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Re: Too many tweets… – politicalbetting.com
But they also all made "just following orders" excuses * of which the vast majority were accepted (in defiance or ignorance of the Nuremburg precedent), and Calley was the only one punished, sentenced to life, was commuted Trump-style by Nixon, and served a house arrest sentence for 3.5 years only. The big thing imo is… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » After delivering Brexit TMay’s follow-on objective will be blo
Mortgage affordability was always more about protecting vulnerable bank's balance sheets than anything else. The larger deposits was supposed to insulate the poor dears from another crash. I agree that the consequences have been extremely negative. My daughter has just bought her first flat. She did so with the help of the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » David Herdson: The election remains far from a foregone con
Another Murphyism would be that one about being astonished at finding how easy it was to outwith the SNP, as Wings has been enjoying raking up on Twitter to add to your collection. And just been reading this in the Scotsman (he's talking about the current campaigning, I think, but the article isn't explicit):… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The echoes of 2008? A cartoon first published in 2008 and it c
Take a look at where the highest proportions of EU immigrants are, not in nice middle class areas I suspect. Rural Lincolnshire for example is not an affluent area. And while there are certainly social aspects to immigration again the negative effects of them have been concentrated in working class communities - not many… -
Re: There’s a market on a potential Runcorn & Helsby by-election – politicalbetting.com
A lot has been done to mitigate climate change in the last 20 years. Solar Wind Batteries Electric vehicles More efficient vehicles of all types House insulation We've decoupled energy growth from GDP growth worldwide. The worrying developments are the huge energy demands of AI and crypto. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A Government of Laws
IANAL but it looks to me like the Rebel Alliance have committed treason felony, according to the Act of 1848, which makes it a crime to “wage war against the sovereign” - by word, deed or act - “in order to put any force or constraint upon or in order to intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of Parliament.”… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The demographics of Brexit – how things are projected to chang
£314,000 is the price of the cheapest one bedroom flat - certainly not cheap. The houses are probably from double that. Thank heavens for help to buy - never has so much free money been transferred from the taxoayer to so few directors of major house builders. I am amazed that every industry doesn't demand the government… -
Re: How long before the LAB lead is reduced to single digits? – politicalbetting.com
I see Boris has in the very first paragraph of his committee submission about misleading the house, decides to be misleading. It opens by saying he takes full responsibility for what happened on his watch even though he has nudged and winked on that front in his recent statements about Grey. He has at least been smarter… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A bet that seems like a guaranteed 14% return in just over 4 m
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A second EURef phone poll has REMAIN with huge lead
The court ordered dump of Clinton emails from her private insecure server on the last working day of the month happened today - partially. The US Intel Community insisted that 22 emails cannot be made public at all, even in a redacted form. They contain info on SAPs (Special Access Programs), a classification higher than… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Night hawks is now open
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/peers-who-are-jailed-or-who-dont-show-up-will-be-expelled-from-lords-8744296.html Peers who have been jailed or who fail to attend Parliament for long periods will be expelled from the House of Lords under watered-down plans to reform Britain’s second chamber. In what has been… -
Re: Powerful address to the Senate from WH2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney – politicalbetting.com
So where are we this morning. Trump is apparently isolated in the White House, not allowing Pence in, seemingly having burnt all bridges with him. Several of the White House staffers are apparently trying to avoid Trump for fear of later prosecution, but many senior insiders seem to have remained onside with him, at least… -
Re: In other news – politicalbetting.com
I like history, but 14 years studying the same ancient house? There is a "strong case to be made" that a house excavated in Nazareth, Israel, was the childhood home of Jesus, according to an archaeologist. Professor Ken Dark, from the University of Reading, has spent 14 years studying the remains of the 1st century… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Theresa May’s next move
Probably not a fashionable view, but I’m not sure the will of the people has ever been paramount in British politics. We have a second strand: continuity. Broadly, the House of Commons represents the will of the people, the House of Lords represents continuity, and the Civil Service attempts to shape and implement laws to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour has many things to worry about at the moment – losing i
Errr. Re journalism, my point is that the number of paid journalism jobs has collapsed. Words are a lot cheaper than they were, because people can now read online for free. Look at the staffs of The Guardian,The Telegraph and the like. The sheer number of people working there has collapsed. Budgets have been decimated. But… -
Re: Voters says Europe is better than the UK – politicalbetting.com
Sorry - I just don't buy it. Starting with "we can't improve productivity" is from the wrong end. Around housebuilding it is linked to our use of wet trades, a hire and fire subcontracting culture, and other things. It's not as if the proposed increase in building is enormous - according to the numbers we have been doing… -
Re: Why Boris might not be the answer for the Tories – politicalbetting.com
@SeaShantyIrish2 - Trump and Trumpistas and election denialism has been absolute poison in 2022. The US economy is not in great shape. Mortgage rates are rising. Gas bills are rising. House prices are falling. Layoffs are beginning. Now, you can argue about how much these things are the fault of Joe Biden and the… -
Re: Sunak might be worse than Johnson and Truss – politicalbetting.com
I think the one interesting decision that Rishi Sunak has made is the increase in heat pump grant to £7500, which means that for quite a lot of normal sized houses that would now cover the whole cost. He has not been clear about the numbers of grants available, however. -
Re: A Royal Rumble – politicalbetting.com
Jane Garvey said it live on Radio 5.....when remembering 10 years of Labour government. "Ah, well – I had been up for most of the night but I was doing this Five Live breakfast programme with our colleague at the time – it was a bloke called Peter Allen so – I had to get a bit of sleep, and I do remember I walked back into… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » General Election 2017 : One year on
There are a confluence of issues that have hobbled the UK: 1. The UK's unwillingness to invest in a "No Deal" outcome at the start. If you haven't spent a single pound on infrastructure for a scenario, and haven't hired a single additional customs officer, then threats to walk out of negotiations, or genuinely go down the…
