SPREADING THE WORD

Who knows where we'll be in a few months time.

Maybe the Wychavon Planning Committee will have met, listened to Dr Evil's mindless drivel, and decided that a windfarm is a Very Good Thing, fits in with the council's medium- to long-term policies, will do no harm and will probably benefit the area enormously. Job done.

Maybe Wind of Change will have topped 200 blog posts. Who knows?

Maybe the worst of the scum that has infested the area with petty-minded suburban attitudes and nasty, cliquey behaviour will have buggered off to unleash their miserable Daily Mail idiocy on some other poor community. Now wouldn't that be a break?

The fact is, though, we don't know where we'll be. Hopefully, once Wychavon get to grips with the planning issues and have a proper look at the so-called "objections", approximately 80-90 per cent of which seem to have been written by the same fiercely dishonest and self-obsessed individual, they'll tell the nimbies where to get off.

It would be rather nice if Wind of Change could report as much when a key member of our team appears at a major conference on renewables and wind energy later this year.

The invite came because of the work that Wind of Change, along with its many correspondents in the immediate area, has been doing over the past 18 months, exposing the lies, foolishness and stupidity of the VVASP protest group. Naturally, there have been other protests, other anti-windfarm campaigns around the county (they all trade lies, so that even when one group of deranged nutters has been told not to repeat a certain misleading myth, the next group starts spouting the same nonsense), but thanks to Wind of Change, VVASP and its outrageous behaviour has been rather well documented.

Which is partly why the blog was started in the first place. Memories being what they are, a few of us felt that it would be a good idea to have a 'journal' of sorts, publishing the dreadful things that the nimbies have been doing and saying, correcting their barefaced lies, digging up the truth and keeping sane, independent-minded people abreast of the latest move in the nimby war.

Well, maybe it'll all start paying off before too long. Wind of Change (as some of you will know) was approached a few months ago with a request from the British Library to make the blog part of their web archive (so we're part of the national heritage, folks!). Now a member of the team has been invited to tell delegates, over two sessions, what terrible things a certain kind of crazy person does when a windfarm gets mentioned.

Our representative will be able to tell the world just what shameful, shoddy behaviour has followed on from the announcement, in November '08, that SPR were considered a windfarm near Lenchwick. We'll be able to expose the insane lies, the devious tricks, the vicious punishment of those who held true to their own point-of-view, the cowardice, the arrogance, the peer pressure and the herd instinct.

We'll be able to tell the world what happened to our community - not because of the proposed windfarm, but because of some of the real Nazis in our midst who, grasping the opportunity when it presented itself, proceeded to demand that the entire neighbourhood danced to their tune. And we'll be able to expose those who should have known better, but who still fell in with the fascist faction and told lies as loud and stupid as the rest of them. We'll be able to tell the world about those who allowed themselves to be bullied into taking a stand that they knew was wrong, and then started taking it out on those who refused to be cowed.

And we'll be able to tell the world that a few - a good, honest, decent, intelligent few - kept true to themselves, kept their perpsective and kept in mind what really matters: the planet, and future generations.

While everyone around them did everything they could to prove what a hell-hole Middle England really is.