Misunderstanding

When I stumbled across this article, headlined 'LibDems to create 57,000 wind jobs', my first thought was that the LibDems were hiring more staff. Unfortunately, it concerns a 'plan' by young Clegg to create jobs building wind turbines by upgrading disused dockyards.

Then, true to form, we find yet another 'well-sourced' piece of journalism, here.

Err, Clegg & Bell have either not done their research (whats new) or just don't understand the subject they are speaking and writing about (whats new).

Consider these facts:*

Gordon Brown talks airily of building 4,000 offshore turbines by our target date - this would mean sticking two of these 2,000-ton monsters, each the height of Blackpool Tower, into the seabed every day for the next 11 years.

Nowhere in the world has it proved possible to install more than one of them a week. The infrastructure simply isn't there to build more than a fraction of that figure.(Ed: By infrastructure this also includes the vessels capable of carrying out the installation work)

Such are the weather conditions around Britain's coasts that it is only possible to work on these projects for a few months every summer.

Some 'policy' - Eh?

To be fair, Clegg's opponents in the forthcoming general election are also wedded to this stupid idea as all three party leaders are desperately trying to find ways of meeting their orders from Brussels!

*Booker, as a source, is far more reliable than any government minister, politician or, heaven forbid,   any 'moonbat' of an environmentalist!