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Now while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table. But when the disciples saw it, they were angry and said, “Why this waste? For this ointment could have been sold for a large sum, and the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Will Jim Murphy arrest Labour’s slide in the Scottish pol
I agree with that but his position on making Scotland the fairest country on earth is (despite being a very bad pun) clever positioning. He is going to campaign on how the SNP's catastrophic education policies have let down the poor and disadvantaged, how their failure to modernise the NHS has resulted in excessive… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Keiran Pedley looks at whether Cameron could fight the 2020
In Scotland around 4% of children are privately educated, compared to 7% for the UK as a whole. The Sutton Trust has produced research for the H of C: http://www.suttontrust.com/researcharchive/parliamentary-privilege-the-mps-2015/ Summary •Almost a third (32%) of MPs in the new House of Commons was privately educated.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The WH2016 betting moves a notch back to Hillary on what’s now
Really, I think this stuff about the government acting illegally by agreeing to EU treaties before parliament has passed the necessary legislation is complete tripe. Here's a "FactSheet" from 2010 published by the House of Commons Information Office: "All EU treaties require legislation for their implementation in the UK… -
Re: It’s not you babe, it’s me – politicalbetting.com
To stretch this analogy to breaking point the Tories have been very successfully maintaining two paramours since 2019. The steady posh one in the South has got annoyed about all the time the Tories have been spending with the new exciting one in the North and every time they try to do something to placate the Southern… -
Re: If it’s not hurting then it’s not working – politicalbetting.com
Excellent question. For me, it has the potential to be the divorce day that's been obviously on the cards for years, the faithful retainer put out to pasture for being hopelessly doddery, the dog that Francis Urquhart shot in House of Cards... The old Conservative Party, the alliance of populists and patricians united in… -
Re: The papers are in no doubt about the Tory winner – politicalbetting.com
Neither are you with an ignorant statement like that. Forecast accuracy is not a categorical measure, it tends to decline relatively evenly over time. So a 96 hour format will be less accurate than one at 48 hours, but improvements in weather forecasting have been phenomenal over recent decades. This heatwave has been well… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The criminal investigation into Arron Banks/LeaveEU funding wo
Perhaps TMay was faced with an ultimatum by Esther McVey, who is strongly in favour of high FOBT stakes. She might have lost a Minister either way and decided that losing Tracey Crouch would cause her less damage. "Ms McVey is in a relationship with fellow Tory MP Philip Davies, who has been an outspoken defender of FOBT… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Government loses Article 50 case. Theresa May is the big loser
Re halal food.... I know NP-exMP like to tell us about how the Labour government conversed with Imams / religious scholars to tell halal slaughter houses that stunning was still allowable. However, I believe since then there has been a huge rise in recent immigrants who are much more devote in their beliefs demanding… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The next Shadow Chancellor betting
Guardinistas will enjoy today's blog: "The House of Commons is a place where the exchanges are mostly harsh and critical, and so it should make a welcome relief today to hear tributes to a woman who has been a feature of national life almost forever, someone who is often mocked but who has won over the public through… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Pollsters should follow Ipsos MORI’s 2008 example and not r
A Labour shadow cabinet minister has called for the leadership candidates to offer the party the chance to get rid of them in 2018 if they are underperforming. Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, the Labour leader in the House of Lords, is one of a number of senior figures who would like the option of a “break clause” to prevent… -
Re: You might need a brave heart for this Scottish bet – politicalbetting.com
It's just possible that some of us might blame the nationwide lack of affordable housing and disastrous distortion in the economy of using residential real estate as a store of value on the party that has been in power for 29 of the last 42 years and specifically ran a policy to reduce rentable stock. Unwinding this is… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Johnson/Cummings propose moving the House of Lords to York
Yes but that is about money and not nebulous but fundamental considerations like the zeitgeist of left behind towns or Leaverstan or Scotland. Money matters. This is one problem with the idea sometimes expressed here that local authorities should combine. If council A currently spends money in town A, and council B spends… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Amber Rudd resigns
I am specifically referring to help to buy as an example - the bank bailout occurred two years before he came into office. Helping first time buyers pay up to 40 per cent more than they would have done for a new build compared to 2012 is great news for developers but perhaps less so for those first time buyers. Some of the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Starmer is the most popular leader of the opposition since Bla
Not true. Perhaps I overreact, but posts which aay this sort of thing - and absolutely nothing else - irritate the fuck out of me "There has been some comedy gold from some PB Tories on this thread. Well done!" A Mick Pork inspired gag which has long outlived its freshness. Then again as I hardly regard myself as a tory… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A week on from Johnson being called to the Palace and so far s
I thought he had been deselected by the Tories? So he has nothing to lose. If the Lib Dems win the by-election tomorrow then his defection would be hugely symbolic as I think it would mean no majority in the H of C for the Tories depending on how you measure these things i.e. Tories + Dup = Maj at the moment. Shame that… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Who Will Deliver The First Budget After The May 2015 Genera
I'm not sure - I guess Major did something similar with Europe votes, but I'm not sure if it would have meant an immediate end to the government if he'd lost; Has a government ever actually been brought down like this? "This House hereby passes the South Coast Bicycle Lane Act and has confidence in Her Majesty's… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Brexit looks set to be the biggest non-election political bett
You're looking for a referendum between any two of (1) a remain deal which is worse than the remain deal that has already lost, (2) a WA deal which has been voted down by Parliament more heavily than any govt motion ever, (3) no deal, which might beat that record if put to Parliament. And to get to it you need to overturn… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Even at only 1/2, Macron remains the value bet
Perhaps so Roger. However PB has never been an echo chamber for the prevailing mood. OGH has always striven to ensure a big tent policy. However he is rightly dischuffed when some posters choose to piss in his tent rather than outwith. Even then Mike allows for potty training errors and allows back those that graduate to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The PB/Polling Matters podcast: After the by-elections what ne
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/28/uk-housing-market-needs-radical-solution Significantly, it seems, the focus has now shifted from blaming councils for delaying plans, through a cumbersome planning system, to blaming builders and developers for sitting on large land banks once planning permission has been…