Brown's low carbon building programme is a scam

In April 2006, Gordon Brown, trying to show off and flex his "green credentials" introduced business grants through the Department of Trade and Industry called the Low Carbon Building Programme. Our ever so green Chancellor allocated £18 million for the programme which sounds quite impressive.

However, since its introduction, of the 97 busines grant applications submitted none have been awarded grants. That's zero, nada, zilch. There isn't really much more to say about it really. The figures speak for themselves. Another Brown green policy behind which lies quite literally nothing but words.

UPDATE: When it comes household domestic grants, they've managed to dish out just £1.6m of the money that has been allocated up to 2008. Something tells me the supposed £18m allocation from Brown is actually a pie in the sky figure.