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Come Inside... => The Commons => Topic started by: Barman on August 01, 2008, 06:31:21 AM
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A deal that would have involved the sale of most of the UK's nuclear power stations to a French state-owned energy firm now appears uncertain.
EDF had been expected to announce it was buying British Energy which owns eight reactors in the UK.
However, EDF put out a statement saying conditions were not right for it to proceed with the £12bn deal.
Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7536479.stm)
Oh dear, oh dear... more bad news for broon... noooo:
He was planning on selling desperate to sell off the family silver to put £4B in the bank (so he could give it away to assorted good causes no doubt).
What is the betting that EDF get to buy it at a knock-down price of say, no more than £8B? whistle:
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And then we will have handed our electrictiy to the Frogs who can charge what they like and remit the profits back to the French Government cussing:
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Why not? Most of our milk comes from them. whistle:
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And then we will have handed our electrictiy to the Frogs who can charge what they like and remit the profits back to the French Government cussing:
broon the loon would sell the Houses of Parliament themselves to make a few bob... noooo:
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And how long till the Arabs, who are rolling in dosh, start investing in the nuclear industry and get control of that too?
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And how long till the Arabs, who are rolling in dosh, start investing in the nuclear industry and get control of that too?
What time is it now...?
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And how long till the Arabs, who are rolling in dosh, start investing in the nuclear industry and get control of that too?
Iran?
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I thought they were making peaceful,um, bombs rubschin:
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What we could do is let the foreign investors build them and once they're running nationalise the industry. After all if Nasser could do it to the Suez Canal... rubschin:
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What we could do is let the foreign investors build them and once they're running nationalise the industry. After all if Nasser could do it to the Suez Canal... rubschin:
Ah... you think broon has a cunning plan, a plan sooo cunning- nah. noooo: