I have to confess I'd not really picked up on the Big Nimby and his quest to show how little sensible people actually care about windfarms but I saw an hilarious twitter exchange in which he showed himself up as an inordinately rude and ignorant sort of person. Even if windfarms were the bane of one's existence one couldn't, in all conscience, possibly vote for such an assinine berk.

Delingpole clearly has time on his hands or he's planning a book else he wouldn't waste his time standing in the by-election. Regardless of his stance on wind farms, he's surely the rudest candidate ever to press electoral flesh. I doubt he'll end up with a single vote.

Nobody has ever died from radiation from wind farms....It's true. They die in Britain from fuel poverty, the highest in the developed world, made worse by the green taxes levied on fuel which mostly impact on the poor. As the government sponsored John Hills report stated. In order to pay for intermittent and insignificant energy providing systems, with excessive land use, built too close to peoples homes.

...Subsidy....A dirty and unsustainable fuel.

You people hiding behind pseudonyms make me sick. You think you can demonize someone from behind the safety of your laughable nicknames. Well to me you are just cowards.

GOOD LUCK JAMES, I HOPE YOU WIN!

James Delingpole is one of the few people with the courage to speak out about the wind farm scam. And huge south sea bubble type scam is certainly is.

Without full time back up from conventional power stations, coal, gas or nuclear we would be sitting in the dark right now with a high pressure system sitting over the UK and virtually no wind at all. SO how is that saving CO2? In fact it is probably increasing it because in order to accommodate these bird chopping, infra-sound emitting machines, sat in tons of polluting concrete we have to build more 'spinning reserve' than we actually need to back up the useless turbines which are sat quietly doing nothing.

SO come on all you detractors, tell me that we can't go on burning fossil fuels! Wind turbines are increasing our use of fossil fuels!

James you would get my vote if I live in your constituency.

Jenny Keal
Mid Wales

Delingpole is a genius masquerading an imbecile.

I don't think that he really believes the absolute drivel that he writes but he's spotted, in climate change, a gap in the market.

There are enough swivel-eyed wingnuts, whose rabid each-man-for himself capitalism is irreconcilable with science, and wind farm NIMBYS (slightly more excusable, although if you go to Germany where they have far more of the things than we do, they complement the landscape, particularly when situated next to motorways or on the outskirts of towns) to justify a newspaper column, book or two and frequent TV appearances confirming their prejudices.

Intelligent people should let Delingpole get on with the moderately successful career he's developed as a result of being the first mid-ranking right wing commentator to work this out . Don't add to his pulling power by getting worked up over his obviously provocative behaviour. His rubbish hasn't converted anyone to the anti-science position on climate change or renewable energy, and even on the barking mad fringes of the Conservative Party (eg the Departments for Justice, the Environment and Education, god help us) he isn't taken remotely seriously.

Considering all the coal this country imports, you would think the Right would want to cut down imports.

I suppose the Right prefer subsidising nuclear, because they never talk about all the public money it gets.

The constituency is Corby & EAST NORTHANTS. Two other wind farms are at different stages of planning. Chelveston has planning permission and Molesworth is at a less advanced stage. (just out of the constituency, but would have a significant impact on a particularly beautiful corner of East Northants) There areothers in the 'offing', they are apparently waiting for the outcome of the Judicial Review into the Duke of Gloucester's Barnwell Manor Wind Farm near Grade 1 Listed Lyveden New Bield.

You could run as a nuclear-free candidate with a view to keeping nukes out of the constituency.