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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour’s YouGov lead down to 8pc – but it is too early to s
Both Houses of Parliament have been recalled to pay tributes to former Prime Minister, Baroness Thatcher, on 10 April 2013. Baroness Thatcher died on 8 April 2013. Since 1948, the House of Commons has been recalled during a recess on 25 occasions. Under Standing Orders, the Speaker of the House of Commons determines… -
Re: The nihilism of the Greens and Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
One of the issues with, for example, using a battery at home as a back-up in case of the grid going down is that you can send electricity back into the grid, and so make the wires that have come down live, even if it's been isolated form the rest of the grid. This can make it very dangerous for people to fix the grid, and… -
Re: Things to put on the side of a bus? – politicalbetting.com
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Re: That’s Life? – politicalbetting.com
I guess that's the question. What is the point of the House of Lords? Originally the point of a two-chamber system was that different people and different interests were represented in the two houses. Lords and Commons. Having two houses allows these differences to be debated openly and compromise agreed. You can see a… -
Re: Could Liz Truss improve Tory fortunes? – politicalbetting.com
Cameron = Unelected Has-Been! -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » After an eventful day three Questions from CycleFree
So you think it's acceptable that an unelected Prime Minister who has yet to face a vote leading a government with no majority pursuing a policy that has never been put to the electorate should seek to impose that policy by suspending Parliament? -
Re: The Burnham surge – politicalbetting.com
DAN HODGES reveals the SEVEN times Starmer has misled the House of Commons or broken ministerial code Offence 1: On September 10, 2025, Starmer told the House that 'full due process was followed during (Mandelson's) appointment, as it is with all ambassadors'. Offence 2: Last Wednesday, at Prime Minister's Questions,… -
Re: A Streeting Named Desire – politicalbetting.com
Housing strategy over the last decade has been to rotate minister every year so that no-one becomes accountable for the complete and persistent failure to reach any of their targets. -
Re: However hard LAB presses Rishi is the one who’ll decide the date – politicalbetting.com
The problem has been worse than you said as when house prices have for the past couple of decades been going up so much faster than earnings, then even if you do save the rampant inflation (in house prices) in recent decades erodes your savings to not mean as much. Saving for four years, or eight years, means your savings… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Ipsos Mori Issues Index for May
Historically, European countries traded with each other, whilst the UK traded globally - much through Empire/Commonwealth connections. The failure of the UK to develop after WW2 in the way that some other (mainly N European) countries have done is largely due to the lack of strategic investment in the UK - our C19th- era… -
Re: Has Trump ensured the UK rejoins the EU? – politicalbetting.com
Er, you can't vote for Cameron, he's an Unelected Has-Been! -
Re: This would not be the result of a general election winning Leader of the Opposition-politicalbetting
"Zack Polanski's Green Party has been accused of blocking the construction of tens of thousands of homes across the country in a furious row with Labour. The Greens have attempted to block at least 42,000 new homes - including at least 13,000 affordable homes - since 2018, according to new analysis by Labour. Mr Polanski's… -
Re: The great switch off – politicalbetting.com
Same LP. Same song! I annoyed Mrs RP a few years back when I asked where my 30s had gone - the 10 years had got behind me. She pointed out that we'd had two children in that decade. And we had! But I had had to work so absurdly hard with long hours to pay the bills that I felt like I'd missed it. This is the burden of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » After a difficult week since the “deal” was published some wel
Whilst I agree that Labour have made themselves unelectable I am not so I agree that we need "root and branch changes" to our economy. In fact our economy, despite the chaos, is doing rather well. Record employment, low inflation, increasing real wages, reasonable if not exciting growth, a rapidly falling deficit and an… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Grand Entrance. Sir Keir Starmer’s electoral challenges
Morning everyone. Been thinking about social isolation in my family's terms. We've got a small garden and live in a small town with easily accessible walks. Easy to walk for an hour without having to get within 2m of anyone, We do it daily. Goods can be ordered on line, paid for by credit card and left on the doorstep 5m… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » With Trump in trouble a look at the best betting markets
That may well be true. But MPs have surgeries, receive correspondence from their voters, are out and about in their constituencies and have been elected. Cummings has been elected by no-one. Who does he talk to? Whom does he represent? How dare an unelected administrator lecture people who have actually bothered to go to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Nick Palmer on What next if Corbyn sweeps the board?
Have to disagree David. Just about everything they have done has had the effect of strengthening his support amongst the very people they need to win over, to vote him out. They went after him too heavy, too soon. Jamie Reed resigned within minutes of Corbyn being elected leader and ever since then there have been numerous… -
Re: PM for PM – politicalbetting.com
1) Lord Cameron = Unelected Has-Been 2) Banana and strawberry are infinitely worse toppings than pineapple. -
Re: Burnham Love and Weseltine Streeting – politicalbetting.com
Mass immigration has been one of the most significant macroeconomic facts about the British economy this millennium. It affects everything from the demand for housing to the cost of hiring someone to pamper your dog, and in both those cases, it's your wealthy dog lover who benefits and your person who is struggling to get… -
Re: 2025 Conservative Party conference and its problem policies – politicalbetting.com
Read between the lines. Rawnsley's piece is as self-serving as the usual Starmerite tripe we get served from certain people here. The Tory's problem is unfailingly diagnosed as not enough centrism - the line used to be 'you will be unelectable with right wing policies', but now that a right wing policy-touting party is…