Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10130970/UK-electricity-prices-almost-twice-as-expensive-as-Germany-within-three-years.html
Anyone voting is basically saying, "Yes I am an idiot and will place a cross on this piece of paper because I have been told that not do do so is bad because people fought wars for the right to vote".
yeah, riiight man.
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
- Posts: 727
What's your alternative ?
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
put sock in tumble drier for 3 hours instead of the useall 2.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
What's my alternative?
Coal. Beautiful, glistening, life-giving, God-given coal.
And shale gas of course.
And nuclear.
None of this is now possible though because of the clowns in office now and the ones before that.
Expect misery ahead.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
not really a good answer philip, someone of your undoubted intelligence can do better.
are you suggesting that people just stay at home and watch daytime telly rather than walking down to the polling station?
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
On the contrary Howard it's a perfectly good answer to Lesleys question where she asked what was the alternative to renewables.
As for the wider question for those intending to vote at the next election consider this.
If I stood as a representative of a party whose policies included the complete and utter devastation of life as we know it in the UK via the most important method which is energy policy I would expect voters to examine those policies and question my sanity.
As it stands this is the position we are in.
Utter madness from all three parties on THE most important issue we face.
So yes I'll ask the question once more - Why would I vote for a party whose aims were to destabilise and imperil my future?
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
- Posts: 2,594
Philip's point is a sound one and not just regarding energy, none of the 3 main parties (are the libs a main party?) give any positive reasons to vote for them, they spend all their time scaremongering about what would happen if we vote for the other lot.
I expect a rise in people voting for smaller parties and dare I say, much to Philip's disgust, the Greens. The Greens are comfortably the most dangerous Party in the UK.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
yes david,there is a lot of scaremongering about.not only from all parties but on this forum to.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
I ripped this from the taxpayer's alliance website
Haw long to blow the average families life time tax takes
Think about it like this. The average household will pay £656,000 in taxes over a whole lifetime.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change spent more than £700,000 on business class and premium economy flights in just over two years. That's how quickly politicians and bureaucrats can wipe out a family's entire lifetime of hard work. We need to keep up the fight to stop your money being wasted.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
voting intentions;
I think voting habits will remain much the same, but smaller parties may gain one or 2 seats
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,088
There will soon be fewer voters than there are election threads on this forum.
Good news IMO.
victor matcham likes this
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,088
What your machine-fed MP thinks of voters.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
If anything at least protest vote ?
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,088
73% not voting is a protest.
Jan Higgins likes this
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Weird Granny Slater wrote:73% not voting is a protest.
No. It isn't. It's called apathy.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,090
Weird Granny Slater wrote:73% not voting is a protest.
Well, it could be, but I think the snag is that it's difficult to discern the intentions of a silence - it could be that non-voters are equally dismayed or impressed by the candidates/policies on offer, are more interested in whatever is on the telly, etc, etc.
Jan Higgins likes this
(Not my real name.)
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,088
ray hutstone wrote:...apathy.
Election lingo bingo!
You've won a prize!
(We don't know which one yet, as it depends which other predictable, hackneyed and unoriginal responses come in.)
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Election lingo bingo!
You've won a prize!
(We don't know which one yet, as it depends which other predictable, hackneyed and unoriginal responses come in.)
I can recommend a good on-line dictionary if that helps.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
Suppose so weird
It is difficult to decide whether to vote or not
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
victor matcham likes this'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
