Folks, you may be aware of a scaremongering campaign by the local Labour Party about nuclear waste.
It's completely untrue. I've had confirmation from the Nuclear Minister that it's not happening.
There are no plans to store nuclear waste in MK and there never will be. It just won't happen. MK has never been considered as a site for this. It's shameless, irresponsible scaremongering for purely political reasons. Utterly disgraceful from MK Labour.
What's apparently happened is that a local landowner has inquired about the suitability of a site for waste storage at some point in the past. The Nuclear Waste Service did a very quick review and identified that it was not suitable - obviously!
What makes this so desperate and ridiculous from MK Labour is that the land in question was subsequently sold and so never entered the stage where it was even being considered as an interested party wanting to develop a 'community partnership'. It's literally a private individual wondering if it could be.
At some point in this process, the Nuclear Waste Service flagged as a courtesy to MK Council that they'd received an enquiry. The Labour-run Council and local Labour Party have taken this and deliberately twisted it into a deeply misleading political campaign.
It's hugely irresponsible to play politics with this issue - playing on people's fears. The local Labour Party should be ashamed that they would stoop so low. Sadly, as we saw with the asylum hotels, it's just what they do. Shameless.
I expect the Labour leader of MK Council and his desperate parliamentary candidate for MK North to make a full public apology for this pathetic, shameful, scaremongering. People deserve better than this low politics.