On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 11:05:04 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Ash Burton wrote:
On 08/09/2015 08:24, tony sayer wrote:


The shape of things to come to the UK?....


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34176571

Probably it is.

But it's nothing new really, remember the 3 day week in the 70's?

But can't be blamed on the unions this time? ;-)

PM Edward Heath made the decision to restrict electricity supplies to three days a week, and then blamed the unions. The public didn't swallow it, that's why the Tories lost the election in 1974, and they still blamed the miners and took it out on them in the 1980's pit closures.

There a more sophisticated methods of load shedding these days but if we
persist in closing coal fired power stations and not replacing the time
expired nuclear plants, it could become a reality for us.

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Seems to be better to spend vast sums on headline grabbing new projects
like HS2. Rather than invest in making sure a system which has worked well
in the past continues to work well.

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