Um....

Every now and then we come across something that just leaves us speechless and dumbfounded, where no matter how much we think about it we just can't bring ourselves to mouth a coherent response.

I had one of those moments today as I read about a new air service starting today between Cardiff and Anglesey (with a hefty £400,000 subsidy from the Welsh Assembly Government) - a 45-min flight, twice daily on an eighteen-seater aircraft.

The service has been roundly criticised by some political parties, and perhaps obviously groups such as Friends of the Earth Cymru and WWF Cymru for its environmental impact - air travel, of course, being the highest carbon-emitting form of travel that there is. The other criticism is that it will only benefit a miniscule number of people for such a large public subsidy.

The chairman of Anglesey council, a Mr. J.W. Williams, ended up saying that "he sympathised with people who worried about the environmental impact of the service, but said that should be balanced with the fact that it would cut down on car use."

Speechless, I am.