HIS MOMENT OF "GLORY"

There may, or may not, be a ludicrous whimper of a fanfare when Dr Rod Stroud, self-appointed King of the Nookies, takes a bundle of protest letters to the offices of Wychavon District Council on 23 July 2010.

Such is the titanic level of self-obsession involved here, it is Stroud himself who will deliver however many identikit letters of lunacy his VVASP stormtroopers can muster. Because, basically, this has been entirely his campaign. He retired to the area and now believes he can stomp about the place telling people what they can and can't do.

If only pensioners like him could find something more sensible and useful to do with their time.

Having spent a year-and-a-half whipping up a frenzy of misunderstanding in the area, VVASP quickly put the brakes on any of their witless membership contacting the planning committee at the District Council. No, this is to be the Rod Stroud Show, so everyone must say exactly what he tells them to say.

In fact, he won't even trust his deranged followers to do that. He's going to supply them all with a letter - the same letter - which they are to sign. So that he can carry a few of them into the council offices (more like wave them about as if he was Chamberlain returning from Berlin).

If the District Council is switched on and alert, it will check every single one of those more or less identical letters to determine whether or not they were sent by real individuals and with the knowledge of those real individuals. A nimby group elsewhere cheated on this, and you have to admit that VVASP (Stroud's rogues) don't have a particularly spotless track record when it comes to telling the truth ...

(There's something else they've been doing which looks like it's about to blow up in their faces, cheers, cheers, cheers - and then we'll all be reminded of just how devious and dishonest they really are!)

Anyway, VVASP reckon that Dr Stroud will be able to march into Wychavon's offices with between 1,000 and 2,000 letters of strangely identical sentiments. Effectively written for them by a solicitor. For whom we who support the windfarm are paying.

It is quite possible that some of those letters will be, shall we say, a little bit dodgy. For a start, what a strangely vague number of protest letters they're expecting. Surely they'd have some idea of how many supporters they've got. Do they not actually know yet how many they think they'll get away with?

Think about it - all those carbon-copy letters, who's going to check whether a few dozen of them weren't actually sent by the people whose names are on them?

And here's another thing -

WHY DO THESE FOOLISH BAR STEWARDS HAVE TO INSIST ON WASTING UPWARDS OF A THOUSAND SHEETS OF PAPER WHEN THERE'S A PERFECTLY ADEQUATE ONLINE COMMENTS PAGE?

WHY ARE THEY SO INTENT ON CAUSING THE MAXIMUM ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE POSSIBLE?

Well, it could be because Rod Stroud wouldn't get his grand moment in the spotlight if everything was done online.

Or because it's more difficult to forge other peoples' "views" when you're not delivering a large number of identical letters.

Or just because, as with the realities of wind power, these bozos just don't get it.

It's all about them, them, them, all the time, isn't it?

Well, even if they do manage 2,000 letters, and even if some of those are genuine, that's still a fraction of the number of households that will benefit from the electricity output, the additional business rates and the Section 106 community payments from Lenchwick Windfarm.