I am really worried that unless Cornwall Council, and South West MPs stand up to the government that we will see the unique Cornish landscape trashed by more wind farms.

I believe it is time that the power that be of Cornwall really studied renewable energy and what will and will not work. If they choose to believe Ed Milliband when he infers that 95 per cent of the region support wind power then Cornwall is doomed, but if they have any credibility they will face down Ed Milliband and the poor solution of wind power.

If we have wind power we will have blackouts, not a secure supply, and we will also have a poor tourist industry. The facts are that wind power is unreliable, it does support a large work force. If you look at the annual power from wind farms across the UK you will see that Cornwall's wind farms perform perhaps two per cent better than the few in Oxfordshire and, in some cases, worse, so to say the South West has exceptional wind resources is not entirely true.

Perhaps Ed Milliband should face down the South East and build a Thames barrage like the proposed Severn barrage.