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Re: How’s VAT? – politicalbetting.com
Then that is what the state - which is responsible for state schools - should do. But oddly enough, they rarely do it. I think the reason is that almost everyone involved in the education system would like kids to do well. They would like awake, attentive kids who have had a good breakfast and actively want to learn. But… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Osborne’s speech: Content strong but his delivery not what
The reason for so many people working 16 hours a week is because under the old benefits regime (before Universal Credit) there was an artificial limit imposed such that working any more hours resulted in huge benefits cuts, so that for example someone working 18 or 20 hours a week could end up with LESS money in wages and… -
Re: Starmer starting to look a good bet as an 18% chance to be next PM – politicalbetting.com
Dripping with judgement there Richard. That 20 year old (and millions like him) has lost significant time, and perhaps income, over the last year, in conditions not far from house arrest, to keep the your generation 'safe' - and then to top it all off was only offered a vaccine weeks and months after your generation had… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The challenge for Trump gets harder after doing worse than
My guess would be that Cameron can't give the unequivocal never, not now or in the future denial nor has anybody in my close family, because I would guess that somewhere / sometime money has been arranged efficiently for somebody related to him. But, when Cameron's father died, Cameron had been a leading politician for a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Older voters more likely to back legalisation of cannabis for
It has also put upward pressure on housing costs so helping to reduce home ownership. Trickle down has been replaced by trickle up. -
Re: The first cut is the lightest – politicalbetting.com
"UK government will not financially support Mossmorran The UK government has said it will not offer financial support to keep the Exxon Mobil plant at Mossmorran open. Speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening, Business Minister Chris McDonald said there was no realistic business plan to go with investment. He… -
Re: Another one bites the dust – politicalbetting.com
Although comedic, it has been pointed out (here?) that Steve Bannon's way of doing things was to just constantly hit the newscycle with the next thing you're going to do and do it. The EU deciding to have an 'emergency' response on Thursday is, as you say, three days too late. Remember when Trump was imposing tariffs like… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » What Brits are doing during the lockdown – new Ipsos-MORI poll
On topic: since the lockdown started my husband has been gardening and preparing canvases in the shed so he can return to his hobby of painting. Both he and my son have been learning Spanish from an old Spanish language course my husband started and then abandoned. The exercise bike in the shed has come back into use again… -
Re: If the referendum was held today I think there'd be a different result, here's the polling
I blame Covid. In the first Trump administration the lunatics hadn't completely taken over the asylum like they have now. We all know people who went down rabbit holes during lockdown, and never came back. Happened to plenty of us ourselves to a certain extent. I'm coming round to the idea that *none* of the lockdowns were… -
Re: Hunt makes a leadership move that he says is not a move – politicalbetting.com
It will be an order of decades - it could be 20 years. It's also about national pride. A friend has been building a house, slowly, in Montenegro. He has often expressed surprise in the way that corruption has reduced there - literally, people who he used to have to give a gift to, now refusing it. "Because our country is… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Syria – How it will impact domestic politics
@MD Opposition Amendment Line 1, leave out from ‘House’ to end and add ‘expresses its revulsion at the killing of hundreds of civilians in Ghutah, Syria on 21 August 2013; believes that this was a moral outrage; recalls the importance of upholding the worldwide prohibition on the use of chemical weapons; makes clear that… -
Re: Remember this from the 2016 referendum campaign? – politicalbetting.com
A large area of New Zealand has been put into tighter restrictions because one woman went there with Covid. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-delta-outbreak-alert-level-3-for-northland-after-auckland-woman-with-covid-visited-region/I6BEZVBJGSMDCSMWHOP4FSVCO4/ We've had more Covid in my house in the last week than has… -
Re: Reform or rebrand: Who is really gaining power in local government? – politicalbetting.com
What evidence is there she would be better? She is fiesty and much better at hand to hand combat of HoC politicing, but her workers bill is dangerously stupid and all the house building targets aren't exactly been smashed. And she has never run much more than a bath. Starmer did run a significant public sector operation… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Fixed Odds Betting Terminals vs Internet Betting: Which is
"LONDON — THE city has changed. The buses are still dirty, the people are still passive-aggressive, but something about London has changed. You can see signs of it everywhere. The townhouses in the capital’s poshest districts are empty; they have been sold to Russian oligarchs and Qatari princes. ..... The White House has… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Will the polling on air strikes against ISIS persuade Dave
Your problem here is that to this intervention right you have to do it consistently and across borders. Whether there is an appetite for that I'm not but I will say this. The Obama administration is doing the same trick that it did in Libya where it didn't let on the extent of its involvement. This won't be a CNN televised… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Italy: 50 ways to leave the Euro
The spectacle of Remoaners cheering on those individuals who wish to frustrate the democratic will of the People as expressed in the 2016 referendum on the spurious grounds that they know better than the People what is good for them is not an appetising one. The House of Lords has attempted to frustrate the referendum… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Great Corbyn leader rating divide
DoH funding was but as it has gone up less in the last 5 years than for decades and is falling as a percentage of GDP. Public Health (that's initiatives to tackle obesity, alocohol and drug abuse, smoking, treating of STIs) was transferred to councils - that wasn't ring fenced and has been slashed. Also social care (social… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The EURef campaign looks set to come down to Cameron versus
Crickey there is a lot of talk about the Currant Bun front page, as if it was something new... I don't believe Kinnock has ever been trapped in a lightbulb... http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/00931/SNN1801MAJO_280_931036a.jpg Or ever seen Corbyn wearing a jesters hat...… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The BREXIT Referendum: The advertising industry is under st
Well you and the rest of the establishment on here can deny the multi-billion pound theft, money laundering, boiler room that has its nexus there. Just a shame that companies house documentation and the trail of money proves this has been going on for the past 40 years. If you're so sure that it hasn't been going on then… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » 2016 should be the Republicans’ year for the White House
On topic I think Hillary is a strong candidate. She has been around the Washington scene for a long time, she has been a senator and Secretary of State, she knows exactly how the White House works and she is very smart. She doesn't have the speechmaking capability of her husband or Obama but frankly, as Obama has shown the…