New Housing and Planning Minister Caroline Flint gave her first speech on environmentally friendly building earlier this week at the EcoBuild conference at Earls Court.
All was going swimmingly for Flint until a question from the floor asked how, whilst trying to renew our depleted stock of affordable housing, she would handle the problem of embedded energy.
"It's a very good question and I don't really know the answer. Its something I'll look into. I mean, I'm not a builder. I'm not an expert in this area," said a sheepish Flint. She then regained some composure and added that her job was to identify "what was the vision and who are the people who can make it happen".
Glad that's cleared up then. It would be terrible to have ministers who didn't have sufficient knowledge in their specialist field and tried to fill the void with business-speak nonsense.
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