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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Welcome to the new age of despair in British Brexit politics
@R_T You are right that there will always be a small minority who will never reconcile themselves, as there has been ever since we joined. But the larger numbers unhappy about inequality, housing, employment or immigration and who don't really care about Europe either way need to have their concerns addressed. May realised… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why GE2020 should NOT be between Osborne and Corbyn
No, Mr. Betting, May is too old and has too much baggage (where did the term "nasty party" come from). As for Mr. Dancer's suggestions; well, Greening (for whom I once had high hopes) has been House Trained by the DfID, surely the Conservative Party's least favourite department, and Ms Patel is just too damned hard in this… -
Re: The public want Danny Kruger to trigger a by-election – politicalbetting.com
Don't worry - Reform can't win them all (and of course they don't). Most interesting for me is the contest in Plaistow South in my patch of Newham. Six candidates but it's essentially a two horse race between Labour and the Newham Independents. The candidate for the Indpendents has been on quite the journey having been a… -
Re: I suspect this will go on every Labour leaflet during the general election campaign
in fairness Poulter has been critical of the tories, this from 2016 www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/14/middle-class-tax-cuts-wrong-when-so-many-rely-the-state Middle-class tax cuts are wrong when so many have to rely on the state... I struggle to see much improvement in the situation of some of the most… -
Re: Another Commons by-election in the offing – politicalbetting.com
Texas AG Ken Paxton impeachment trial by TX state senate - Day 3 Here is link for live broadcast, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAbpqbVMXUs also this link https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/07/ken-paxton-impeachment-trial-live-updates/ PLUS excerpts Thur NYT . . . . The trial is focused on 16 articles of impeachment… -
Re: Mid Beds could go CON, LAB or LD – politicalbetting.com
I would suggest that - as I have said before - it is not to do with where the immigrants come from but how they are hanlded once they arrive in the country. There are very large numbers of immigrants arriving in Norway from the countries you mention. The difference is that the Norwegian Government has what you might call a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Johnson’s opening gift to Starmer – scrapping HS2?
I think the 2017 Lords' report might still be relevant ? https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201719/ldselect/ldeconaf/359/359.pdf 7. We do not believe that asking business rail travellers hypothetical questions— about how much they would be willing to pay for quicker journeys—is the most robust evidence base on which… -
Re: State of the Union, Week 8 – politicalbetting.com
@MikeSington The McDonald’s Trump “worked” at has been getting so many fake reviews on Yelp, Yelp has stopped new comments from being added. Here are a few: “Customer service was a joke. Senile old man got bronzer on my fries, didn’t wear gloves. Repeated himself several times, something about Ronald McDonald in the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Preview: March 20th 2014
"Malaysia failed to act on satellite data that showed missing flight MH370 flew for another seven hours after it disappeared, it has been revealed. Inmarsat, a British satellite company, has told the BBC that it knew on March 11 that the plane was likely to be in either the southern Indian Ocean or central Malaysia and not… -
Re: Why I’m quitting the Conservative Party – politicalbetting.com
That's the 3rd time this tweet has been posted in past 30 mins. Can I make a polite suggestion, if you are going to post a tweet (especially one that is an hour old), just do a quick "find" on the link and see if it has been posted already.....otherwise we go back to threads been just filled with repetitive tw@ttering. -
Re: This will make you even more confused about HS2 – politicalbetting.com
The weirdest thing about it is that we've had the Prime Minister loudly refusing to comment on speculation that he's responsible for having stirred up. And the Secretary of State for Defence loudly defending the gist of the speculation. And now the Housing Minister denying it. But where is the Transport Secretary? There's… -
Re: Liz Truss now odds-on favourite in the CON leadership betting – politicalbetting.com
** EXCLUSIVE in today's Chopper's Politics Newsletter ** More than 1,800 Conservative party members have written to the Tory party chairman in less than 12 hours to demand that a vote on whether Boris Johnson should carry on as leader. The members - all of whom have to give their membership numbers when they sign up - are… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The front page of Private Eye captures the political mood perf
Here's what Speaker B said to Aung San Suu Kyi when she addressed both house's of Parliamenet in 2012; "This Hall has hosted many events over the past 900 years. In recent times only a few international figures - Charles de Gaulle, Nelson Mandela, Pope Benedict XVI and Barack Obama - have spoken here. Today Daw Aung San… -
Re: A fortnight on – politicalbetting.com
One of the very few sensible comments on the topic all evening. As has been noted before, long before the last election, we spend many billions every year in housing asylum seekers, in enforced economic inactivity, for years, thanks to the disfunctional asylum system. It’s a linked, but largely separate issue to the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » With the former Brexit deadline ending at 11pm how the betting
He has been massively more loyal to the party than the current PM or Leader of the House, and it seems that his one and only red line - not crashing out in chaos - was shared after all by Boris, once he'd actually bothered to inform himself of what a disaster No Deal would have been. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » PB Nighthawks
And the scrutiny to whatever wish list has been dusted down this time will amount to the square root of sod all. Cameron and Clegg et al will prove to be no more worthy of defending our civil liberties than Blair and Straw etc. They have all been utterly house trained by the civil service. -
Re: An update on the Trump crime family – politicalbetting.com
As it is a Saturday morning it's probably a good moment for me to say something as I haven't thus far. I was reading the thread whilst at work on Thursday and saw Mike's header about the dementia diagnosis. It felt very sad even for someone who has never met Mike and not had any interest in attending the pb get togethers.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Trump’s approval ratings, fake news, leader ratings, and immig
What the polling seems to show to me is the good sense of the British people and very little of the hysteria that seems to surround immigration in the media. So there are comfortable pluralities for immigration being a good thing generally, for immigration being essential to our public services and the need for immigrants… -
Re: This has major betting implications – politicalbetting.com
Do we know how much gas consumption has risen in the UK this month compared to the average rise in October? I've managed to avoid putting the central heating on so far although I did light the stove on Tuesday because it was so cold and wet. But equally, I don't like the house particularly warm and I live on my own so I've… -
Re: The second coming of John Swinney – politicalbetting.com
I haven’t had to criticise anything from a detached house in Surrey since a blowjob I got at a post A-level party but it is easy to criticise from afar just as the US have criticised the Israeli actions, the least likely country to criticise them. I’m hugely pro-Israel but they are being stupid now. They have lost the…