Member

My plea to the Government is this: if they persist in covering our precious countryside in solar panels, for goodness’ sake let us use British-produced ones and not ones produced by slave labour. There are some ludicrous calls from some people and organisations that we should make reparations for the slave trade of more than 250 years ago, even though we took the lead to stop it. This Bill has some amendments to it in later groups that would protect our cultural heritage in the countryside. Would not it be appalling to look out over England in 10 years’ time and see millions of solar panels, knowing that two out of three of them in our once green and pleasant land that was now under these things were made by slave labour? I do not want that to be part of my cultural heritage in this country. We cannot correct the injustices of 200 years ago, but we can stop them from being repeated.