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Re: 2022 once again the betting favorite for BoJo’s exit – politicalbetting.com
. That's a mindset problem. "Transitioning away from car-dependence" is not required. But investment in better roads can improve existing roads for existing residents while freeing up land to be constructed upon to build more homes. Case in point, Warrington has had major house building for decades and a lot of that has… -
Re: Punters think we will have a ceasefire by the end of April but Polymarket and others might soon lose
“ Iran changed the terms by illegally attacking non combatants” But the point is, no, no change. They were always the terms. They was the terms factored in a month ago when decisions were made and relayed to the US. Starmer is in trouble. His statement this afternoon could soon bring him down. If the new position of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A Labour man in a Labour job. What’s not to like about Andr
Don is right that the Tories are creating many hostages to fortune. Or would be in normal circumstances. Tax credits, housing, the Northern powerhouse, infrastructure, the living wage and immigration are all areas in which the rhetoric could well turn out to be very different to the reality. However, in choosing an… -
Re: How anti-Reform tactical voting could deny the SNP a majority – politicalbetting.com
FPT London London: Where are you staying? And for how long, or is it a day trip? I've always enjoyed the Double Tree at Canary Wharf which had its own ferry. But that has been replaced by an official electric ferry (shamefully not a bridge! ). My other suggestion would be travel by bus or cycle, not tube, as you get the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Well if this Brexit polling turns out to be a harbinger of fut
Maybe wages overall, but probably not the for lowest paid If the mass importation of cheap labour doesn't result in cheaper labour, why do it? The problem is that it has made the rich richer and the poor poorer, in every sense. Lets agree that cheap EU labour has fuelled the economy. The problem is that the economic… -
Re: What’s this betting market going to look like tomorrow afternoon? – politicalbetting.com
So it has been a busy 24 hours. This time yesterday I was just finishing work in Aberdeen. Then a 7 hour drive south to Lincolnshire. Home at just after midnight. Up at 3.30am and off to Laxton to sing up the sun for Mayday. And a glorious May morn it was as well. Helped along with beer and bacon butties. Then back to the… -
Re: Abandoning Housing targets – Sunak’s election losing mistake? – politicalbetting.com
Fully agree with all of this. After all, with the current system being changed, before we lament it, we need to ask: "So how well has that been working so far, then?" Every year we've been falling further and further behind. House prices getting worse. Yet people everywhere getting more and more up in arms about… -
Re: These NHS excess death figures are terrible for Sunak – politicalbetting.com
Four days ago my 83 year old mother had a fall outside my sister´s house. The Ambulance did not come. She lay for six hours before she could be moved and then was taken by taxi to A&E where she spent all night with my 85 year old father, who himself has been undergoing chemotherapy. She was not admitted, but diagnosed with… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If Boris wins then last month’s ComRes poll suggests a huge CO
“Unelected bureaucrats” claxon. The fact that the person who will hold prime executive power in this country (on behalf of a hereditary monarch) is currently being appointed by a tiny selectorate of members of a tired political party that doesn’t even have a majority in the House of Commons - in fact has only held one for… -
Re: And so the world awaits the next stage of the Gaza conflict – politicalbetting.com
Absolutely agree - balances affect decisions. If you have upgraded your fabric to reduce your heating bills by 90-95% over a typical house to say £200 a year, then spending £1k on a complicated house control system, or £Xk on something to save energy when the payback period - due to other investment - is now 50 or 200… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Corbyn’s impending victory affects the Mayoral betting
Grenada was just the replacement of an unelected Govt that had started killing its Leaders and had a build up of Cuban bases there, such as one of the longest airport runways in the region. The Americans were begged to go in by neighbouring democratic countries. Having lived and worked there for 3 years in the 90s I have… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » NEW PB/Polling Matters podcast: Why aren’t the polls moving?
Housing appears to be an important topic for the budget. Recently the Government has been constrained because local housing associations, since last year, were classified as Government controlled for statistical purposes and this formed part of the Government accounts. This means that all the borrowing of the local housing… -
Re: Where the Streeting has no names as Rayner becomes the favourite to be next PM –politicalbetting.com
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » While the nation has been enjoying Sunak’s half price food dea
The point I am making is getting people onto the housing ladder is the end goal - both for the country and the party. I don't see why you say "admitted" that the North has seen a huge amount of house building. Absolutely it has, which is why the North has gone from rock solid Labour to huge swathes of the North ending up… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » By George! Will BJ flop or will he last a long time?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/rebel-mps-leaked-motion-brexit Rebel MPs led by Oliver Letwin, Dominic Grieve and Keir Starmer will attempt to rush legislation blocking a no-deal Brexit through Parliament in just a few hours, according to a draft version of their motion leaked to BuzzFeed News. In a manoeuvre that… -
Re: The Challenge for… Plaid Cymru – politicalbetting.com
It wouldn't be a problem if there were enough houses built for the next generation. Rationing of anything is only a factor when there's a shortage, but why should there be a shortage of housing in Britain? It's not like the country has been involved in a war recently which has seen millions of houses destroyed. Britain… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A new furrow. The changing nature of work and what that might
Evening all :) Interesting thread by Antifrank, for which, as always, many thanks. I remember in the 1970s being told life would be one long leisure-filled utopia by 2000 with gadgets doing everything for us. Strangely I see more people working harder and longer hours than ever. We have been conditioned by Weber and the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » BMG finds 63% now want an elected House of Lords – up 15 point
It depends what kind of elected lords. Personally, with some reform, I’d be happy with an unelected lords solely committed to revising, but they cannot even sort it out as it currently stands. If elected, I struggle to see how the Commons justifies its total primacy, even if it retained some if not all of that primacy. I… -
Re: The Great Reform Pact – politicalbetting.com
Yet their concerns, or some of them, are being addressed, on housing there’s the RRB, on student tuition fees there is reform of students tuition fees, budgets have introduced some taxes on wealth. The so-called mansion tax. Putting pension pots into scope of IHT. When it comes to Gaza and the Middle East this govt has… -
Re: The forgotten by-election – politicalbetting.com
Depends what you mean by "spare". The UK housing stock has been increasing faster than the population and even the number of households. We have 26 million spare bedrooms. The issue is demand is concentrated in a few small parts of the country. That's why you get the counter-intuitive situation in France, which has 8…
