Electrification plus the dictatorship of....

Without any democratic process, the decision to build the next generation of nuclear reactors has been made. A democracy would debate such a vital and fatal matter (and of course a competent government might have started thinking about an energy policy in 1997). But instead of democracy we have the British system. Traditionally this used to be operated by mandarins in consort with the PM, bright but not too bright public school and Oxbridge chaps chosen in their teens, fast tracked though the civil service exams, still at it in their sixties. Now they have been superseded as policy makers by the Prime Minister's advisers. The Government who will decide on the next generation of nuclear reactors will be a cabal of powder-puff Stalinists at Downing street, into whose pearly ears BNFL has already been whispering.