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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » I’m Harry Hayfield and I do NOT approve this message
None of the horses in question were in training, TGOHF, but you raise a most relevant question. The number of horses involved suggests the practice was widespread and has been going on for years. (The trainer in question has 'previous'.) This raises the question of how many stallions at stud owe their position to… -
Re: Why the BBC Lineker dispute could get a lot worse – politicalbetting.com
Bizarre. Rewilding is great where appropriate. In the same way that development is great where appropriate. Land use has always changed over time in multiple ways. And I've seen lots of former agricultural land, former industrial land and former railway land which has been improved by rewilding. Of course it has to be done… -
Re: The Rachel Reeves effect – politicalbetting.com
First, it only consumes the budget of every Unitary and County Council - Districts and Boroughs don't get involved in the existing two-tier system - I'm just wondering if the whole LGR programme might be quietly abandoned next month? Second, yes, the growth in the costs of all aspects of social care has been considerable… -
Re: North Shropshire: Betting with a clean slate – politicalbetting.com
It's not control of course. Its out of control. We now require all paperwork doing up front. The half-way house that has been working gets binned and everyone has to learn a new way to prepare a lot more paperwork. The problem is that whilst we require the paperwork to be checked we have neither the people to check them or… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Cyclefree with a mischievous suggestion
It is May's interpretation of the vote - that the years of QE and ZIRP have benefited only the rich and led to a growth in inequality and diminution of opportunity (unaffordable housing etc) that have left many people feeling excluded and disillusioned with the economic and political elite. She sees this as underlying much… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Ministers are only just waking up to the Covid hangover
I bought a house in 2006 and spent a decade in serious negative equity, so I understand its a problem. But how else can I put this - society has just gone through a massive change event. The slow erosion of physical by virtual has been felt on the high street for years and is still growing - but the virtual work… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The exit door. The state of Labour as Jeremy Corbyn departs
Actually, reading the article, it’s a total clusterfnck, rather than any particular coordinated activity: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/desperate-for-medical-equipment-states-encounter-a-beleaguered-national-stockpile/2020/03/28/1f4f9a0a-6f82-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html Though it’s true that… -
Re: Short Odds, Strong Nerves – Local Election Betting 2022 – politicalbetting.com
This thread has brought us the Judiciary Act of 1869, the old Third Division North and South abolished in 1958 The Greatest Service Stations in our time And some politics too. And will never end. Someone else has written a header we will all not talk about, and we pile in there, with This thread has been relegated via… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Mrs May has missed an opportunity and it could be costly
The Recall of MP Act 2015 was passed, but it has a very high bar to trigger the recall petition - the MP must be found guilty of a criminal offence and sent to prison, or be suspended from the House of Commons for at least 21 days. Neither of these apply to Jared O’Mara for example, who’s barely turned up since his… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Guest Post: Summer 2016 might lead to a generational shift
If using junk statistics is a hanging offence then few politicians or PB posters would be long for this world. Just this week Hunts claim that there was excess stroke mortality associated with weekend admissions was shown to be untrue. Heidi Alexander has been one of Corbyns more effective frontbenchers, both in the House… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Carswell seems to have had an impact on the GE2015 betting
Er! Let me think about this "Crossing The Floor" business that has been mentioned. My first thoughts were that this is not unknown. I believe Winston Churchill crossed the floor of the house 3 times without causing an election, and I wonder what happened to him. (Probably a reason very few politicians at that time, at… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » PM Johnson’s first front pages after the day when he was most
Maybe I'm an idiot, but if a VoNC is lost, then Boris no longer has the confidence of the House. He goes to the Queen and says "Honey, they don't love me no more"*. Her Majesty then asks her advisors if anyone else has the confidence of the HoC. As there would, presumably, have been maneuverings behind the scenes, there… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Ukraine: how far will Putin go?
Outside the trade press you'd be hard pushed to find one. Google has poured tens of millions of dollars onto "research" and lobbying efforts to bring about changes that suit its business model. Their arguments totally dominate mainstream media coverage, White House thinking and legislative proposals. It's frightening how a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Early voting begins for the May 22nd Euros and for some the
Simon Danczuk said detectives visited his office on Friday to discuss a case involving a senior Labour figure and the alleged "aggressive" and "predatory" abuse of boys. He told the BBC officers were taking the allegations "extremely seriously". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27272330 This has the potential to be… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » As Dave and Ed limber up for their final PMQs the last four
I think this is a very good point and not one that has been so far discussed. If the Conservatives are defeated on the Queen's Speech can they move such a motion before they are forced to resign and Miliband is given the opportunity to form a government. I believe they can- under the FTPA the only motion that can force the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour needs to take 79 of these seats to secure a majority
Quite the contrary. If you are talking about people who are of that general political view amongst us and who live and work here, then of course they must be represented. I know quite a few Tories locally. It's the UK party and the UK system that became the problem, once the Tories as a UK wide party started to appeal only… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » EdM might just be susceptible to a decapitation strategy in
A trip to any Doncaster supermarket would reveal that its received a great deal of Eastern European immigration recently. Its the type of place which has previously only had tiny numbers of immigrants - and then often as Asian medical professionals and ethnic restauranters - but has had tens of thousands during the last… -
Re: Will Sunak’s position be stronger or weaker after today? – politicalbetting.com
Another good reason to ditch the unelected monarchy. The King is to meet the president of the European Commission today, a decision that was immediately criticised by unionists and Brexiteer Conservatives as crass, tone deaf and antagonistic. Buckingham Palace said the decision had been made on the advice of the prime… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Getting Brexit Done
The Deltapoll marginals has restored calm. I’m sticking with my Con maj 60, and hoping for more. I live in marginal Alyn & Deeside. Tallying up the house, Wiggs minor has been persuaded to cast his first ever ballot blue for the team not the leader, whilst the Memsahib is doing likewise having occasionally dallied with the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » NEW PB / Polling Matters podcast: Will May reach and deal and
As most will be aware, there has been a lot of rain in many parts of the USA recently, and all that water has to go somewhere With the mid terms due in a few weeks, could this really be a game changer for all those anti-climate changers in the Whitehouse and the House GOPer's:…