Are we back to using this thread? What's going on with the 2024-2029 one?
Westminster Politics 2024-2029
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The binary one hijacked this to have another go at Brown, Darling, and many other people not responsible for the ‘08 crash, blaming them for the ‘08 crash and all of the I’ll throughout the Tories’s 14yrs in power.
And a lot of us didn't even notice it was in the old thread, by the looks of things. I certainly didn't. But then again, the current government are just a continuation of the old one, so maybe we were being far too optimistic creating the new thread.
Nuclear power will be used, otherwise forget our economic survival. The only other abundant precious energy source in the UK (in necessary quantities) is the coal left underground when the Pits closed.... "if you cannot get it out of the ground economically, leave it where it is, it will become viable one day...." Michael Edwards 1979.... of course he had not heard of climate change!
AI.... nobody knows what enlightenment or terrors it will bring, but we have to be 'in the game'.
How do the economics of spending £20bn and over a decade on building each new plant, without the people, knowledge or skills in this country to do so - in another reply you bemoaned the lack of such in the house building sector, which is far easier - and then committing to pay double the average per kWh for another 20 years do anything but ensure our financial ruin?
And we should spend billions more on AI without a plan as to why or how it will be used just because it exists or for fear of others doing it without us? I reckon could get a job in this government without any problem whatsoever.
Any newspaper that sees private school subsidies as a major priority instead of little things like poverty, probably.
Absolutely.
No different to the last 14 years of Your rule, don't you think?
How do they hate landlords?
This type of behaviour is what will cost them the election… to Reform(!)
Andrew Gwynne is married to Allison Gwynne. So that's an entire household suspended.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...office-citizenship-refugees-dangerous-journey
All they want is for progressive groups to get angry so they can promote the anger. Disgusting.
Nail on the head. They're seen people don't believe their efforts on immigration so they're going to go hard on the easiest target until they do. Isn't it lovely to have a government that will implement policy they don't believe in just to make daily mail headlines.
Meanwhile they refuse to set an immigration limit or any kind of guidelines on beneficial immigration and they then wonder why the right get to set the story. Just kick the refugees that'll do.
Badenoch is just having an absolute shocker of a PMQs. She’s so out of her depth it’s unreal.
She is such a gift to labour.
With the population explosion already upon us and increasing per annum, then new nuclear power plants will be required to service the new towns, housing estates, also new sewage plants,(when these are wrestled back from the Water Companies)new street lighting, heat pumps, etc.
Housing and power plants will need to be built in tandem, requires commitment of lots of regular investment money for well over a generation, this has to be generated via a massively improved economy.
AI is one way forward... yes, old jobs will go, but then new ones will be created. Developing all areas of Education (especially primary and tertiary sector) is also important to ensure the basic knowledge to survive is imparted to children as soon as possible (primary) that those about to enter the economy are skilled enough to do so (tertiary).
The above has to happen whether via Labour or whatever government is in power. For my part rather it were Labour
(* Too old for a job with Starmer, (or anybody!!) otherwise would have my CV in already)
And to Reform by the looks of it.
Sadly, I don't think a politician's ability has any bearing on anything anymore.
What is the reason for this other than cruelty for the sake of it?
She walked into that one.
My expectations for this Labour government were low, but holy feck. The only demographic they seem to care about are the loony kippers (who will never, ever vote Labour) while they’re going out of their way to piss off everyone else. It’s like they’re seeing what’s happening in America and thinking ‘now how can see engineer a far right takeover in this country too?’
Deeply evil
Sir Human Rights Lawyer :handsup:
Exactly. This helps nobody. They need to provide an actual alternative instead of ushering fascism into power.
Starmer is a racist Zionist cnut.
If Starmer's brief was to destroy the Labour party, he's done a fantastic job.
He’s such a fecking ghoul
No he isn’t.
He’s a shameless opportunist that believes in nothing.
Absolutely. He really does seem like a Tory plant.
From 2017
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He’s such a fecking turncoat.
Corrupt, he's utterly, completely corrupt, in a way even boris johnson was not.
He hasn;t changed his mind on this, like he hasn't on green energy or anything else. He is just being paid to not oppose stuff, by very rich people.
Yes, I'm aware we need energy. I work in the energy industry now. My point is that nuclear is the worst, most expensive option and the longest to go from planning to online, taking over a decade, with the costs usually doubling in that time.
Would that still be the case if the UK ordered the RR SMR ?
Starmer isn't a racist he just thinks human rights don't apply to brown people.
Because for Labour it’s bad news and will impact them in the polls / in future by-elections and elections. Considering the subject matter, how can that not be ironic that Reform will benefit from it?
Given we've never built one, almost certainly yes. Add the inevitable local opposition like we saw with cracking sites and are seeing with solar farms, and it would easily take a decade till the plan turned into a reality.
We also don't have the skills here in the workforce, so we'd have to involve France or China or Korea, who have plenty of their own projects to work on.
RR SMR is British technology, created and built in the UK, not sure where France or China come in to play - https://www.rolls-royce-smr.com/ - if this is to be believed it's way ahead of it's European counterparts