Optional Wind

The greenest government ever, which displays few qualms about letting shale-frackers have their way with the countryside, has come over all localist about wind turbines. Wind turbines, of course, are nasty, noisy, dirty things, quite unlike motorways and nuclear power stations and all the other little goodies which the greenest government ever and its oily little chums in the fossil fuel industry like to bestow upon the public. Accordingly, Daveybloke has decided that "it is very important that local voters are taken into account when it comes to windfarms", if not when it comes to much else. Ed Davey (not to be confused with Ed or Davey), the Deputy Conservative doormat at the Department for Energising Climate Change, insisted that the Government is committed to "appropriately sited onshore wind", much as it remains committed to an appropriately owned national health service, an appropriately equitable distribution of legal aid, and appropriately targeted restrictions on the corporate purchase of ministers.