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Re: The dramatic change in the polls since SKS became leader – politicalbetting.com
A Tory MP offered to table parliamentary questions, leak a confidential policy document and lobby ministers on behalf of gambling industry investors who proposed paying him thousands of pounds a month, an undercover investigation for The Times has found. Scott Benton, the MP for Blackpool South, was prepared to help an… -
Re: It’s looking like ajockalypse now for Labour – politicalbetting.com
Seasonal food: The most moreish thing I have had this Advent has been a National Trust olive and smokey bacon flavoured "kiln roasted mixed nuts" (cashews, almonds, peanuts) thing called Pigs in Blankets which comes in a jamjar at a slightly eye-watering price (£7.50 for 150g). It is dated OK until June 2026. My personal… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Ever since the first LAB leadership YouGov poll came out the r
As horse races go this one has indeed been pretty dull and of course the cancellation of the latter debates didn’t really help. RLB has been so poor that you honestly wonder whether she should even be in the shadow cabinet. And then there’s Jeremy. What on earth do you do with him? Labour should get some sort of a bounce… -
Re: Brits really do not like the odious Trump – politicalbetting.com
Newtown, on the island. Trashed by the French some time in the 1300s, never recovered, but kept its MP as a ‘rotten borough’ with just a handful of electors, through to the Reform Act. Now just a few houses at the end of a silted up estuary. Acquilae, in Fruili, in Roman times one of the most important cities in the known… -
Re: Boris to lead Reform UK? – politicalbetting.com
Abbott has been getting support from quite a few state governors in the past few hours. Dare I say it, but @Leon was right about immigration being the issue top of the table. Abbott’s statement is, umm, aggressive in his assertion of his right to defend the border. ”The federal government has broken the compact between the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Preview : April 7th 2016
What has come out so far looks remarkably small beer to me and I doubt it is going to change anyone's impression of David Cameron. In the public's thumbnail sketch of him, he's thought to be an Eton toff. Eton toffs have these types of arrangements. Whether that bothers you depends largely on your view of Eton toffs.… -
Re: Betting on who’ll be PM after the next election – politicalbetting.com
When house prices have been essentially artificially forced up by 20% in a couple of years, BTL investors are hardly likely to suffer from a fall less than apocalyptic as they can just sit on any mortgage they might have (which is usually limited to 75% anyway), and are usually buy and hold investors if not basically buy… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » First post-budget poll sees CON up 2 and Ukip down 2 – but
Vince Cable has criticised ageism in modern-day politics, pointing out that Churchill and Gladstone served as prime minister in their 70s and 80s. The Lib Dem business secretary, who is 69, said he would stand for election again in two years time and had "bags of energy and stamina" left. Questioning politicians' ability… -
Re: How death and ill health have ceased to be the main causes of by-elections – politicalbetting.com
The true picture of A&E waiting times in Wales has been seriously under-reported for a decade, senior doctors have told the BBC. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) claims it has established thousands of hours are missed from monthly figures. Senior A&E doctors have been raising the issue for months.… -
Re: By-election shock results – politicalbetting.com
SCOTLAND’S Test and Protect system has been labelled “completely overwhelmed” by a surge in cases after officials failed to hit a World Health Organisation (WHO) target for 80 per cent of cases to be closed within 72 hours. After facing pressure over the performance of Test and Protect in the last few weeks as Scotland… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Be careful what you wish for
There is much common ground (or is that common sense ground?) House building needs available land to be used. There may be other ways of incentivising building rather than taxation. Penalties could be included as planning conditions, where the penalty has a greater value than a bit of taxation on the land, (which… -
Re: Aborting a second Trump presidency – politicalbetting.com
CAme from the Borders, and has not been forgotten. I was intrigued to come across the plaque on his house in Peebles a few years back when having a wander around. https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186508-d19922444-Reviews-Plaque_Marking_Mungo_Park_s_Residence-Peebles_Scottish_Borders_Scotland.html… -
Re: How low can Elon Musk sink? – politicalbetting.com
There've been some attempts to do that elsewhere too - eg. the Tesla Battery Station pilot, which was tied to a temporary Californian subsidy regime in the mid 2010s. They tend to need so much infrastructure to safely handle the swaps that they've never really taken off. Silence has had some success over here selling… -
Re: The 14/1 bet I’ve just taken – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Safety or Freedom? – politicalbetting.com
As has been exhaustively documented, over the years on PB, whole sectors of the economy were denuded of workers by the exodus of 2016-20. Asking Farage to fix the problem is like asking the arsonist to rebuild the house, and the Tories were always too frightened to admit that the failures of Brexit meant big increases in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Ipsos-MORI finds support for staying in the EU at its highe
Prior to the recent fetish for referenda constitutional changes have been made regularly without undue recourse and disturbance to the voters. The only exception should be nation determining votes. All else should and previously has been eminently well settled by the Houses of Parliament. -
Re: Following Hoylegate – politicalbetting.com
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Re: In spite of latest polls Trump is a 56% chance on Betfair to retain Florida – politicalbetting.com
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Re: CON MP and PBer, Aaron Bell, doesn’t back Bojo on Patterson – politicalbetting.com
TLDR: payback for the standards commissioner, in the hope she’ll have to go Among the MPs who have signed Leadsom’s amendment, six have had allegations against them upheld by the standards commissioner since last year. Stone has also been very critical of the Prime Minister – including his delay in saying who paid for his… -
Re: On the betting markets NO DEAL becomes favourite once again as the Brussels talks flounder – politic
It is looking very grim for a deal now. If we truly get to a no deal because there is no way - and never has been a way - of finding a compromise acceptable to both sides, it's an extraordinary failure of diplomacy that this has not been realised until the final hour. Both sides have expected the other to move and thought…
