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Samizdata quote of the day – Holy shit this pisses away our money The idea that the British government should subsidise an American mine is pretty weird. Very weird even. But it does seem to be about to happen.
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To the extent that we’ve got a scandium expert lying around I’m it. Niocorp isn’t going to work. But the British government, using your and my money, is eager to invest in it?
Why can’t they leave us just to piss away our own money in our own ways? Why this insistence upon doing it wholesale on obvious disasters?
– Tim Worstall
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Presumably someone is getting a backhander?
I loved the bit where Niocorp claims to expect to sell five times current world consumption for 3 times current price.
@Clovis Sangrail
I loved the bit where Niocorp claims to expect to sell five times current world consumption for 3 times current price.
Unlike the American government, the British Parliament has really constitution constraining it, there are limits on what they can do, but not many. They can pass or change whatever laws they like.
Apparently here they have decided to change the law of supply and demand. They are just waiting for King Charles to give Royal Assent.
@Fraser
Well, I would suggest that’s Niocorp, the US company.
Parliament is just going along with lunacy.
No Perry. It will not be corruption, that is not, normally, the way British government works (although, just rarely, there are bribes – it is not normal) – indeed it might be better if government here was corrupt (as insane as that sounds).
Policy is determined by fads and fashions (often international ones) – pushed by officials and “experts” and rubber stamped (if even that) by Parliament and elected ministers. Nothing as rational as a bribe is, normally, involved.
Take the two betrayals yesterday – the surrender of what little independence the United Kingdom has left to the European Union (it is Brexit NOT independence – and as “Brexit” is a made up word that does not mean anything the government can say that giving up what little independence we have left does not violate this “Brexit”) and the surrender to the World Health Organisation. Hello future lockdowns, censorship and “vaccines”.
Sir Keir Starmer was NOT bribed to sign on the dotted line – the documents were presented to him by officials and “experts” and it would never have occurred to him to say no.
And if a Conservative Party Prime Minister had said “no” “I will not agree to this” – the establishment (the officials and experts) would have had that Prime Minister removed, forced-to-resign, as they did to Liz Truss.
The system of governance of this country is utterly undermined – at both local and national level. Talk of “democracy” is as false as the claims that we have Freedom of Speech.
Is the United Kingdom the worst governed country in Western Europe, indeed in the Western World?
I do not know, as there are other nations where officials and “experts” dominate – pushing the utterly insane fashions of the International Community (international establishment).
But the United Kingdom is certainly one-of the worst governed countries in the Western world – it is a country where officials and “experts” very much have the whip hand.
Breaking the power of the officials and the “independent bodies” such as the Bank of England, is a vital task – if this nation is to survive.
A “Great Repeal Act” removing the power of officials and “experts” – by abolishing the bodies (including “Quangos” such as “Ofcom” – the censorship people) they control.