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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Is masterly inactivity the government’s best course?
Less than four hundred more words to help explain why Osborne's intervention in the housing finance market is required. Mostly sourced from HM Treasury documents. The availability of high loan-to-value (LTV) lending has seen a sharp reduction in the wake of the financial crisis. In 2008, the number of mortgage products… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » YouGov’s Chris Curtis has this right on Farage
There is NO evidence for this. He has never even been elected to a parliamentary seat. Note that the apparently unelectable Davey has been elected to a parliamentary seat. He is very popular among extremely-online righties but nowhere near as popular as say Boris Johnson nationally. Now is Boris Teflon? (Is Trump?) -
Re: Conflicts of Interest – politicalbetting.com
Absolutely - nobody cares. Politics has sunk so low that MPs and ex-MPs being on the take is completely priced in. The surprise is if they aren't. I have heard a robust defence of "name a Labour ex-minister in it as deep as Cameron". True - can't think of one. But how about union officials trousering miners housing money?… -
Re: Betting on Lee Anderson to defect – politicalbetting.com
Because supporting right to buy has always been something that Lab has traditionally opposed. As recently as Oct 2022. https://www.lgcplus.com/services/housing/shadow-housing-minister-we-need-to-turn-the-tap-off-on-right-to-buy-20-10-2022/ But now it supports and is profiteering from it. The houses were built using public… -
Re: Making An Offer They Cannot Refuse? – politicalbetting.com
I don’t think that makes sense. Assuming a stable population, each household needs exactly one house. If household x buys their council house, that is one fewer rental house available but also one household fewer that needs a rental house, because that house is now privately owned by household x. I don’t disagree that more… -
Re: It’s always the economy, stupid – politicalbetting.com
Suzie has been given her detention lines that she has to type out 100x https://x.com/SusieWiles/status/2000943061627548148 The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history. Significant context was disregarded and much of… -
Re: Yea, though I walk through the Tees Valley of the shadow of Reform – politicalbetting.com
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Re: European electorates are an ornery bunch – politicalbetting.com
We were repeatedly promised immigration "in the tens of thousands". By that metric, net migration is still very high. In recent years it has been astronomically high. And even the Green candidate in Makerfield acknowledged that an increasing population puts more pressure on housing. -
Re: PB Predictions Competition 2026 – update – politicalbetting.com
That particular story is going to be quite brilliant to watch. It’s going to take two years to build (Wal-Mart can do a massive warehouse hypermarket in six months), is going to be staffed by Union staff on $40 an hour for a 35 hour week, time-and-a-half outside 9-5 and double time nights and weekends, has very little… -
Re: Guilt and Shame – politicalbetting.com
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » TNS BMRB polling on Scottish Independence
Quite. Ed stood up and asked a point of order. Many people expected him to call for a resignation or a confidence vote, but the only thing he wanted was to explicitly rule out military action.Edward Miliband: On a point of order, Mr Speaker. There having been no motion passed by this House tonight, will the Prime Minister… -
Re: A closer look at the local elections – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Andy Burnham moans that Wes Streeting agrees with Andy Burnham – politicalbetting.com
. On the other hand, his position on the need for devolution of central government power is pretty clear. And essentially correct. ..My core argument is this. Britain has been on the wrong path, 40 years on the wrong path, a path that has damaged communities across the north. The deindustrialisation of the 1980s was… -
Re: A potentially awkward start for the new Tory leader – politicalbetting.com
And how would that be done ? Return to the principle that there is an assumption in favour in the absence of a policy against ? It really isn't easy. The Town and Country Planning Act was probably as bad as anything the 45 to 51 government did but no Conservative government has challenged what was in effect the… -
Re: Are we about to see the greatest comeback since Lazarus? – politicalbetting.com
FFS, instead of meekly retiring, why don't they show some backbone. A few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican: “This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Preview : April 25th 2013 (T -7 days and
Syria. A couple of weeks ago when the Times and Le Figaro ran well planted stories about the confirmation via dirt samples of chemical weapons use in Syria, I speculated this was a clear move to put pressure on the US, who knew themselves what the results were but were saying nothing. For the US the White House fine words… -
Re: 62% of voters see Reform as extreme – politicalbetting.com
I agree with you. There’s a lot of moving parts in the housing market, including the supply and demand for mortgages and the willingness of banks to lend accordingly. The single largest factor in recent (10-20y) inflation has been that banks might now (well, until a couple of years ago) lend 4x joint salary at 1% interest… -
Re: What will Reform voters do at the general election? – politicalbetting.com
The two are linked together. The main reason we're having to build loads of housing is for all the immigrants, indeed we're not actually building enough housing to keep up with the rate of immigration. Voters aren't stupid and can see this. I would rather that we didn't concrete over large chunks of the country to build… -
Re: The sum of all Keir’s support – politicalbetting.com
Our gym correspondent does remind us of a point made here regarding PMQs. Starmer is angry because Mandelson lied and leaked. People are angry because Mandelson was BFF with a certified American nonce. Look at Starmer's answers at PMQs:- ... the victims of Epstein. All our thoughts are with them. Our thoughts are also with… -
Re: Is Andy about to crash and burn-ham? – politicalbetting.com
Almost every game at the Rec (Bath) this season has been announced as a full house/sell out. Yet almost every game there are free seats around because season tickets don’t always come. So it can be true that all tickets are sold and that there are empty seats.