Net Minus Three

Since His Majesty's Government's recent relaxation of the planning restrictions on windfarms was as grudging, belated and incomplete as a standard expression of regret for any offence caused, the results thus far appear to be emanating a bracing miasma of Britishness. Seven applications were submitted in England during the whole of last year, and none of them were new proposals to generate for public use. This represents a decrease from the number of applications submitted in the previous year, when the glistening pink Head Boy's proto-Starmerite backtracking on the green crap in favour of full-on rah-rah for shale fracking (remember that?) was still in place. The only blight in the Britishness is the fact that almost fifty applications were made in Scotland, causing at least one metropolitan élitist to lump that troubled province in with, of all places, the rest of Europe.