how would you run the country

Andy_L

patman99 wrote: »

[*]Withdraw funding for nuclear energy and divert it into thorium reaction development.

Isn't that something of a contradiction in terms

antrobus

Andy_L wrote: »

Isn't that something of a contradiction in terms

There is no 'something' about it. Thorium is simply just an alternative to uranium in terms of powering a nuclear reactor.

Here is a long explanation.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Current-and-Future-Generation/Thorium/

antrobus

patman99 wrote: »

....Zero-VAT rate all insurance policies and make it compulsory for every household in LA property to have both buildings and contents insurance.....

Insurance transactions are exempt from VAT.

patman99 wrote: »

....Index link State Pensions....

Already done. Triple Lock.

Andy_L

antrobus wrote: »

There is no 'something' about it.

I was being polite (I'm giving it a try...I don't think its really working out for me;))

zagubov

Nationalise crime so it stops being profitable.
Tax inefficiency and waste.
Extend the London Underground to all cities.
Move the X factor to its sinister second phase by filming people doing their jobs and letting the public vote them out one by one.

kabayiri

Forget building our own Nuclear reactors and just buy a couple of existing French ones. Run a bit more cable across the channel. Job done.

This approach carries a number of advantages :
a) the reactors would be in France if we had a leak
b) we can have them now
c) did I mention they would be located in France?

Liverlad67

Let us bring back Oliver Cromwell for starters he seemed to do a good job last time.

cells

kabayiri wrote: »

Forget building our own Nuclear reactors and just buy a couple of existing French ones. Run a bit more cable across the channel. Job done.

This approach carries a number of advantages :
a) the reactors would be in France if we had a leak
b) we can have them now
c) did I mention they would be located in France?

No good for the balance of trade or security

Would hit us for about £10B a year extra better to just keep using coal and gas

Its all a shame the uk was first in civil nuclear and even had a fairly good AGR design after the first few crappy ones but wasn't abke to get any krdera and couldn't ramp up volume. Sizewel B was also a sucess built on time and budget. Ap1000s would probably be wiser. About 20 of em. They are actually a derivative of Sizewell B afaik.

as for the accidents and risks they are as close to zero risk as anyrhing humanly possible ban everything else first

cells

Introduce mandatory 4 children per women by age 30

Have a nice exponential population boom.

See what the holding capacity of earth is

my guess ~ 1 trillion humans

Andy_L

kabayiri wrote: »

Forget building our own Nuclear reactors and just buy a couple of existing French ones. Run a bit more cable across the channel. Job done.

This approach carries a number of advantages :
a) the reactors would be in France if we had a leak
b) we can have them now
c) did I mention they would be located in France?

Isn't that effectively what we do by buying loads of French generated electricity from EDF