Green Party calls out Jeremy Corbyn for abandoning opposition to nuclear power

16 January 2017

The Green Party has called out Jeremy Corbyn for backtracking on his previous demands for nuclear power stations to be decommissioned. Corbyn told The Andrew Marr Show yesterday that “we do have nuclear power and we will for a long time”. [1]

Jonathan Bartley, Green Party co-leader, said:

“Jeremy Corbyn’s defeatist attitude will no doubt be a massive disappointment to the many people across the country who don’t believe that dirty, expensive nuclear power is the way forward. We know that alternatives to nuclear exist – and that renewable power will provide more jobs than this redundant technology of the past.

“Labour’s U-turn leaves the Greens as the only party who will be fielding an anti-nuclear candidate in the Copeland by-election. We’ll have our plans for a clean energy revolution at the heart of our campaign, as well as protecting the NHS and maintaining a close relationship with Europe.”

Notes:

  1. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/corbyn-abandons-his-opposition-to-nuclear-power-68j9rhkg2

 

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