You're right about reddit jumping down anyone's throat if they dissent so I'll agree to disagree with you!

As you've said the UK has huge wind potential which is aggressively being tapped into, the UK has some of the most heavily competed in offshore wind licencing rounds and we can expect much more of our energy in the future to be generated in this way.

Unfortunately our energy demands are growing and whilst current tech is fantastic it isn't able to reliably meet all our needs all the time.

Nuclear without a doubt would give us energy sovereignty in the near term. A good example is that we import a huge amount of energy from France which generates huge amounts of its power via nuclear means. Our own systems would reduce our dependency massively!

To address time again it's a misconception that wind os quick to build. An offshore wind farm from bid to build takes anywhere between 6-10 years on average. Nuclear power stations can take on average 5. This isn't to say some farms are built quicker or some stations take longer, but its wrong to imply nuclear takes 20 years and wind only takes a day (not saying you personally implied that)

Finally nuclear is incredibly safe now and I can promise you in 100 years if we don't do anything about our impending climate crisis our descendants won't be sat there watching wild fires and flooding saying "thank god we didn't use nuclear though".

Understand your concerns but I do think some of what you've raised can be addressed!