Here's a brand new Disconnector award, for the most laboured joke of the week (number 1 in an occasional series). The great man has no problems nominating Simon Hughes, the Lib Dem shadow energy and climate change secretary.
He was in toe-curling action during a debate on carbon capture and storage in the Commons last week and decided to make a witticism about the government's low-carbon power policy which, as ministers keep stressing, is a three-legged affair involving nuclear, renewables and clean coal. Energy ministers are fond of calling this a trinity.
Not surprisingly, Hughes is not keen on that particular trinity because it includes nuclear.
This was he last week.
"In addition, we have a fantastic opportunity for tidal power. Honourable members have heard me say before that we do not believe nuclear should play a part. We are opposed to the development of the nuclear industry, which is expensive, always late, dangerous, and environmentally far less susceptible to control or influence by the public.
"We can meet our energy needs, provided that we are energy-efficient, with the other mix. Although in faith terms I am a Trinitarian, I am not a Trinitarian with the same trinity that the minister promotes in terms of the fuel mix for the future. Nuclear should not be part of that trinity. Indeed, it makes it an unholy trinity of energy, not a holy one."
Disconnector rests his case. Simon should stick to his day job and forget the idea of a new career as a stand-up comic.
Arf, arf.

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