Suburban Chimp - Finance & Social Commentary

So the UK government is pushing ahead with plans to build a new bunch of nuclear power stations, which in my view is simply a way of making the country believe we are actively reducing (the new buzz word on the street) CO2 emissions, whilst investing heavily in a technology that is dangerous and gives a poisonous legacy for our offspring to deal with. Reading on forums there is a big backlash against ‘lentil eating tree huggers’ who have stood up to complain about these new power stations. I wonder why it is that the ill-informed and all the painfully stupid people in the country, always revert to the same old name calling tactics, which make me wonder what is wrong with lentils, or having a positive outlook on trees. Having watched a few programmes on the television as of late, notably Hugh FW’s programme on the treatment of broiler chickens and the attitudes of the people he had to deal with who didn’t seem to care that the chickens were kept in hideous conditions it made me wonder truly what the state of the country is in. This country is filled with really dim people, to say that it’s OK to keep chickens in horrible conditions was OK, because the chickens ‘didn’t know any different’ is missing the point by such a long way that it would be funny if the subject matter wasn’t so dire. What has this got to do with nuclear power? Well, it’s the same mentality taking grip here, the ‘we need power’ let’s leave the small, apparently insignificant issue of disposing of nuclear waste for some other generation to deal with, because we don’t care, because ‘we need power.’ I also loved the argument that we were too dependant on nations such as Russia to provide Gas, the Middle East to provide Oil and we want to generate our own home grown power. Great argument, but where does the fuel for nuclear power stations come from? Well, I tell you what, it’s not the Lake District. It’s Canada and Australia predominately. That’s OK though, because we like Mounties and Aussies, I mean Aussies are great they all work in bars and they are always so chipper, but those Russians and Arabs… well we just don’t know what it is with them. I hate all the spin from Governments who so easily pull the blinkers over the masses in this stupid country, it drives me nuts. Honestly, I’m tempted to emigrate.