Though a mist of Sunday night whiskey, I spotted this post from last week, over at the Castle

A new survey claims that seven per cent of Americans now qualify as “dark green”, hard core recyclers and carbon footprint worriers. But it is unclear whether some of their behaviour qualifies as eco-leadership or bordering on the obsessive-compulsive.

Carbon footprint worriers? Who the firkin hell are they when they are at home? Is that something like hard core vegans? You know, anemic unhealthy looking individuals who are so anti-meat that they won’t even drive through a village if it has “ham” in its name*.

Dark green? Please form an orderly queue behind the liberals & kiddy fiddlers. Mr Pierrepoint will be with you presently