The Biggest Change to PB in years – politicalbetting.com
The Biggest Change to PB in years – politicalbetting.com
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Given Russia's daily recruitment rates are running at around 800, that means yesterday alone the troops available to prosecute the SMO dropped by 660. This is happening each and every day.
Do you plan on bringing back the really old, pre switch comments at some point as well?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced47jqyg1eo
Their population was already falling, their average age was older even than the UK (and life expectancy lower) with a much lower birth rate.
Sending their young into a meat grinder for Russia today is not the same risk as it was in the past. Putin may be OK with it, but the country can not sustain it.
The after effects of this misadventure are going to be atrocious.
Ukraine have also suffered heavy losses too, with average age of their soldiers getting older and older. Their push for ever more drone and robot technology is driven as much by this as the fact the Russians have better drone tech. There are jobs which they just don't really have the manpower to do manually across the front lines e.g. resupplies.
One quick question - will we need to create new accounts?
Will likes be being kept or is that a step way too far
Bayeux Tapestry delivered to British Museum in dead of night
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly9r54e5r4o
From the days when governments hit their military targets…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly9r54e5r4o
Wonder if there's a wider principle being manifest here. For most of my life, the orthodoxy has been to outsource things, so that organisations in the public and private sectors tend towards an ideal of a management team and a bundle of contracts.
Initially, that led to improvements in efficiency and quality, because competition will do that. But now the contracted suppliers have rebalanced the power in their favour, so can be more expensive and less good. (My place really struggled to let its recent catering contract.)
Hence insourcing looks more attractive. And so the wheel turns.
This massive consolidations in huge number of industries means the idea of wild competition in a free market is an illusion.
It is where you do need strong government to stop over consolidation. I don't now much about contract catering, but its there like basically Sodexo and errrh Sodexo?
Obviously that neglects the facts this was a Norman Conquest not a French one, otherwise the French king would've become king of England too, and the French would not have invaded (at invitation) during the reign of John, but there we are.
This time James Murray.
I fully expect an Israel-sceptic Labour Party going forward. Gone is the uncritical support of the Far Right Israeli govt..
Got to get the progressives back online.
“ 'By the time we called for a ceasefire in Gaza, as an opposition party, it felt to me that it was overdue,' says Health Secretary @jamesmurray_ldn”
https://x.com/skynews/status/2075468833301668163?s=61
Oh, and thanks Robert.
* this was literally Sam Altman's pitch for ages.
It is interesting to me that there are now a number of new fintech banks that have emerged to join the banking market, but the EV transition has not resulted in a single new car company in Europe to challenge the incumbent companies. I would have expected that regulation of the banking industry would have made the former more difficult than the latter.
Downfall?
EasyJet agrees in principle to rival £5.7bn takeover bid
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjxqq9jg8yo
Perhaps he should consider it as a new career, although he"s about 60 years older than the average.
But on the flip side, I can see somebody looking at the fact RyanAir is terrible experience (and not that cheap) yet people still fly on it as a great opportunity to squeeze loads more juice out of EasyJet. Cos if you get pissed off with EasyJet, where are you going to go, RyanAir? Wizz?
If we don’t value them others will
These went last week too
https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2026/jun/18/another-ftse-100-firm-falls-private-equity-where-new-listings
'They' are finding amusement at Farage running against a joke candidate.
Reform (and you) are clearly furious about that.
And that's intellectually bankrupt because?
Don't say why it's not funny or why it's a mistake, or why this a positive for Reform - say why it is intelletually bankrupt, as i cannot connect the dots.
(If you want to weigh in finally on if it will matter if Farage did breach disclosure rules, which you might recall is why he is doing all this, that's up to you)
My ryanair experiences have been ok, it's wizz and vueling who are the pits.
Ukraine has manpower issues as well of course, but hopefully have enough to take full advantage.
I'm rather sad about that.
So the PE 101, sale and lease back of the aircraft?
Look at Google - their initial product as a search engine is next to useless now, but it doesn't matter as they are dominant.
I can see him passing a bill to return the Elgin Marbles for example. He will get lots of love from a lot of the world and on social media and it won’t cost anything.
Anyone got any other “free” things he can do to make himself look different/dynamic?
£35,000? Bargain.
Here he is not involved in politics making his leader's speech at the October 2023 Reform UK conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPxGtCtYWe0
I'm sure there aren't any more examples.
A sizeable chunk of Labour MPs and a growing number of charities and NGOs support it
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/30/jamaican-delegation-to-travel-to-uk-to-lodge-formal-slavery-reparations-petition-with-king-charles
Keep smiling whilst creating those 76 Leonine accounts, when you could have been watching Die Hard.
I watched (years ago now) a great C4 documentary on politicians who were made to live with a struggling family for a month. The Tory politician (Children's Minister, I want to say Tim Loughton but might be misremembering) came across as a thoroughly decent human, the Labour one notsomuch.
Ever since I've agreed with the cliche that, though my political sympathies are with Labour, I'd much prefer to spend an evening getting gently pissed in the pub with a right-wing politician (I suspect Johnson or Cameron would be a thoroughly enjoyable drinking partner, for example, whereas I'd boil my big toe in my own urine rather than spend an evening drinking with Starmer).
Right-wingers seem to do 'human' better. Left-wingers seem to be too tied up in their own worthiness.
But Burnham seems to be genuinely amusing (and Badenoch has her moments too to be fair). At the same time, those supporting Reform seem to have inherited the left-wing mantle of turgid idealism and be unable to see the funny in the absurdity of politics. They also seem brittle and angry, much as parts of old Labour seemed to be.
I wonder if this is just a blip and normal service will resume, or are Reform the new killjoys?
‘Where are all these men of fighting age flocking from?!’
They'd owe us.
It's not the only thing that did for Debenhams, but Green regarding the shops as an asset to be sold off now, rather than a guarantee that Debenhams could exist for the decades to come, didn't help. Or the recent rash of school closures because the land is worth more as a development site than as a school. Or those who point at the Church of England's huge assets and ignore the balancing liability of having a duty to exist for as long as necessary.
It feels like an endemic problem; has anyone anywhere found a good answer?
Koh-i-noor diamond is a big deal in Indian subcontinent and with the diaspora but I think that might cause a stir with the monarchy.
The fact that the NU10k establishment seem utterly wedded to the idea, with literally no basis in reality or legality, is just another good reason to stop it.
https://x.com/benstokes38/status/2075086552015798726
He doesn't specify who 'he' is.
I think it's fair to say however that the replies are not too thrilled with the whole shebang.
What is interesting though is that just as Nigel Farage is trying his utmost to discredit Reform, his main rival in the fruitcake-adjacent stakes, Rupert Lowe, has flown to America to blow up himself and his party. Pro-tip for proto-politicians: voters get upset when bad things are done to small children, so never trivialise it. Arguably this is also what brought down Theresa May, who denied that cutting 16,000 police officers played any part in the Ariana Grande concert bombing, and Keir Starmer, when after Southport he seemed more exercised by hurty words than slaughtered girls, triggering the ‘two-tier Keir’ meme.
So, all to play for on the right, if Kemi can avoid going in studs-up.
May we hope for the occasional re-appearance of the Donate button?
Con 342
Reform 1150
SNP 975
Lab 799
Seat was prev Lab held, dont know turnout yet.
At the final run off between Reform and SNP, Reform had a lead of around 140.
This is one of the strongest unionist wards in Lanarkshire, and will be one of Reforms best areas in Scotland
You can imagine that Putin is telling them to stop the drones, to just shoot the bloody things out of the sky, and they're saying something like, "sure thing boss," and they're telling him about all the anti-drone fire groups they've formed, and they're putting 5th generation fighter jets into the sky, and using A-50 AWACS planes to track the drones, and the drones keep getting through.
The thing about dictators is that they get very used to telling people to do things, and people then doing things. And the people will lie to the dictator about doing the thing when doing the thing is too hard, so a dictator never has to confront the reality that sometimes the thought is not father to the deed, because the deed is really difficult. But a burning oil refinery is kinda hard to lie about.
What happens when General Winter appears and nobody can move from their freezing homes?
Signed,
@KingofPB
The Daily Mail poll of its readers, that well-known coterie of London lefties, is showing about 70% support for Binface, over Farage.
Arrivals by boat from France are down 37% compared to last year but that's news that isn't being reported..
Orr is far too much Cambridge based, and is a High Anglican, who is somewhat unplugged from more than occasional attendance, and Stroud's husband is founder and senior pastor of a church called Christ Church, London - which is in the New Frontiers Church network, and meets across 4 or 5 locations.
For rabbit holers, New Frontiers is what has emerged from the work of Terry Virgo.