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Re: Losing your marbles – politicalbetting.com
I vehemently disagree. All the traditions that add up, piled on top of other traditions, in a great chaotic mishmash is part of what makes December so memorable and unique. When my daughter was 2 her grandparents in Canada got her/us a gift of Elf on the Shelf as a new Christmas tradition, which now a lot of people do.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If you are looking for clarity about what’ll happen in the Eur
> @SandyRentool said: > > @dixiedean said: > > Off topic. But how come everyone has suddenly decided Jeremy Kyle is "a bad thing"? It has been on for 14 years, and hasn't changed much. The fact that someone has died now means people seem to have noticed it. My only surprise is it has gone on so long before the worst… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Andy Burnham on 5Live showing that for him at least this ca
The whole statement needs to be read. It is a riveting read. And some names have been named (albeit by someone who is passionately seeking to clear his own name). My favourite passage? "At the end of the interview I was asked if I knew my 8 alleged co conspirators whose homes it was alleged I had visited. I believe I have… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Pandemic – some of this afternoon’s developments
I think I've realised what has bothered me most about the government response. The absolute lack of engagement with industry until the very last moment. There has been almost no engagement with the tech industry for data modelling, app building and logistics. The UK has one of the largest tech industries on a per capita… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Stoke Central is set to rank alongside Darlington in 1983 as o
Regulars will know I've followed previous updates in the public sector debt forecasts closely, and, (new job notwithstanding) this is no exception. The ONS has revised government borrowing in the year to date down by a staggering FIVE BILLION. £3bn is attributable to changes in the way that government receipts are… -
Re: Back home Rentoul thinks the betting markets are wrong on Sunak – politicalbetting.com
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Just how strong is Momentum? Don Brind takes a sceptical lo
How many hours has Farron been going on? Sky News has just given up and gone to Obama at the UN. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour’s May 4th prospects are looking appalling in England, W
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Re: A New Era For PB! – politicalbetting.com
It's been interesting watching some of the Conservatives on here adapt to life in Opposition. There are those whose hostility to Labour in any form means they were critics from round about Admiralty Arch on the morning of July 5th. Within that group you have those who claim to have voted Labour, those who were deeply… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The latest Opinium poll has Starmer beating Johnson on thirtee
Andalusia has registered three new outbreaks, two in Malaga and one in Almería, so that the active outbreaks amount to 19, with 349 infected, 51 more affected, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The three new outbreaks are located in the Malaga district of capital, with seven infected, in Guadalhorce (5) and in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Methinks that George should have put economics before the p
Mick you are confusing 2 different things. I was talking about cuts in government spending. They have been modest to date but will be a lot less modest when these announcements come into play. You are talking about real wages. These have indeed fallen sharply although for most of us in employment the effect has been very… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Understanding the Cooper surge
Burnham's campaign has been worse than Portillo's. Portillo upset his former supporters by straying from their true Thatcherite message: he was the wrong person giving the right analysis at the wrong time. Cameron succeeded four years later on a very similar platform but he had the advantage of no baggage and a party more… -
Re: It’s going a bit Liz Truss for Donald Trump – politicalbetting.com
Cheers. The next step is to continue improving the exercise, and lose a bit of weight. The initial target is 5000-6000 steps per day, or an equivalent cycle trip. That's on track so far, so we'll see. I may need lots of energy to dig up some wheelchair blocking horse-styles off our bridleways :wink: , once persuasion has… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » August’s Politicalbetting polling average: LAB recovery con
@Alex I've been lucky enough to spend some time in Montreal and Toronto recently and the Quebec experience certainly makes an interesting comparison with Scotland. My understanding is that although the Yes side lost, the vote was so close that it got much of what it wanted anyway. Quebec became generally far more… -
Re: This is not about Trump (except of course it is) – politicalbetting.com
Politico.com Toomey says Trump ‘committed impeachable offenses’ But the Pennsylvania senator said he doesn’t know whether it’s “practical” to move ahead with impeachment proceedings. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/09/pat-toomey-trump-impeachable-offenses-456869 I do NOT agree very often with Senator Toomey, some… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » How the papers are covering Margaret Thatcher
Some comments on the Thatcher legacy, with particular reference to the mining industry. I am writing this in the former Durham pit village of Rowlands Gill, with the pictures of my father and grandfather on my wall. My father started work on the screens at Friarside pit at the age of 14, and my grandfather was the traffic… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The latest PB / Polling Matters podcast asks two big questions
Anecdote warning: One of my extended family has a very jaundiced view of politics, voted leave, and 'just wants it done', etc. He is originally from 'The North' (Yorkshire), identifies very strongly that he is a salt-of-the-earth type, not like those "rich bastards", etc. When I pointed out the other day that he has what… -
Re: Will Sunak still be PM at the general election – politicalbetting.com
There'll be no going back regardless of who is in power. Nothing significant will change at all with a change of government. It's all about who gets to have the titles, the offices and the ministerial limos and little else. The net transfer of wealth from the young to the old, and to the very wealthy from everyone else,… -
Re: Voting is certainly brisk in this part of Pennsylvania – politicalbetting.com
The IT systems may be great but my wife is 7 days into jury duty there and has been in court for about 1 hour. Took them 23 seconds to decide the guy did it. -
Re: Yes we Kem? – politicalbetting.com
Even then I wouldn't - but then I am 80 Just looked up with the sound off, and low and behold Sam Coates of Sky again doing a hatchet job on Starmer Coates has been on virtually every half hour today about Starmer and his freebies Maybe this is just 'gotcha' journalism but pleased for once it is Labour and not the…
