The answer lies in the soil

What on earth is going on? It was banal enough when Ben Goldsmith – English financier and environmentalist – tweeted that ‘overgrazing’ by upland sheep farmers, was responsible for the devastating floods

in South Wales, rather than record-breaking torrential rainfall.

Unbelievably, we now have a government official, Dr Tim Leunig, suggesting the whole of the UK does not need farming, and his comparison of the UK to Singapore in this context is absolutely ludicrous.

You truly have to wonder if there is something in the water that he is drinking – could it be flood contamination?

Surely, every person having a full and functioning set of neurons and synapses, the complete opposite is the truth, as we dearly need our hard-working farming community.

The UK Government should be fully supporting the farming industry and indeed, good land management.

The Welsh Assembly has totally lost its way with its mindless policy of devastating Welsh forests with thousands and thousands – an understatement – of trees being felled for wind farms, and compounding the felony by covering acres of land with very limited electricity generating solar parks.

Wales is not the Sahara and the sun disappears at night! Solar panels will generate about 12 per cent of their maximum capacity in the UK.

Returning to farming, perhaps some kind person should tell Dr Tim Leunig that the answer lies in the soil and then lead him to a darkened and quiet room so he can lie down and contemplate the truth – wise men recognise that truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Dave Haskell, Cardigan.