MAY I respectfully suggest that one of the better resolutions for 2016 would be for us all to lobby our MPs for Government to take a ‘sabbatical’ from the billions spent on overseas aid, using the money instead for meaningful flood defences in the UK – imagine what £12 billion could achieve!

My heart goes out to those poor wretches suffering from flood damage and loss of livelihood – where was the Head of the Environment Agency in their hour of need – sun bathing abroad and shame on our Prime Minister for not demanding he return immediately!

Also, to lobby our MPs for the immediate halt of subsidies for wind generated electricity – if wind energy is all it’s cracked up to be (which it isn’t), then the wind industry will not collapse (which it will) – it is as simple as that, pull the rug from under their feet.

Press for the immediate building of relatively low cost and efficient gas-fired (CCGT) power stations, and demand to know why government is spending large sums of money on dirty back-up diesel (of all things) generators.

Our PM opines the flooding is probably a consequence of climate change (go tell it to the Dutch with their flood defences) and we need windmills and horrendously expensive and potentially dangerous nuclear (fission) power stations to save us all!

To which I say, “Heaven help us all.”

If you wish to know the truth then simply obtain a copy of my recently released book titled, ‘21st Century Electricity’ (ISBN 978-1-78507- 390-8), there is a whole chapter on weather and climate plus much, much more, this is a book the wind industry, power companies and government would prefer you leave on the shelf.

DAVE HASKELL

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