Kirksanton Nuclear Power Station

This area of the Lake District National Park, a site of Special Area for Conservation, an Area of Special Protection, protected under European laws on nature and habitat (RAMSAR wetland site of importance), the home of the most beautiful view in all England (as voted by the country) is currently being proposed as the site for a nuclear power station. It would be built in the space bewteen the fell and the foreground in this picture.

At the initial consultation about the Kirksanton site in Cumbria a local resident made this heartfelt statement.


Chris Reed
I live in Haverigg. I have been lucky enough to live in this area all my life. When I was growing
up, I was worried about jobs, because I did not want to leave the area. I now have two girls, 16 and
14, and I would dearly love for them to stay around here as well. Someone once said, 'When they
have you by the balls, hearts and minds will follow.' Our MP is telling us that there is no Plan B to
nuclear in this area. This seems to be an approach being taken by the Government, and the
consultation seems more of a threat than a consultation at times. The area around Kirksanton is
incredibly beautiful and a very special area, and I just find it hard to believe that we are actually
standing here discussing the possibility of destroying it. When you read the Government's
consultation document, it just reads like a company balance sheet. It just concerns me that guys
like you, with your creative accounting and slick arguments, are just piece-by-piece sucking the
lifeblood out of the planet. We have laws to protect these spots, and you just seem to trample all
over them. I just feel that you people, you are to the joy of life what the thought of Anne Robinson
is to an erection!
To me, this is a very precious area, and it just would be a huge loss if it was destroyed by a nuclear
power station. I just do not feel that people like me have been represented in this consultation, so
my question is: can you explain why you have not assessed the extent and the effect of this feeling
of loss in people, like me, in order to decide whether building a nuclear power station at Kirksanton
is worth the pain and that sense of loss? Is it your aim just to gradually lobotomise humanity, over
time, and just to remove all of our feeling for life? Thank you.


How can the committee consent to building such a facility in such an area of natural beauty?

In for a Penny...

After the recent revelations about MP's expenses claims. I'll be going to vote on June 4th (Local County Council and European elections), but I won't be putting my 'X' in any box, I'll be placing a sad face on my paper to show I was enthusiastic enough to go and vote but that I have no confidence in any of the people on the list to represent me. Hopefully this will be a small show of the 'people's displeasure' at the greed and corruption in our political system. 

(Well I would if I were not in Spain soaking up the sun on the 4th, that is!)

The thing that REALLY gets my goat is, not that they lied or made mistakes or that the advice they got was wrong on what and how to claim, but the fact that they claim at all. The rest of us pay a mortgage, 2 if we have 2 houses, we pay stamp duty, for food, for cleaners, for duck islands - if we want those things, we pay for them out of the money we earn. Why should MP's be any different? Why do they think it is their given right to be reimbursed for the things that the rest of us know we have to stick our hands in our pockets for??

(They are not the only ones either. I am constantly surprised and a little bit sickened but just how much some of the 'top' people in my job claim expenses for. The most highly paid people in the organisation claim the most - it just smacks of greed. One chap even claimed, quite legally (I am told) for travelling expenses incurred on attending the interview for his current job - how cheeky?)

Rant over. thank you for listening.

Is nothing sacred?

Mrs Emm gave me one of these to stick on Laura's aerial from her family's trip to Disneyland.

Some rotten ***&£$*** has stolen it off the car. Honestly, is nothing sacred? I have put a hex on the thief and he/she should be discovering the nasty little ailment I have sent their way any minute.

To paraphrase Catherine Tate, "What a bleedin' liberty!"

The question is, do I

a. Not replace it
b. Replace it with a Fantasia Mickey
c. Replace it with a TARDIS aeriel topper?

Who stays and who gers, Yu decide.