‘Taxpayers will pay nothing to go nuclear’ the Government promised yesterday. Good on them. Sure I believe them.
Just like tax payers were going to pay nothing for the privatization of trains, electricity, or gas. Just like tax payer were not paying for the failed Millennium Dome project, northern rock, the war in Iraq, or the inflated salary of MPs and ministers.
If I ever made such a statement as a business person, I’d be taken to court if I couldn’t deliver. So, I just want to ask whoever came with this statement, how is he going to guarantee its execution? Will he sign a contract with the public that if, at any stage, we are required to pay, he will give back every penny he ever got from taxpayers (with a compensation clause, of course)? Or even better, would he then move to Kenya or Pakistan, or any third country of his choice, take a position there, and make sure we don’t ever see him here again?