Stating The Case

The Unconservatives do not want nuclear power if public money is involved. Without a conservative or a Tory bone in their bodies, they have no concept of the State as existing in order to guarantee the proper jobs that ground proper communities, or the economic basis of paternal authority, or the national sovereignty that is energy independence, or the Commonwealth ties on which our uranium supply depends, or the freedom to stay out of wars over other people's oil or gas. Community spirit, family values, national sovereignty, the Commonwealth, and a realistic foreign policy in which defence is only ever precisely that, are utterly alien to their unconservative, un-Tory nature.

Meanwhile, the Lib Dems do not want nuclear power at all, for reasons of Green superstition. Alas, much of what little remains of the Labour Party is also like that, as well as retaining an understandable but, frankly, anachronistic bitterness about the use of nuclear power to destroy the coal industry, rather than recognising that the arguments for both are largely identical. Several of the unions are more sensible, however.

In which case, have they considered funding candidates, of any party or none, who shared that approach? We now have five years to recreate a political movement in that vein. Some of us are getting to it. As more than once of old, will the unions? If not, why not?