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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

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    Votes: 56 47.9%
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The tories are about to ruin the economy and decide to spend a million painting a plane. They best get jenrick doing some more corrupt deals
 
Extinction Rebellion Spokesperson Quits to Campaign for Nuclear Power



Since her infamous grilling on the Andrew Neil Show last year, Zion Lights – a former Extinction Rebellion activist and spokesperson – has had an ideological Damascene conversion, since quitting the Marxist campaign group to campaign for nuclear power. She’s seen the Lights…

Today, Zion writes in City A.M., calling on her former XR members to also embrace the clean energy solution:

the UK must find ways to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels… we need a reliable low-carbon energy source that we can invest in now.

And we have one. Hinkley Point C… which will provide seven per cent of the UK’s electricity needs and save an estimated nine million tonnes of carbon emissions for every year of its operation.”
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It’s quite a departure from the views she wrote up in 2014, when she argued there is “no clear answer” to the question of whether nuclear power is safe, and that “nuclear energy is not sustainable in itself” while conceding it was more sustainable than coal.

Zion Lights (astonishingly her real birth name) also uses the op-ed to admonish her former comrades, admitting that being “surrounded by anti-nuclear activists” she had “allowed fear of radiation, nuclear waste and weapons of mass destruction to creep into my subconscious.” One unscientific nutjob down, a few thousand more to go...
 
Jon Lansman, Chair of Momentum:

“Sacking Rebecca Long-Bailey for sharing an interview in the Independent with one of Britain’s most loved actors is a reckless overreaction. "I stand in absolute solidarity with Rebecca Long-Bailey, as does the rest of Momentum.”
 
The row over RLB's sacking is kicking off. Is the Labour Party going to start eating itself, just when they get a respectable, and potentially electable, leader?
 
Or it loses them a relatively small number of uber-lefties and opens them up to the “don’t like dem Tories really but couldn’t vote for Corbyn cos he was going to give my house to immigrants and tax me 99.9%” larger group.

If in four years should Johnson last that long people still want Johnson over Starmer then fine but at least they’ll have to admit it’s due to the holy Brexit and/or convincing themselves they’ll be financially better off for it.