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...turned out to be the results of an environment survey, carried out amongst LibDem members in the North-west.
Seems like of the (1,600) respondents 89.8% regard "global warming as a very severe problem facing mankind". I just wonder how many people have actually done any research of their own, rather than just the stories in the sensationalist red-tops...
Support for nuclear power? well that's actually 46.9% for:46.2% against. That's something I would have expected to have been more clear cut, considering the bad press that nuclear have had over the years.
£2,000pa tax on the largest "gas-guzzlers" (I don't recall a definition of what these actually were though)? Yes please (81.9% in support).
Cull badgers if it were proven it would help control the spread of bovine TB? 49%F:42.5%A
Alice.
Seems like of the (1,600) respondents 89.8% regard "global warming as a very severe problem facing mankind". I just wonder how many people have actually done any research of their own, rather than just the stories in the sensationalist red-tops...
Support for nuclear power? well that's actually 46.9% for:46.2% against. That's something I would have expected to have been more clear cut, considering the bad press that nuclear have had over the years.
£2,000pa tax on the largest "gas-guzzlers" (I don't recall a definition of what these actually were though)? Yes please (81.9% in support).
Cull badgers if it were proven it would help control the spread of bovine TB? 49%F:42.5%A
Alice.
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> a definition of what these actually were though)? Yes
> please (81.9% in support).
Well, based on the current car tax bands, that's any car over 223g/Km carbon which includes the Moose, the Astra, and the Saab. And most cars over 1.8l.
Such polls are *utterly* meaningless, IMHO, unless you at least *try* to define your terms.
The Astra's rated at 225 - I'm a *tad* pissed off that GM couldn't note this and spend ten seconds re-mapping the ignition and fuel, I'm certain that for the sacrifice of maybe just the one hp, it could've made saved the 2 grammes and got under the bracket.
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Nuclear power is a good solution for power generation *while* we're sorting out something a little more renweable - the main problem is waste disposal.
"Gas-guzzlers" - I assume that also includes the type of transport necessary for those in more inaccessible areas? Fine, tax them all you like where the owners live in city centres, but don't put yet more burden onto the farmers and smallholders who actually need those forms of transport!
Badgers - there is not yet any proven link, it's all circumstantial so far, but if a link *is* found then yes, to protect the livestock, badgers should be culled in areas that are farmed, but only in those areas.