Huhne's Washing Machine the size of Dot Cotton's?

A glourious piece in the Times showing the wonderful delusions of eco-warrior Chris!

Under the headline "Carbon caluclator is the latest tool for keeping up with the neighbours" Chris claims that his Household emissions are lower than those of the Director of Friends of the Earth, Tony Juniper.

All very commendable Chris! Until one looks at the detail...

The Times writes: Household emissions 8.2 tonnes per year (USING ONLY HIS CONSTITUENCY HOUSE, NOT INCLUDING LONDON HOME WHERE HE ACTUALLY LIVES WHILE PLOTTING AGAINT MING)

The Times goes on to say about Huhne: MEMBERS OF HOUSEHOLD 5. USES DISHWASHER FOUR TIMES A WEEK; WASHING MACHINE TWICE A WEEK

So Chris would have us believe that there are 5 people living in his constituency home?
Is Mrs Huhne travelling up and down each day to her job at the DTI?

Assuming a clean top for each one each day is 35 tops, the underwear, and 5 beds needing changing he then expects us mere mortals to believe his house only uses the washing machine twice a week?? The machine must be the size of Dot Cotton's in EastEnders.

Come on Chris whats your carbon footprint when you include your muli million pound main home in Cresent Grove in Clapham? Or the foreign pad?

Don't try and jupe Mr Junniper Chris.

Madly Ambitious

From the Times sketch 22nd June

Just had to share this with you...even the press are starting to catch you out Chris.

"There were hardly any LibDems in the Chamber for Environment Questions and only one of any talent (Vince Cable). Where were they? Perhaps sitting by their phones awaiting a call from the Great Gordo. Chris Huhne, the madly ambitious environment spokesman, had brought his phone with him and switched it on. "Brrring, brrring." It was the only noise in the chamber that mattered. "Answer it! Its Gordon Brown!" cried a Tory. Everyone burst out laughing and Mr Huhne, tingling with the knowledge that everyone recognised the inevitability of such a call, made a great show of silencing his phone. Later he stood up to ask a question about nuclear power. Sir Patrick Cormack, a Tory grandee of almost unparalleled talent, shouted at the Labour front bench "Answer with respect. He may be your boss next week." I thought Chris Huhne was going to die of happiness.

Thanks for stopping by Winchester

Glad to see that Winchester Lib Dems, like hundreds of their fellow colleagues, are regular readers of Huhne-Watch.

After protesting at mail merged letters from the Tories, Huhne must have been upset when Winchester Lib Dem Martin Todd then passed off Huhne’s Guardian column on green issues as his own. After a visit to Huhne Watch, Todd’s minions now seem to have changed their mail-merged news story.

With visitors from more than 10 countries and an unhealthy amount of traffic from Lib Dem HQ, Huhne Watch goes from strength to strength.

Thank god for Oyster

My mate Chris got into a bit of bother a few weeks back. Turns out he had claimed thousands in petrol (yes, eco watchers, petrol) yet virtually nothing on train tickets;

"I'm afraid I managed to lose my rail charge card, or actually it was stolen . . . and I didn't then charge back the subsequent rail travel.'' said Huhne. But in his local paper, the Southern Daily Echo, Huhne offered a rather different story. "I don't always claim back the expenses from rail travel as I travel second class, which is quite cheap,'' he said, making no mention of the stolen card.

So no doubt Chris is now trying to find the card after South West trains announced a rise in off-peak fares by as much as 20 per cent from his Eastleigh constituency to London Waterloo.

"There can be no justification for making off-peak travellers pay so much more when the trains are far from full, and when there is no extra cost to carrying an extra passenger," said Mr Huhne. Well one extra passenger South West could carry is Huhne.

Luckily for Chris there is no need to find the card as all he needs to do to get from his million pound London mansion to Westminster is to top up his Oyster Card.

'Male' Merging

Huhnewatch is drawn to Chris’ latest Guardan article*

Apparently Chris is upset to have received a ‘mail merged letter’ from David Cameron.

In the article “Blue won't be green David Cameron's environmental rhetoric is not reflected in the actions of his party” Chris complains - “David Cameron has once again written urging me to support the Conservative party. His mail-merge letter says attractive things about the need to tackle climate change”

Chris won’t be happy then with Winchester Lib Dem Candidate Martin Todd who seems to have mail merged Huhnes entire article into his website.

http://winld.org.uk/

Next to a picture entitled “Martin Todd and local lib dems choking in Tory pollution (what is it about Winchester Lib Dems and chocking on things) the candidate lifts Huhne’s entire article from the Guardian word for word as the top story on his campaign webpage and not a mention of Chris in sight!

Wonder if the Guardian knows they spend £5000 a year so Chris can write Lib Dem campaigning templates.

Mailmerging. Tut Tut.

*(Register of Members' Interests – Guardian – up to £5000)

Tip Off's fly - 300 stop by

Since the launch of Huhne-Watch less than a week ago we have had 300 visitors.

Huhne-Watch is also greatful to the 3 lib dem workers who have sent in tip-offs.

Tip us off about what Chris is up to.

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Huhne the hypocrite?

Huhne-Watch comes across this from Huffington Post. Well worth a read!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-lewis/britains-liberals-elect-_b_16661.html

These are Huhne-Watch's favs!

"It only got better. Curious about the insider fruits available to a financial columnist who suddenly enters the very market he was reporting on - and interested to learn about his wealth - his former colleagues in the financial world started investigating his investment portfolio. It turned out that on many of the issues he'd spoken out on to court votes among the 73,000 Liberal Party voters - he had a greater depth of understanding than the average politician.

For example, Liberal Democrats concerned about the increasing threat of clandestine surveillance systems - discovered that Huhne was one of the first and biggest investors in a company called Irisys that makes cameras that allow retail stores to discreetly film their customers with thermal imaging. Huhne holds nearly half a million US dollars worth of its stock. Those worried about the exploitation of Third World countries found out that Huhne had over US$100,000 invested in Centamin, a company mining for gold in eastern Egypt and recently in heated dispute with the Egyptian government"