Tell doctor the answer lies in British soil

WHAT on earth is going on? (pun intended)! 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 electricitygenerating solar parks – Wales is not the Sahara and the sun disappears at night!

Solar panels will generate about 12% of their maximum capacity in the UK.

I have data covering a number of years from a roof-mounted solar panel array and by keeping a daily record – I also have a book available from Amazon, titled 21st Century Electricity, which gives solar data for two sites in Wales.

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 Brithdir, Cardigan