Unbelievable stupidity, NuLab strikes again

[s2art]

'Nuclear physics is facing a 52% cut in funding that will force British scientists to withdraw from international projects and cancel seven that were planned for the future.

"These out-of-proportion cuts have the potential to kill off the UK skills base in nuclear physics," said Professor Paddy Regan at the University of Surrey.

"How this can be happening at a time of discussions of nuclear new build is incredible. Where does the STFC think the trained manpower that the UK in nuclear physics and associated instrumentation and measurement is going to come from?"'


http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/dec/16/scien...

[JonRB]

I think the thread title is in error. I don't think there is now any level of stupidity that this government is capable of that is unbelievable.

[DieselGriff]

s2art said:

"How this can be happening at a time of discussions of nuclear new build is incredible. Where does the STFC think the trained manpower that the UK in nuclear physics and associated instrumentation and measurement is going to come from?"

Iran I suspect when our glorious leader realises that no one here can do it. All we need are some WMDs

[s2art]

JonRB said:

I think the thread title is in error. I don't think there is now any level of stupidity that this government is capable of that is unbelievable.

Mea Culpa.

[Don]

JonRB said:

I think the thread title is in error. I don't think there is now any level of stupidity that this government is capable of that is unbelievable.

Like Brown announcing doubling the CO2 emissions reduction target for 2020.

Idiot.

He knows he can say whatever he likes as he isn't going to have to deliver.

He will be remembered as being a worse PM than Michael Foot and a the Chancellor that presided over the worst financial disaster this country has ever faced.

I can't believe anyone would vote for the incompetent nitwit or, frankly, anyone in the Party that didn't bother electing him as their leader.

[Crusoe]

Bet there is already a deal for the french to build and run the new plants, sure it will be a PFI kind of deal costing billions...

[Fezant Pluckah]

Don said:

He will be remembered as being a worse PM than Michael Foot

Eh?

[Don]

Fezant Pluckah said:

Don said:

He will be remembered as being a worse PM than Michael Foot

Eh?

Sorry! His name came out. The PMs of the times were Wilson and Callaghan, of course, and I meant Wilson.

[Einion Yrth]

Don said:

Fezant Pluckah said:

Don said:

He will be remembered as being a worse PM than Michael Foot

Eh?

Sorry! His name came out. The PMs of the times were Wilson and Callaghan, of course, and I meant Wilson.

To be fair I think that Michael Foot would have been down there with the worst of them, had he not also been a totally unelectable tramp.

couldn't spell Michael.

Edited by Einion Yrth on Friday 18th December 17:39

[thinfourth2]

Its not stupidity

it is because they hate nuclear

They want to use coal so the miners can finally return to glory

[turbobloke]

Don said:

JonRB said:

I think the thread title is in error. I don't think there is now any level of stupidity that this government is capable of that is unbelievable.

Like Brown announcing doubling the CO2 emissions reduction target for 2020.

Idiot.

He knows he can say whatever he likes as he isn't going to have to deliver.

http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/

Research Director at the TaxPayers Alliance Matthew Sinclair said:

It is absolutely incredible that Gordon Brown is still pledging ever more extreme and expensive emissions cuts on Britain’s behalf. The Government are relying on rapid economic growth to help restore the public finances to health, but meeting such an ambitious target for emissions cuts could require a recession of unprecedented ferocity. Governments shouldn’t sign up to international targets unless they have a serious plan to meet them, and they definitely shouldn’t sign a death warrant for the British economy.

http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/42percent.pdf

Also the Taxpayers' Alliance report that drivers and road users are paying by far the heaviest burden of taxation in relation to green issues whilst public transport users have their CO2 emissions effectively subsidised.

What a surprise!

Don said:

He will be remembered as...the Chancellor that presided over the worst financial disaster this country has ever faced.

I can't believe anyone would vote for the incompetent nitwit...

[cs02rm0]

Is it really incompetence and not malice? Madness.

[Legmaster]

Crusoe said:

Bet there is already a deal for the french to build and run the new plants, sure it will be a PFI kind of deal costing billions...

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