tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36070744.post1863518978391472451..comments2023-10-20T10:08:03.133+01:00Comments on SomeBeans: A little bit of politicsSomeBeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076372969807940310noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36070744.post-44339359907681290562010-11-23T07:09:54.179+00:002010-11-23T07:09:54.179+00:00@cromercrox Labour's approach post-election pr...@cromercrox Labour's approach post-election probably means that most LibDems would look slightly Tory by being in reaction to them.<br /><br />I'm Greener and more socially liberal than the old Tory party, and I'm more pro-European and less small-statist than the current party. I've never been aware of the different strands of LibDemism prior to the election.<br /><br />It would be interesting to see how I would have appeared politically pre-election.SomeBeanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11076372969807940310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36070744.post-55898754991656758982010-11-22T22:57:21.808+00:002010-11-22T22:57:21.808+00:00Interesting - from your tweets I'd have put yo...Interesting - from your tweets I'd have put you down as a slightly wayward Tory. But then, all Tories are a bit wayward. I'm one myself.cromercroxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09963551114404818534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36070744.post-70599601980676631312010-11-22T09:56:02.431+00:002010-11-22T09:56:02.431+00:00Good article.
There a lots of lib Dems who realise...Good article.<br />There a lots of lib Dems who realise we must give consideration to new nuclear and personally I think the coalition has got the balance right and I hope coalition policy becomes party policy.<br /><br />I wrote a thesis on nuclear power at university and there was no scientific or economic case to exclude nuclear for dogmatic reasons, so ive got some background info too.<br /><br />I'd suggest you join the party and get involved in the debate, as I think the lib Dems are taking a much more scientific approach to policy making these days than ever before. I spoke to a rep from the nuclear industry trade body at lib Dem conference and she told me lots of delegates had expressed support for a rethink on blanket opposition to nuclear.<br /><br />One of the reasons I'm a lib Dem is because they do rely much more on empirical evidence than tabloid pleasing scare stories - ie on drugs.mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36070744.post-6067293845031616632010-11-22T09:06:57.941+00:002010-11-22T09:06:57.941+00:00@newshoot 30 years is 6 parliaments and 30 years a...@newshoot 30 years is 6 parliaments and 30 years ago predates the merger of the Liberal Party and the SDP! So this is quite a challenge for any political party - climate change is one area where policy has to be set on this stage. I'd argue that care for the elderly is a similar area.<br /><br />I see more scope for influencing policy as a member in the LibDems than I do in other parties (it's not something I'm active in though).SomeBeanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11076372969807940310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36070744.post-73915457573986873532010-11-21T14:26:51.369+00:002010-11-21T14:26:51.369+00:00It was the anti-nuclear-power that troubles me too...It was the anti-nuclear-power that troubles me too - and I spent 5 years in renewable energy research! We're going to need both - renewables certainly should be the long-term goal (and we need to include 'extreme' renewables in there like mega desert solar) but we need nuclear to tide us over in the short term (50-100 yr timescale) Carbon-based fuels are getting too precious to burn (except to go off-planet ;-)) <br /><br />I hadn't picked up on the GM crops...presuming you're pro...distortion and fear again holding back developments that could change the world.<br /><br />I'd join a political party that would take a hard honest look 30 years into the future and base forward-planning around world scenarios then - and then educated and communicated as to why decisions like going nuclear will be needed if we wish to retain our quality of life (hmm, that last sounds selfish - not thinking of future generations dealing with our waste and all that - but imagine the middle-class anarchy when we get asked to give up our central heating to preserve gas supplies :-p)NewShoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01559856422504670476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36070744.post-54731340645465760852010-11-21T11:31:17.363+00:002010-11-21T11:31:17.363+00:00@NewShoot I disagree with LibDem policy on nuclear...@NewShoot I disagree with LibDem policy on nuclear power and GM crops, which is probably a bit unusual!<br /><br />Logically one should consider each issue separately and come to conclusions divorced from political allegiance - but life is too short! <br /><br />As I said back in my first political blog post, way back <a href="http://somebeans.blogspot.com/2010/04/why-im-voting-liberal-democrat.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> - I rely on the party to be roughly in tune with my views without my intervention, which fits in with <a href="http://gu.com/p/2y7pz/tw" rel="nofollow">this article</a> which comments that liberals believe in individual liberty but then spoils it by saying we're egotists!<br /><br />Looking at both this post and my previous one, I joined a political party because of my very general beliefs about politics and the Liberal Democrats because of their approach to politics rather than primarily their political philosophy but broadly it's a political philosophy I'm happy with.SomeBeanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11076372969807940310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36070744.post-3897384298008011142010-11-21T11:15:57.282+00:002010-11-21T11:15:57.282+00:00Thanks for the meta-post, well-timed for my curren...Thanks for the meta-post, well-timed for my current musings. You say no party can be completely in tune with an individual's views. I'd be interested to know whether there is any LD policy you really disagree with? <br /><br />I ask because I'm 'liberal' (I hope!) and have recently thought more and more about becoming Liberal D, but although there's a lot of good there, I still disagree with one main policy... <br /><br />I think they're a better fit to my views than any other party, so tend to vote that way, but still not quite convinced enough to join...which is perhaps a daft attitude - but there's more to politics than logic?NewShoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01559856422504670476noreply@blogger.com