THERE have recently been a number of letters from supporters of wind turbines. I think it is time a light is shone on this subject.

The Government's rush to wind may be powered by an EU?Directive but it is also the UK establishment in the form of the three main failed parties that have adopted the delusional strategy of trying to plug our looming energy gap by closing large scale power stations and replacing them with 32,000 wind turbines.

The United Kingdom Independence Party believes that the wind strategy is utterly incapable of plugging the 2015-2020 energy gap and in the process will drive millions into fuel poverty to make landowers and power companies richer.

As rejection of planning applications for large scale wind farms rise the industry has adopted a new tactic: selling individual turbines door to door. If each farmer and smallholder in a hamlet is sold a medium size turbine on the 'leave it to me, we'll do all the work and you will get free energy and a nice bonus from the feed-in tariff basis' then pretty soon there is a wind farm.

Our policy is simple. Wind energy cannot be used to provide baseload or despatchable grid electricity because you don't know when the wind will blow. Secondly, wind can never be a serious contributor to our large scale energy needs so we must focus on other technologies to fill the energy gap which will appear from 2015.

We promise that we will be at the forefront of opposition to any efforst to foist turbines upon ordinary working people in the Forest of Dean.

– Fred Miles, UKIP, Cinderford.