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[-] federalreverse@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The UK has actual problems to spend [almost] 900 million pounds p.a. on. They could spend it on improving the grid or heat pump subsidies, or on remedying Tory-inflicted social issues. All of which would be massively more effective than wasting it on projects that will never be profitable and will, even conceptually, not be the most effective use of money for at least two decades.

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