I think disposal cost is, even in France, overstated. Reactor waste has a very short half life (it is inherent in things that are highly radioactive that they must have a short half life) & could be stored for 50 years, at which point they would be safe. Some low level waste is less radioactive than Cornwall & calling it dangerous radioactive waste is pure scaremongering.

You may see the letter letting me know of this – the level of detail in the charges is Kafkaesque
http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2005/12/i-was-purged-by-liberal-democrats.html

I also find it impossible to believe a chap was turfed out of the party for his view on windmills and economics.

The liberal position on buying & selling almost anything is that the free market can best decide not idealogical dictats by government in the face of economic reality.

The claim that windmills are cheaper is the precise diametric opposite of truthful. Nuclear is half the cost of conventional power whcih in turn is half the cost of baseload. A respect for the facts, helpful, or otherwise, is a liberal position. Nobody who could ever honestly call themselves liberal minded could have told that lie Anax & no such person ever has.

How is building nuclear power stations (which I assume you support) compatible with classical liberalism, given that the private sector won’t touch them with a barge pole? Wind farms + baseload are cheaper, less risky and more likely to attract private investment.

Scotland is in need of a liberal party & the SNP is the closest, though not very close. Anyone reading Iain Dale’s blog (no not that one) will see that having made being a liberal an expulsion offence it is now entirely run by people whose instincts are for ever larger government existing to dispose largess on the special interest groups running the party, rather than one having any liberal principles.

By raising the legal drinking age to 25 (oops, 21), Salmond is taking a giant tumble down the proverbial slippery slope to the Orwellian dispensation; at the behest of his reactionary millionaire string-pullers, Messrs Souter and Trump. And Labour, terrified of offending youth-hating bigots, isn’t going to oppose them.

Scotland is in desperate need of the Liberal Democrats, and Mr Rumbles might just be the man to take things forward.

Iain was one of the party Executive members who voted for my expulsion specificly because I believed a successful economy can be achieved by traditional Liberal policies and that windmills will not be sufficient to keep the lights on (described bu them in a tribute to Orwell as “illiberal”).

Clearly he also has his own ax – & not one the founders of liberalism would have any sympathy with whatsoever.

An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and usually irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of baiting other users
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Perhaps Horatio you might care to explain how your post was releveant, on topic & not designed to bait – unlike mine though I suppose I should admit mine was somewhat controversial to the extent it that, while not actually disagreeing with what Mike had said was not wholly in agreement either. Pethaps politics would be improved if all controversy were prevented but history suggest otherwise.

As you will see Mr Havercamp (would that be one of the Dorset Havercamps) I stand by what I write without anonymous or false names.

2) Half of Scotland’s power (& 40% of Britain’s) is to be closed in the near future. Will you continue with the LD’s programme of relying on windmills till the lights go out?

3) The Scottish economy continues to underperform the UK average. Is this a good or bad thing? If bad what would your position on the SNP’s policy of trying to match the Irish “economic miracle” by cutting busines rates & corporation tax? Bear in mind that while this is the classic liberal position on which the party was founded it is now officially “inconsistent with party membership” & “too right wing to be discussed”.

People are no longer as punitive on drugs as the right assumes they are, & those who tell you they are form prohibition are quite often soft supporters who can be won over, as with 42 days.

But still …