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Nuclear Power

Asked if the Prime Minister agreed with Alan Johnson about moving to nuclear power without the Government having to pay, the PMOS said Alan Johnson had said what Alan Johnson had said.

Asked if the Prime Minister also agreed with Alan Johnson that the private sector had an appetite for building nuclear power stations, the PMOS replied that again, the expert on this was Alan Johnson, but there was to be a review carried out, and it would look at all aspects of it. What we wanted was a serious debate, and not stunts.

Asked about the costs of dealing with nuclear waste, the PMOS said he was not going to get into the details of the energy debate, as it was precisely what the review was meant to do. The review would look at all aspects of the issue, but what it had to take into account was that there would be an energy gap, and there was a limit to what renewables could do. As things currently stood, there was also the concern of climate change and energy security to consider. It also had to be affordable, and Alan Johnson had set out that case this morning.

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3 Comments »

  1. Someone should publish all relevant information regarding the contributions and political influence the various corporations and lobbying entities have given to Labour, Blair and Blair’s circle, Labour Ministers etc.

    It seems to this reader that almost every policy and directive that would be considered antithetical to the Labour Party’s
    beliefs, has been offered by Blair&Co. with the implicit backing of those who would gain most except the vast majority of the public.

    Start with Iraq and Blair’s links with BP & multinational oil interests, Gaming and Pub industry’s links with Tessa Jowell & husband and Labour Party, PFI’s for NHS and Education and their links to Blair and Labor, and now the Nuclear Industry to Blair & Co.

    None of the above would ever be proposed by an ethical Labour government but they have been adopted by Blair & Co. who have tried to justify these awful policies as for the good of the country. How anyone could even consider Nuclear, considering any mistake could result in a catastrophe for the UK and the world is beyond any rational person’s thinking. When you consider the real costs of Nuclear and the cosmetic pronouncements on the alternatives; it really does ask the question-who has bought off the government and why hasnt the media investigated all financial links by these powerful corporate interests.

    Hope you will or know someone who will be proficient in investigating the possible links.

    Comment by An American in London — 29 Nov 2005 on 5:43 pm | Link
  2. Someone should publish all relevant information regarding the contributions and political influence the various corporations and lobbying entities have given to Labour, Blair and Blair’s circle, Labour Ministers etc.

    It seems to this reader that almost every policy and directive that would be considered antithetical to the Labour Party’s
    beliefs, has been offered by Blair&Co. with the implicit backing of those who would gain most except the vast majority of the public.

    Start with Iraq and Blair’s links with BP & multinational oil interests, Gaming and Pub industry’s links with Tessa Jowell & husband and Labour Party, PFI’s for NHS and Education and their links to Blair and Labor, and now the Nuclear Industry to Blair & Co.

    None of the above would ever be proposed by an ethical Labour government but they have been adopted by Blair & Co. who have tried to justify these awful policies as for the good of the country. How anyone could even consider Nuclear, considering any mistake could result in a catastrophe for the UK and the world is beyond any rational person’s thinking. When you consider the real costs of Nuclear and the cosmetic pronouncements on the alternatives; it really does ask the question-who has bought off the government and why hasnt the media investigated all financial links by these powerful corporate interests.

    Hope you will or know someone who will be proficient in investigating the possible links.

    Comment by An American in London — 29 Nov 2005 on 5:45 pm | Link
  3. This is information that is in the public domain – and no-one has done anything with it yet. That means no-one is going to do anything with it. The same as all the rest of the stuff that the liar Bliar has got away with, so will he carry on filling his pockets and those of his cronies, whilst thumbing his nose and giving us all his infuriatingly punchable grin because he knows there’s not a thing anyone can do about it.

    Don’t believe me? Just think back; he lied this country into a war of aggression, failed to plan for the aftermath, lied about that, continued to lie about the violence that then spread to this day. He laughed his way through the murder of David Kelly and his own involvement, despite his obvious lies at the time. He appointed at least 3 tame enquiries to not investigate his lies and deception over Iraq. He lied and supported the lying "Sir" Ian Bliar through the bullshit of the 7/7 false-flag attacks and all the 90-day internment shit and other attacks on our civil liberties, which was probably the original aim for setting up the 7/7 attacks.

    And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! If ever any man was, in his own eyes (and that’s the most important viewpoint when you have that much power) pretty much above reproach by now, and as totally fireproof as it’s possible to be, then Saint Tony the Liar is that man!

    Besides, who is going to publish it? All the media companies are in the pockets of either the US Neo-Cons or major Defence corporations, which amounts to the same thing. The fact that Saint Tony has reportedly been offered a job by the Carlyle Group should alert every newspaper in the country and have them camped outside Downing Street demanding to know how far back any association with that group and it’s associates goes; surely any links the PM has (or any other MP, for that matter) to ANY beneficiary from government policy should be very carefully looked at. That no-one seems to care should be all the proof we need that the rules we are all supposed to live by apply only to "us" and most certainly not to "them".

    Comment by PapaLazzzaru — 30 Nov 2005 on 2:31 pm | Link

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