Groucho

No, no smart metering here. I can look after my own energy use, water use & rubbish recycling and carbon footprint by far larger steps without that. I have a much simpler meter that costs nothing. Its called The Bill. Which I pay out of my inadequately indexed pension. I do have a good BS meter installed, though. Since taking the time "to get it right" (=another year passed) resulting in "decisive leadership" (=ignore all inconvenient advice) over which the governement "will not apologise for taking the hard decision" (=picked the lowest concievable target above do sod all), let me tell you something. You know what? Whatever advisers within or outside Federal Depts come up with, on any topic, it'll just be another heap of paper that disappears in to the Prime Ministerial suite for some glacial age. From whence it will much later emerge, tawdrily dressed up by a turgid and prolix speech, yet still detectable on the BS Meter as political smart aleckery aimed for the electoral booth in 2010, and not for the general good at all. Tell the Minister that.