Candles in the wind...

The green energy policy of the UK’s McBroon Government is blowing in the wind and future generations will finish up paying through the nose for their heat and light with over-50s reverting to candle power and peat logs... All those wind farms on hilltops and wave tops are costing the earth to construct and maintain as, meanwhile, the nuclear option still has many queries as to its future.

McBroon sort of admits “going green” costs more, but denies the bills will be picked up by the British taxpayer, as has been the case with most things he and his Celtic cohorts dream up. Like nationalising banks, railways and much else going broke in badly run Britain.

That is what you get with Socialism. Dreamers, not realists. It’s now the same in Spain where the prime minister Zapatero is a socialist dreamer with no sense of reality about the long term impact of his green policies on Spain and its people.

In the country with 300 days of sunshine a year, he has forsaken solar for wind farms and, like McBroon boasts of being the European leader in this method of power generation. As in the UK, the nuclear option is being downplayed, leaving nuclear leader, France to flog its spare output to both countries when domestic supplies cannot cope.

Both leaders are taking their countries back to a culture of reliance on the state for everything, with the taxpayers and corporate sector picking up the bill for this outdated idealism. Drive from Gibraltar into Spain's windy corner near Tarifa and see the environmental damage caused by serried ranks of giant wind propellers.

It’s a pity they don’t get together and exchange notes. Zap might then tell McBroon of the problems with contrary wind power they both currently subsidise heavily. Like, it doesn’t always blow to match peak output requirements; it’s electricity cannot be stored at times of low demand and it costs far more than nuclear generation.

Luckily both are likely to be relegated permanently to Dream Land next year when their policies are voted on by the electorates of both countries.