Being Manx it makes no difference to me if it's a British person or a Latvian driving that JCB, unless of course that British person is you, in which case I prefer the Latvian.
You will be doing the 3 cups and a ball scam to hustle tourists at the Manc steam train station when Singapore pull the plug on you Mick.
Nuclear power is the only sensible option if we are to move away from fossil fuels. It would take over 9000 wind turbines to make up for the lost energy if we stopped using coal, oil and gas over night. Also, if oil was traded in any other currency other than the dollar, the USA would have an economy akin to Zimbabwe's.
How can it be good if our water & electric are supplied by another country at a massive profit? It's not like we don't get any rain .
Our buses and trains are bought with public subsidies and made and run by other countries. I thought we British invented the bloody train.
9,000 doesn't sound like a lot of turbines. There are nearer 9,500 Argos stores in the UK. Imagine every one of them was taken out of a town in put in countryside/offshore. I live in a pretty big urban connurbation and I would have to go well out of my road to encounter 3 Argos stores in a day - if they were not in town/city centres, I'd never encounter them.
If I lived in the Isle of Man I would organise a motorbike rally get all participants to sign for doner cards and sell the organs on the black market . Maybe release ducks and dugs along the course to help things along.
A United States of Europe can only be a good thing. So long as we never, ever, have a French president.
