ROSS CLARK: Ed Miliband's plan to plaster the countryside with solar panels is likely to create more jobs for Uyghur slaves in China than blue collar workers in Britain.
In Ed Miliband's fevered imagination his plan to plaster the countryside with solar panels and wind farms will not only guarantee our national energy security and save us all £300 a year on our energy bills, it will also create thousands of 'well-paid green jobs'.
But the work is less likely to be for blue collar workers beavering away in Britain than for Uyghur slaves in China LARGE numbers of the Uyghur and Kazakh workers within them are not free to leave, with local police withholding their ID cards, which are compulsory for travel in China. That is something to remember next time a government minister marvels at how far the cost of solar panels has fallen in recent years.
Miliband is promising many more projects like this. Labour's manifesto stated that the party wishes to treble solar power in Britain by 2030. That would mean a further 180 square miles of countryside disappearing under solar panels – more than the area of the Isle of Wight. Indeed, a coal plant was opened in the Uyghur region in 2008 specifically to kick off the solar panel industry. If Miliband wants to achieve his dream of genuinely clean energy, that is something else that will have to be addressed.
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