This reveals the monumental stupidity and sheer hypocrisy of this council and its noddy councillors, who have often been labelled a "basketcase" council by Private Eye.
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| Anglesey wants the good, but not the bad. |
You see, Anglesey has, for the past several years, been enthusiastically embracing a new nuclear build - now to be called Wylfa Newydd, as though it were some innocuous family farm. This, in addition to its mindless support of the existing Wylfa, now half a century old.
Anglesey council even decided years ago to trademark itself as "Energy Island", although their mandate for doing so is open to serious question.
So, the message is precisely as we would expect from the parochial, provincial little people who make up Anglesey Council: we want the benefits of nuclear, but not the waste that industry generates, thanks.
This kind of idiotic argument reflects the populist, pathetic politics of recent years in relation to nuclear: those parties, like Plaid Cymru and the Lib Dems, who had 'official' positions against nuclear, saw their local candidates warmly supporting the industry.
The message there was as hypocritical as that against nuclear waste: we want the votes, and opposing nuclear won't deliver them - or so they think.
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| An Anglesey councillor: "we want niwcliar jobs, not waste. Baaa.." |
Popular support for new nuclear on Anglesey is more an assertion and industry distortion, rather than fact. An independent, academic-led survey of attitudes to new nuclear asked far more subtle questions of the Anglesey population.
The outcome of the survey by Bangor University researchers was in contrast to industry-conducted surveys: the majority were opposed to new nuclear, not in support. It all depended on how your framed the question.
So, for the past few years, Anglesey politiicans and the council have been leading the people up a garden path, forcing them to accept new nuclear, new pylons, but no waste.
On all counts, Anglesey fails. Its Council, already mired in cuts amounting to £20 million over the coming years, is apparently "categorically" refusing to consider the hundreds of millions of pounds offered on a plate, were they to host a repository for waste.
If ever you needed an example of why people are disengaging with politics, this shameful episode must surely rank as a classic.
