SIR – I see Graham Stuart MP feels the MOD should put us all at increased risk while allowing our most precious economic asset – the landscape – to be destroyed.

Why do small businesses planning turbine development need subsidies when his own Environment Minister is saying they should stand on their own two feet and how much damage is being done to our treasured landscapes?

How many thousands of tourism jobs are going to be destroyed in Yorkshire at a time when we have just been voted Best Tourism Destination In Britain?

Just when David Hockney and Welcome to Yorkshire is making that success worldwide, making people marvel at the very landscapes that is being threatened with industrialisation.

Why should Mr Stuart be speaking out on encouraging turbine proliferation, at a time when the MOD have stated this is causing them problems? These are not just a couple of small turbines, Mr Stuart – you are talking about hundreds in the pipeline and even more with your attempted intervention.

Monstrosities that are described by those with hands in the till as “small” turbines, which in reality are now being submitted as farm turbines up to 86m tall – that’s 280ft high.

Is this your version of Jerusalem – on England’s green and turbined land?

Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire