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Re: The charge of light in the head brigade – politicalbetting.com
Are Labour on the attack enough, in your opinion? Carrying Ming vase is one strategy, but another is attack is often best form of defence. It seems every hour there’s another story of how tax payers money ran through Tory fingers.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The tax credits defeat happened because the Tories are stil
''Amusing that we are debating the actions of the unelected HoL on a minor budget issue on here today when an elected government in an EU country is barred from office by the Eurocrats.'' Indeed, and whilst Mr Morris has correctly pointed out that Portugal has been discussed here, what is interesting is that it has made… -
Re: Day 15 of the Ukraine crisis and some of Friday’s front pages – politicalbetting.com
I salute the good intentions - but if @OnlyLivingBoy is buying a flat in London for the purpose of housing refugees they will be competing with first time buyers and driving up house prices, and rents as well because it reduces supply. One of the issues with bringing refugees in to the UK is that it has its own housing… -
Re: Bad expectations – politicalbetting.com
The Queens simpleton couldn't even make money from casinos. Watching him walk into the quagmire has been not so much predictable as inevitable. There have been several vulgar oafs in the White House, there have been several hapless fools. I think no single President has combined vulgarity, arrogance and foolishness to… -
Re: America is going to the dogs – politicalbetting.com
I am sure I say this every time this is debated, but when I was a young child, the hospital next to where we lived was basically a retirement home for gentlefolk. Old people went there to be looked after before they died. This is St Georges Hospital in Hornchurch. We used to take them baskets of food from school. Now it… -
Re: The Saturday open thread – politicalbetting.com
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Just released: Latest PB/Polling Matter podcast with its exclu
Section 4: Vice Presidential–Cabinet declaration Section 4 is the only part of the amendment that has never been invoked.[24] It allows the Vice President, together with a "majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide", to declare the President… -
Re: Tears for Keir next Friday? – politicalbetting.com
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Re: It’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off for Angela Rayner – politicalbetting.com
“Upending the system in a populist revolution is something you do when times are good” Unless you are in the BreakTheSystem mood. See Brexit. A lot of people on the left and right are in that place. There was a rather good piece in the Guardian about Lincolnshire. The whole place is heading Reform. One of the putative… -
Re: A look ahead to the midterms – politicalbetting.com
On topic, history tells us the midterms are rarely pretty for the party holding the Presidency. Whether it will be a 1994-style blowout I don't know. In that election, the GOP won by just under seven points and gained 54 House and 8 Seante seats. Obviously, our old mate Gerry Mandering has been at work since but it still… -
Re: One of these tweets is a spoof, can you guess which one? – politicalbetting.com
Dave the Unelected Has-Been? -
Re: It looks as though the lockdown bandits think they can tough it out – politicalbetting.com
My view on this is not popular, but what the hell. I will preface that I want Johnson to go asap, if not before. He is a disgrace, unsuited to running a whelk stall. He is a liar, a cheat, a serial love rat, clearly only interested in Boris Johnson. However, in the case the the 'parties' I can genuinely see how he became… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Despite 34% voters thinking Jeremy Corbyn personally has anti-
Ah, well I don't think immigration has been the main driver of house price growth in the last six years or so. I do think immigration has forced rents up, though. I think the very loose monetary policy has been the main driver of house price growth. The point I was trying to make is that the politicians are all in favour… -
Re: A new dawn has broken has it not? – politicalbetting.com
It is odd. I posted about this a couple of hours ago. The US President tonight has warned of an impending attack by Iran on Israel and has warned them against. This has been briefed to intelligence correspondents for several days. “Sources” to the White House say they don’t rule out joining any retaliatory strike on Iran.… -
Re: Too many tweets, Part II – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Who will be the official opposition after the next election? – politicalbetting.com
Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. https://x.com/FT/status/2056356147376865625 -
Re: Letter to America, please tell us the truth about this conspiracy theory – politicalbetting.com
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Damian McBride says he doesn’t think his revelations will h
Is there more than one "tim"? I have a vision of a relay of "clones" doing three or four hour sessions at the computer! More seriously, do those figures include Housing Association starts. For example, Essex Cricket Club is, in partnership with a developer, building several blocks of flats on land which it owns to finance… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » On the wrong track: the government needs to be seen to be gett
That's not true. Railways generally have lots of competition. At the moment, I'm working out of our Bradford office on secondment but for the last four years I've worked in Leeds and commuted by rail. It's not been a good service but it's tolerable - trains every half-hour going home and more during the rush hour on the… -
Re: Jenrick slips to third place with punters today and likely third place with MPs tomorrow
The biggest problem in my view (also picking up @Sandpit's other point) is just that there has been no coherant strategy in housing policy for over a decade most famously characterised by the rapid turnover of housing and planning ministers in the latter years of the last government. The government cannot control the…