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bamba said:
Haven't you already got a lot of funny looking animals in that neck of the woods - before you add extra radiation !
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We're talking deep DEEP pits. A kilometre or more underground. Excavation might clear out a small amount of lizards, that's about it. It's utter desert as far as the eye can see
 
My sister was absolutely jubilant when the result of the referendum was announced - but now she is bewildered that so many places around her have closed down as the workers have moved on to pastures new - shops, factories and farms, the local doctor's surgery is amalgamating with one further away and there is even talk of shutting down the local schools and taking the remaining children by bus every day as there are so few left in the immediate area. There were some nasty incidents of children being told they would have to 'go back where they came from' despite being born here, and women accosted in the streets for being foreign.
I am concerned for my grandchildren.
 
dbr10 said:
In the airport check in queue I saw a couple hiding their passports in black leather covers imitating the old passport design.
It's just a piece of cardboard.
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My British passport was one of my most treasured possessions. It signified who I am. I am British first and foremost, and proud to be so. We bought dark blue covers in the style of the old blue ones as soon as they changed.
 
Tipetoo said:
They could always reuse Maralinga I suppose, it's still as bad when the British were testing atomic weapons there.
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True .... but the French at Mururoa have a 3 decade record that disgusted most of us. Testing weapons in the atmosphere is a far cry from burying waste.
 
Mike D said:
True .... but the French at Mururoa have a 3 decade record that disgusted most of us. Testing weapons in the atmosphere is a far cry from burying waste.
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Far as I am concerned let them bury the waste in their own backyard...
 
Tipetoo said:
Far as I am concerned let them bury the waste in their own backyard...
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Fair enough. I was simply illustrating an Australian govt. alternative which (to me) made some kind of sense
 
Ian_Laye said:
I'm sure that if the Dutch want us to keep taking their nuclear waste they will keep supplying us with the isotopes. The thing with brexit is that both sides are reliant on each other for so many things. Most of what we've seen so far from both sides is political posturing but at the end of the day we need each other so a good deal for both sides will be done.
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yes but this "they need us as much as we need them" is all very well but the amount of detail that needs to be got through is huge and radioactive isotopes has not even hit an agenda in Whitehall yet.
 
Mike D said:
Fair enough. I was simply illustrating an Australian govt. alternative which (to me) made some kind of sense
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If was to happen, I hope the Federal and States governments get plenty of money out of the toxic waste dumpers, and not do it for free.

Edit: forgot to put government in.
 
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Hawke said he'd impose a heavy cost. We sure would now, knowing they'd pay it. Build an airstrip, fly it in, unload and bury it and job done. You can't ship it, that's for certain. No roads. We ain't a charity and I never liked Hawke by the way.
 
Lamont D said:
Meanwhile, one and a quarter million people are visiting food banks in the Merseyside area. Of which, 80 percent are working!
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people were visiting foodbanks before the referendum.

Lets not blame the referendum on the heinous acts of this government, which have been going on, despite being in or out of the EU, for several years.
 
Yes, there was, but brexit has railroaded the whole political census.
The total disregard of millions of people including the disabled and the aged is a national disgrace. Never mind those working, who cannot afford food!
The whole brexit thing has undermined the good work done since WWII in social responsibility. The government is too busy fighting itself to realise the depth of despair and actual poverty in our own neighbourhoods.
My post was a slur on the handling of this country's government's agenda!
 
The homeless did not happen overnight or because of Brexit. Brexit has not even happened yet. People being homeless has been going on for years, well before the referendum. The more people come into the country the less accommodation there will be. I am all for immigration but a balance. As for the £350 million written on the bus for the NHS, I do not know anybody who thought that the whole £350 million was going to go to the NHS. As for the £350 million, like I said we are still in the EU. It is not helping that the government is being so incapable in handling Brexit. If there is uncertainty with business, then let's look to the government for making a hash of things. The internet also plays a very big part in many businesses closing down. People are not shopping on the high street as much now, they shop online. The people who voted for Brexit won the vote and that should be upheld.
 
It may not cause any problems. ..as you say got to wait and see...pointless post really
 
Bluetit1802 said:
My British passport was one of my most treasured possessions. It signified who I am. I am British first and foremost, and proud to be so. We bought dark blue covers in the style of the old blue ones as soon as they changed.
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Not something I can understand, I'm afraid. British identity is much more than that. The new passports will also be made in the EU. Says it all I'm afraid.
 
Resurgam said:
My sister was absolutely jubilant when the result of the referendum was announced - but now she is bewildered that so many places around her have closed down as the workers have moved on to pastures new - shops, factories and farms, the local doctor's surgery is amalgamating with one further away and there is even talk of shutting down the local schools and taking the remaining children by bus every day as there are so few left in the immediate area. There were some nasty incidents of children being told they would have to 'go back where they came from' despite being born here, and women accosted in the streets for being foreign.
I am concerned for my grandchildren.
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You can't blame all that on Brexit, but the uncertainty is stopping firms investing, which will reduce growth in the future. The Government's own impact assessments show all likely outcomes will be negative for the economy. I had a conversation last year with a leave voter and asked him what his grandchildren wanted. They wanted to remain. So I asked him why he didn't do what they wanted - he had no answer. The stark fact is that he won't be around in the future but his grandchildren will. He has taken away their opportunities to live, work, study and travel freely in the EU, all because of a wave of rose tinted fake nostalgia for a past which never really existed. Sovereignty is largely an illusion.
 
derry60 said:
The homeless did not happen overnight or because of Brexit. Brexit has not even happened yet. People being homeless has been going on for years, well before the referendum. The more people come into the country the less accommodation there will be. I am all for immigration but a balance. As for the £350 million written on the bus for the NHS, I do not know anybody who thought that the whole £350 million was going to go to the NHS. As for the £350 million, like I said we are still in the EU. It is not helping that the government is being so incapable in handling Brexit. If there is uncertainty with business, then let's look to the government for making a hash of things. The internet also plays a very big part in many businesses closing down. People are not shopping on the high street as much now, they shop online. The people who voted for Brexit won the vote and that should be upheld.
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I agree. But I am stuck by how completely out of our depth our negotiators seem to be.
 
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