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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » PB Night hawks is now open
That is surprising, contrary to what all the talk had been and rather worrying. As to shale gas word has it there's plenty of shale gas under Sussex but the best two drilling points are under Glyndebourne and under a certain Richard Nabavi's house - would you be so kind as to break the bad news to our friend ;-) -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » LDs the main gainers but there are a lot more results to come
To provide a further anecdote, in the absence of evidence, I grew up there and still have several old school friends in the city, mostly quite annoyed about Brexit - most voted Con in 2015 GE, mixed but largely Lab in 2017 (on Brexit, thinking they'd come round to anti-Brexit, inexplicably, but also for bits of Labour's… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Supreme Sacrifice. The Article 50 case moves to the next level
A better question than the one Alastair asks is: why did the government proceed with a case which, whatever its actual merits, seems to have been likely all along to have been unsuccessful? At least that assessment of the likelihood seems to be the consensus amongst the legal eagles. If it is true that the government was… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Latest YouGov poll suggests Remain might see a caTaffstroph
Even if there is, Miss P, how many people do you think will listen to it? Some will of course, but they are, I suspect, mostly likely to be those who have already bought into Project Fear. For the rest, I rather think, that it will be just one more story to skipped over/mentally screened out. We have already been told that… -
Re: And the betting barely moves – politicalbetting.com
In the round, most people are better off now. Certainly the further back in time you regress, the worse conditions become for everyone except straight white men. You can make a plausible case in purely monetary terms for the mid-nineties, on the basis of housing costs of nothing else, but the degree of societal progress… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Syria
This is a bit odd - what's the inside track? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23852962 A West Midlands UKIP MEP has been told he cannot stand for the party in the next European elections. Mike Nattrass, who has been both chairman and deputy leader, was told he failed a candidate assessment. He said: "I just… -
Re: The Ashfield MP’s comments on the poor will be remembered – politicalbetting.com
My hypothesis is that we created a lot of service jobs. There has been an explosion in companies offering practically immediate delivery of takeways and now groceries. They just don't exist on that scale in Europe because their societies haven't de-evo;ved like we have where as the ex Commercial Director of Sainsburys put… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Marf on what we are not allowed to talk about and news of 2
That Brown went before a Con-LD deal was done has been known for some time. I think David Laws says so in his book on the coalition negotiations and his brief first stint in government. Mandelson certainly does in his memoirs, and I'm pretty sure Cameron has confirmed it in interview as well. I'm not convinced Brown… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » YouGov’s BREXIT tracker is back to exactly where it was just a
Hmmm - when so many column inches and so much air time has been devoted to Blair over the last 24 hours he is clearly not delusional to believe that people are still interested in what he has to say. If you want to make an egomaniac feel important make him the lead story. The fact is that 10 years since he left the scene,… -
Re: The Tories have Ratnered their brand – politicalbetting.com
Suck it up Buttercup... You won, get over it. Unless Leavers (who are now almost entirely Tories) stop attacking the straw man of "Remainers" for the inevitable failures of Brexit, and start trying to create a new national consensus they will serve no future purpose except to be a terrible warning of the dangers of hubris… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Bye-bye by-elections? Part 2. MPs who resigned their seats and
Hammond has simply pursued Osborne’s policies - allowing Gov spending to escalate and funding it by frozen allowances and big hikes in indirect taxes. Neither did anything to attract inward investment, boost productivity or champion consumer rights and both have penalised savers to favour borrowers. Both were… -
Re: The data the advocates of a “progressive alliance” ignore – politicalbetting.com
We do?! I thought I'd see who the youngest Tory MP was if they were looking for a real generation shift. It's interesting how stable the average age of MPs has been since at least 1979 - no higher than 51.2, no lower than 48.8 (in 1983). https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/house-of-commons-trends-the-age-of-mps/ -
Re: Public sympathies – politicalbetting.com
Now I will speak in favour of privatisation. The service I have recently received from BT and Openreach has been excellent, sorting out a complex fault within 48 hours that they texted me about before I knew the line had issues. Engineer than came when they said he was going to and didn't leave until the job was done. BT… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A year ago few would have predicted that TMay would have survi
Try claiming UB/ESA My wife has been very ill with sepsis and an abscess on her spinal chord. You have (ring up wait ages to get thro get cut off etc etc wetc, get sent a long form to fill in and then make an appt to see a "work coach" that lasts for an hour. She cannot cope with that. She is on daily IV antibiotics that… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » On Euro election day it looks as though it is all over for the
Assuming someone accepts the offer of the Leader of the House job, they're unlikely to be in post that long, which makes me wonder what the shortest tenure for a Cabinet minister is? I know David Laws only lasted 17 days in post, but has anyone resigned, been sacked, or moved after a shorter period of time? -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » What if this latest from YouGov proves to be correct?
I actually think the news narrative has been better for Con over the last week. - First Manchester got security onto the agenda - Dementia tax has largely faded into background - Sunday Abbott car crash Marr interview - Monday Corbyn generally did OK with Paxman but terrible on Falklands and Monarchy may have worried some… -
Re: Allowing door-to-door distribution of commercial leaflets but banning election ones would be thwarti
I still don't think there's much evidence been proffered for substantial outdoor transmission, even in winter. Yes, temperature is a strong factor in how long COVID survives, but almost certainly less strong than dissipation in outdoor air, and slightly stronger than relative humidity (which improves COVID survival at both… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Needed: a Geneva Convention for the 21st Century
Its probably worth looking at Cameron's statement yesterday to see the lengthy process by which the drone strike was authorised. I'm not sure what more people would like done? "Today, I can inform the House that in an act of self-defence and after meticulous planning, Reyaad Khan was killed in a precision airstrike carried… -
Re: The greatest resurrection of all time. There’s more Liz Truss leadership talk – politicalbetting.com
Why is Central Asia so crap at cheese? They have endless grasslands, and billions of cows, goats, sheep and horses, all producing milk. They’ve had 10,000 years to get a grip on it, yet they can’t even make a decent version of Cheddar or Brie To flip it around, why has cheese been perfected in Western Europe - France,… -
Re: Ipsos finds that 90% now say they’d take a COVID vaccine – politicalbetting.com
Demand for more space and more higher-value properties instead of big city flats - that chase for quality has been obvious. By contrast it's not clear theoretically why people should end up paying more money on net for the same house after a stamp duty cut - especially to the tune of 8 per cent!