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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Corbyn becomes an even stronger betting favourite to be the ne
I'm sure that is true, although that doesn't necessarily mean that Starmer's request via arcane rules are less game playing - I'm not parliamentary expert and I imagine he has taken advice from those who are (though expert government lawyers have been wrong before, no reason parliamentary procedure experts cannot be… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » We could find out how good Corbyn is at herding chickens
Extremely partial reporting there by the BBC. If you listened to WaO today on Radio 4 you would have heard Martha Carney interviewing Nick Ross of Crimewatch fame. The reason he was on is because since 2004 he has been involved with a campaign run by Fire Chiefs to get sprinklers fitted in all social housing. He points out… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » After the most intensive polling week of the year the one t
The new politics in action...Coffee House reached out to Douglas Carswell, the Ukip MP for Clacton, who declined to comment on Farage’s remarks. Carswell responded to say he was travelling to his constituency and was ‘not in a position to comment’ right now. Mark Reckless, the Ukip member for Rochester and Strood, also… -
Re: Worrying poll findings for Truss from YouGov and R&K – politicalbetting.com
No, its not a strawman. The point is that some privileged individuals are pretending that inflation is new. By that they mean inflation on goods they want to pay for is new. Inflation on essentials like property that others have to pay for, has outstripped wages by decades. The only way to reverse this inflation that has… -
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Corporate and personal indebtedness, current account, personal savings rates were all showing extreme stress back in 2007. The combined balance sheets of the EZ banks have dramatically shrunk, more than a hundred billion of bad loans have been recognised and written off. Back in 2007, the EZ looked healthy: it had low… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Sanders runs Hillary pretty close in latest round of primar
Excellent article in the Times this morning: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4719481.ece "Jihadists have for years ruthlessly exploited the chronic dysfunction at the heart of the Belgian system of governance to use the divided country at the heart of Europe as a base for murderous attacks. The story… -
Re: The Lib Dems and the Tory peril – politicalbetting.com
That depends on what level of part time. Many office based people are able to do what has traditionally been five days work in four days now as their productivity has increased with new technology and more efficient work practices. And it is generally office based or wfh types who are talking about reducing their hours or… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » To kneel or not to kneel that is the question
You have a good point about compensation for people who are directly and indirectly affected by such schemes: the current compensations scheme is miserly, especially when compared to the project costs. We need not be so miserly, although I think £1 million per house might be going a little too far, ;) I thought the… -
Re: A game changer or a QTWTAIN? – politicalbetting.com
It's all about the rational checks and balances, and the USA President does not have any - and the power has been rendered unfettered over the years by SCOTUS. Which makes it manipulable by the wealthy, the corrupt and the criminal. Which is where Trump comes in. Our checks and balances, under our constitutional monarchy,… -
Re: Kemi Badenoch remains the favourite to succeed Sunak – politicalbetting.com
On the land purchase thing. There, *already* in a law, the ability for a Council to ask the Sec. State to reduce/eliminate the estimated gain for planning permission in the case of projects involving education, social housing or health. For a compulsory purchase. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/55… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » In first post-debate poll Survation finds LAB 2% ahead and
Just a note on two seats which might turn out to be tighter than the odds suggest and offer risky but viable long-shot opportunities in what are effectively two horse races. Belfast South Due to a split unionist vote in 2010 and Sinn Fein not running, the SDLPs Alistair McDonnell strolled in. He may not have such an easy… -
Re: PB Predictions Competition 2025 – The (first) results are in! – politicalbetting.com
Just come back from a weekend in Oxfordshire with some friends. For context, I am late 40s, they are early 40s, all male. Middle class, good jobs. Some reflections: - Jesus Christ there has been a swing to the right in worldview in the past year. These were previously soft-lefty types - no longer. Though I can confirm… -
Re: Latest general election betting – politicalbetting.com
It's the sensible way, my friend. Which is why the Septics, in their current mindset, won't do it. On a different subject, as an OAP, there have been, so far anyway, two stages in the Cole's pensioner life. The first was the first fifteen or so after retirement/ We were reasonably fit, felt we'd enough money to go where we… -
Re: Trump becoming an even stronger betting favourite for the WH2024 Republican nomination – politicalbe
New Mexico 1st Congressional District Special Election FiveThirtyEight.com - What The New Mexico 1st Special Election Can — And Can’t — Tell Us About 2022 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-new-mexico-1st-special-election-can-and-cant-tell-us-about-2022/ On Tuesday, for the first time in Joe Biden’s presidency,… -
Re: Tory leadership contenders are close to outing themselves – politicalbetting.com
To find the centre ground you follow the money and think about history. 1) Money. There is no big scale disagreement about the big ticket items. NHS, free; education free 5-18; pensions; welfare safety net; social housing; NATO; fiscal rectitude (you have to pay interest on what government borrows); social care is the odd… -
Re: The worm that turned? – politicalbetting.com
It's fine, we're neutral, no-one will attack us. FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY-STYLE drones breached a no-fly zone and flew towards the flight path of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane at sea near Dublin Airport late on Monday night, The Journal has learned. The plane landed, slightly ahead of schedule, just… -
Re: Truss: Stabbed In The Back? Or Tripped Over Her Feet? – politicalbetting.com
Oh for the days of New Labour when we could hold our heads high in the world: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6424377.stm "A clampdown has been launched targeting "foreigners [who] come to this country illegitimately and steal our benefits", home secretary John Reid has said. The plan is to stop illegal immigrants… -
Re: Johnson’s premiership is on a knife edge – politicalbetting.com
The sentiment has been seriously anti-Boris in the last 72 hours. Hard to imagine anyone has been persuaded to stay their hand. Much easier to imagine seeing the PM booed so visibly in the public eye has convinced some waverers to finally put in their letter. I stand by my prediction made a while ago that there will be a… -
Re: Robert Jenrick, a man of letters? – politicalbetting.com
Home ownership has been above 60% in Denmark for decades: https://tradingeconomics.com/denmark/home-ownership-rate https://www.statista.com/statistics/543377/house-owners-among-population-denmark/ I dare say it was lower than that among trendy young people in Copenhagen a couple of generations ago :wink: I'm intrigued… -
Re: If Johnson`s ousted the by-elections could be CON holds – politicalbetting.com
No wonder they voted to abolish the post! The UK's first city mayor to declare a climate emergency has been questioned for flying nine hours to give a 14 minute speech about climate change. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-61596817 Unless he swam and walked back it will have been 18 hours…. They don’t mention…