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[dsc]

The full new state pension is £185.15 per week with pension credit as £14.48

Lots of old people are going back to work until they are no longer mobile.

Wearing 15 layers of clothing in unheated mold infested properties and cooking on an open fire will be the new norm. Talk about discontent :/

[Lance]

Do we produce our own uranium or would we still end up relying on someone for that though?

We don't need it.
We have all the world's waste Plutonium for 'reprocessing'. We are very wealthy in that regard.

UK plutonium stockpile is 'energy in the bank' - BBC News

[SueEllen]

Now imagine being on a perm salary of £1500 and having to fork out £500 on your energy bill in a few months time...this is sadly the reality most people are going to have to face.

The full new state pension is £185.15 per week with pension credit as £14.48

Lots of old people are going back to work until they are no longer mobile.

[SueEllen]

if only the potential candidates were as good as that. They are starting to make Corbyn look good

Oh feck they have to a choose a chancellor out of the present lot of Tory MPs....

[WTFH]

At the moment

We could always get deposits of uranium from Russia, if our government falls out of favour with them.

[jamesbrown]

Deposits in the UK are not economically viable

At the moment

[Zigenare]

Yes true, they laughed back then though when people said they shouldn't be so reliant on RU gas, so fully their own fault (also the reason why they didn't want to annoy RU by supplying weapons to Ukraine hoping RU wouldn't chop their gas supply). Still they are where they are now and it will have huge implications on Europe overall.

As for the UK, it's also not in a great position as they have very little storage capacity and increasing market prices are hitting them the same way it's hitting every other country. Apparently in London data centres are pulling so much juice that there's not much left for anyone else :/

Now imagine being on a perm salary of £1500 and having to fork out £500 on your energy bill in a few months time...this is sadly the reality most people are going to have to face.

I genuinely don't know how some people are going to cope.

[dsc]

Germany was warned about their reliance on Gas imports when they announced they were closing their nuclear plants.

Yes true, they laughed back then though when people said they shouldn't be so reliant on RU gas, so fully their own fault (also the reason why they didn't want to annoy RU by supplying weapons to Ukraine hoping RU wouldn't chop their gas supply). Still they are where they are now and it will have huge implications on Europe overall.

As for the UK, it's also not in a great position as they have very little storage capacity and increasing market prices are hitting them the same way it's hitting every other country. Apparently in London data centres are pulling so much juice that there's not much left for anyone else :/

Now imagine being on a perm salary of £1500 and having to fork out £500 on your energy bill in a few months time...this is sadly the reality most people are going to have to face.

[Zigenare]

Kazakhstan is the primary producer of uranium. Deposits in the UK are not economically viable

We can always source it from Australia...
https://world-nuclear.org/informatio...australia.aspx

[vetran]

Winter of discontent with a pound shop Thatcher as leader.

if only the potential candidates were as good as that. They are starting to make Corbyn look good

[ladymuck]

Do we produce our own uranium or would we still end up relying on someone for that though?

Kazakhstan is the primary producer of uranium. Deposits in the UK are not economically viable

[d000hg]

Do we produce our own uranium or would we still end up relying on someone for that though?

[Chris Bryce]

TBH I put the blame for the current "energy security" crisis, and massive price hikes as a result of the lack thereof, fairly and squarely on the shoulders of every national government since the 1970s which ran scared of the "Atomkraft? Nein Danke" crowd and, in the UK, an over-optimistic belief that the North Sea reserves would be forever plentiful and cheap (with a lot of it belonging to the Norwegians anyway).

Had we taken the opportunity to build out our nuclear industry, we'd all be a bit less insecure in terms of energy.

Time to get the Rolls Royce SMRs into mass production?

[mallisarealperson]

Sunak will win with a lot of help from his friends in California and India.
https://www.conservativesabroad.org/

[Zigenare]

Winter of discontent with a pound shop Thatcher as leader.

At least you'll have plenty to moan about.