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Alright, look. This isn’t going to be the most profound insight you’ve had into the election or the politics of climate change and carbon reduction. I’ve been sick with a head cold all week so you’re getting heavily medicated Matt here. But there’s a point I want to make about Elizabeth May’s photoshopped coffee cup, and I’ll make up for my limited ambition by keeping it brief.

The point, basically, is that this is the most hilarious encapsulation of the (unavoidable!) hypocrisy of climate-change-focused politicians I’ve yet seen.

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If you haven’t followed the story, a photograph of May, the Green party leader, was digitally altered by the party to hide the fact that May was drinking coffee (or maybe tea!) from a disposable, single-use cup. The disposable cup was replaced by a reusable mug bearing the Green party logo with a metal, reusable straw. When someone noticed that the photo had been doctored, the Greens explained that they just wanted to sneak in the party’s logo — branding and all that. They insisted that the original photo showed May using a reusable mug. As noted above, that’s flatly false. So not only has the party altered the original image, they lied about the alterations.