Blog post by Donald Worsley, Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Folkestone and Hythe.

Ed Miliband’s decision to rule out a new Nuclear Power Plant for Dungeness is to be deeply regretted and one with which I fundamentally disagree.

A new Plant at Dungeness would have secured more than 4000 jobs for Lydd and surrounding villages. Now their future as viable communities must be very much in doubt.

Wind Farms and Nature Reserves are all well and good in protecting the environment but they abjectly fail to protect jobs or create apprenticeships in an area desperately in need of new industry and commerce to alleviate it’s high youth unemployment.

While Kent County Council patently fails to invest in local infrastructure projects and Shepway District Council continues to oppose the expansion of Lydd Airport this latest decision on Dungeness is a real hammer blow to the future of thousands of households across Romney Marsh.

The wild beauty and serenity of the Marsh deserve our protection for generations to come but so do the communities and people who give the Marsh it’s vitality and diversity. Today’s decision threatens that vitality and diversity for it’s inevitable consequence will be a yet a further decline in the area’s economic fortunes so much so that in years to come the only people who will be able afford to live across the Marsh will be the very rich, the retired or the long term unemployed on benefits.

Protecting the environment is an admirable goal but not if it destroys communities in the process.

Donald Worsley is the Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Folkestone and Hythe. He can be reached at donaldrussellw@btinternet.com

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are not necessarily the opinions of The Romney Marsh Times or its owners and we assume no responsibility for such content.

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Dungeness decision to be deeply regretted

Blog post by Donald Worsley, Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Folkestone and Hythe.

Ed Miliband’s decision to rule out a new Nuclear Power Plant for Dungeness is to be deeply regretted and one with which I fundamentally disagree.

A new Plant at Dungeness would have secured more than 4000 jobs for Lydd and surrounding villages. Now their future as viable communities must be very much in doubt.

Wind Farms and Nature Reserves are all well and good in protecting the environment but they abjectly fail to protect jobs or create apprenticeships in an area desperately in need of new industry and commerce to alleviate it’s high youth unemployment.

While Kent County Council patently fails to invest in local infrastructure projects and Shepway District Council continues to oppose the expansion of Lydd Airport this latest decision on Dungeness is a real hammer blow to the future of thousands of households across Romney Marsh.

The wild beauty and serenity of the Marsh deserve our protection for generations to come but so do the communities and people who give the Marsh it’s vitality and diversity. Today’s decision threatens that vitality and diversity for it’s inevitable consequence will be a yet a further decline in the area’s economic fortunes so much so that in years to come the only people who will be able afford to live across the Marsh will be the very rich, the retired or the long term unemployed on benefits.

Protecting the environment is an admirable goal but not if it destroys communities in the process.

Donald Worsley is the Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Folkestone and Hythe. He can be reached at donaldrussellw@btinternet.com

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are not necessarily the opinions of The Romney Marsh Times or its owners and we assume no responsibility for such content.