BRITISH Energy

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Ownership or control by a foreign state (it doesn't matter which one), as such, is totally unacceptable.

Together with clean coal, nuclear power offers to secure high-wage, high-skilled, high-status jobs for the working class, and independence from Arab oil and Russian gas. Among many other good things, this would contribute significantly to reversing Thatcher's destruction of the economic base of paternal authority, initially in working-class families and communities, but then very rapidly throughout society as a whole.

How could any conservative object to that? Unless, of course, the nuclear power (or the clean coal) were owned by a foreign state.

So we need public ownership, which is British ownership, since nothing else can deliver what is necessary on the scale that is necessary.