Business Green ‘The first shots in what promises to be a brutish election campaign highlight how partisan politics could make the green economy one of the big losers of 2015. It is one of the most widely quoted and possibly apocryphal anecdotes in US political history. In one of his early Congressional campaigns Lyndon Johnson is said to have instructed his staff to let it be known that his opponent had enjoyed carnal relations with a pig. “We can’t do that, it’s not true,” the unfortunate aide protested. To which Johnson replied, “of course it’s not true, but let’s make the son of a bitch deny it”. It might not be quite as scurrilous an allegation, but George Osborne pulled the fiscal equivalent of Johnson’s pig trick today, forcing Labour to deny allegations it is planning £20.7bn of unfunded spending commitments.’ This is a valuable set of observations on the green agenda and to read more go to: