Vote for policies

I always enjoy doing this around the time of an election.

I've only done the mini 3 policy one for now, but unsurprisingly I found myself shortlisting what turned out to be Labour, Green and Lib Dem policies, coming out as 2/1 in favour of Green over Labour.

As always seems to be the case on this site, the highest percentage of people choose Lib Dem policies.

https://voteforpolicies.org.uk/

 

Interesting looks like I’m voting Green 66.6% , 33.3% Labour

 

I voted Reform on energy, for their commitment to fast-track new nuclear reactors, Green on the environment, because of their explicit commitment to bring water companies into public ownership, and Lib Dem on housing, because their commitment to new housing seemed best. Labour are probably the happy medium between the three.

 

How many times do I have to keep telling you all to Vote Green!

Except in this election of course, it's far more important to destroy the Tories.

A few months ago I was hoping for a hung Parliament resulting in a Lib-Lab coalition and I would have been confident that electoral reform would come as a consequence. Now it looks like there is a chance that the Lib Dems could be the official opposition and they will pressure Labour to commit to electoral reform.

 

That would be excellent. Electoral reform is long overdue. Although if it lets the Reform loonies in, it'll be a dual edged sword to say the least.

 

Labour which is my plan. People have gone after my candidate.

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/06/02/pr...r-cooper-claims-she-will-be-change-candidate/

 

66% labour, 33% green

 

You are seriously misguided about nuclear power, it is in no way environmentally friendly except in the very short term, ie using reactors we already have. They are the most expensive form of energy generation to build and the cost of decommissioning and disposing of the highly radioactive and chemically toxic waste is absolutely astronomical. Not to mention the massive cost of mining and enriching uranium for fuel.

Far more sensible to produce power by wind wave and sun, negligible cost to install compared to nuclear, essentially free in operation and almost no costs for decommissioning.

 

Just done it myself and got 33.3% between Labour, Reform & Green.

 

Your in my constituency as well , it’s not a good look though is it claiming no links to Westminster and having clean up the polluted rivers as a priority when you’ve been a lobbyist for Yorkshire Water and worked for Yvette Cooper for years

 

At least they would never get a majority and be able to implement their loony policies.

After this election, the Conservatives will likely be taken over by Reform anyway and would eventually be back in a position to win a majority under first past the post.

 

Until it's not sunny or windy, in which case you need a baseline. They also take up far less space which is especially important since loony Greens keep objecting to solar farms.

 

Did the lot now:

43.8% labour
25% lib dems
25% greens

and (holds nose) 6.2% reform (this was for democracy as it said it would have a referendum on PR and ensuring sanctions on public officials who break rules inc prison)


Barring the last one, pleased that the rest reflects my political beliefs...

 

65% BDSM
20% Bukkake
20% Remedial Maths

 

My 3 votes were split between Labour,reform and greens

 

I had 43% labour, 35% Green, 14% Lib Dems, and it shames me to say 7% for the CONservatives (I will hang my head in shame).

 

Power storage capacity would need to be upgraded of course to store the power for days when the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine, or if the moon stops revolving round the Earth and the tides stop. The existing nuclear power stations are filling in the gaps at the moment along with the mostly mothballed coal and gas power stations. Sufficient storage is a problem but is being tackled by the use of flow cells (current ones are essentially large lead-acid batteries where the fluid is pumped through the cell effectively only limiting the electrical storage capacity by the size of the fluid storage tanks - more efficient chemistry is being developed). Other storage systems include pumping water up mountains when we have lots of power and then letting it back down driving generators when we need it (hydro-electric) - also having the benefit of generating more power if the reservoir is filled by rain. Scotland and Wales have the most of this type of power storage. Possibly a bigger problem is the grid which has not been upgraded to keep pace with demand, the most common reason why housing development is curtailed is because of insufficient grid capacity to power the new homes. Of course the grid problem is a limiting factor for all power generation, not just renewables.

Who are these loony Greens objecting to solar farms? The Green Party is 100% behind such energy generation.

 

I agree. I had something through the post from Keir saying I know Jade will stand up for you and urge you to vote for "them" so he misgendered her. She is better than Mark Eastwood who towed the company line on every vote during the pandemic, has daft ideas like wanting a train every half hour on the Penistone Line and hasn't protected green belt land from being built on.

 

What's the point,none of them have done anything in my lifetime.

 

I've done the full one now, and got 50% labour, and the other 50% shared between Green and Lib Dem.