This is the problem, Bitcoin is unregulated.  No one miner or pool owner can be trusted.  The only person you can trust is yourself but, there is no money to be made solo with 700Gh/s. (Plus having to run a node,... unless the transaction payments go up big-time).
When Slush went down last night i cut my hashpower to them because you just don't know where its going.  But what can a UK miner do.  Go to a pool in China? or one in the the US? (after hearing Trump's greed chants, no thanx) If someone is gona make money from my mining, I want it to go into a country i support.  Why hasn't Russia got a pool?

Anyway, what should I vote for... and why?