Good heavens. Now it seems that Green co-leader Adrian Ramsay has forgotten his own party’s raison d’être. Today the MP for Waveney Valley has confirmed he will oppose new electricity pylons in his East Anglian constituency – pylons that would be used to transport, er, green energy from offshore wind farms to the grid. How interesting…
Ramsay first hinted that he was planning to oppose the 100-mile corridor of pylons at the start of the month in a conversation with the Beeb – and today his justification for his decision is that the route is unpopular locally and he’s a ‘constituency MP’ first. It’s certainly not the first time that the Green co-leader has stepped in the way of progress. In 2022, Ramsay opposed the construction of nuclear reactor Sizewell C on the grounds it would take too long to build, branding it an ‘expensive white elephant’. Never mind the fact that that nuclear energy is regarded as being a cleaner source of fuel than that provided by the oil and gas industries the eco-zealots want to get rid of. So much for progressivism, eh?
Carla Denyer, Ramsay’s co-leader and new MP for Bristol Central, defended her colleague’s rather bizarre position when quizzed by Jo Coburn on the BBC yesterday, insisting: ‘My colleague Adrian is challenging particular parts of the route which should be undergrounded in ecologically sensitive areas. He’s helping constituents have their voices heard on the impacts on the local areas.’
Despite Denyer’s desperate defence, Mr S is rather curious about how Ramsay’s ‘populism first, Green second’ will go down with his eco-activist colleagues. Certainly it hasn’t impressed social media users, with one branding Ramsay’s stance ‘ridiculous’, asking: ‘Unless the Green Party are advocating a return to living as a medieval Brit, how else are we going to balance modern life with renewables and energy storage?’ Quite. Another user was a little more forthright, writing: ‘What is the point of the Green Party?’ Mr S would ask the same…
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