Ecological with the Truth

As with clean coal and sustainable uranium, the Government has somewhat overestimated the ecological benefits of a planned development in Staffordshire. The Department for Non-Westminster Affairs claimed in an advertisement that the development would develop on what had been an airfield, but it has emerged that the blight will in fact metastasise mostly across a chunk of open country. Since the factual error was made in a self-confessed advertisement, rather than in a consultation document, the Advertising Standards Authority has been able to uphold a complaint about it. The difference between advertising and consultation being mainly the size of the audience, the Government claimed that "an error had been made in preparing the consultation document, which was repeated in the subsequent ad". The proposed development is called Curborough. I wonder what sly dog thought that one up.