If only. There's people and parties (not in the UK) who would rather see the rest of the country suffer than admit they were wrong, so they feel compelled to die on that hill and take everyone with them, because defending their principle is more important.
Nuclear power was not without accidents and risk, and things are improved, plus there are options for greener nuclear power.
Alas this is a party which cannot in its current form be allowed near power (whatever your position on the Gaza conflict, the "Zionism is racism" motion is grim, callous political insanity), with (for now at least) a leader who is so mindblowingly mediocre, overconfident and overpromoted that really nothing they do will be taken seriously until he is removed.
The Green Party has jumped the shark now that it’s been colonised by these single-issue loons.
How about some useful policies like removing planning constraints for grid expansion and solar farms and compulsory wind farms on golf courses owned by foreign billionaires
For existing nuclear, stealing it from the other grid users is cheaper than building clean power today.
Or.... the full-system economics of renewables may not actually be as good as advocates claim.
Brit here: we need renewables and storage and nuclear.
> compulsory wind farms on golf courses owned by foreign billionaires
We need this x100.
Are they really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_U...
Both Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own Green Parties. There is no single UK Green Party.
What do you mean?
E.g the ex chancellor is now paid handsomely https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/world/europe/schroder-ger...
I believe more recently there was an expose about some other politicians at that time having links to Russia, although don’t have them to hand right now.
Or the panic when the next drones appear near a power plant
The opposition could ally with those parties and end Netanyahu corruption and start the Oct 7 investigation that Netanyahu blocks but they don't.
Explain to us, in light of these very evident and present facts, how Zionism isn't racism. Give us an idea what is going to happen if the Arab citizens part of the Israeli population grows more than the current 20% in regards to "self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland".
It's not.
jmclnx•38m ago
There are aspects of many political parties I agree with, but to me, being against Nuclear Power is the largest short sighted items this and a couple of other parties are/were against.
If many countries took the same road as France, the world would be in a much better place. Imagine the energy advances that could have happened if nuclear was supported for the past 50 years.
mitxela•20m ago
chrismustcode•14m ago
Also France is around 7c (euro) per kwh from nuclear generation. If the whole west was all in on nuclear for last 50 years it would have resulted in lower per kwh costs.
eldaisfish•12m ago
Nuclear doesn't need to be the only source of electricity generation. In fact, it can be the base on top of which a serious country expands electricity generation with renewable energy.
I will also remind you that there is not a single industrialised economy anywhere on earth that has successfully supplied new electricity growth with only renewable energy. Not one.
rjsw•9m ago
tadfisher•2m ago