Labour PM Brown Sold British Energy to French State owned EDF for whom his brother worked

First French Conquest 1066; Second French Conquest was Nuclear

In 2008, Labour PM Gordon Brown sold British Nuclear reactors to a foreign state – France! EDF is 84.4% French State owned!
“British Energy was the UK’s largest electricity generation company by volume, before being taken over by Électricité de France (EDF) [Electricity of France]… British Energy operated eight former UK state-owned nuclear power stations and one coal fired power station. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Energy

“Rhetoric vs reality
Posted by bex — 24 September 2008 at 10:44am
Yesterday: “I want British companies and British workers to seize the opportunity and lead the world in the transformation to a low carbon economy and I believe that we can create in modern green manufacturing and service one million new jobs” – Gordon Brown.

Today: British Energy is sold to French nuclear company EDF for £12.5 billion, exporting thousands of potential UK jobs to France…

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May 3, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized

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I really hope no one is surprised at corruption in politics. EDF are no stranger to lobbying, check this out http://serviceclientcontacter.website/edf-service-client-edf-contact/
I think global politics has a strategy of surprise as many as possible as often as possible with lies, scandals, murder, homosexuality, pedophilia, etc… until we’re all so used to it that we become numb and unnoticing

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