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Ukip MEP Roger Helmer has published a blog post today slamming people who work in the renewable energy sector, and telling them their jobs have no future under Ukip.

Entitled "How would UKIP deal with wind power?”, he says that Ukip would abandon subsidies on all new wind projects and insists that “Every ‘green job’ claimed by the [renewables] industry destroys several value-added jobs in the real economy. The costs of renewables are undermining competitiveness and driving industries, investment and jobs offshore.”

In answer to the question “What message does your party have for the tens of thousands of people currently forging UK careers in renewables?” Helmer replies:

“Your jobs cannot be sustained, and are damaging the economy. Start planning to work in real, value-added industries, not in wasteful projects that are little more than gesture politics.”

The MEP wrote the post in response, he says, to an “on-line trade paper” who wanted to understand “UKIP’s attitude to wind power and other renewables.”

Well, now they know.

Helmer has long been outspoken on the issue, having previously claimed that the Church Of England had “abandoned religious faith entirely and taken up the religion of climate alarmism instead.”

Last week he tweeted during the solar eclipse that the temperature drop proved that the sun drives the planet’s climate.

Helmer has also previously caused controversy when he was a Tory MEP for saying that some rape victims are partly to blame for being attacked.