Sizewell C: Just The Latest Nuclear Scam ~ Jonathon Porritt
Whatever chaos unfolds between today (Thursday) and tomorrow, Boris Johnson is apparently still planning to confirm his Government’s commitment to a new nuclear power station at Sizewell tomorrow. As we all know, Johnson’s default political tactic is to lie, regardless of which particular issue or crisis he’s having to address. For those who’ve made something of a labour of love tracking Johnsonian mendacity, watch out for this latest nuclear nonsense tomorrow – it’s absolutely guaranteed to be brim-full of outright lies, half-truths, omissions and rhetorical boosterism of the kind that has made him (probably!) the least trustworthy politician in the world apart from Vladimir Putin.
On this occasion, that’s simply because this whole ‘nuclear renaissance’ story is one great big scam from start to finish. If I could count the ways, anticipating the lying drivel that will be emerging from the BEIS press release …
[1] ‘With Putin on the march, gas prices still surging, and energy security the key priority, new nuclear is a critical response to those pressures.’
Total tosh.
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