Cameron's Canute Conservatives

Astonishing to hear the Prime Minister today being urged from the Conservative benches to scrap Governmment investment in alternative off-shore energy sources.

So now Cameron's Conservatives are campaigning to stop off-shore energy farms, as well as those on-shore too.

Come back King Canute!

Public support for wind power is blow for Tory protest...

More than three in four people favour wind turbines - even if they are near their own homes, according to a survey published in this week's Lincolnshire Free Press.

The survey seems to show that Conservative local councils who turn down planning applications for windfarms on principle are out of touch with local opinion.

Personally, I always suspected that the Conservative Party's objections to wind turbines - as voiced by John Hayes, our right-wing MP for South Holland and Deepings - were hot air...

No wind power in my back yard, says Lincs MP

Another member of the Flat Earth Society comes out against wind power. Sir Peter Tapsell, MP for Louth and Horncastle, is apparently against wind farms anywhere in his constituency.