AH, DIDDUMS ...

Is it the power of 'Wind of Change'? After many months of holding fund-raisers in the guise of village events, VVASP is finally coming clean about its activities. A bingo night in Harvington is now advertised in the local press as a VVASP fundraiser.

Okay, so what they're doing is still profoundly stupid and inconsiderate, but at least their owning up to the fact that they're doing it.

The organisers of the lastest bingo night (one of those bingo nights where, whenever somebody shouts 'House!', somebody else lodges an objection on the grounds that it might block their view) have explained why they're trying to raise money for the daleks of VVASP. Apparently, they believe that their 'quality of life' will be ruined if the Lenchwick Windfarm goes ahead, because lorries will go through Harvington.

Ah, poor things! And how awful of someone to build a road there in the first place!! Whatever were they thinking?

Of course, like all the other nonsensical excuses for opposition to the windfarm, the 'lorries going through Harvington' shock-horror expose is another fig-leaf. What's really at stake is ignorance, arrogance, intolerance, self-delusion and all the other nimby virtues.

Besides which, how many lorries are really likely to be going through Harvington? And for how long? Realistically - even if ScottishPower Renewables do direct their construction traffic through Harvington (is that the likeliest approach?) - they'd be looking at a few short weeks, and not very many lorries. After that, the turbines will be working for twenty-five years or so, with hardly a lorry to be seen.

So, what's the problem? Why go to all the trouble of poncing money off your neighbours over something that hardly anybody's going to notice?

It's all down to that dishonest nookie tendency again, isn't it? Somebody has suggested something for the locality and a few jumped up little Hitlers don't want it. So they'll lie, and lie, and lie, and lie, and lie - and take your money - and lie, and lie, and lie again about it.

Maybe they should read The Economist. Energy shortages within the next few years, anyone? Energy bills rising by 60% within the decade?

Oh, but of course what really matters is a few morons living in rural areas don't have to hear a lorry or see a turbine - nothing else matters at all, does it?

Idiots.