Most of population in favour of wind energy
WHENEVER people start blaming the media it is obvious they have failed.
Apparently, according to Dave Haskell, the BBC is brainwashing us about wind farms (“BBC’s stance on wind farms is a real enigma”, WM letters, September 20). In his view the UK population is made up of morons who simply believe everything auntie tells them.
I know this is treason but could it just be that people are generally OK with turbines spinning, which is why around 75% of us prefer them to fracking or nuclear?
Sadly very few people are in favour of Dave’s solution: magic energy from over the hills rainbow land so he’ll just have to put with turbines for now. Nigel Baker Cardiff is confusing two issues.
The British choice of austerity was a response (mistaken in my view) to the sub prime mortgage crisis in the USA whose tentacles spread contagion around the world’s entire banking system.
With Greece, though, the issue was something rather different. It was caused by excessive sovereign debt after years of economic mismanagement (Varoufakis rather absolves successive Greek governments of responsibility in this), made much more difficult to manage of course because of its membership of the Eurozone which he likens to the old Gold Standard. He himself admits this, stating that Britain had a “lucky escape” by not joining.
Ioannis Oikonomou, a very well respected commentator and expert on the Greek economy, does admit that in managing this Eurozone crisis mistakes were made. He concludes, however, that on balance the response helped rather more than hindering the Greek road to recovery.
This is questionable, I think, and here Mr Roberts may have a point. After all, can one question British austerity as a response to a financial crisis, while at the same time absolving similar actions in the Eurozone?
A more fruitful approach to the Greek problem (and the UK’s) might have been rather more Keynesian; after all, Varoufakis himself is a massive fan of Keynes.
The Euro was as much a political process as economic. The Eurozone