May said she would before the next election so we have to hope for a Tory win.

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

Not really, as it is an investment decision extra-EU. I am not aware of any reliance on the EU in building the station.

The demand for the power will not diminish as other generating methods go off line faster than the shrinkage that will happen in the economy. Indeed we could have sold the energy to the EU at an inflated rate post Brexit.

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

I thought this brave new world of opportunity post brexit, free from the shackles of the EU would have enticed our Japanese friends.

They would rather kiss goodbye to 2bn than do trade here

Paua oouaarancì Irà chiyeah Ishé galé ma ba oo ah

Should’ve had Andrea Leadsome in charge, at least in charge of Brexit. She’s a brexiteer with experience in business most of them don’t have, andxst the top of the financial sector. The speech outside number 10 at the start of May’s tenure doesn’t resemble anything we’ve seen, in leadership before policy.

COYP

Would you like to know what impact the EU Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD) had on UK energy generation?

I doubt it, but I will tell you. Firstly: a directive is a law from Brussels that MUST be implemented into the statute books here. Parliament CANNOT say no. They must pass legislation that conforms. So, if it's piece of s*** legislation, then it's a question of "no, we don't want to get shafted from behind", it's a question of "can you use some lube?"

Right.

At the time, the UK grid had about 80GW power generation, and a demand of 63GW - so 79% usage.

The LCPD forced closure of (at least) 9 coal-fired plants. I calculated a total of 12GW from those. It also closed (at least) 3 oil plants, losing 3.5GW. That's a total of 15.5GW production LOST.

That takes us to 64.5GW of power generation, or 97% capacity, based (naively) on the demand not increasing with population and rampant immigration.

My figures are much lower than those stated here:

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How do we make up this shortfall? Ah yes, expensive, inefficient wind turbines. Typical yield is 3MW/sq km. So, if we wanted to plug the shortfall with turbines:

15,500MW / 3 = 5167 sq. kms

That is well over 3x the area of London.

So we need to either mass-import energy (oh - EDF is owned by the French government you say, really? How convenient), fill the country with wind turbines, or ask very nicely if the EU will allow us to build nuclear power stations:

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The EU is a f***ing disaster for our country. It is a disaster for industry (requiring cheap power), it is a disaster for sufficiency, it is a disaster for democracy.

I'll take no lectures from EU supporters on energy prices, nor "Brexit-did-itisms" where there is no evidence the decision was influenced by us daring to leave the mafia club.