheme trial but doubtless they have ambitions to expand. WRAP of course is a quango so employs dozens of quangocrats with nothing better to than dream up ways of annoying the general public and spending the taxpayers' hard-earned cash.

GORDON BROWN

Following on from my previous remarks about Gordon Brown's request that we should throw away less food I see he is now at the G8 summit. On day 1 the assembled world leaders and their womenfolk attended a 6 course lunch and an 8 course dinner. I don't know how much food was wasted (perhaps some scraps were handed out to the African leaders who had not been invited to the banquet) but this sort of junket is paid for by the very people Gordon is haranguing.