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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A reminder: The Tories need lead of 7.3 percent before they
PB Diplomacy is Back! For a few years there was a a sub-community on PB playing the game of Diplomacy, then for various reasons it died away. Recently Luicien_Fletcher, gent of this Parish, put up a post for a new game and it "sold-out" inside half-an-hour. If you weren't on line when it came up then you missed it, and I… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Nighthawks is now open
PB Diplomacy is Back! For a few years there was a a sub-community on PB playing the game of Diplomacy, then for various reasons it died away. Recently Luicien_Fletcher, gent of this Parish, put up a post for a new game and it "sold-out" inside half-an-hour. If you weren't on line when it came up then you missed it, and I… -
Re: Could the economy win it for Kamala Harris? – politicalbetting.com
My firm has been cutting non-frontline staff for years, wave after wave. The result is generally that people like me spend several hours a week doing our own admin, and we do it much less efficiently than the people who used to do it for a living. It's only now with proper investment in technology, rather than making fewer… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The boys who cried sheep. The politics of the end of lockdown
Go on then, I’ll bite. I work for a local authority, involved with senior staff and councillors. We’ve all been working from home and been very busy. Online meetings have proved very successful. A lot of admin staff have been very busy in ensuring the upper reaches of the authority have continued to function. Some folk are… -
Re: The latest next PM betting – politicalbetting.com
Got done for it, too (though not in the way one might now imagine). But TBF he started from Galloway. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-55280466 "A man who crossed the Irish Sea from Scotland to the Isle of Man "on a jet ski" to visit his girlfriend has been jailed for breaching Covid-19 laws. Douglas… -
Re: Latest voting split GE2021 CON voters – politicalbetting.com
To be very polite HYUFD, but you are sort of making the point it was the generation who wore the money tinted spectacles. “Tell Sid he can have council house virtually given to him, he only has to apply.” Up goes property prices. Sing we are in the money. How did that turn out? For the better? Has there been any thought or… -
Re: Will Jenrick or Cleverly be the orange ball-chewing gimp of Boris Johnson? – politicalbetting.com
Yes, I believe "two sleeps" has been debunked That said, I do it occasionally. Esp if I wake up at 5am with a raging hangover. Then I drink a litre of water, take a xanax, a valium, some ibuprofen, aspirin and paracetamol (my wife and I did this so much in our hedonistic marriage we called it the "the proty" - ie the… -
Re: Reaping the Whirlwind – politicalbetting.com
There seems to be a few apologists here on here deliberately conflating a “broken promise” and a “lie”. The first has sadly been endemic in politics since Aristotle. The second is something which has undoubtedly happened, but was considered until quite recently a resigning offence if publicly caught out. Practiced deceit… -
Re: England’s R rate getting above one casts a shadow over positive holiday news from Spain and France –
Hey, great, at last! Revered scientific journal The Lancet has created a ‘task force’ to investigate the origins of the coronavirus that caused a global pandemic. Finally we will get the truth. Lab leak, bioweapon, angry bat at a stall? The Lancet is on the case, with a massive new "task force" And who have they appointed… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The economics of discontent
Electoral appeal depends in part upon what role someone is in. Leadership brings different challenges to taking on vested interests as Secretary of State. As an effective leader of the He has a charming and disarming manner of reason that gets even critics to stop and listen to him. This has been said before even by… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The real weakness of the threats of PM Corbyn is that many LAB
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The latest Lord Ashcroft marginals poll is out
On Blomberg there is a story about a person who has just negotiated a 100 grand discount on a house in a London borough from the level one sold at in April. We have been censored for mentioning the decline in the price of oil ( and petrol) recently, but property prices too are certainly softening. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Corbyn the early favourite in the Labour leadership contest
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Hacking trial: Coulson guilty – Brooks cleared. What if
It is a constant though, until the boil is lanced. Poll Tax has been paid for electorally and wasn't 'criminal'- indeed it was a much more equitable system than the perfidious council tax, which is yet another example of the single having to fund the excesses of the large family and house sharers. -
Re: Cyclefree gives her Predictions for 2021 – politicalbetting.com
I am aware of that. My point is, even having used those powers, it hasn’t been enough to avoid Scotland needing international aid, just as has happened in England. Now you might argue with perfect justification that there are a number of very good reasons for that. After all, Scotland is a poorer country than England, and… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Layla Moran now becomes favourite to become next LD leader
Stock take: Remain plus some Dealers seeing what can be done to make no deal more difficult. Be interesting to see what firepower they have. Has the annual Income Tax renewal had all readings; Are there any bona fide supply votes still pending? More firepower also potentially helpful to corral Brexiters towards Deal. May… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Jacob Rees-Mogg heads for the favourite slot in the TMay succe
You are unfortunately not very clear on the reality of the situation. In the South, the States were regarded as countries. Therefore Lee would have been, in his own eyes, a traitor if he had stayed with the Union. This even though he was opposed to secession and his house was next to Washington. The South's legal… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » For everyone’s sake, Mrs May shouldn’t demote Boris but engine
His policies have actually arguably destroyed the Tories long term prospects - why he is lauded is beyond me. His failure on housing and his selective austerity - cutting social care for the elderly and disabled while bumping up corporate welfare - has led us to where we are now. And he still added £600bn to the national… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Will the last person to quit UKIP please remember to turn out
If a child has never attended school, a home educating family does not have to notify the LEA or anyone else that they are home educating. The most recent Labour government proposed a compulsory registration and monitoring regime, but their efforts failed because there was opposition in the House of Lords and they lost the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » David Herdson argues that the falling cost of living might
We need base load. We have needed to make decisions about this for over a decade. We are not in a buyers market. That opportunity disappeared during the lost decade of the last government. Osborne is ensuring supply for our houses and our economy. Clearly where we have got to is not ideal. This security of supply is not…
