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Re: Moggsy could be in trouble – politicalbetting.com
Just sent the following to the House of Commons Enquiry Service: Dear HC Enquiries, I am emailing you, in hopes you may be able to answer following question: When it comes to providing services to constituents, what is procedure when an MP leaves the House by accepting office under the crown AND a new MP has not yet been… -
Re: The end of the Keir show might be delayed – politicalbetting.com
Matt Goodwin strikes me as being a piece of work and I don't support his politics. What is however intriguing is the extent to which a sentence he writes, itself the sort of subject millions think and think about and is significant to millions of lives, gives rise to a million expansions, interpretations and distortions,… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Ipsos-Mori poll on Scottish Independence sees Yes cut No’s
So in case anyone thinks that the bubble in the London housing market has been caused by the government's second Help to Buy scheme, today's stats show that is an absurd notion. The killer stat, when it comes to London, is that just 0.6% of all housing transactions funded by mortgages involved a Help to Buy government… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Tories are very lucky the Lib Dems didn’t accept George
To be fair to Osborne one of the big issues with council house sales has been that so many of them have very soon ended up in the hands of landlords, their original buyers having sold them on for a hefty profit. This is particularly the case in London. One way to stop that is to make it much less attractive to be a… -
Re: The history of gambling – politicalbetting.com
There will to Democrat votes to keep him in place. On this occasion, at least. Khanna says Speaker Johnson ‘deserves to keep his job’ https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4610355-khanna-says-speaker-johnson-deserves-to-keep-his-job/ ..The congressman said in an ABC “This Week” interview with Jonathan Karl on Sunday that… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Unemployment just became more important to the rest of us
What Henry misses is that Carney's move makes it much less likely that Labour will be in power. By tying interest rates to unemployment the likelihood is that they will not rise until after 2015. Thus, the man who employed him on such a lucrative contract will not have to worry unduly about higher mortgages as he plans his… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Punters could still be under-rating the chances of No Deal
Good morning everyone I hear Chris Grayling has had another shocker over the ferry contract. I have no idea why he is in the cabinet other than we have a non functioning government and he makes up a leave view. He should never have been near a ministerial role or in the cabinet Last night I listened to Stephen Nolan on 5… -
Re: Challenges – politicalbetting.com
The Covid inquiry has seemed to me to be pointless. But what the PO Inquiry has done - very well to my mind, though it shames my profession to have to say this but it needs saying, indeed shouting from the rooftops - is show that it is not in reality an IT scandal at all but a legal one. That was not clear until the… -
Re: Reeves puts herself in the frame as Starmer’s successor – politicalbetting.com
It’s fascinating. That image shows my terrace under construction. 1839. Makes sense. Eg the house on the left has Juliet balconies, the others don’t - yet. Meanwhile whole sections of the terrace are yet to spring up. I never realized they were built at the same time as the railways, but this says so. Would have been… -
Re: Undefined discussion subject.
An anecdote. At work a discussion as to who to use for the company pension scheme. One requirement it is agreed is preferable on such a long term item is that the pensions provider is not Scottish. Even if the vote is NO I suspect long term damage has been done to what might be called British national consciousness.… -
Re: The great vacillator: Starmer needs to find some backbone – politicalbetting.com
Freedland: if Americans repudiate Trump, that would suggest the reassertion of a political rule that seemed to have been shredded in 2016: that there are some things voters will not tolerate. That incompetence, corruption and dishonesty exact a price. The restoration of that standard would not be kind to Johnson. And a… -
Re: A taste of things to come.. – politicalbetting.com
My word. You've just owned yourself spectacularly. You don't have a clue do you? You have no idea about the law or the constitution. You just Google shit and post it without reading it. You quoted an Institute of Government page ( https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/caretaker-government ) that says - The… -
Re: You can't handle the truth. Honesty is Starmer’s only advantage over Farage – politicalbetting.com
Reform in Nottinghamshire are also doing the "stay in our 100 year old HQ thing", which in Notts' case will require £50m+ of maintenance and capex to keep it useable, and bring it up to scratch. The new one has already been built, and is central in the county.. In Kent it is "bring childrens' homes back in house", plus… -
Re: London Tories recognise the damage Lee Anderson is causing them, will the wider party?
"But Mr Flynn accused Westminster of "failing the people of Gaza by blocking a vote on the urgent actions the UK government must take to help make an immediate ceasefire happen"." What an absolute wazzock that man is. There was better than a vote. A motion passed by the House unopposed. Calling for an immediate ceasefire.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Alastair Meeks gives his thoughts on university pensions
Its a fair cop. A job for life, with good pension, no University debt and house prices affordable to a twenty-something look very good to Fox jr. NHS Superannuation has been very good, though now on career average earnings. The NHS has been a pretty crappy employer otherwise. -
Re: Finland – politicalbetting.com
It is still below minus 10 in Finland and has been snowing for weeks. There are outdoor ice rinks (self made by volunteers where he has learned ice skating). Today he has his first skiing lesson on the slope a mile or so away from our house which should be interesting to watch. The sea and lakes are completely frozen and… -
Re: How Trump could ensure the UK rejoins the EU – politicalbetting.com
20 years ago being after Brown's disastrous house price inflation began, which has never been reversed. Compare to 25 or 30 years ago. -
Re: Sunak gets this Radio Manchester interview very wrong – politicalbetting.com
I have no idea what 'the Sycamore' refers to, I've been out today and haven't seen whatever news that is, but what I said is a matter of fact. There are more trees today than there were a century ago in the UK. Don't trust me? Ask the Woodland Trust. Part of that is deliberately planting woodlands, but a big part as well… -
Re: Can anyone explain the weird politics of mask-wearing? – politicalbetting.com
The lie that there's been no inflation in the past few decades has to be brought down on its knees. There's been inflation, we've just inflated the assets of the landlord class and inflated the costs of everyone else. Time to reverse that. We need wage inflation, to bring costs back down. Housing costs going up in the past… -
Re: CON & LAB now level pegging in the GE most seats betting – politicalbetting.com
Italy: The election wends on, it doesn't feel from this distance like it has caught great light or hit an overriding theme, but has been a little under the surface, not least because the ongoing, now caretaker, Draghi government has continued with its major work, particularly the National Recovery and Resilience Plan…