Sir,
I read the recent letter from members of the Green Party that was published in your paper with complete astonishment. There are so many points to be refuted that I hardly know where to begin.
Given that your paper does not have enough pages to print all that I would like to say to the authors of the letter, I will contain myself to a few key points. The most important being, that in the course of 5 years of meetings and exhibitions throughout the area, not one person from the Green Party made any attempt to discuss the application or to understand the concerns of the residents.
They did not feel the need to come down from their sanctimonious perch to look at the realities of the application to build wind turbines on the Isles. Luckily, Phil Wilson, local councillors and the local press (including the editor of this paper) took the time to talk to us and to look at the details of the proposal. As a result, they made up their own minds on hard facts rather than convoluted ideologies.
It is a shame that members of the Green Party did not feel the need to talk to mere “middle class, noisy inhabitants” as I would have loved to ask them (among other things) how their green credentials allowed them to support a scheme that would have seen the wholesale destruction of precious Carrs land by sinking huge concrete foundations.
Their dismissal of people’s genuine concerns and fears as “moaning and nostalgia” is both patronising and insulting to the people of this community. Their completely ridiculous claims of lost jobs and investment show them to be woefully ill informed.
Susan Fox