The party would also build new nuclear power stations, scrapping the SNP’s longstanding ban on the technology, and greatly streamline the planning system to speed up developments, Sarwar added
That sounds like a good thing, but Scotland has so much wind it kinda doesn’t make sense to build nuclear power. I’m not poopooing nuclear, it’s a really useful tech, just with the amount of time and money to spin up a single nuclear station we’d be swimming in wind farms…
I don’t know, I think the nuclear promise can almost safely be ignored. Largely unpopular, costs too much money and time. I wouldn’t mind seeing it happen, but it’s whatever at this point.
The other promises though? To me it sounds like a lot of big things without having the gov pay for it (in fact the government would be cutting taxes and investment). It’ll be through private investment, which could be okay, or it could be a disaster with investors wanting high returns from the homes they build, for example.
And then we come to…
Scotland’s first NHS appointments app and AI-driven diagnostics in the NHS
Now this is where I instantly draw the line. I like the app idea, that’s fine; I wish I didn’t need to call and gamble at 9am for an appointment.
AI diagnostics though? What kind of AI? Because I can’t help but assume generative AI and that’s an insane concept that means I reject everything else he’s saying outright. Even outside of genAI I’m not aware of machine learning applications that would help reliably enough.
Smells a lot like “we’ll have our cake and eat it too”. I might vote for the Scottish Labour guy in my constituency since they’re much more on the left, but I’m not inspired to vote for Scottish Labour as a whole.
Everything he promises sounds good to me.
That sounds like a good thing, but Scotland has so much wind it kinda doesn’t make sense to build nuclear power. I’m not poopooing nuclear, it’s a really useful tech, just with the amount of time and money to spin up a single nuclear station we’d be swimming in wind farms…
I don’t know, I think the nuclear promise can almost safely be ignored. Largely unpopular, costs too much money and time. I wouldn’t mind seeing it happen, but it’s whatever at this point.
The other promises though? To me it sounds like a lot of big things without having the gov pay for it (in fact the government would be cutting taxes and investment). It’ll be through private investment, which could be okay, or it could be a disaster with investors wanting high returns from the homes they build, for example.
And then we come to…
Now this is where I instantly draw the line. I like the app idea, that’s fine; I wish I didn’t need to call and gamble at 9am for an appointment. AI diagnostics though? What kind of AI? Because I can’t help but assume generative AI and that’s an insane concept that means I reject everything else he’s saying outright. Even outside of genAI I’m not aware of machine learning applications that would help reliably enough.
Smells a lot like “we’ll have our cake and eat it too”. I might vote for the Scottish Labour guy in my constituency since they’re much more on the left, but I’m not inspired to vote for Scottish Labour as a whole.