GoFundMe: The Nuclear Option!
Remember when the LNP were in government and Peter Dutton set up a GoFundMe for Queensland flood relief?
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with doing something like that. I mean, it’s a good thing, isn’t it, that he gave people the opportunity to help support those who were flood victims because he knew that many people did want that… Ok, maybe not his colleagues in the LNP who think that people should stand on their own two feet and not rely on others for support and if people didn’t want to be flood victims why don’t they just live somewhere that doesn’t flood? After all, Scott “Plans For Your Good” Morrison would undoubtedly argue that God helps those who aren’t wicked so if you didn’t have enough sense to build an ark when you were living amongst all that wickedness, you’d should have Noahed better…
Anyway, I know that there’s been some concern about the cost of building nuclear in Australia and there’s been even more concern that the Liberals have gone all socialist and suggested that the taxpayer should build and own nuclear facilities because – unlike everything Telstra and everything else they’ve sold off over the past few decades – there’s a good reason for that. Exactly what the good reason is will – like the cost, the amount of power the seven reactors will put into the system, their plans for who will build it, the timeline for which is built when and just about everything apart from the location – be released in Due Course… a phrase I’m sure that you’ve heard already, but in case you haven’t, I suspect that you’ll hear it before the week is out.
Some people have suggested that the reason is actually that private industry wouldn’t touch nuclear because it’s uneconomic but that’s not the reason. When it comes to something that government actually wants to provide, then the economics becomes simple: You tell them that you’ll walk away and leave them holding the baby unless they fork out more cash and so you have a cost blowout, a delay and a healthy bottom line. In return the government of the day gets a healthy donation to their political party of choice…
A number of things have been asserted by Dutton and the Duds:
- A large number of people support nuclear.
- The proposed sites are just fine with the people in the area where they’re supposed to go.
- They’ll make things cheaper.
Some GoFundMe campaigns offer you things like a free ticket to the show or a copy of the book, so maybe Peter could put his skills to work and come up with a GoFundMe campaign where those of us who fund the nuclear plants could get our power directly from there, while those who don’t would have to rely on those “expensive” renewables and batteries. I mean, if the plants are going to create thousands of jobs in the electorates where they’re going, doesn’t it seem only fair that these places should put up a large percentage of the money, given the benefits that will accrue to them in the form of economic benefits like jobs and cheaper housing given the suggestion that house prices will fall in those areas?
Whatever, it’s worth a thought… which is more than most of the policies that Peter Dutton has announced have been given.
On another matter, Simon Birmingham was extremely critical of the PM for phoning Julian Assange. From what I can gather the people on his side of politics never thought that Assange was worth any sort of phone call while they were in power – including one to the United States to ask what was going on – so why should he be given one now? And it’s not like Assange being returned to Australia was any great achievement because if he’d been worth a phone call they would have made one and got him some sort of a deal years ago, but they had more important things to do, like work on an energy policy…
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Return to home pageBirmingham is just another career politician,whose hypocrisy is only matched by his sliminess..He’s just another reminder of why the conservatives can’t be trusted with anything.Moderate, my arse.
You mention Bimon Squirmingham, an itch looking for a crutch, who used to support Mad maggot Morrison, the Multiple Managerial Misfit and universal political plague?? The fading squirm has a record of having no actual positive record. But he and others will line up behind Peter Duckwit-Futton to trot out absurdities, propaganda, fiction and mike testing rubbish, to see if the contemptible Australian voter is still so dumb as to vote for shit while buttering the bread in anticipation. Nuclear electric power generation for Australia is far too hard. We cannot build decent houses, nor make enough of them for the people. We make no electrics, shitty cars, white goods, home appliances, anything much. Fortuinately, we have fat food, piss and pokies, telly with such lovely foreign repeats, and sport for the selling of all mentioned before. We need the conservative politicians like penicillin needs a pox.
What is the saying : socialise the loss makers and privatise the economically successful. This is the recipe that is tried and true for the conservatives. With a touch of, if it is really needed, pay private enterprise to build it, subsidise any on-going costs and let the private company profit eg the Airport railway stations in Sydney.
The government builds the nuclear power generators and down the road, if they are successful, they will be privatised just like the rest of the electric supply system
Meanwhile,the cretin Dutton is currently talking at the Committee for the Economic Development for Australia (Guardian),telling enough lies to make Scotty from marketing jealous.The hole to nowhere he’s digging gets deeper.He’ll also need a bucket of ice water to sit in, to cool his arse after talking so much shit.Lots more conservative seats to burn down…keep up the good work, stupid.
Yeah, nukes, all part of the Duttonate’s GoFundMe wish list – Just how much is it for a mindless sinecure?
As for Birmo, caught pressing his own button again. Tut-tuting Albo’s sober welcome home to Assange as an insult to our ‘foreign friends’ is both illogical and puerile. Perhaps he’s out in Maralinga scraping up some neutrons for Dutts? Anyway, it seems he hasn’t jerried that both the UK and USA participated in Assange’s coming home?
As for the ABC News broadcasting Birmo’s navel fluff, just their usual plunge into pathetic irrelevance.
Is Dutton still claiming he will establish nuclear power stations in the next couple of decades? Fat chance.
How do nuclear power stations work in other places such as Britain, Canada and the USA?
The Opposition here in Australia wants to mention them as if they they are sure-fire models for our own.
I have tried to read about them, in Britain, Canada the USA but I am not convinced. They do not seem to be ragingly successful, and some seem to be in decline, even after years of function and producing only small percentages of output.
What is the reality – apart from Dutton’s hopeless and destructive dream?
Good ol’ Blatheringham, always ready to parrot Der Reichspud at the drop of a donation…I mean hat.
Teiresias, “What is the reality – apart from Dutton’s hopeless and destructive dream?” Could it be, to borrow a bit of Rik from the Cash episode of the Young Ones (a tiny bit paraphrased), “…to crawly bum-lick.” Gina and maybe get a cushy lobbyist job if he ever gets the boot?
I see Bananbaby has given up alcohol yet again:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/barnaby-joyce-quits-alcohol-loses-15kg-after-infamous-night-he-barely-remembers-20240627-p5jpah.html
I give him 12 months at the outside before he falls off the wagon.
The only difference between Boofhead and Trump is the bad hairpiece.
Harry,
Don’t be hard on the hairpiece it’s the most intelligent part of The Donald. I sometimes wonder if The Spud was an escaped haemorrhoid from Trump.