Côte d'Stupid
John Vidal writes absurdly in the Guardian:
“Wags in Cumbria are now calling the stretch between Millom and St Bees the Côte d’Atom – the greatest concentration of nuclear facilities in the world outside Chernobyl”.
Given that almost all of my close family live between Millom and St Bees, I can assure you that local people do not speak of this stretch of coastline in these ridiculous terms. Whoever Vidal has been speaking to, assuming he has even been to west Cumbria, it is not the overwhelming majority of locals who are proud to be associated with a nuclear plant, Sellafield, which has a distinguished place in the history of energy generation in the UK and an important role to play in our future fight against climate change. Short-sighted, patronising, liberal conceit should not be allowed any further north than Hampstead.
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