A Glowing Achievement

Britain's Head Boy has been having a bit of a burble about how jolly it is to be building radioactive white elephants just when everyone else, with the possible exceptions of Iran and North Korea, has decided to stop. Surprisingly enough, the Deputy Conservative doormat at the Ministry for Freezing Energy Consumers, Ed Davey, was in agreement, proclaiming that bills would fall by more than £75 over the next seventeen years and that the lights would be kept on despite the Milibeing's fiendish efforts. Naturally, the taxpayer will have to invest a certain amount in order for this dream to materialise, and the greenest government ever has kindly agreed to tear up one of the few remaining fragments of the coalition agreement in order to let the taxpayer subsidise some foreign companies for the next few decades. It is true that a few small details remain to be ironed out, like where the toxic waste is going to go; but the reactor itself will be the requisite safe distance from Westminster, and Lynton Crosby's chums in the shale-fracking industry will soon be digging holes all over the provinces, so doubtless something convenient will suggest itself once the Bristol Channel is full up.