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Re: Punters still have more faith in Zack Polanski than Kemi Badenoch – politicalbetting.com
The growth of both Reform and the Greens show that people have simply lost all faith in the mainstream parties. They are simply not delivering and haven't for a long time. People are exasperated and lashing out. That reluctance to make "tough" decisions that @Taz mentioned at the end of the previous thread has caused something approaching a disaster, a State that works for those employed by it and for very few others.
Both Labour and the Tories (the Lib Dems are a lost cause) need to wake up and start to deal with reality or reality will finish with them.
Both Labour and the Tories (the Lib Dems are a lost cause) need to wake up and start to deal with reality or reality will finish with them.
DavidL
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Punters still have more faith in Zack Polanski than Kemi Badenoch – politicalbetting.com
Punters still have more faith in Zack Polanski than Kemi Badenoch – politicalbetting.com
There’s two things that continue to amaze me, firstly the Greens for most of the last month have been ahead of the Tories, secondly that Restore price, a party that has never had an MP elected under the Restore banner.
System
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Re: Punters still have more faith in Zack Polanski than Kemi Badenoch – politicalbetting.com
AIUI, Restore has more members now than the Conservative Party.
Good morning, everyone.
Good morning, everyone.
AnneJGP
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Re: Punters still have more faith in Zack Polanski than Kemi Badenoch – politicalbetting.com
The public are nuts if they have any faith in that snake oil salesman.
Corbynism on steroids.
The Lib Dims, a party reminiscent of the controlled opposition in the former Eastern Europe, seems to be cosying up to them. Yet the Greens are not very liberal.
We also had a green deflection in Waveney due to the leftward drift and an appeal from the local MP for it to remain inclusive party to all.
Missed here, as not Reform I’d guess.
Corbynism on steroids.
The Lib Dims, a party reminiscent of the controlled opposition in the former Eastern Europe, seems to be cosying up to them. Yet the Greens are not very liberal.
We also had a green deflection in Waveney due to the leftward drift and an appeal from the local MP for it to remain inclusive party to all.
Missed here, as not Reform I’d guess.
Taz
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Re: Prices and politics – politicalbetting.com
@petefrasermusic.bsky.social
My entire life, Americans have been bringing up the constitution in commanding, warning tones - in both good and bad faith - and now it’s been proven to just be a completely meaningless concept. A guy came along and decided it didn’t apply to him, and all branches of government went ‘ok, fine’
https://bsky.app/profile/petefrasermusic.bsky.social/post/3mhyt2khrws2c
My entire life, Americans have been bringing up the constitution in commanding, warning tones - in both good and bad faith - and now it’s been proven to just be a completely meaningless concept. A guy came along and decided it didn’t apply to him, and all branches of government went ‘ok, fine’
https://bsky.app/profile/petefrasermusic.bsky.social/post/3mhyt2khrws2c
Scott_xP
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Re: Prices and politics – politicalbetting.com
Be interesting to see if places will prefer non-Trump banknotes...The death of cash just accelerated.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz0el909yp3o
Foxy
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Re: Prices and politics – politicalbetting.com
The Healey interview shows to me the current state of our public sector at its extremes. We have 17 frigates and destroyers. None of them, none, were ready for sea. A week of extraordinary work got Dragon fit for Cyprus. And the other 16? Healey had no answers but it shows, again, that the increase in defence spending promised by Starmer may not even be enough to get what we have right now on paper into a useable form.Agreed, but there seems no political will to do it or take any of the tough decisions needed.
Its becoming a cliche of mine but we pay more and more for less and less. Changing this is the biggest priority of any government of any stripe. The alternative is economic ruin.
It’s all ‘I never went into politics to….’ Which, in reality, means they never went into politics to take a tough decision.
Taz
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Re: Prices and politics – politicalbetting.com
What makes Trump2 so much worse than Trump1 is it is huge military and economy behind it being led by sycophants who desire to serve the dementia riddled ego, rather than the 250 year old nation.Which would be fine if all that random crap had the power of Abe Simpson and were directed at passing clouds, or even the letters page of the Daily Express.And what is just whatever random crap floated into his ego and dementia riddled mind.Given Trump is someone who can say the exact opposite within 2 sentences in a paragraph, its rather difficult to know what is actually important and true and what is a negotiation tactic.Another morning, yet another 7am Today headline starting with “President Trump has said”.I suspect most people translate "Trump as said" as "probably untrue". Unfortunately, stuff Trump says is important, even when it's untrue.
I make that at least two thirds of the top headlines in the weeks since the war started. “President Trump has said”. That’s the news these days. What that plonker has said.
But it isn't. It's a dementia riddled ego, with the power of a huge military and economy behind it, directed at the rest of the world.
Re: Prices and politics – politicalbetting.com
To all the folk with hundreds of books you will never read again:
Sell them, donate them to a charity shop, leave them on the bus. Just let them be read again. It's what they are for.
Sell them, donate them to a charity shop, leave them on the bus. Just let them be read again. It's what they are for.
Re: Prices and politics – politicalbetting.com
The Healey interview shows to me the current state of our public sector at its extremes. We have 17 frigates and destroyers. None of them, none, were ready for sea. A week of extraordinary work got Dragon fit for Cyprus. And the other 16? Healey had no answers but it shows, again, that the increase in defence spending promised by Starmer may not even be enough to get what we have right now on paper into a useable form.
Its becoming a cliche of mine but we pay more and more for less and less. Changing this is the biggest priority of any government of any stripe. The alternative is economic ruin.
Its becoming a cliche of mine but we pay more and more for less and less. Changing this is the biggest priority of any government of any stripe. The alternative is economic ruin.
DavidL
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