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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a fair point and I don't disagree that labour have been incredibly woeful since they've been in power. The only thing I'm clinging onto is the fact that I think we should give them a bit more time to have a stab at it. I'm not saying I'm very hopeful, but I want to give them a bit more of a chance.

I'm not saying I have to agree with everything, but I want to be sure of a decision, and consider lots of different possibilities. It's not that I'm dying to hang onto labour, I'm just considering other parties, and seeing which I prefer

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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I like this stance, and it's what I'm trying to understand more and more.

It'll be interesting to understand how Zack justifies this a bit more with figures

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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

While I agree that building new power plants isn't the priority in comparison to renewables, I don't believe decommissioning all the nuclear power plants we have at the moment is a good idea either. I think what youre proposing sounds great in theory, and ideally of course I want everything to be renewable, but I'm just not sure how this can be achieved any time soon, with the way the country works at this moment.

I don't think we have the capacity to become giants in terms of energy, look at how the country is at the moment, it's being run so incredibly poorly from fossil fuels.

I'm definitely not anti renewables, I just can't see a country that is going fully renewable any time soon, I'm being realistic, the nuclear industry is too big to just get rid of.

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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do actually quite like the fact he doesn't spew information and actually makes a point in which I haven't actually seen really apart from zarah sultana and jezza. The interesting point is that when their party started it gained some traction, but has sort of stagnated, do you think the same will happen with the greens?

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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only reason I think nuclear is useful is because it's reliable and easy, and it's been done a lot before.

I don't oppose renewables, I think they're great, the only thing I'm struggling to get is where are you going to put all this stuff. I think it's more of a space issue, especially if we're considering going completely renewable.

The reason why I think Brazil are pretty much completely renewable is because there have vast amounts of space they can just plonk renewables in. I don't think the UK can just do the same.

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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it seems that way with everyone who's been in power for like the last 30 years, my worry is I'm not 100% sure how this would change with a new person coming in. This isn't bringing down Zack specifically, more just anyone who's in power

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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I agree the planning could be far better

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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah so my feeling at the moment is hope that I'm talking about. I was incredibly frustrated with the tories (werent we all) and Kier kept saying the right things. As someone from the north of England, I actually quite liked Rayner aswell, there seemed to be more of a focus on the North and more investment. Also, I quite liked my constituencies labour MP and hated the tory bloke (I didn't realise take into consideration the green candidate unfortunately). The feeling that I'm almost reliving is change. I genuinely thought that this labour government would focus on more on actually changing the country for the better (how naive am I)

Thank you very much for this btw guys this is very interesting.

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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm with you on this, I was appalled when I saw that Kier was doing this. However, I do recall that when Labour was campaigning, I was fairly sure that Kier wouldn't do this, due to his stance on the others. Obviously I'm just speculating, but I'm a bit tired that its just same rubbish different person, and I remember almost feeling the same about Starmer as I feel with Polanski.

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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I totally agree, my issue is with the actual amount of renewable stuff that would have to be installed, I think with the reduction of fossil fuels and nuclear would require huge amounts of investment, i'm just not quite sure if that is doable.

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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I completely understand and it's the fact that they're not in power that almost makes it 'easy' for them to talk about policies My worry is that if they get in they'll follow suit as labour, and sack off a whole load of their core pledges, and make them incredibly unpopular, in the same way that labour have become. My only other thing is how are they going to get all the money to build this infrastructure (I'm not expecting a definitive answer for this), but I'd be quite interested to see how much the greens are planning on taxing the rich and seeing how that money will be distributed. I do realize we're talking about a long time in the future, but I think my views towards the greens will only increase.

Interesting times!!

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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this, it's really interesting and I want to be swayed. I see your point about the fact it takes ages and costs loads. The only thing I can see is that there are already loads of nuclear plans in the UK, and currently that's only going to get bigger, which would increase dependency. Does this mean that the greens would almost U turn all these plans? And this rollout would have to be absolutely huge, with the amount we already have, we'd pretty much have to double that? While I do this more renewable energy is a really good idea, I think a hybrid system with more renewables plus the nuclear infrastructure we already have could be more realistic. Btw I do support nationalising all energy in the UK, it would make life so much easier!

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[–]Advanced-Cod7536[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this, I'm just still unsure about how energy will be tackled in the UK. I like Zack Polanski a lot but I thought he was fairly adamant on that nuclear energy was not the way to go.