“Yes please, we’d love you to shit on our doorsteps for the next 20,000 years!”
Just when you thought we needed no further evidence that the Labour government is entirely composed of dangerous lunatics, it is now inviting communities in the UK to volunteer to host a radioactive waste dump.
Local authorities are being urged (not told, so it’s optional) to consult widely before coming forward—which, coming from Labour, with its track record on manipulating public consultations, is like a criminal mastermind telling us all not to commit crimes—and those who do come forward may (not will) win financial support (bribes).
Presumably that financial support could be used when it all goes tits-up to protect the population from mutant hordes of three-armed, five-eyed mutant babies with sharp teeth and an insatiable hunger for human flesh. But any town, village or city near which this one big dump is to be built can at least look forward to the real possibility of ending up with cutesy three-eyed fishes just like they have in The Simpsons. Plus the need for high security and health checks in the area for millennia.
“The government, along with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, will be looking to sit down and discuss, with any community that feels it has an interest, both the technical aspects and the wider social, economic and environmental issues involved,” Environment Secretary Hilary Benn told MPs. “Ultimately, for the process to succeed, a mutually acceptable agreement will need to be reached.”
Bollocks. He might be Tony Benn’s son, but he’s New Labour through-and-through. So you can expect the discussion to lead nowhere other than where the government wants it to go. And, of course, those of us who oppose nuclear power are maligned as simple, ignorant, woefully misinformed social deviants who want to drag everyone back to using flint tools and rubbing sticks together to make fire.
“In the surreal world of Labour’s nuclear obsession, waste dumps are now being presented as an economic opportunity,” said the Scottish National Party’s Westminster energy spokesperson, Mike Weir. “A nuclear dump will require exceptional levels of security for thousands of years. What sort of blight and legacy is that for a local community?”
Given the fact that communities already fight long and hard against the imposition of mobile phone masts and wind turbines being erected near their homes, and have even been known to kick off about new housing developments, mosques and retail parks, then surely everyone except New Labour politicians can see trouble lies ahead? Any local authority daring to put itself forward for nuclear waste to be dumped on its territory can be assured that its elected leaders will not remain in power for long.They will certainly have a shorter shelf-life than uranium or plutonium, although their greed is, without a doubt, almost as toxic to the wider population.
While it is true that far too many people have bought into the distorted arguments put forward in favour of expanding our nuclear power stations, namely centred around dwindling fossil fuels and global warming, it is also true that the British people are supremely hypocritical (sorry, but as a nation, we are) in supporting nuclear power but not wanting it on our own doorsteps.
Anywhere but here, that’s always the mantra. And so, logically, the only way Labour can drag us any further down this disastrous road is by promising to drop nuclear waste either on the heads of our perceived enemies in far-off lands, or by burying it at the bottom of the North Sea—where, it is wrongly believed, because we won’t be able to see it or walk over it, nothing bad will happen as a consequence.
Just tell that to the fishes when they’ve got more eyes than they actually need.
tags: fossil fuels, global warming, nuclear power, nuclear waste, public consultations, radioactivity, waste management
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