Poll: New poll on who you will vote for?

[Berserker]

I believe that we need a change at the top, even if its just to give labour the kick-up the arse they need to sort themselves out.

Certain policies are putting me off both the conervatives (economy and health) and lib dems (nuclear!!!)

This - though I'm not interested in change for change's sake. I just wish the leaders - all of them - would get a grip. They all have policies that are a definite turn-off, but given Lib Dem's indescribably stupid energy policy, among others, I'm getting the turn off from them. I'll probably vote Conservative like last time then - even though I'm a leftie by nature.

Seems my vote might matter too...

Voters in Newbury have 1.83x more voting power than the UK average.

 

[cymatty]

Personal allowance change = more money in my pocket = my vote.

What they give with one hand they take with another, why can't people see this. The country is running at a debt rate of £500m a day, we can;t afford to give out freebies.

 

[Will Lucky]

I've just been informed the policy on Decentralizing the National Grid into something that dynamically responds to energy demand is already underway.

Lib Dem Policy, gotta love it.

 

[Mr Jack]

There is no way distributed energy schemes and renewables can meet our growing need for heat and power.

Maybe we should stop growing our need for heat and power.

 

[cymatty]

Maybe we should stop growing our need for heat and power.

Or maybe we can build more power stations. I know which I would rather do.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Maybe we should stop growing our need for heat and power.

Good idea, perhaps we should send death squads around to murder some of the new people to reduce demand for power?

 

[PermaBanned]

Working in the energy industry and specifically in distributed energy this is non-sense.

There is no way distributed energy schemes and renewables can meet our growing need for heat and power.

I refute that. Lets look at Wind, not only do we have a huge potential for wind farms but we also have a very important resource a bit higher up. The Gulf Stream. We could easily power the entire country with it if the various projects had sufficient investment. Same thing could be said of tides. Nuclear power always has an element of risk, something that you have to think hard about before committing to it. Short of Fusion i don't think it's worth it at the minute. Then there's the waste, and unless you launch it into the sun it's never really dealt with.

Anyway, they're not saying that they're going to replace all our sources of electricity with renewable ones within the next few years. They're saying they're going to invest in it. Which it needs, because it is more than capable of taking over. Hell, we would probably be running mainly it now if it wasn't for the oil companies.

 

[Sinny]

Still Lib Dem

 

[Mr Jack]

Or maybe we can build more power stations. I know which I would rather do.

So rather than being more efficient you'd rather carry on squandering money and resources on making power? Why?

 

[Nzyme]

Maybe we should stop growing our need for heat and power.

that would be funny if we were not coming out of a recession but since we are...............HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Mr Jack]

Good idea, perhaps we should send death squads around to murder some of the new people to reduce demand for power?

Wow, you really have been learning from the Republican school of stupid political commentary, haven't you?

 

[cymatty]

So rather than being more efficient you'd rather carry on squandering money and resources on making power? Why?

I don't squander power, my electric bill is £20 per month even over winter.

What I dont want is more expensive power so we can pay for shiny new inefficient wind turbines and such.

 

[Daegan]

I was going to vote tactically in an effort to prevent this seat swinging to the Tories, until the polling card came through and I realised I'm in the neighbouring constituency

Traditionally I'd probably be a Labour voter, but Gordon Brown's government is so woefully inept and out of touch they deserve a good kicking.

Anyway as it stands we have a Lib Dem MP, who I actually rate pretty highly, in a constituency which is classed as marginal but likely to be fairly safe for them. I'll be voting to keep it that way.

 

[Slam62]

What by reducing tax revenue?
This country simply cannot afford to lose the banks, they provide 12% of total tax revenue to the country as well as millions of jobs. But hey its popular to hate the banks even though its highly likely that the Government will make a profit on the whole thing.
THe only thing this will achieve is to put everyones bills up and increase energy companies profits
Screwinig people over on their pensions is not a good way to get people to save for their retirement. Companies accounts are already audited properly.

By encouraging people off benefits, they will spend the money anyway.

I hate the banks, do not trust the banks and our dependence on them is dangerous.

The energy companies should be properly regulated.

People on 40% tax can afford it. The money has to come from somewhere.


By the way, their nuclear powerpolicy is rubbish and fantasy as well, but it will never happen.

 

[PermaBanned]

I'd also like to remind you that there's no way for 'fossil' fuels to continue to meet our growing demand for electricity (not energy, a mistake i wouldn't expect somebody in that industry to make) and heat. At least not for long, and not without killing everything in the process.

Nuclear Fission is and always will be imperfect. We have alternatives now, they just need funding. The lib dems are proposing providing this funding. We all know they'd pay for themselves before long.

 

[cymatty]

People on 40% tax can afford it. The money has to come from somewhere.
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Typical lib dem policy, punish the people that dare to do well for themselves.

 

[Nzyme]

I refute that. Lets look at Wind, not only do we have a huge potential for wind farms but we also have a very important resource a bit higher up. The Gulf Stream. We could easily power the entire country with it if the various projects had sufficient investment. Same thing could be said of tides. Nuclear power always has an element of risk, something that you have to think hard about before committing to it. Short of Fusion i don't think it's worth it at the minute. Then there's the waste, and unless you launch it into the sun it's never really dealt with.

Anyway, they're not saying that they're going to replace all our sources of electricity with renewable ones within the next few years. They're saying they're going to invest in it. Which it needs, because it is more than capable of taking over. Hell, we would probably be running mainly it now if it wasn't for the oil companies.

It is very difficult to meet electricity demand through renewables because its not a constant demand, it varies dramatically. I agree that we need renewables but mainly from an energy security point-of-view, they will never be able to meet our energy demands on there own.

Nuclear power is the perfect solution for meeting base-demand. New generation reactors are safe, clean and the waste generated is minimal. Future reactor generation (hybrid-reactors) promise even less waste. Processes are in the pipe to recondition spent nuclear fuel into more nuclear fuel (although proliferation is a concern with the reconditioned fuel as its perfect for dirty bombs).

For the time being we have to rely on petroleum-derived fuels as well as coal while we develop a more diverse energy generation portfolio in the country.

Hopefully with enough investment fusion power will be viable in 50 years.

 

[PermaBanned]

Typical lib dem policy, punish the people that dare to do well for themselves.

Oh dear.

 

[ChroniC]

Some of the high and mighty people on these boards who are proclaiming to be political know-alls, saying that voting for the Lib Dem party is stupid, and naive, should take a look at themselves, because I'm pretty sure the two other parties they are suggesting will be better, have in their last terms made a rather big mess of things. So their previous vote for that party was pretty stupid imo.

Vote for labour get a lot of the same ****, vote for Tory and possibly go back to the **** of the 80's, or vote for a Lib Dem, and see if they can do a better job than the last 20 years.

Now me as a clearly stupid voter sees this as a bit of a problem, because in all cases it seems were going to be landing in ****, except the Lib Dem option is slightly less unknown, and this fills a stupid voter like me up with a small amount of hope.

Please indulge me with your radical political genius on why voting for either of the 2 parties who have shown consistent failure is a good idea?

 

[Slam62]

I'd also like to remind you that there's no way for 'fossil' fuels to continue to meet our growing demand for electricity (not energy, a mistake i wouldn't expect somebody in that industry to make) and heat. At least not for long, and not without killing everything in the process.

Nuclear Fission is and always will be imperfect. We have alternatives now, they just need funding. The lib dems are proposing providing this funding. We all know they'd pay for themselves before long.

yes but I believe, we would have power cuts in the not too distant future, I have faith they would see sense.

I can see the thinking though, it just won't work that's all.