I believe Claire Wright is based in Ottery, which is now in the Honiton and Sidmouth seat. It's worth noting that the East Devon MP is fighting Honiton and Sidmouth against the LD by-election winner, so the Exmouth seat will have no incumbent
Hmm could even see the Conservatives dropping from 1st to 3rd in Exmouth. I’d agree that the independent votes seem likely to switch heavily to the Lib Dem’s, also in the SW Tory votes seem more often to go to the Lib Dem’s when they seek a new home.
FPT - the problem with saying just spend more to improve public services is that public sector productivity is falling e.g. some civil servants are on strike to do a 4 day week for the same pay.
The suspicion is that Lab will put up taxes but any extra money will just get swallowed up in extra pay for public sector workers, with no improvement in services.
I don’t see it. Labour will pick too much of Wright’s vote up. Wright could have won it though.
I think Wright almost certainly would have won it. There is definitely a risk of the vote splitting now, but there are enough opposition votes to win the seat if they align around one candidate, and given the LDs dominated the local elections in 75% of the seat last time (2023) and Claire Wright has endorsed them (which unusually I think might matter) I think they have a real shot at being that candidate. They will need some tactical votes from a messy starting point though.
FPT - the problem with saying just spend more to improve public services is that public sector productivity is falling e.g. some civil servants are on strike to do a 4 day week for the same pay.
The suspicion is that Lab will put up taxes but any extra money will just get swallowed up in extra pay for public sector workers, with no improvement in services.
Justice is one area where you can do a lot of good for a relatively small spend.
But elsewhere? I’d expect a lot of money to be wasted.
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
Thanks for the thread @Quincel. However, I disagree. If the Tories are going to lose this seat it will be to Labour.
I think there's a broader question around the Lib Dems. It's possible they win a load of seats simply because the Tory vote falls a lot, but I still think we should expect to see a moderate swing from Labour to the Lib Dems if they are to clean up in Southern England.
OT, an actually interesting use of AI. It's become common practice for lawyers to drown opposing litigants with quantities of documents which aren't readable on any reasonable timescale (we saw this with the PO enquiry). They are now (even if you take this story with a pinch of salt).
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
Great shame about Corbyn. A rare politician who gives a damn. Reading the article by Peter Oborne on the previous thread and the behaviour of James Cleverly you realise what the feeble alternative looks like
Great shame about Corbyn. A rare politician who gives a damn. Reading the article by Peter Oborne on the previous thread and the behaviour of James Cleverly you realise what the feeble alternative looks like
It's a pity he only gave a damn about Russia and Iran.
Great shame about Corbyn. A rare politician who gives a damn. Reading the article by Peter Oborne on the previous thread and the behaviour of James Cleverly you realise what the feeble alternative looks like
But one who holds certain views are so catastrophically misguided, even if you're coming at it from a normal, rather than a crank, left-wing perspective that he's done immense damage to his own cause.
You'd say Liz Truss "gives a damn" too but has probably achieved something similar for her part of the right.
It very much matters what you "give a damn" about.
Not the least amazing thing of the last few months is Paul Mason’s transformation into a Starmerite simp. Sad that thus far he’s not even got anything in return for such shameful public grovelling.
Super piece, Quincel. Just what this Site was made for.
Unfortunately B365 are one of the many bookies to bar me long ago so I cannot take advantage of their generosity and your acumen, but I would like both my readers to know that I thoroughly endorse your message.
Keir Starmer twists the knife on Rishi Sunak’s rain-sodden election speech.
“The image of a man who says ‘I’m the only one with a plan’ standing in the rain without an umbrella is, to put it politely, pretty farcical.”
6 fucking weeks of this shit.
Dear God, this site is desperately crying out for an ignore function
Ignore Starmer?
This is a political betting site. He is posting political news and comments. Is the issue that you dislike the news?
Shouldnt you be our campaigning ?
No. I have a job. Clients to keep happy.
This isn’t a dig, a genuine question, have you had to go through your old Pb posts and check you haven’t posted anything, especially after the lagershed, that could cause you difficulties if your opponent picks up on them?
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
You know who developed the Bet365 website?
The current Tory MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Did he also develop the Bet365 mirror sites that operate in China against their laws?
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
You know who developed the Bet365 website?
The current Tory MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Did he also develop the Bet365 mirror sites that operate in China against their laws?
Keir Starmer twists the knife on Rishi Sunak’s rain-sodden election speech.
“The image of a man who says ‘I’m the only one with a plan’ standing in the rain without an umbrella is, to put it politely, pretty farcical.”
6 fucking weeks of this shit.
Dear God, this site is desperately crying out for an ignore function
Believe it or not you can actually create one. You need to install the Stylus (or Cascadea, or similar) extension in your browser, then add a CSS rule to do the filtering. I can't test it right now for Reasons, but I think it would be
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
You know who developed the Bet365 website?
The current Tory MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme.
I shall expect further improvements to the site around August then.
Keir Starmer twists the knife on Rishi Sunak’s rain-sodden election speech.
“The image of a man who says ‘I’m the only one with a plan’ standing in the rain without an umbrella is, to put it politely, pretty farcical.”
6 fucking weeks of this shit.
Dear God, this site is desperately crying out for an ignore function
That from Starmer is actually the sort of pithy and humorous comment that stands a greater chance than average of cutting through. Making fun of the Tories is surely a better strategy than that somewhat vacuous “14 years” Labour video someone linked to earlier, which simply reminds us how bad everything is and invites the question “so how is Labour going to sort all this out, then?”
Not the least amazing thing of the last few months is Paul Mason’s transformation into a Starmerite simp. Sad that thus far he’s not even got anything in return for such shameful public grovelling.
Great shame about Corbyn. A rare politician who gives a damn. Reading the article by Peter Oborne on the previous thread and the behaviour of James Cleverly you realise what the feeble alternative looks like
It's a pity he only gave a damn about Russia and Iran.
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
Morning all. I'd spend all morning on bet 365 if I were you. Hackney North and SN 1/500 Labour with Diane without the whip and potentially standing? Ilford North 1/33 on Wes with the Indy standing against him and the Tories relatively close and not losing anything like the national ground in London..... Yes, these are very likely Lab holds but 1/500 and 1/33? Fanciful odds
I seem to recall that Southam Observer now lives in this constituency, and has expressed views on it in the past. He might well have something to add, but I don't know how to raise him across the ether....
I seem to recall that Southam Observer now lives in this constituency, and has expressed views on it in the past. He might well have something to add, but I don't know how to raise him across the ether....
He's @SpaJW on Twitter (or whatever Space Karen is calling it this week), I think.
Although some of the detail in this is wrong (baseload like nuclear is usually on a fixed per kWh price contract), the general point is true.
sunny day, so I went to check the California electricity price map.
sure enough, pretty much everywhere, the current price of electricity is negative. poor generators that can't easily throttle their output, like nuclear or geothermal, apparently have to just pay for the privilege of outputting power, if they can't get rid of it any other way
This is one reason why battery storage economics absolutely trashes gas peaker plants at the margin - they can get paid both to store and release energy.
Those wind farm idle capacity payments that @Luckyguy1983 gets so excited about will in the future be diverted to paying for battery storage.
Not the least amazing thing of the last few months is Paul Mason’s transformation into a Starmerite simp. Sad that thus far he’s not even got anything in return for such shameful public grovelling.
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
Unibet and Betfred also have no constituency betting (yet) that I can see.
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
You know who developed the Bet365 website?
The current Tory MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Didn’t he also back Liz Truss for leader/pm?
No one’s perfect I guess.
Aaron was also one of the first Tory MPs to call Boris Johnson out for being a liar over the lockdown breaches, he was also utterly magnificent over the Owen Paterson shenanigans, John Swinney take note.
Exeter has a Labour MP and Labour were ahead of the LDs in East Devon. So with a split opposition and no Independent this time the Tories might squeeze through the middle
Dagenham and Rainham 1/50 on Labour, with Cruddas standing down with whatever personal vote he has. These odds don't reflect likelihood even if they are correct about who should win, hence go value sniffing
I seem to recall that Southam Observer now lives in this constituency, and has expressed views on it in the past. He might well have something to add, but I don't know how to raise him across the ether....
Great minds ... I thought the same and have tried to wake him.
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
You know who developed the Bet365 website?
The current Tory MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Didn’t he also back Liz Truss for leader/pm?
No one’s perfect I guess.
Aaron was also one of the first Tory MPs to call Boris Johnson for being a liar over the lockdown breaches, he was also utterly magnificent over the Owen Paterson shenanigans, John Swinney take note.
Exeter has a Labour MP and Labour were ahead of the LDs in East Devon. So with a split opposition and no Independent this time the Tories might squeeze through the middle
They start nominally 45% ahead of Labour and 47% the LDs. 'Coming through the middle' would be a generous interpretation of a hold
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
You know who developed the Bet365 website?
The current Tory MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Didn’t he also back Liz Truss for leader/pm?
No one’s perfect I guess.
Aaron was also one of the first Tory MPs to call Boris Johnson for being a liar over the lockdown breaches, he was also utterly magnificent over the Owen Paterson shenanigans, John Swinney take note.
I seem to recall that Southam Observer now lives in this constituency, and has expressed views on it in the past. He might well have something to add, but I don't know how to raise him across the ether....
He's @SpaJW on Twitter (or whatever Space Karen is calling it this week), I think.
Keir Starmer twists the knife on Rishi Sunak’s rain-sodden election speech.
“The image of a man who says ‘I’m the only one with a plan’ standing in the rain without an umbrella is, to put it politely, pretty farcical.”
I think he’s nailed it though, hasn’t he?
You had to feel sorry for him. Well, I did, anyway.
But where are his Spads? Surely one of them would have thought to provide an umbrella, and do something about that noxious narcissist playing music to drown out the PM.
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
You know who developed the Bet365 website?
The current Tory MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Didn’t he also back Liz Truss for leader/pm?
No one’s perfect I guess.
Aaron was also one of the first Tory MPs to call Boris Johnson out for being a liar over the lockdown breaches, he was also utterly magnificent over the Owen Paterson shenanigans, John Swinney take note.
OT, an actually interesting use of AI. It's become common practice for lawyers to drown opposing litigants with quantities of documents which aren't readable on any reasonable timescale (we saw this with the PO enquiry). They are now (even if you take this story with a pinch of salt).
I thought Claire might do it last time, but that doesn’t mean I’m confident about the LibDems this time around and it’s now messy with the boundary changes.
I know the Exmouth and Exeter East constituency a little bit on the new boundaries. The LibDems have some organisation in Exeter but not a lot further south down the Exe estuary. Exeter is very Labour nowadays and a good chunk of this goes into the new constituency. But overall, this constituency looks solidly Conservative to me and Electoral Calculus agrees putting the likely vote share as:
Con 39.4% Lab 27.6% LibDems 17.1%
I don’t like 8/1 (or update 7/1) but I might have put a tenner on at 40/1. H
The other part of the constituency, Honiton and Sidmouth is a much closer with Electoral Calculus going for:
Con 36.4% LibDem 33.7% Lab 16.1%
But you can only get 5/2 on the LibDems for this one and I don’t consider that value either.
Hmmm. I’m not sure about this one. I don’t think the boundary changes help. But if the tories are heading for a shellacking then Exmouth and Exeter East constituency might turn yellow.
Rishi touring Northern Ireland trying to build the Tory presence there this morning
Pointless
Not really, he would get lots of crap if he didn’t go to NI during the campaign, being PM of Gb&NI and all that, so maybe better to get that done early so he can focus on more valuable areas as momentum builds and the landscape changes (or not).
The market town of Bentham, which is home to 3,000 people and set on the banks of the River Wenning, is also home to the Angus International Safety Group – locally known as Angus Fire – which, since the 1970s, has been producing firefighting foams containing PFAS at a factory near the town centre...
Keir Starmer twists the knife on Rishi Sunak’s rain-sodden election speech.
“The image of a man who says ‘I’m the only one with a plan’ standing in the rain without an umbrella is, to put it politely, pretty farcical.”
I think he’s nailed it though, hasn’t he?
You had to feel sorry for him. Well, I did, anyway.
But where are his Spads? Surely one of them would have thought to provide an umbrella, and do something about that noxious narcissist playing music to drown out the PM.
Aiui the SpAds got Bray banned a couple of hours too late. The story seems to be the announcement was planned for outside, then switched inside when it rained, then someone realised Rishi could not make a political speech from inside (no fighting in the war room) so rather than delete that rant which could have been made at the party meeting a couple of hours later and just make announce an election, Rishi switched back outside in the rain sans brolly.
The market town of Bentham, which is home to 3,000 people and set on the banks of the River Wenning, is also home to the Angus International Safety Group – locally known as Angus Fire – which, since the 1970s, has been producing firefighting foams containing PFAS at a factory near the town centre...
Not good news for anything downstream, either.
At some point someone will rebrand rocks as forever chemicals. What matters is are they harmful.
How about the Cons in Norfolk South (6/4) or Lowestoft (11/8)?
Those prices are about right, Norfolk South has some very Laboury suburbs that are quite 'Norwich North' in nature (I lived in this one as a younger Woolie and later until 2015) and I favour Lab gain - yes I know its South but the burbs are like the burbs that are part of NN, Norwich South is mostly city if you see my meaning! Lowestoft is the slightly more generally Labour part of Waveney so yeah, Lab gain likely Great Yarmouth also about right - toss up lean Lab
Keir Starmer twists the knife on Rishi Sunak’s rain-sodden election speech.
“The image of a man who says ‘I’m the only one with a plan’ standing in the rain without an umbrella is, to put it politely, pretty farcical.”
I think he’s nailed it though, hasn’t he?
You had to feel sorry for him. Well, I did, anyway.
But where are his Spads? Surely one of them would have thought to provide an umbrella, and do something about that noxious narcissist playing music to drown out the PM.
Is there much worse for a PM than people starting to feel sorry for them?
Dagenham and Rainham 1/50 on Labour, with Cruddas standing down with whatever personal vote he has. These odds don't reflect likelihood even if they are correct about who should win, hence go value sniffing
Have there been boundary changes? I think this otherwise needs quite a deep Tory increase in majority to be a win. And this is not the type of urban seat where the Lab voters boycott over Gaza.
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
You know who developed the Bet365 website?
The current Tory MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Didn’t he also back Liz Truss for leader/pm?
No one’s perfect I guess.
Aaron was also one of the first Tory MPs to call Boris Johnson out for being a liar over the lockdown breaches, he was also utterly magnificent over the Owen Paterson shenanigans, John Swinney take note.
He fixed his Liz Truss faux pas in 49 days.
He backed Boris, and then he backed Truss. I think we can all look forward to Bell ending his political career in July.
Dagenham and Rainham 1/50 on Labour, with Cruddas standing down with whatever personal vote he has. These odds don't reflect likelihood even if they are correct about who should win, hence go value sniffing
Have there been boundary changes? I think this otherwise needs quite a deep Tory increase in majority to be a win. And this is not the type of urban seat where the Lab voters boycott over Gaza.
Minor changes to nominal result. Yeah it's a very likely hold but it ain't 50 to 1 on likely, its Labour defence number 8
The market town of Bentham, which is home to 3,000 people and set on the banks of the River Wenning, is also home to the Angus International Safety Group – locally known as Angus Fire – which, since the 1970s, has been producing firefighting foams containing PFAS at a factory near the town centre...
Not good news for anything downstream, either.
OT, but I hadn't realised Bentham was in North Yorkshire. It's barely 10 miles from the West Coast at Morecambe Bay.
Keir Starmer twists the knife on Rishi Sunak’s rain-sodden election speech.
“The image of a man who says ‘I’m the only one with a plan’ standing in the rain without an umbrella is, to put it politely, pretty farcical.”
6 fucking weeks of this shit.
Dear God, this site is desperately crying out for an ignore function
I mean, it is a General Election, which is pretty rare. I’m very happy with lots of cut n’ pastes, quotes, even pertinent tweets if they are on topic to the election campaign.
It’s things like holiday snaps which are, right now, a distraction.
The best way to ignore "this shit" is surely do what lots of others will and book yourself a holiday abroad?
How about the Cons in Norfolk South (6/4) or Lowestoft (11/8)?
Those prices are about right, Norfolk South has some very Laboury suburbs that are quite 'Norwich North' in nature (I lived in this one as a younger Woolie and later until 2015) and I favour Lab gain - yes I know its South but the burbs are like the burbs that are part of NN, Norwich South is mostly city if you see my meaning! Lowestoft is the slightly more generally Labour part of Waveney so yeah, Lab gain likely Great Yarmouth also about right - toss up lean Lab
6/4 in Norfolk South is 'just about' value thinking on it, anything 2/1 up a yes for Con there
Not the least amazing thing of the last few months is Paul Mason’s transformation into a Starmerite simp. Sad that thus far he’s not even got anything in return for such shameful public grovelling.
Keir Starmer twists the knife on Rishi Sunak’s rain-sodden election speech.
“The image of a man who says ‘I’m the only one with a plan’ standing in the rain without an umbrella is, to put it politely, pretty farcical.”
I think he’s nailed it though, hasn’t he?
You had to feel sorry for him. Well, I did, anyway.
But where are his Spads? Surely one of them would have thought to provide an umbrella, and do something about that noxious narcissist playing music to drown out the PM.
Those iconic images are thin on the ground. In years to come when Rishi's just a footnote and the 2090 British General election is beamed to his ranch in California he'll be able to say to his grandchildren.........
"See that crazy man in infront of the lectern in the rainstorm......no not the one falling into the sea ....that's Neil Kinnock ............it's ME!'
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Next week they move to Wycombe though so I need to remind them that Labour is the natural anti-Tory vote there.
Edit to add - Gareth is a Nimby hoping to expand the Green Belt - I suspect he may be the only Tory gain (outside of Scotland) in this election..
The suspicion is that Lab will put up taxes but any extra money will just get swallowed up in extra pay for public sector workers, with no improvement in services.
But elsewhere? I’d expect a lot of money to be wasted.
Keir Starmer twists the knife on Rishi Sunak’s rain-sodden election speech.
“The image of a man who says ‘I’m the only one with a plan’ standing in the rain without an umbrella is, to put it politely, pretty farcical.”
Bet365's advantages include, imo, the best website which is fast, easy to navigate, and not forever trying to tempt you to try their casino games, and no shops. Their prices are generally good but together with their BOG offer, is not as good as they used to be, but generally among the best in the village.
Take this election. Bet365 has prices on most if not all constituencies already. Ladbrokes has 40. Hills has none that I can find. Skybet has 16. Betfair Exchange 50.
And of course it is only Bet365 of those that has prices for Exmouth & Exeter East as per Quincel's header.
Dear God, this site is desperately crying out for an ignore function
I think there's a broader question around the Lib Dems. It's possible they win a load of seats simply because the Tory vote falls a lot, but I still think we should expect to see a moderate swing from Labour to the Lib Dems if they are to clean up in Southern England.
It's become common practice for lawyers to drown opposing litigants with quantities of documents which aren't readable on any reasonable timescale (we saw this with the PO enquiry).
They are now (even if you take this story with a pinch of salt).
GPT-4o has been out for 10 days and someone has already used it to take out their HOA
https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1793363005532782614
No breaking news to be posted on PB for the duration of the most active betting period and reason the site exists.
The current Tory MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme.
This is a political betting site. He is posting political news and comments. Is the issue that you dislike the news?
Try doing it more.
You'd say Liz Truss "gives a damn" too but has probably achieved something similar for her part of the right.
It very much matters what you "give a damn" about.
https://x.com/paulmasonnews/status/1793910452189331600?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
Unfortunately B365 are one of the many bookies to bar me long ago so I cannot take advantage of their generosity and your acumen, but I would like both my readers to know that I thoroughly endorse your message.
Maybe you should look at your posts, which are normally just posting the opinion of someone most people have never heard of attacking the Government.
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For what it's worth Scott provides a valuable public service.
No one’s perfect I guess.
Hackney North and SN 1/500 Labour with Diane without the whip and potentially standing?
Ilford North 1/33 on Wes with the Indy standing against him and the Tories relatively close and not losing anything like the national ground in London.....
Yes, these are very likely Lab holds but 1/500 and 1/33? Fanciful odds
sunny day, so I went to check the California electricity price map.
sure enough, pretty much everywhere, the current price of electricity is negative. poor generators that can't easily throttle their output, like nuclear or geothermal, apparently have to just pay for the privilege of outputting power, if they can't get rid of it any other way
in certain areas, the pricing is quite negative
https://x.com/DanielleFong/status/1793730102536347829
This is one reason why battery storage economics absolutely trashes gas peaker plants at the margin - they can get paid both to store and release energy.
Those wind farm idle capacity payments that @Luckyguy1983 gets so excited about will in the future be diverted to paying for battery storage.
A very good price, but I know the Honiton and Sidmouth area well and IMO 5/2 LibDems is an even better bet.
Great header.
Edit: comments please - @MarqueeMark and @SouthamObserver
He fixed his Liz Truss faux pas in 49 days.
These odds don't reflect likelihood even if they are correct about who should win, hence go value sniffing
Well the way to get more infrastructure built is to make sure that current infrastructure projects are completed on time and within budget.
I wonder does anyone have any data on how many infrastructure projects achieve this ?
And are there any patterns as to the cost effectiveness and speed in infrastructure building.
Now it seems that the bigger the infrastructure project the more overbudget and behind schedule it will be.
Especially anything which claims to be 'world leading' or 'biggest in Europe'.
If so it might suggest that this country would be better concentrating on small to medium sized infrastructure.
But that impression might be formed only because the bigger the infrastructure projects is the more media attention it gets.
But where are his Spads? Surely one of them would have thought to provide an umbrella, and do something about that noxious narcissist playing music to drown out the PM.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3IuEQ45nQvw
A fuller version with reply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7bVGBbDZM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_uR3jj5CQY
{the mind states of a number of uplifted lobsters have entered the chat}
Any eyecatchers in your neck of the woods?
How about the Cons in Norfolk South (6/4) or Lowestoft (11/8)?
Edit: plus Cons Evens in Great Yarmouth
I thought Claire might do it last time, but that doesn’t mean I’m confident about the LibDems this time around and it’s now messy with the boundary changes.
I know the Exmouth and Exeter East constituency a little bit on the new boundaries. The LibDems have some organisation in Exeter but not a lot further south down the Exe estuary. Exeter is very Labour nowadays and a good chunk of this goes into the new constituency. But overall, this constituency looks solidly Conservative to me and Electoral Calculus agrees putting the likely vote share as:
Con 39.4%
Lab 27.6%
LibDems 17.1%
I don’t like 8/1 (or update 7/1) but I might have put a tenner on at 40/1. H
The other part of the constituency, Honiton and Sidmouth is a much closer with Electoral Calculus going for:
Con 36.4%
LibDem 33.7%
Lab 16.1%
But you can only get 5/2 on the LibDems for this one and I don’t consider that value either.
Hmmm. I’m not sure about this one. I don’t think the boundary changes help. But if the tories are heading for a shellacking then Exmouth and Exeter East constituency might turn yellow.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/24/yorkshire-town-angus-fire-bentham-forever-chemicals-pfas
A small North Yorkshire town has been found to have the highest concentration of “forever chemicals” in the UK, it can be revealed.
The market town of Bentham, which is home to 3,000 people and set on the banks of the River Wenning, is also home to the Angus International Safety Group – locally known as Angus Fire – which, since the 1970s, has been producing firefighting foams containing PFAS at a factory near the town centre...
Not good news for anything downstream, either.
Lowestoft is the slightly more generally Labour part of Waveney so yeah, Lab gain likely
Great Yarmouth also about right - toss up lean Lab
Thanks to Q for another real shrewdie-piece.
It’s things like holiday snaps which are, right now, a distraction.
The best way to ignore "this shit" is surely do what lots of others will and book yourself a holiday abroad?
For myself, it’s my favourite time of politics.
"See that crazy man in infront of the lectern in the rainstorm......no not the one falling into the sea ....that's Neil Kinnock ............it's ME!'