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    U-turn on Wind Power

    We must all back Blair to deal with the energy crisis, if Blair is really willing to defy Gordon Brown over wind farms.

    Gordon Brown must have wind farms in order to raise money and hide his financial predicament.

    We have no option at this time, for our future energy requirements, other than nuclear power, but with certain conditions attached.

    First and foremost is a new look at the matter of funding new nuclear power stations.

    New money will be required. Money which does not yet exist. Vast quantities of new money will be needed. Money that will be beyond the wit of Gordon Brown to conjure out of thin air.

    Labour will resort to asking the private banking fraternity to provide the new money as credit. Labour has no other option, according to the very best economic think available.

    But that is untrue and is a myth we have lived with for too long, 300 years in fact.

    Ever since King William ran out of money to pay his soldiers, while fighting the French, bankers have had the right to create and issue new money, under the Tonnage Act of 1694.

    Today, the bankers issue new money as credit, so that they can charge interest for the use of the new money and demand repayment with old-style money. A highly profitable transaction which makes the credit industry, Britain's biggest money earner. The bankers are paid twice for the same issue of credit.

    To obtain new money by this route is bound to cause inflation, which the bankers control with interest rates. If the Government regained its sole right to create and issue new money and broke the bankers monopoly, there are circumstances under which the creation of new money could not be inflationary.

    For example if a power station could claim to create more wealth than it cost to build, then if the money to build were spent wisely and well, new money needed to build the station, would not cause inflation, if created and spent by the Government. Issued as credit by the bankers, new money cannot do other, than contribute to inflation.

    A great deal of rethinking will be required to discover this hidden source of funding.


    Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB