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The top political betting markets as we start 2023 – politicalbetting.com

SystemSystem Posts: 12,622
edited January 2023 in General
imageThe top political betting markets as we start 2023 – politicalbetting.com

I am publishing the above simply because it is useful to have a reference point about where the betting stood in the key markets at the start of the year.

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  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 56,106
    But Sunak's experience (and lack of it) is an inevitable consequence of long periods in government. The equivalent is the shadow cabinet which contains a lot of people who have never had ministerial responsibility, not even at a junior level. Life was easier in the 60s and 70s when governments changed often enough for there to be a lot of actual experience on both sides.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,630
    FPT:
    MaxPB said:

    eek said:

    MaxPB said:

    My sister was over today fretting about schools etc... because her first is starting next September and forms need to be submitted soon. Can someone in education explain when schools started having teaching assistants in classrooms? I don't remember having anyone other than the teacher in the classroom for primary or secondary school and yet this now seems commonplace, all classes seem to have a teacher and teaching assistant as standard. Is this is a relatively recent change? It seems like a huge expense for no gain at all. Wouldn't it be better to not have the TAs at all and pay the teachers more? Solves a lot of issues. From what my sister was saying the TAs don't seem to do very much either.

    TAs will be there to look after any special needs children of which there are likely to be some.

    On a basic level special needs children bring their own pot of money and using TAs is an efficient use of the money which can’t be used for much else.
    Hmm, thanks for the info. I wonder whether a better use for the money would be having special needs schools with specialist teachers and staffing ratios to suit rather than just dumping TAs in classrooms.
    I know this is not your intent but I fear that that way leads to ghettoisation.
  • CorrectHorseBattery3CorrectHorseBattery3 Posts: 2,757
    TheScreamingEagles said:


    I'm not too keen on the woke, to a lot of them I'm a coconut/Uncle Tom.

    Remember I've been told, on more than one occasion, that I don't know what racism is because I'm a privately educated, middle class, Oxbridge graduate chap.

    If only I could put them in contact with the EDL people who really didn't like me for having a white girlfriend.

    Nah not to me matey, you're class
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 129,501
    DavidL said:

    But Sunak's experience (and lack of it) is an inevitable consequence of long periods in government. The equivalent is the shadow cabinet which contains a lot of people who have never had ministerial responsibility, not even at a junior level. Life was easier in the 60s and 70s when governments changed often enough for there to be a lot of actual experience on both sides.

    The governments of the 1960s and 1970s however were not very successful and led to high inflation and strikes and inefficient nationalised industry and very high taxation. That is why they changed so often.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 30,380
    Benpointer said:

    FPT:

    MaxPB said:

    eek said:

    MaxPB said:

    My sister was over today fretting about schools etc... because her first is starting next September and forms need to be submitted soon. Can someone in education explain when schools started having teaching assistants in classrooms? I don't remember having anyone other than the teacher in the classroom for primary or secondary school and yet this now seems commonplace, all classes seem to have a teacher and teaching assistant as standard. Is this is a relatively recent change? It seems like a huge expense for no gain at all. Wouldn't it be better to not have the TAs at all and pay the teachers more? Solves a lot of issues. From what my sister was saying the TAs don't seem to do very much either.

    TAs will be there to look after any special needs children of which there are likely to be some.

    On a basic level special needs children bring their own pot of money and using TAs is an efficient use of the money which can’t be used for much else.
    Hmm, thanks for the info. I wonder whether a better use for the money would be having special needs schools with specialist teachers and staffing ratios to suit rather than just dumping TAs in classrooms.
    I know this is not your intent but I fear that that way leads to ghettoisation.
    It's also a nirvana compared to where we are at.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 23,239
    I'm not convinced that Labour will win more seats than the Tories. If I was a betting type of person, "Conservatives Most Seats" might be somewhere I'd stake a few quid.

  • beinndeargbeinndearg Posts: 789
    I have just really enjoyed Glass Onion. Hope this doesn't make me a bad person.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,435
    EXC: Rishi Sunak has shelved plans for a ‘big bang’ overhaul of the childcare system drafted by Liz Truss

    Truss was looking at an extra 20hrs of free childcare + scrapping staff-child ratios. Due to be revealed pre Xmas

    But reforms delayed + scaled back.

    https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1609671687032770566?s=46&t=R5Q6RxYfm1aLTPwRcbXM1Q
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 56,338
    Benpointer said:

    FPT:

    MaxPB said:

    eek said:

    MaxPB said:

    My sister was over today fretting about schools etc... because her first is starting next September and forms need to be submitted soon. Can someone in education explain when schools started having teaching assistants in classrooms? I don't remember having anyone other than the teacher in the classroom for primary or secondary school and yet this now seems commonplace, all classes seem to have a teacher and teaching assistant as standard. Is this is a relatively recent change? It seems like a huge expense for no gain at all. Wouldn't it be better to not have the TAs at all and pay the teachers more? Solves a lot of issues. From what my sister was saying the TAs don't seem to do very much either.

    TAs will be there to look after any special needs children of which there are likely to be some.

    On a basic level special needs children bring their own pot of money and using TAs is an efficient use of the money which can’t be used for much else.
    Hmm, thanks for the info. I wonder whether a better use for the money would be having special needs schools with specialist teachers and staffing ratios to suit rather than just dumping TAs in classrooms.
    I know this is not your intent but I fear that that way leads to ghettoisation.
    Including special needs children in regular classes has, in a number of instances, completely disrupted education for everyone else.

    Some SENs issues are very, very disruptive.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,435
    Croatia joined the Euro (and Schengen) today.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 30,380
    Malmesbury said:

    Benpointer said:

    FPT:

    MaxPB said:

    eek said:

    MaxPB said:

    My sister was over today fretting about schools etc... because her first is starting next September and forms need to be submitted soon. Can someone in education explain when schools started having teaching assistants in classrooms? I don't remember having anyone other than the teacher in the classroom for primary or secondary school and yet this now seems commonplace, all classes seem to have a teacher and teaching assistant as standard. Is this is a relatively recent change? It seems like a huge expense for no gain at all. Wouldn't it be better to not have the TAs at all and pay the teachers more? Solves a lot of issues. From what my sister was saying the TAs don't seem to do very much either.

    TAs will be there to look after any special needs children of which there are likely to be some.

    On a basic level special needs children bring their own pot of money and using TAs is an efficient use of the money which can’t be used for much else.
    Hmm, thanks for the info. I wonder whether a better use for the money would be having special needs schools with specialist teachers and staffing ratios to suit rather than just dumping TAs in classrooms.
    I know this is not your intent but I fear that that way leads to ghettoisation.
    Including special needs children in regular classes has, in a number of instances, completely disrupted education for everyone else.

    Some SENs issues are very, very disruptive.
    Inclusion needs to be a broad brush.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,435
    beinndearg said:

    I have just really enjoyed Glass Onion. Hope this doesn't make me a bad person.

    Daniel Craig is fun; he and Janelle Monae are worth the price of admission. I enjoyed it, it’s just that it’s very largely shite.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 30,380
    Gardenwalker said:

    Croatia joined the Euro (and Schengen) today.

    Continuing the march of countries out of the EU structure.
    Who will be next?
    Doubtless the Express will know.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 32,291
    Gardenwalker said:

    EXC: Rishi Sunak has shelved plans for a ‘big bang’ overhaul of the childcare system drafted by Liz Truss

    Truss was looking at an extra 20hrs of free childcare + scrapping staff-child ratios. Due to be revealed pre Xmas

    But reforms delayed + scaled back.

    https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1609671687032770566?s=46&t=R5Q6RxYfm1aLTPwRcbXM1Q

    Government by blob. We can't have that, can we, no no, don't want to upset the applecart.
  • beinndeargbeinndearg Posts: 789
    Gardenwalker said:

    beinndearg said:

    I have just really enjoyed Glass Onion. Hope this doesn't make me a bad person.

    Daniel Craig is fun; he and Janelle Monae are worth the price of admission. I enjoyed it, it’s just that it’s very largely shite.
    Not very twisty either. I was assuming SPOILER that the twin thing would turn out to be a fiction.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 56,338
    dixiedean said:

    Malmesbury said:

    Benpointer said:

    FPT:

    MaxPB said:

    eek said:

    MaxPB said:

    My sister was over today fretting about schools etc... because her first is starting next September and forms need to be submitted soon. Can someone in education explain when schools started having teaching assistants in classrooms? I don't remember having anyone other than the teacher in the classroom for primary or secondary school and yet this now seems commonplace, all classes seem to have a teacher and teaching assistant as standard. Is this is a relatively recent change? It seems like a huge expense for no gain at all. Wouldn't it be better to not have the TAs at all and pay the teachers more? Solves a lot of issues. From what my sister was saying the TAs don't seem to do very much either.

    TAs will be there to look after any special needs children of which there are likely to be some.

    On a basic level special needs children bring their own pot of money and using TAs is an efficient use of the money which can’t be used for much else.
    Hmm, thanks for the info. I wonder whether a better use for the money would be having special needs schools with specialist teachers and staffing ratios to suit rather than just dumping TAs in classrooms.
    I know this is not your intent but I fear that that way leads to ghettoisation.
    Including special needs children in regular classes has, in a number of instances, completely disrupted education for everyone else.

    Some SENs issues are very, very disruptive.
    Inclusion needs to be a broad brush.
    That’s sounds very nice. But what does it mean?
  • beinndeargbeinndearg Posts: 789
    NEW THREAD

    Must be a record
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 52,595
    Gardenwalker said:

    Croatia joined the Euro (and Schengen) today.

    Also today, my longtime bets that no other country would trigger article fifty before 2023 finally pay out. Best odds of the bunch, 1.58 made in April 2019.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 46,664
    edited January 2023
    test
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 40,501
    rcs1000 said:

    I was using Chat GPT today, to see if I could use .format in Python to convert datetime objects:

    Yes, you can use the .format() method to format dates and datetime objects as strings. To do this, you need to use a format string that includes codes for the elements you want to include in the formatted date, such as the day, month, and year.

    Here's an example of how you can use the .format() method to format a date as a string:

    Copy code
    from datetime import date

    # Create a date object
    d = date(2022, 1, 1)

    # Use the .format() method to format the date as a string
    formatted_date = d.strftime('%B %d, %Y')

    print(formatted_date) # Output: January 01, 2022

    Can any Python users deduce the small issue with the answer?

    Maybe I'm going mad but where is using the .format() function?
  • tysontyson Posts: 6,123
    Gardenwalker said:

    beinndearg said:

    I have just really enjoyed Glass Onion. Hope this doesn't make me a bad person.

    Daniel Craig is fun; he and Janelle Monae are worth the price of admission. I enjoyed it, it’s just that it’s very largely shite.
    I slept through pretty much the whole of it...my wife enjoyed it though...
    Hustle though on Netflix is a gem....Adam Sandler is magnificent.

    We are working our way through the series Gomorrah too.....perhaps the single most bleakest, violent, nihilistic series ever filmed. It makes Goodfellas seem like light comedy by comparison. At times unwatchable.

    I am so dreading returning to work tomorrow by the way. I'm sure there are a few others in my boat....
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