Cameron – Hardheaded or Dunderheaded

Cameron’s latest spin doctor derived buzzwords are “perfectly hardheaded reasons” to support the wind industry. The Director’s fees that Nick Cleggs wife picks up from her job at a Spanish renewables company and the rent his father-in-law picks up from his wind turbines. One day, my son-in-law, all this will be yours. No, I doubt that is the reason behind his stance. He is between a ROC and a hardplace. EU agreements that his predecessor signed; while he was a bit emotional; has tied the government’s hands to climate change targets which are at one farcicle and impossible to meet. The total output of CO2 from the UK, the majority of which is entirely natural, is eclipsed by the yearly growth in output of China alone. At the same time Cameron makes a statement that “We’re cutting the subsidy to onshore wind because I think it has been over-subsidised and wasteful of public money.” And this mamoth reduction: a mere 10%. So many highly qualified people have been telling him the sums are simply wrong. Why does he not listen? Ten per cent is little more than a flea bite.

Cameron needs to do something about unemployment in the UK and in particular youth unemployment. The renewable industry has seized the opportunity and promises thousands of jobs. The Coalition have grabbed this like a drowning man grabs a lfebuoy. Look at the records. Thousands of turbines already built and virtually no UK jobs created. Oh yes, a few PR consultants, ecologists and environmentalists. Their aquiescance to their masters has brought the term professional into disrepute. The truth is that there is no truth. Planning has bcome a farce and alterations to planning seem not only to be flawed but to favour the developers above the people. Only today, the Moy wind farm application, refused by local planning after a negative report by the planning officer was passed by the government appointed inquiry. And I may say, with undue haste. Mr. Cameron, may I suggest that your limp wristed approach to the renewables industry has done more to destroy democracy than anything else in the last five hundrd years. “The second thing we’re doing is the Localism Act will give local communities a greater say over issues like wind turbines”. Tell that to the people of Strathearn. The Moy wind farm may be  a Scottish problem but we have a fool at the helm whose grasp of economics; he was an economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland; is flawed at best and ignored for political ambition at worst. When will our political masters realise that we put them there and we can remove them. Are they waiting for blood on the streets before they pay any attention to the rural population? So what hard headed reasons does Mr. Cameron believe justifies the destruction of the countryside, the oppression of thousands of rural dwellers, and the siphoning of billions of consumers cash to overseas investors and turbine constructors. That is not hard headed reasons. That is plain and simple stupidity. Someone suggested the other day that you need to do sums, before arithmetic, and arithmetic before mathematics. Obviously many of the coaltition missed out on their sums After the intervention of the 101 ‘Good Men and True’, Mr. Cameron has no excuse that no one has told him. I quote “In these financially straitened times, we think it is unwise to make consumers pay, through taxpayer subsidy, for inefficient and intermittent energy production that typifies onshore wind turbines.”

Mr. Cameron has so far taken no lead on Scottish Independence. Does he wish to be the Prime Minister that oversaw the breakup of the United Kingdom, the final destruction of a once great empire. The Race to Wind in Scotland is driven by Salmon’s dream of an energy empire to rival that of Saudi Arabia. His personal ambition is to not only be the Tom Johnstone of wind but also the first Leader of an Independent Scotland. Financially it doesn’t stack up but it is held together, in his mind, by his renewable industry dreams. At one stroke the Prime Minister could cut the grass beneath Salmond’s feet. In no other european country is energy cross subsidised. The UK consumer would ‘Cry Havoc, let loose the Dogs of War’, if they were expected to continue to subsidise Scotland through the Renewable Obligations. Say now that will not happen and Salmond’s dream crumbles. Even the Renewables Industry has taken that on board as seen by the recent moratorium on investment by SSE. Already the MSPs are fixing the game with a choice between Independence and Devo Plus. By his silence the PM is giving the game away.

It is often said “Cometh the hour, Cometh the Man”. I only hope so soon!

Hardheaded or Dunderheaded? I will leave you to decide!