Come on, chaps, let's not be too dim.
I'll say it again - if you believe what you read in the papers about politics, you have to believe what you read about aviation.
If the Friends of the Hedgehog put up a document it's not untruthful to say the Government is considering it - it's constrained to do so - but it's never going to get within a hundred miles of a Green Paper.
The notion that Treasury has suddenly discovered that there's no duty on fuel, and that Brown would be 'rubbing his little Scottish hands with glee' if only he knew, is specious drivel on a par with the stories of the drunken pilots who wake from their slumbers long enough to push the wrong button before falling asleep again.
To use it as an excuse for a slow-witted rant is uncool.