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Re: The front pages after a dramatic day – politicalbetting.com
The big fall seems to pre-date the 20th century. Late 19th. Classic demographic transition: urbanisation, improved sanitation, healthcare and reduced child mortality. And, as you say, female workforce participation. -
Re: Wagner turns his troops around “to avoid bloodshed” – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Putin faces his biggest ever crisis – politicalbetting.com
It's how you measure the distance between it's wings to figure out how loud it'll be as it flies. -
Re: The July 20th by-elections – latest betting – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Is it any wonder the Nadine peerage move has been stalled? – politicalbetting.com
There will not be a by election, if she resigns the Commons she becomes a sort of nobody, neither an MP or a Dame/Lady, with no income from either. -
Re: Will WH2024 really be a WH2020 re-run? – politicalbetting.com
This atavistic urge to blame immigrants is so frustrating. Britain (and the West, and much of the world) is in demographic decline. Without immigration the population and the economy would be SHRINKING, fast, and the demographic burden, ie the worker:pensioner ratio would be WORSE. I have some issues with high levels of… -
Re: Mordaunt second favourite to succeed Sunak as CON leader – politicalbetting.com
The restrictions on energy and food supplies after the Ukraine war and the lost production due to the Covid lockdowns contributed to inflation far more than Brexit -
Re: New YouGov polling finds Tory collapse in its its heartlands – politicalbetting.com
Given what we suspect about the Knappers' Gazette, I hate to think what "good behaviour" looks like. -
Re: The Tory polling recovery has come to an end – politicalbetting.com
I concur. Yet the government and establishment have been pretty complicit in teaching the last couple of generations that house prices are a one way bet, the best store of wealth and are protected from falls by government intervention. Whilst not teaching us anything about investing in shares and letting more youngsters… -
Re: If BoJo got re-elected would the 90 day suspension apply? – politicalbetting.com
Gavin Jacobson takes on paint-by-numbers centrists in the New Statesmen: https://archive.is/QDFZR Wonderfully bitchy. -
Re: A LAB majority edges up in the election betting – politicalbetting.com
Bring back Truss, at least she was trying to grow the economy -
Re: Was Sunak’s no show in the vote a mistake? – politicalbetting.com
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Re: The summer by-elections: the latest betting – politicalbetting.com
In my list I have set aside whether I liked their policies or not and look at politics and achievements. Yes, Cameron did all kinds of stupid. But he also did all kinds of brave. -
Re: The LAB lead continues to stay in double figures – politicalbetting.com
But it didn't happen, whereas 'Boris' did, so for damage done we're talking actual vs hypothetical. The first is a largely objective fact, the second is mainly subjective opinion, which is far more subject to bias. -
Re: Another tricky by-election defence for the Tories – politicalbetting.com
Halfwits believe any headline they read, check the story dumbass and I detest Tories -
Re: Sunak’s position has got stronger during the week – politicalbetting.com
@foremain @Farooq Foremain you are the scumbags of scumbags, you flatter yourself that I give a shit about a cretin like you, just f**k off and stop commenting about me. Farooq, you are just an arsehole who thinks he is smart, harmless compared to shitstain. -
Re: LAB running neck and neck with the SNP in Scotland – politicalbetting.com
M68000 assembler I could do - never did 6502 asm :-) Tragically, I can still remember that `moveq.w 0,d0` was quicker than `clr.w d0`. I remember being well chuffed with my 'clear screen jumptable' code in about 1988. And that the base address of the C64 SID chip was 54272. Important stuff that the current snowflake… -
Re: This on Trump made me laugh – politicalbetting.com
I have just seen something even more hilarious. Kari-Ann Moler, wife of Chris Jagger (Mick's brother) cover model on Roxy Music's 1972 debut album, and who holds a Norwegian passport has been told unless she can prove her 74 residency in the UK and right to settled status she is Oslo bound. Brexit is a gift that just keeps… -
Re: The by-election betting – a LAB gain and CON hold – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Johnson inevitably dominates the front pages – politicalbetting.com
One of the difficulties in comparing ‘then’ and ‘now’ is that denationalisation was about the same time as technological improvements.