From The Times:
John Hutton, the former Business Secretary who was the architect of Britain’s plans to build a series of nuclear power stations, is in talks with EDF about joining the group as a senior adviser, The Times has learnt.
I had developed a sort of residual respect for John Hutton as the least-bad of a terrible bunch, but it now turns out he's a trougher like the rest of them. Reading on ...
EDF Energy set up a Stakeholder Advisory Panel in 2006. A spokesman said that its role was to allow the company’s senior management “to draw on the experience of eminent and diverse senior advisers outside of EDF Energy to discuss key strategic issues and their impact on our business”. Other members of the panel are Will Hutton, Diane Coyle, John Roberts and Simon Robertson.
So they're getting their propaganda team in place.
Will Hutton is currently 'Chief Executive of the Work Foundation', which is a Quango From Hell, see footnote here.
Diane Coyle's Wiki Page says she's "a freelance economist, and a former advisor to the UK Treasury. She is a member of the UK Competition Commission, and a member of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
I can't track down anything on John Roberts, but Simon Robertson's background is even murkier:
THE Eden Project has been criticised by environmentalists over its links with French nuclear energy giant EDF and its UK subsidiary EDF Energy.
The Cornish environmental attraction supported EDF Energy's Green Britain Day, launched yesterday by athletes including Olympian Victoria Pendleton and Paralympian Eleanor Simmonds, which urges people to reduce their carbon footprint...
Two of Eden's trustees, Sir John Rose and Simon Robertson, are senior figures within Rolls-Royce, a firm known to be keen on nuclear development in the UK.
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OK so here's where I'm a hypocrit - while this is a government backscratching programme in a good, indeed vital if we want to keep the lights on, he is clearly a good fellow.
Or where every part of government is in a revolving door relationship with its lobbyists how would anybody benefit by him not being? The difference is that while "Sir" Jonathan Porritts revolving door (chair of the Green party to chair of the sustainable energy commission) is wholly destructive his role has been constructive.
The real answer would be just to get government out of the business of regulating thigs out of existence. If EDF were simply allowed to build power stations without having to spend years shuffling government paper we would have no risk of blackouts, electricity bill at about 1/4 what they are & no need for the nomenklatura to give their expensive advice on it. Mind you I think Hutton would be more useful at advising in the real job if he was an engineer rather than a lawyer, but such useful people don't get into government in the first place.
NC: "The real answer would be just to get government out of the business of regulating thigs out of existence."
Exactly, 'nuff said! In the case of nuclear power, the state's only involvement should be to make sure they are built and operated safely and to ensure that the operators pay for insurance to compensate people should the thing go *bang*.
To paraphrase Goebbels, "when I hear the words 'Will' and 'Hutton' uttered in connection with anything vaguely economic I reach for my Luger".
Chamberlain and Major - yes but we'd go head to head over Jimmy "I'd bend over and grease myself for the PLO" Carter.
No one is complaining though. That means societal Moral Collapse. The people are now corrupt too by nature of their indifference.
A democracy where The People have become corrupt is the worst kind of society. Because the corruption is now being done "in the name of the people"
OK so its not that bad yet. But see the point?
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