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In infrastructure, Britain spends more and gets less.
Look at what we could build without raising a penny of tax just by getting our costs down to European levels.
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Britain Remade
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Britain Remade
@BritainRemade
🇬🇧 Britain Remade is a campaign to promote economic growth. We put forward practical solutions to the problems holding Britain back.
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Joined February 2021
- NEW: The Government spent £22m on its Small Modular Reactor competition- and demanded 50% gender diversity across bidders’ supply chains. Is it any wonder Britain is the most expensive country in the world to build new nuclear? thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
- 🚨 NEW 🚨 1 in 5 councils that have declared a climate emergency have blocked enough clean energy projects to power a whopping 4.4m homes
- Let’s talk about mirror towns. They're a way to build homes where the transport infrastructure to support them already exists.
00:00 - 🚨 NEW 🚨 Britain Remade research has found the planning application for the Lower Thames Crossing runs to almost 360,000 pages. If laid end to end, the planning application would stretch 66 miles- 5 times longer than the road itself
00:00 - Is there a law against building homes on train station car parks in London? Yes: Jude Law.
00:00 - Bang on from @matthewsyed. It's too hard and too expensive to build the infrastructure the country needs. The path to prosperity lies through getting Britain building again.
- Britain once led the world in nuclear power. Today, we’re building the most expensive nuclear power station in history. Why? And how do we fix it? The answer is here:
- Can you build a wind turbine in just one day? We're in Hackney with @OctopusEnergy to prove we have the technology to tackle climate change and reduce energy bills. We just need to eliminate the planning barriers holding us back.
00:00 - Cornwall Council declared a climate emergency in 2019. In 2023 they refused permission for a solar farm that could power 30,000 homes with clean renewable energy. Councillors also unanimously rejected plans for a hotel in Newquay to install 450 solar panels.
- We are today launching Britain Remade, a new campaign for economic growth. We need to get Britain Building again 🧵
- We welcome the announcement that 4 nuclear power plants will have their working lives extended - but we should never have been in the position where we nearly had no nuclear energy on the grid. Time to crack on and get building new nuclear.
02:11There’ll be no nuclear power on the grid in 2029 unless we act now! Here’s how we avoid that, save the average household £100 on their energy bill and prevent 9 million tonnes of CO2 being released.
