Ken Turn the Lights Out!

Recently my electricity supplier sent me a useful if thoroughly boring leaflet on how to save energy, this included such gripping suggestions as turning my heating down by a few degrees, not using the standby switch on my TV,not boiling a full kettle of water for one cup of tea and switching off lights etc etc. Now this is all very worthy stuff and as Vanity Fair urges us this month to go green I thought I should start doing my bit to cut emmissions and conserve energy.

So first things first I flip off the un-needed lights....thats odd the room is still light. Why? Well as I look out of the window I see the Gherkin, The Nat West Tower and several other city landmarks and it strikes me, it's 10pm and every bloody light is on in every bloody building! Now maybe I'm wrong but surely turning every light off in london after the workers go home is going to save just a little bit more energy than me only boiling half a kettle!


I know Londons skyline is real purtty after dark but isnt it time we put the enviroment first? Maybe Ken livingstomne would like to start by fining companies that leave their lights on all night? Not only could we conserve a lot of energy but we might actually stop the birds in my area singing at 2am because the light polllution is so bad it doesnt ever get properly dark!