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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » In “normal times” concern about the NHS reaching a 15 year hig
This seems to me to be a much greater risk for the government than the NHS: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39147135 There are now 910K people on zero hours contracts, up from 100K in 2005. The question here is not whether the economy is doing well or badly but whether it is acceptable that more and more people are… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » LAB might have leads of upto 9% in the polls but punters still
The standing orders of the house belong to the Commons and not the government . This issue has arisen only because the government doesn’t have a majority . MPs were forced to act because of the seriousness of the issue . Bercow has more power than usual because of the lack of a majority , it’s not his fault May blew a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Are we really only five months away from Dave’s resignation
Will any party have the guts to stop this abuse? Mother-of-two Sinead Clarkson, 36, has been claiming benefits for the last 20 years and currently receives £1,200 a month in state handouts. Ms Clarkson, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, has now admitted she encouraged her 19-year-old daughter Melissa to have a baby so she… -
Re: Hurrah for lawyers, they are essential for democracy – politicalbetting.com
Many things are technicalities, they can still be important. This one may or may not be, depending on whether the Official Opposition is defined, and what additional privileges they get - salaries, funding, question time and more opposition days etc. If we take Erskine May the term and status seems to have some actual… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Turns out the Queen’s Speech has caused more problems for Jere
I have no local knowledge of this, but having skimmed the 'net, is there some confusion with the remaining two old blocks that are coming down? http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/napier-house-and-new-plymouth-rainham-residents-express-feelings-on-proposal-to-knock-down-buildings-1-4552262 A little more info on the… -
Re: Apologising for Brexit – politicalbetting.com
While this is on balance probably a good thing, who is Trump talking to ? As Trump edges closer to deciding on striking Iran’s nuclear sites, Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth has reportedly been shut out of top talks. “Nobody is talking to Hegseth. There is no interface operationally between Hegseth and the White House at all,”… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Could it be even at this late stage that Trump doesn’t become
I’ve just been doing a little research. Trump’s term ends at noon on 20th January. That is flat, that is final. However, there is a loophole that if nobody has been elected president by then, Congress (in practice, the House) can nominate an acting president until such time as an election is held. While this was to deal… -
Re: Support for an elected head of state up by a quarter since Charles became king
@hyufd I was in your part of the world on Friday. On my trip to our Southwold house I popped into a place near Epping that sells replica Cobras and GT40s. Thought I had been to Epping in the dim and distant past, but I had no recollection. @Dura_Ace will be lived I am looking at them. He has filled a quarry with Panthers… -
Re: Ed Davey is the choice of the voters to be PM after the next election – politicalbetting.com
The successful one is not brewery owned. I assumed the 4 individuals (3 of which I now know quite well) had raised the money themselves as it is the appearance given to the punters is they are the owners, but I then did a companies house search and found that 2 local individuals have financed it. Having said that I also… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » EX-CON PM John Major jumps into the BREXIT debate saying there
It's a bit like all those Tomorrow World's back in the 70s which though we would all be people of lesiure as robots do all our jobs. Well looks like robots will soon (and already are) doing that, but if anything our lives are getting too complicated. Some humourous sections in that Keynes article, like 'What is the result?… -
Re: You should always check the wording of your bets – politicalbetting.com
Harry Brook clashed with nightclub bouncer hours before captaining England Exclusive: Brook is on his final warning after incident where he was struck by nightclub bouncer in build-up to the Ashes Harry Brook is on a final warning about his conduct after a late-night altercation with a bouncer just hours before captaining… -
Re: Is political betting influencing Trump’s White House? – politicalbetting.com
Just in the last week, Trump has: Posted, on the White House’s government website, a fictitious narrative hailing the attempted coup of Jan 6 as a peaceful march attended by heroes, and accusing Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats of overseeing the real insurrection. Kidnapped the leader of Venezuela and his wife, in… -
Re: It has been an inauspicious start to the campaign for the Tories – politicalbetting.com
It's also not going to be well received from a government that has made life so much worse for young people and insults them at every opportunity. Fostering a sense of community works both ways. The government and the reactionary Boomers it panders to show no respect or sense of community towards the young - denying them… -
Re: Actual pew research by Pew Research – politicalbetting.com
Welcome to our village: No shop, no pub, no school, and even the church has closed and been sold off for conversion into a house. And that's a village of over 400 people. There is no hope for the future either because the lack of those facilities means that the council has decided no further buildings can be built in our… -
Re: New York Times Investigation: Donald Trump paid just $750 in his election year – politicalbetting.co
Disagreeing slightly there. I don't see a lack of infrastructure. Checking up on Great Park, it seems that a First School has been built, and that a community facility has been built with a 100 room hall and various other facilities, and a whole list of facilities - including 4 football pitches, floodlit tennis courts,… -
Re: Flipping Texas and Florida? – politicalbetting.com
The whole lot of them are acting like children, playing games and acting righteous while accusing the other side of being evil. The actual problem of redistricting and US House map Gerrymandering has been going on for two centuries (Elmbridge Gerry, 1812), and is one of those Prisoners’ Dilemma problems where it’s always… -
Re: Sofa so good, Tim Walz is an inspired pick – politicalbetting.com
And now Space Comedy intrudes into politics https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-confirms-slip-of-crew-9-launch-to-late-september-for-flexibility/ For those who don’t know - NASA contracted with SpaceX and Boeing to provide human access to the International Space Station under the Commercial Crew program. SpaceX’s… -
Re: Let’s talk about clouds – politicalbetting.com
Been on the cards for a very long time. The DT is just doing its usual SNPBaaad and LabourBaad but the Edinburgh council is a Labour minority (very minor) with Tory (and LD) support, though (as is halfheartedly admitted by the piece) the Tories are trying to pretend it's nothing to do with them. Housing is indeed an issue… -
Re: Is Sunak overstating immigration as an issue? – politicalbetting.com
FPT: I probably should have mentioned that the school district I now live in -- Lake Washington -- includes a little farming town you may have heard of: Redmond. (Well, it was a little farming town when I first saw it, as a kid.) https://www.lwsd.org/ So they aren't short on money. (Credit where due. When Bill Gates bought… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The great GE 2015 divide: CON 57pc chance of a majority or
Eric Joyce MP not impressed: "UK Labour Party official Eric Wilson turned up early and met Stephen Dean’s executive, which still runs Falkirk West constituency, in secret. He refused to address the assembled members and left by a side-door so they wouldn’t actually see him. The loyal members had turned up having been…