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Re: Labour Leadership – The Betting Value’s With Rayner and Miliband – politicalbetting.com
Imagine how smug you'd feel if you had tipped Ed Miliband at 100/1 succeed Starmer then also found yesterday you'd backed Wes Streeting to replace Starmer at 50/1 in 2022.
Re: Labour Leadership – The Betting Value’s With Rayner and Miliband – politicalbetting.com
Rayner's HMRC problems should be over now - if my memory is correct the person involved will be over 18 and so the money that was owed to HMRC will now be owed by HMRC to her assuming she's paid it.
And I fully understand why she wasn't rushing to pay HMRC when they took 17 months to pay me the £8,000 they owed me from tax year 2023/4...
And I fully understand why she wasn't rushing to pay HMRC when they took 17 months to pay me the £8,000 they owed me from tax year 2023/4...
eek
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Re: Labour Leadership – The Betting Value’s With Rayner and Miliband – politicalbetting.com
It's a better strategy than waving your Johnson about!Starmer: Britain should ‘get closer’ to single marketWas it a 'deep and special' partnership he was thinking of?
The Prime Minister said deeper economic alignment with the EU would be more effective than a customs union
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/27/keir-starmer-eu-single-market-closer-labour-customs-union/
Or May I be being unfair?
Re: Labour Leadership – The Betting Value’s With Rayner and Miliband – politicalbetting.com
Maintenance costs are in theory challengeable in court, whereas ground rents were/are just fixed income for the freeholder.On the changes to the leasehold system, I've rarely seen such unanimous support for ending it completely. The government needs to put two fingers up at the "investors" and move to completely eliminate ground rents. The leeches can put their money into equities rather than these nonsense asset classes that carry no risk.Yes - the problem with the £250 cap is that this doesn’t deal with the control of the building. Service charges will just rise to compensate.
Mind you, the furious escalation in building and maintenance costs is real. In my old block of flats, it was all freehold. So we ran it through a committee. The last couple of years, things like painting have doubled in price. Window replacement is worse.
And this is with serious shopping around, trying to get deals - such as offering turns a rolling project to replace all the windows - multiple hundreds.
Re: Labour Leadership – The Betting Value’s With Rayner and Miliband – politicalbetting.com
Relatively meaningless waffle, unless the UK is prepared to engage with the something-for-something aspect of this.Starmer: Britain should ‘get closer’ to single marketWas it a 'deep and special' partnership he was thinking of?
The Prime Minister said deeper economic alignment with the EU would be more effective than a customs union
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/27/keir-starmer-eu-single-market-closer-labour-customs-union/
Or May I be being unfair?
Linking to the header, is there any way for an ambitious Labour MP to get the leadership without showing a lot of leg on Europe; possibly up to single customs and united market arrangements? Compare with the way that Conservative leadership elections ratcheted them steadily more Eurosceptic.
Re: Labour Leadership – The Betting Value’s With Rayner and Miliband – politicalbetting.com
Suella is asked if she’ll call a by-election. Her answer? “Yes, I believe in them… but if I’m leaving a popular party for an unpopular one, no need. Besides, I apologized for the Tories’ failures, so no by-election.”Maybe that premature ejaculation of a press release had a point after all?
Ladies & gents… I’m still trying to make sense of this. Weak. Afraid. Full stop.
https://x.com/SlyForTheRight/status/2015923444228227263
Re: Labour Leadership – The Betting Value’s With Rayner and Miliband – politicalbetting.com
Suella is asked if she’ll call a by-election. Her answer? “Yes, I believe in them… but if I’m leaving a popular party for an unpopular one, no need. Besides, I apologized for the Tories’ failures, so no by-election.”Suella Braverman is a hypocrite who lacks even a smidgeon of integrity.
Ladies & gents… I’m still trying to make sense of this. Weak. Afraid. Full stop.
https://x.com/SlyForTheRight/status/2015923444228227263
I'm shocked.
Shocked, I tell you.
ydoethur
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Re: Labour Leadership – The Betting Value’s With Rayner and Miliband – politicalbetting.com
It's an asset class that should never have existed in the first place, similar to water companies. Ending a gravy train isn't asset theft.On the changes to the leasehold system, I've rarely seen such unanimous support for ending it completely. The government needs to put two fingers up at the "investors" and move to completely eliminate ground rents. The leeches can put their money into equities rather than these nonsense asset classes that carry no risk.Surprised to see you advocating asset theft.
MaxPB
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Re: Kemi Badenoch is determined to bring the nasty party label back– politicalbetting.com
I would have thought when it comes to education and women they can take it or Leavitt.Afghanistan’s education minister announced that women are permanently banned from attending schools.MAGA have sent a study group over to see.
https://x.com/Osint613/status/2015835655012508016
ydoethur
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Re: Labour Leadership – The Betting Value’s With Rayner and Miliband – politicalbetting.com
Starmer: Britain should ‘get closer’ to single market
The Prime Minister said deeper economic alignment with the EU would be more effective than a customs union
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/27/keir-starmer-eu-single-market-closer-labour-customs-union/
The Prime Minister said deeper economic alignment with the EU would be more effective than a customs union
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/27/keir-starmer-eu-single-market-closer-labour-customs-union/