Nuclear setback

The Lib Dems are absolutely and unequivocally opposed to permitting any new nuclear plants to be built. They even decided it would be wrong to extend the life of Hunterston past 2011 to keep the lights on.

Supporting nuclear has been officially described as "illiberal and incompatible with party membership" by the party executive.

Each household already pays an average of 1,243 annually for electricity when it can be supplied, via nuclear, for 300. Ofgem has said it will rise to 2,000.

With the Lib Dems in control of energy it must rise even further. We already have thousands of people dying from fuel poverty every year.

Beyond that, 70 per cent of electricity is non-domestic so that price rise will feed through to everything else we buy, sell or produce, making our economy even more uncompetitive.

Windmills simply cannot provide any part of baseload so we are going to have massive blackouts.

By selling out to the Lib Dems on this and the claim that we are all experiencing "catastrophic global warming", the Conservatives have made it impossible for our economy to permanently get out of recession.

NEIL CRAIG

Woodlands Road

Glasgow