UK: When Thom met Ken

KL:…The people in the Department of Energy have done everything possible to block decentralised power. Dear old Malcolm Wicks [the energy minister] wants us all off his back, but they are totally and utterly hostile. I almost persuaded Margaret Beckett, when she was at Defra, to devolve London’s recycling to me. The moment she moved, and Miliband moved in, they didn’t want to know. There were three key civil servants who were completely committed to incineration, like a religious faith, [they] turned the whole thing round.
Guardian