Nick Bent, the aspiring Labour MP for Warrington South, is fighting an utterly shameless campaign, jumping on every half understood populist issue he can find in the town.  

For someone as well educated as Nick it is an embarrassing tactic, though he appears to be utterly unembarrassed to be peddling “the malicious confusion of EfW [Energy from Waste] plants with incinerators [which] has been most misleading to both the public and Government”. 

No not my words, but the words of a report from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, a highly respected independent professional body. Their report clearly explains what Energy from Waste is, how it is controlled to be one of the cleanest forms of energy by European legislation and why it is an essential part of the country’s future energy mix as well as dealing with the problem of waste disposal.The report points out that: 

A garden bonfire or a few fireworks can produce more damaging output than an Energy from Waste plant does in a year.

It is very sad to see that Nick, who has written with religious zeal about “sustainable development”, is prepared to sell his soul for a few votes, by trying to frighten the citizens of Warrington with his talk of incinerators. I hope he is ashamed of himself.