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Re: Is Trump seeking to enter Gödel’s loophole? – politicalbetting.com
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Re: What’s tonight’s debate going to this betting market? – politicalbetting.com
The “toolmaker” story is contested. To some on the left his father was “Factory Owner of the Oxted Tool Company” - we simply don’t know as Companies House has no records. He may have been “owner” or “sole trader” - but if SKS wants to introduce this, he should expect scrutiny. -
Re: Size isn’t important, it’s what you do with it that counts – politicalbetting.com
Not buying he has just got a bit of cramp. Its been an hour since he went off the field and several wickets have fallen, yet we are sending in the tailenders. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » What four years of Govey as EdSec did to the teaching vote
Had this been part of the thinking of the government in the aftermath of the referendum, I think it would have stood a good chance, because it would have been a moderate compromise. However, in the past two years since the "Citizen of Nowhere" speech, the derision thrown at Remainers, coupled with the growing sense that… -
Re: It is becoming harder to see how Truss survives – politicalbetting.com
I agree wholeheartedly with the reducing police powers part. What I disagree with is treating online harassment as if it isn't serious. The suggestion is because it is online, or only speech, or whatever, automatically means it is less serious than if it was in person. Again, I don't know what the exact claims are in… -
Re: Reaching a majority – politicalbetting.com
And after the fourteen years from 2010 to 2024 went so well. Particularly the administration from 2019. If Labour can't recover which looks quite likely, I fear the only game in town is Reform. Both Labour and the Conservatives have taken the voting public for mugs for the last seventy five years. Between them they have… -
Re: Our first taste of a packed House of Commons for 17 months – politicalbetting.com
Concurs with this FT article. In short, British meat packing warehouses rely on workers to do long, unsociable hours for low wages. This has evolved because of FOM. Now it has stopped, and they cant exploit EU immigrants, they are struggling "It is hard to see how you could manage a job with long and variable hours like… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » At 10.30 am we’ll find out if the 2nd by-election of the 20
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Re: I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene – politicalbetting.com
I went to the cinema quite recently, actually, for the first time in, ooh, about 15 years. A new cinema has opened in my town - 20 minutes' walk from my house - and it's lovely: a cosy little bar which leads to some screenrooms, with big comfy seats. It's perfect. But there's nothing there that looks even remotely… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » YouGov finds CON voters more hostile to return of Nadine th
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Marf on UKIP’s search for a new logo
1 million people in receipt of housing benefit are in low paid jobs. I imagine quite a few have arduous jobs. The policy has been costed and the savings the government claimed for the bedroom tax have been overinflated. -
Re: I am speechless, utterly speechless – politicalbetting.com
One of the more obvious fixes for the huge waiting lists in the NHS would be to temporarily nudge the value of a QALY down a bit - thus rationing the availabile treatment more by VFM rather than position in a queue. Alas, this would require the sort of political bravery neither side of the house has (it would have been an… -
Re: Only hours to go till the end of month and still no CON poll lead – politicalbetting.com
For light relief of the eye-rolling sort, a credit rating saga. I'm trying to help buy a house for a relative, and need to show my credit rating, which is normally very good. 1. Credit Karma writies: your rating has dropped sharply. Read our report to find out why. 2. Report says: you are not now on the electoral register:… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Theresa May’s staunchest supporter in the media announces his
Mr Eagles, I only read the Daily Mail when I get my hair cut, but I can see why it's been relatively successful. There's a lot of stories, mostly superficial, but plenty to pass the time. I compare it to the Guardian which also pushes it's political agenda into every story it can. They both claim as facts what they want to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » How long before Johnson’s “should” wear masks become a legal r
Well, like I said further down thread, putting up with masks in shops is one thing but being made to breathe through a bedsheet whenever you leave the house is another. It's ineffectual, completely unnecessary (whatever country you're living in,) and therefore just the sort of thing that a Government would mandate purely… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The next generation: the best outside bet for the Tory crown?
I don't think there's been anything that's happened of late that has convinced me that he has any particular competence. Would he have been organisationally superior in terms of long-term No Deal planning from the start? There's nothing in his background that suggests the methodical "putting the pieces in place" would have… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A shock poll from Opinium sees the Tories move to a 7% lead
It's interesting you say that. In the US, car demand has been incredibly strong. Why? Because in 2007-2008, traded car loans (yes, it's a sector) performed much better than mortgages. Conventional wisdom had been that if you lost your job, the mortgage would have been the last thing you stopped paying. The reality was that… -
Re: The paradox that the Tory party cannot currently solve – politicalbetting.com
It has been suggested that right-wing MPs are using Penny Mordaunt as a stalking horse to force a leadership election in which they would then support their own candidate against her. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/03/16/penny-mordaunt-stalking-horse-right-wing-tory-rival/ (£££) -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » YouGov, like Survation at the weekend, finds 61 percent bac
While I would agree with you that the UK economy remains: (a) dangerously consumer driven, and (b) worringly reliant on high house prices, I would point out: 1. Exports have risen from 28% of GDP in 2009 to 32% in 2012. That is a higher percentage of GDP than China. (Although e have fallen behind both Spain and Portugal on… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The LAB share remains rock solid in PB’s YouGov Weekly Aver
The UK has been stunningly successful in creating low value, low skilled jobs, almost certainly the most successful in the EU. This has kept unemployment relatively low and has employement at record levels. It has also hidden the worst consequences of our dysfunctional education system. How have we done this? By…
