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10th August 2022, 01:16 PM
#51
Re: Renewable energy
Originally Posted by
vic mcclymont
48, nuclear power plants by foreign governments - wonder why?
Remember now brown sold off the uk nuclear design and build to westinghouse..
and the countries gold...prudence my ass now he wants to tell us how to get out the current gas shortage ......well a jolly good fart from the old windbag should keep us all warm come the winter lol r683532
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10th August 2022, 01:24 PM
#52
Re: Renewable energy
Originally Posted by
vic mcclymont
Louis, check your facts before making wild accusations.
The £350 million is a fact. What wild accusations am I making?
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10th August 2022, 01:34 PM
#53
Re: Renewable energy
NHS receive an extra £34b
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10th August 2022, 06:20 PM
#54
Re: Renewable energy
£34b??? Where did this figure come from?
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10th August 2022, 07:16 PM
#55
Re: Renewable energy
Originally Posted by
vic mcclymont
48, Nuclear power plants by foreign Governments - wonder why?
Remember now Brown sold off the UK nuclear design and build to Westinghouse..
My best mate was a metallurgist working for Clarke Chapman (later taken over by Rolls Royce) who designed the original British nuclear AGR (ADVANCED GAS COOLED REACTOR) I asked him why they eventually went for pressurised water cooled reactors and he told me that the British design was far better and safer than the PWR, but it was too expensive.
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10th August 2022, 07:25 PM
#56
Re: Renewable energy
Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
#46 746 amps Cappy ??? JS
Error there should have said 746 watts .= 1 horse power or it was what I have always thought. JS
correct John
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10th August 2022, 07:54 PM
#57
Re: Renewable energy
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11th August 2022, 05:36 AM
#58
Re: Renewable energy
Originally Posted by
cappy
and the countries gold...prudence my ass now he wants to tell us how to get out the current gas shortage ......well a jolly good fart from the old windbag should keep us all warm come the winter lol r683532
Hi cappy,
Most of us know Gordon Brown sold our gold reserves very cheaply.
I look upon Mr Brown as a rather compassionate person. One must give him credit for saving the banks. He bailed them out by putting millions of public money into them to save them from going bankrupt.
The Americans at first mocked him for doing this, but after a while they too followed suit.
Not only did he save banks in this country, his idea saved banks world wide during the money crisis.
Fouro.
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11th August 2022, 06:10 AM
#59
Re: Renewable energy
As the bill to privatise the water industry in England and Wales was going through parliament, I interviewed Dr Cunningham for a political programme called Agenda transmitted by Television South. Dr Cunningham (now Baron Cunningham of Felling) said it was appalling that a natural resource like water should be put in the hands of people with a profit motive. It was unbelievable, he said, that the provision of such a resource should be subjected to commercial criteria like any other commodity. He thought the ultimate losers would be the public.
Twenty-eight years later, in 2017, opinion polling indicated that 83% of the British public would like to see renationalisation of all water services. In the same year, research by the University of Greenwich suggested that consumers in England were paying £2.3bn more every year for their water and sewerage than they would be if the water companies had remained under state ownership. As the disaster of water privatisation becomes ever clearer, I think Lord Cunningham has every reason to say: “I told you so.”
Last edited by happy daze john in oz; 11th August 2022 at 06:37 AM.
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11th August 2022, 06:24 AM
#60
Re: Renewable energy
Ah fouro but isnt that the truth of politics.....all smoke and mirrors .....w hich makes us ordinary folk have to make our own choice .....which recently of course gives mr bliar mr brown and steer calmer or that party not much chance of being in government for a long long time .....the truth is niether party suits all... the cons suits those who create the income by investment which is what i believe in .....the labour and unions never did anything which helped me in my quest to create my own path of owning something ...but as ist stated we all make our own choice .....but thanks to my own prudence i never had to state to my family .....there is no money left ....such is life ......R683532
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