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"Mr President, the explosion at Chernobyl was a disaster, but let us
keep it in perspective: 64 people were killed by Chernobyl radiation
over 23 years, and it caused an unknown proportion of 6000 cases of
thyroid cancer. These are tragic figures but they pale into
insignificance compared to the death toll on our roads. Yet, while
no one is using road traffic accidents to campaign to ban the motor car,
a small army of leftists is using Chernobyl to push for an end to
nuclear power.
I do not doubt that they mean well but the road to
hell is paved with good intentions. The same people meant well when they
helped to create the biofuels rush, pushing the price of food beyond
the reach of the world’s poor. Tonight millions of children will go to
bed slowly dying of hunger because people on that side of the House
meant well: that is what the fuzzy ideals of the Utopian left do in the
real world.
The impact of a nuclear ban would be even worse
because the alternative to nuclear power is not wind farms and solar
panels. In our energy-scarce, post-peak oil world, the alternative to
reactors is mass starvation."
Nick Griffin, speaking at the debate on Nuclear Safety 25 years after Chernobyl
Is this really the sort of person we want speaking on our behalf in Europe? It sounds like the rants you hear in a Wetherspoons at 4pm on a Wednesday afternoon. This is a serious issue and having some clown trying to score cheap political points on a British platform is just degrading.
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