Privatise the profits, subsidise the losses -the philosophy of a Tory government running out of get rich quick industries to hive off to its friends in big business.
Privatisation has become massively unpopular. The proposed sale of eight nuclear reactors for an estimated £3-3.5 billion is scrapping the bottom of a contaminated barrel.
Michael Hesteltine has
offered us the sweetener of an eight per cent cut in electricity bills -itself an informal levy on the fossil fuel sector. But the real winners have been the boardroom executives and the institutional investors. Profit maximisation will be the prime concern of the money men not safety.
The question of disposal has been deferred for five years, its expense left for future generations to shoulder. The production of nuclear waste and its would be a "would tear our vated as the "best way to defend the union".
Now we have to step up the pressure for an assembly that is actually worth having - one that has the right to determine its own powers, that is democommercial exploitation is big business.
Labour has refused to confront the big questions of nuclear power. It has made no commitment even to phase it out.
Katy Andrews adds:
Three anti-nuclear protesters were arrested at Stratford Station in East London on May 18 for blocking the path of a nuclear waste carrying train.
Trains laden with the nuclear rods from Bradwell in Essex have secretly used the North London and Gospel Oak lines on their way to Sellafield for many years.
The cargoes continually give off radiation - if a container were to break open radioactive material would be widely dispersed.
Two of the demonstrators climbed onto the tracks and sat on the tracks while a third sprayed "Help! Danger!" on the flask carrying the rods. They were arrested and later freed on bail after a demonstration at Forest Gate police station. The case is due to be heard in June. The Nuke train: driven by profit, decorated by protestors What ducts tet sheed Real jobs have been axed in capitalist crisis cratic and representative, the kind of assembly that would allow the Welsh people themselves to decide on their relationship with the British union and the EU.