Radiating Confidence

The Minister for Corporate Pandering has pointed out the necessity of doing "everything we can to remove any remaining barriers and open up the UK as the most attractive place in the world to invest in nuclear power". Barriers include the designation of sites as being at risk of flooding or "environmentally protected"; fortunately, the Minister believes that such petty obstacles could be circumvented should the nuclear industry find it convenient to do so. Nuclear power is "an essential part of our future energy mix" because "it will help wean us off our dependency on oil", thanks to the virtually unlimited stocks of clean, safe uranium in the British Isles, "and protect us against the politicisation of energy supplies"; a fanatical belief in the necessity of private profit through public subsidy and enthusiastic poisoning being self-evidently not a political position.