this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

this is just so nakedly a scam, it's a little startling. I feel like if your whole pitch - as it appeared to me - was "we will be like the tories but more competent and less corrupt," then it would behoove you to at least try to appear more competent and less corrupt

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Keir Starmer methodically applies clown makeup, ultimately transforming into a fully-realized Rishi Sunak

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only concretely good thing in here is that the government is going to use it as a cudgel to impose upgrading the UK electrical grid over the objections of pathetic nimbys who value their views of rolling green fields to things like, oo, people managing to heat their homes in winter without going into debt.

If it also means the government putting the boot into local authorities to force them to permit local economic development I’ll take that too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

eh not really? this plan involves commercial SMRs, which don't exist yet.

they've already made it clear they're gonna put in wind/solar over the objections of local NIMBYs, which is one move I'll credit them with

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

the only TBI i knew of before this article was traumatic brain injury

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

and it still is

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Terrible priorities