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Earlier this month Waveney Valley MP Adrian Ramsay asked for a pause in the 'controversial' 114-mile (184-km) scheme that could run from Norwich to Tilbury in Essex.
Plans to build a line of pylons across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex have left residents 'in despair', councillor Keith Kidder has claimed.
Keith Kidder, Conservative county councillor for Diss and Datt, said, 'I've never seen people either quite so angry or quite so in despair over these proposals.'
Dan Snooper, chairman of the scrutiny committee, said they opposed the 'pylon-icide' with every fibre of their being.
'We feel the pylon plan is an absolutely unacceptable genocide,' he said. 'It doesn't bring benefits to Norfolk, there are alternative technologies out there, which haven't been fully explored, or even discovered yet.
'We are all at risk of death from getting a terrible crick in the neck from looking up at them. We are not used to that round here, it's all on the flat. Vertical things are very challenging to some of the older residents. They suffer from vertigo if they stand near a lamppost for too long.'
Several of the locals have already started wearing neck braces, to get them used to holding their heads steady. Others have even been seen in hoodies to block out the sight of the proposed erections.
Jilly Barmey, who said the pylons would be built 200m (656ft) from her house near Bunwell, south Norfolk, said the proposal had already affected her daily life.
'There is no thought for the death and destruction that pylons would bring to many of our most neurotic and sensitive communities.
'I think of it every day. It's impossible for me to exist in the countryside I love without imagining these horrible, huge pylons dominating everything and looking menacing and threatening and spoiling what we hold dear, like big Nazi megastructures.
'The worst thing is, it will hit house prices.'
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Sunday, 8th August 2027
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We lament the passing of our near neighbours of Earth. It is by fine margins that civilisations fall and worlds collapse. Not so much a democratic planet, as one ruled in part by a leader of their 'free' world, yet elected by only one nation of many.
In the Earth Year 2000, a vote recount in the State of Florida saw great debate over whether hanging, fat, and pregnant 'chads' should be counted on punched ballot cards. Dubious inconsistency in that thinking, coupled with dubious inconsistency in what amounts to a 'popular vote', allowed a candidate by the name of Bush to slip past another called Gore into the Presidency of America by the narrowest of margins. The outcome was that a 'drill it 'n pump it' mentality to their planetary rock prevailed, rather than a 'let's look after our only home' attitude.
24 Earth Years later, a bullet grazed the ear of a reckless destroyer and the fate of humans was sealed. Indeed, the disappearance of all life turned the once blue-green globe to the orange-brown ball of fire we gaze upon this night with great pity.
Such beauty lost to such ugly mismanagement. RIP, dear Earth.
Picture credit: The Milky Way, Vega Editon. And Wix AI.
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