Suburban Chimp - Finance & Social Commentary

Seems like the government is pushing forward with their inane belief that nuclear power is the way to go, with the news that British Energy has named eight potential sites for the ‘latest’ experimental nuclear power stations. This is a typical move of a government obsessed with pulling the wool over the electorates eyes, spouting stories that nuclear power is ‘clean’ and the best and ‘only’ way to reduce carbon emissions in the UK.

Friends of the Earth have dubbed the plans ‘crazy’ and I for one agree wholeheartedly. I’m sick of these mad scientists who take short cuts to temporarily solve problems. Basically what the government is doing is solving one problem of generating power in the short term by building these monstrous carbuncles, whilst creating dreadful, poisonous monuments of our millennia. The ancient Egyptians gave us the Pyramids, in thousands of years time all people may remember is that Tony Blair and the ex-sidekick, now PM Gordon Bennett Brown is repeating the mistake of building these things in the first place by coming up with the idea it would be good plan to build another bunch. You wonder how these people manage to sleep at night.

It is so much easier to waste billion of pounds of tax payers money building a new generation of nuclear power stations and waste even more money trying to work out what to do with the waste, (send it to developing countries and conveniently forget about it), than work out a sensible strategy for renewables. Frankly, building the odd wind turbine here and there isn’t really going to cut it.

What scares me is how straight away we’re told that it is going to be perfectly safe to build these things on the coast as sea defences can be created to hinder the impact of climate change. Great, so not only have they given up on the whole climate change issue, they are claiming they now know how bad it is going to be. Frankly anytime a mad scientists claims to know what is going to happen in the future, I start to worry, because these people do not know what they are going to have for their tea let alone anything else.

So, three cheers to British Energy and Gordon Bennett Brown.