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And do not forget Welfare includes pension, working tax credits and child benefit not just payments to the unemployed, disabled etc.Sarah wrote:Yes to more power stations (lecturing the population on saving energy isn't going to stop the lights going off).
Yes to nuclear power (can't really beat/avoid it).
Don't know about Hinkley Point specifically, it sounds expensive and risky, yet once again there seems to be no Plan B? So the only options might to be agreeing to it, attempting to renegotiate on price and/or the govt replacing the Chinese stake (that's around £7 billion IIRC, a huge investment, although we live in times where almost any amount is dwarfed by the size of the UK's spend on welfare, so it can be increasingly difficult to maintain proper perspective rather than treat public spending as a bottomless pit).
Yes, I knew there was another point bothering me! It seems Hinkley C will be used to generate expensive electricity. Granted, fossil fuels are expensive in other ways (arguably more expensive), but this is still another negative aspect of the Hinkley C question.macliam wrote:one of the beneifits of Nuclear was the supposed "too cheap to meter" cost per unit - and these latest reactors have an agreed cost point way in excess of even green energy production. So it seems to be a bad deal in that way.
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