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Re: Could the Tory Jim Crow laws hand the election to Susan Hall? – politicalbetting.com
Mortgage rates were kept historically, perhaps artificially, low for nearly fifteen years by ZIRP. With higher house prices being an inevitable consequence with all the damage that has brought to the economy and society generally. Now for those who only took on their mortgage towards the end of that period there may be… -
Re: Can Parish tough out watching porn in the Commons? – politicalbetting.com
I am talking about goods and trade. As far as humans are concerned, mcuh of the problem is the cuts to public health (partly in local government and national as well as NHS). There were and are in any case serious concerns about elements of the population which don't fit your model. Alcoholics, homeless, underfed poor,… -
Re: Today is Server Move Day – politicalbetting.com
Yes, you can't really overstate the extent to which the private motor car has been responsible for the uglification of our towns and cities. So much space is given up for them. (Not the only factor, of course. See also bad architecture, graffiti and litter, roll shutters, and really ugly shop frontages that do nothing to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Holyrood 2021: The election that could kill the Union stone de
I hope that we do learn from those countries ahead of us on the way out because we certainly didn't learn much from them on the way in. Boris was asleep at the wheel, MIA at a country house with Carrie for the second half of February when he should have been focussing on what was heading our way. The government has been… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » William Hill say nobody’s bet on Osbo since the Google tax
From a couple of threads back - People keep saying that Trump has gone bankrupt multiple times. That is wrong. He has never gone bankrupt. He has used the bankruptcy code several times (4 I think) to wind up projects he was involved in that weren't working out. Now the Clinton email saga. You may recall that Clinton said… -
Re: Trump now an evens chance of winning the GOP WH2024 nomination – politicalbetting.com
LA Times (via Seattle Times) - A Black couple settles lawsuit over a home valuation that rose when a white friend posed as owner A Black couple has settled a lawsuit against a real estate company that appraised the value of their Marin City, Calif., home nearly half a million dollars higher when a white friend posed as the… -
Re: Scottish subsample watch – politicalbetting.com
But again the point I'm making is that we've added 8m people to the population in 20 years and on average they've not expanded GDP by enough to cover the additional public service expenditure they require. It's meant larger deficits, less money to go around and increasing tax as a proportion of GDP reducing long term trend… -
Re: How LAB could lose my tactical vote in the UK’s tightest marginal – politicalbetting.com
Twits in the Twitter-verse Centralia WA Daily Chronicle - A Twitter account claiming to be state Rep. Joel McEntire, R-Cathlamet, has been calling users of the platform various demeaning words, including “straight up loser,” “dim wit dem,” “lazy” and “utterly pathetic.” While he initially said on his Facebook page that… -
Re: Some of the front pages from the Sundays – politicalbetting.com
Interesting that, for all the talk of Diane Abott, there’s a big issue in the US with Dianne Feinstein, who’s an 89-year-old Senator from California. She’s clearly lost her marbles, and has been absent for several weeks now. Her absence means that the Judiciary Committee on which she sits, and the Senate as a whole, no… -
Re: To be, or not to be: that is the question – politicalbetting.com
According to Nancy Mitford the key distinction is 'U' and 'Non-U'. She was posh so she would know. Anyone who has ever been to the 'toilet', looked in a 'mirror' or said 'pardon' is not, and never could be, U. For avoidance of doubt I am neither U nor Posh, though in my council house childhood we did consider ourselves… -
Re: It is hard to see Old Bexley & Sidcup being other than a comfortable CON hold – politicalbetting.com
Indeed we will. Probably with a bang. You do know that there has been absolutely no inflation, because housing costs aren't inflation, honest? No, not at all. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Now some polling news to cheer the blue team up
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Populus becomes the third pollster in a week to show the To
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Uniting the country
Well this UK reboot of House of Cards has been pretty exciting hasn't it. That Kevin Spacey Yanky knock off is looking a rubbish in comparison... -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » One year on from the Indyref: Why Scottish Independence mig
OT Talking of Barbarians.... Someone posted yesterday that the refugees at the Hungarian border had started rioting after only 36 hours. According to this poster their anger after only 36 hours showed what a lucky escape the Hungarians had in keeping these uncivilized barbarians out. Has anyone ever been at an airport… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The big question is whether and how the debate impacts on v
What Nige actually said: The British government has actually gee-ed up the European Union to pursue effectively an imperialist, expansionist [policy] ... and even Mr. Barroso, the Commission President once himself said that we are building an empire. We have given a false series of hopes to a group of people in the Western… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Marf’s summation as the big day gets closer
The Yorkshire Post front page also has the latest story from Rotherham council, a prime example of non-job bollox for a public sector fatcat: ' In a statement, following the story being reported by the Yorkshire Post, Rotherham Borough Council said: "Mark Fletcher-Brown was commissioned by the then interim chief executive… -
Re: Brexit increasingly dominates views of Johnson – politicalbetting.com
Student accommodation is the biggest untalked about rip off. All the focus has been on the increase in uni course fees, but student accommodation has risen many many times the rate of inflation. Yes its "nicer", you all get an a nice ensuite now, many parents wowed by it being better than the crappy accommodation they had… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If “help to buy” boosts house prices it could be an electio
@Richard_Tyndall The Telegraph quoting councillors who were bitching because some of their powers might be curtailed? Well well, that's it then, what could be more authoritative than that? We've been through all this in 2004 and again in 2008, when the Kate Barker and Office of Fair Trading investigated. In both cases they… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Getting rid of the FTPA won’t be that easy
You're putting it as though it's a question of black and white. In practice I think opinion is more nuanced than that, supporting a lockdown in general without every specific measure within it. I agree that relatively few want a return in the near future to the extreme scenarios of crowded pubs and packed football matches.…
