Green leader opposes green pylon plan

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.