Great Britain’s industry and infrastructure has been deliberately run down to a degree that will ensure our continued decline to a third world level.
Our steel manufacturing plant is destroyed or exported, and where we once made the finest steel in the world this has been sold off or even given away. The motorcycle industry went very early on and the car and commercial companies followed.
Energy has likewise been systematically destroyed, as confirmed by the closure of all but a few small coal mines in favour of overseas-owned coal and oil. Recent governments have invested heavily in high cost renewable systems such as wind power which cannot adequately meet our needs. With the sole exception of hydro electric energy, no single renewable source is stable enough to supply our electricity needs on the constant basis required by hospitals and industry. Whilst renewable energy production has a role to play in our plan to make Britain energy independent, we must have a diversity of energy sources to ensure the supply shortfall is met.
Energy is now in a critical situation through the closure of older nuclear and old coal plants. Gas is not stored but bought, as needed, mainly from Russia.
We are now dependent on oil imports from the Middle East, Russian gas and coal from Eastern Europe. Such dependence on foreign energy makes us vulnerable to the demands of those nations who possess those energy commodities that we require just to keep the lights on in Britain.
A nation that is dependent on energy imports is not an independent nation.
Our aim is to make Britain an Energy independent nation which produces and supplies all its own energy needs.
As the 1970′s fuel crisis demonstrated, when the price of oil rose fourfold in a few months, an increase in energy prices devastates industries and economies.
Energy costs are rising as Britain’s internal energy production capacity is diminishing. North Sea oil now no longer produces enough energy for us to satisfy all out internal energy requirements, and we as a nation now rely on foreign energy imports to bridge the supply gap.
In the future the main overheads in the production of commodities by industry will be energy costs, therefore any nation that can produce cheap energy for its manufacturing industries to access will enable those industries to have a massive competitive edge in relation to their rivals.
The British Freedom Party therefore intends to:
1. Invest in modern, safe nuclear generating plant as soon as possible.
2. Bridge the energy gap, by re-opening British coalmines with their estimated 500-year life, rather than depend on coal bought in from Eastern Europe and invest in building coal fired power stations which trap the carbon released from burning coal and which can be sequestrated in empty oil wells in the North Sea. By doing so we can create three new massive British national industries in one initiative. Since we will need new heavy plant facilities to make the equipment to allow us to re-open the coal mines, we will be creating a whole new industry based on coal fired electricity production power plants and also brand new industries to store the carbon released by the burnt coal in the former oil fields of the North Sea which will employ people in the former oil industry as the North Sea oil runs out.
3. Invest in renewable energy projects that are cost effective as opposed to ideologically driven.
4. Make funding available to develop nuclear fusion as soon as possible.
5. Open up for British use only, oil fields within our South Atlantic territorial waters.
6. Revitalise city electric trams systems.
7. Invest in energy saving technologies which prevent the waste of electricity.
8. Investigate all alternatives to our current oil based economy.
