Radiohead Singer Yorke Turns Down Climate Meeting With Blair - Guardian

Radiohead star Thom Yorke has revealed that he turned down a meeting with the prime minister to discuss climate change. The singer was asked to visit Downing Street by campaigners last September, in his role as ambassador for environmental group Friends of the Earth.

But he dismissed Tony Blair as a man with "no environmental credentials" and said dealing with Labour spin doctors had made him feel ill.

Explaining why the meeting did not come off, the singer told New Musical Express: "Initially when it came up I tried to be pragmatic. But Blair has no environmental credentials as far as I'm concerned. I came out of that whole period just thinking, I don't want to get involved directly, it's poison. I'll just shout my mouth off from the sidelines."

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He added: "Blair has been uttering nonsense lately about Kyoto and such, real la la stuff ... looks like the American right have finally eaten his mind ... blah blah why on earth would I meet this man?"

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1736526,00.html