All entries for Thursday 29 March 2007
March 29, 2007
The symbolic failure of David Cameron's wind turbine
Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6505807.stm
Apparently David Cameron’s much-heralded wind turbine has had to be removed from his roof after only a week after it was put in the wrong place. According to the Beeb, planning permission was granted only for the turbine to be attached to the chimney, but the contractors were concerned that the structure of the chimney wouldn’t be able to support the turbine. Being cynical and anti-Tory, I’m strongly tempted to see this as a metaphor for Cameron’s environmental policy as a whole; a whirling device supposed to generate power being grafted onto a structure not capable of holding it up.