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Re: Well that escalated quickly – politicalbetting.com
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Cross-over voting could be the biggest threat to Trump in N
Mornin' Mr Dancer. You may be right, all I know is they are filming. The production company is apparently W Chump and Sons Ltd. Sounds like Clarkson. I didn't mean to suggest that they all are getting prime to see carshow with no name yet. Prime has been a huge success for Amazon regardless of the boys. Netflix produces… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Nighthawks is open
This behaviour sounds rather familiar "But I wonder what Mr Alexander would make of the behaviour of the red rosette-wearing activists in Sale screaming into the face of Ukip-supporting pensioners, calling them “Nazi racist scum”? And will he back the view of his fellow party members who warned Ukip supporters who have… -
Re: Boris Johnson has worse net ratings than Starmer, Badenoch, and Farage – politicalbetting.com
This is real. "Cats ruled out as Parliamentary pest controllers A Labour peer's call to bring in cats to control mice and other vermin in the Houses of Parliament has been rejected. Senior Deputy Speaker Lord Gardiner of Kimble told Lord Berkeley advice given to parliamentary authorities was that cats would face risks from… -
Re: Some more election stats – politicalbetting.com
Really good piece in Politico about Starmer: https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-election-results-keir-starmer-profile-britain-incoming-prime-minister-complex-unknowable-aggrieved/ We just don't know him. I can't think of any political leader in modern times that has been such an enigma by the time he or she took the most… -
Re: Powerful from The New York Times – politicalbetting.com
Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are fighting for a New Way Forward that protects our fundamental freedoms, strengthens our democracy, and ensures every person has the opportunity to not just get by, but to get ahead. As a prosecutor, Attorney General, Senator, and now Vice President of the United States, Kamala… -
Re: The Need For Allies – politicalbetting.com
As I pant and wheeze around Almaty I can inform curious PBers that the site of Trotsky’s house, where he was internally exiled from 1928-1929 has been entirely swept away, replaced by the “Lucky Yu” Chinese restaurant, the Caspian University branch of Starbucks, and a trendy new “European-style cheeseria” There is no… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Well this won’t make John Bercow happy but grumpy if only he h
Getting really mad at clapping is perhaps overdone. Getting precious and deliberately flouting a convention of the house (and it is, admittedly, not a firm rule as far as I know) as though it is some grand stand is not exactly an amazing act of defiance either. The convention on generally not clapping is a quirk of the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » New GE2015 projection from Oxford political scientist, Step
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Re: Just 13 of the 31 local seats in Hartlepool on Westminster by-election day have Tory contenders – po
While I'm pleased for Leon, I won't be going to the pub until things are back to normal, and that's proper normal; no social distancing, no masks, no mandatory sitting outside and no ID cards. I refuse to feel grateful to government ministers for drip-feeding us back our right to go about our lives unhindered well past the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why I am not playing budget bingo this year
Has Corbyn actually made any reference to anything that has been announced? Was he even in the house for the speech?? -
Re: Toxic Tories – politicalbetting.com
Who knows, Boris may yet wriggle out - plenty of Tory MPs would be willing to derail it as well, with the legal pretexts he has raised - but yes, Sunak has been keen to stress how much he supposedly likes and respects Boris, even when Boris has been slagging him off as in the first leadership contest, and his people… -
Re: The tip of the iceberg that is the Truss legacy – politicalbetting.com
Classic RedWall Wales. Lots of council (former?) estates and terraced housing. Labour votes at one time would have been weighed not counted in this ward. Not Plaid territory at all but an area where although South Asian immigration has more or less passed the area by it would be the sort of place that would worry unduly… -
Re: The green shoots of recovery for Kemi? – politicalbetting.com
This has been an interesting red team exercise. I am most content with the mess the Tories have got themselves into. I'm just floating some of the policies they could have been doing instead of painting over Mickey Mouse... -
Re: This feels sub-optimal for Nigel Farage – politicalbetting.com
Yeah - the addition of the skills has been a real breakthrough for a lot of my work. I've written my own coding agent issue tracker (though would work for other types of work) that breaks down longer tasks into concrete steps so your agent can work through them, close a session, pick up another day, whatever. And a web… -
Re: The Tories are a rounding error from being fourth and behind the Lib Dems with YouGov
Yes - it's like a focus group vs an average, and the importance of particular different experiences (especially minority experiences) about which assumptions are often just casually made. The classic example for me was that I had been walking through wheelchair blocking barriers for decades and decades with a sideways… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Review : November 9th 2017
I must admit to being pretty unimpressed by the speech. He starts by arguing that the bailout of the EU member states was illegal, as was the temporary suspension of Schengen around the refugee crisis. The second one in particular is just plain wrong. The original Schengen Treaty specifically deals with countries being… -
Re: Ed Miliband is impressing a key demographic – politicalbetting.com
Can you give a brief summary of your extra costs, Ben? I'm interested because I know people with significant costs who do *not* qualify for Higher Rate PIP, and cannot walk much other than round the house. One has to have an e-assist tricycle and an adapted car, but has to self-fund. Getting rid of the incapacity test is… -
Re: Boris Johnson, a quitter not a fighter? – politicalbetting.com
We were a strike ridden, nationalised industry dominated economy at the turn of the century 2000? You seem to be looking two generations back. At the turn of the century we had privatised industries, much of Canary Wharf had been built, the house price to earnings ratio in almost the entire country was about 3x income… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Take LAB majority odds at 2-1 or longer – this is now a gre
''My impression has been for a long time that he has simply become house-trained and is pretty much a mouth piece for the treasury.'' You have to be a person of little or no political conviction to being as much of a mouthpiece as George has become. Any person of even a slight conservative leaning would be appalled by some…