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Re: Can Starmer’s speech turn these figures around? – politicalbetting.com
From Sky News: A Tory MP was caught on CCTV ripping a security camera off the home he rents to a single mum he has been battling to evict for months. Gary Streeter, who has been an MP since 1992, has been trying to get mother-of-one Layla Williams out from a bungalow on his farm. Layla, 38, initially moved in to look after… -
Re: Sunak is coming out of this with his reputation enhanced – politicalbetting.com
Nadine Dorries is unhinged. Not suitable for elevation to the House of Lords, and her hissy fit in being rejected has been entertaining. But - Charlotte Owen. So Dorries has a point. This whole tawdry process demonstrates quite clearly several things: That the issuance of rewards from disgraced ex-PMs should be banned*… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The challenges facing the Conservatives
The significance of the result was the total rejection of any notion that Brexit represented the general will to which everything else should be subsumed. Remember this passage of May's speech when she called the election: "At this moment of enormous national significance there should be unity here in Westminster, but… -
Re: The public want some political bettors to get a criminal record – politicalbetting.com
Off thread: as I telegraphed yesterday, with 48 hours free of parental duties, I'm off on an adventure in the North of England: I'm going to cycle across the Pennines (well, up to a point). I've never taken my bike on the train before. But I'm going to get the weekends only Manchester Victoria train to the Settle-Carlisle… -
Re: I can’t get no satisfaction – politicalbetting.com
It's a fair question (notwithstanding the points of those pointing out that such things do exist in London). I recently read Eric Newby's memoirs - and his description of his (middle class) upbringing in London in the (30s?) sounds not too dissimilar from yours - and jarringly alien from mine. There is very little of this… -
Re: What To Watch Out For Now – politicalbetting.com
Is that the case ? The argument is over how fast the youth minimum wage should rise towards the level of the national minimum wage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6g57j3meo ..The government has already made a start on ending the gap between minimum pay for younger and older workers. The hourly for rate for 18 to… -
Re: Does Kemi need to be more modest and self effacing? – politicalbetting.com
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Re: What the voters think about Nigel Farage and his motives – politicalbetting.com
If I was unfortunate enough to live in Makerfield I think I might be reduced to voting for the last person who didn’t knock on my door. I was appalled that @NickPalmer indicated that every house had been canvassed 5x and it now appears Reform has done something similar. Now, if you have expressed any doubts you are being… -
Re: Sir Keir Starmer has some really poor allies and advisers – politicalbetting.com
My sister has a house in the Lake District that I'm welcome to stay in whenever I want, and indeed she likes having me stay there to deter potential squatters. I haven't been staying there so much recently but that's been my own decision. I think I'm going to demand she transfers ownership of the house to me. -
Re: Holyrood election – seats to watch – politicalbetting.com
Housings relative attractiveness as an investment, our relatively low level of property taxation, and our openness to foreign investors, are at least as important as population and numbers of new homes. And the increasing proportion of single person households has been as important as the total number of people -
Re: The most depressing polling response I can recall – politicalbetting.com
On topic, I've been saying the US is going to have a democracy problem to my more politically minded friends since the votes on the election result. The Republicans have already crossed a line and as far as I can see there's no real incentive for them to step back from that line unless it becomes clear that they're… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » After the latest Democratic debate watch Klobuchar
Picking someone who didn't run is just about thinkable, but I'm having a hard time seeing what either Clinton or Bloomberg represent a compromise between. It's likely to be a fight between an electability and radical change; You don't satisfy either side by picking someone opposed to radical change, who has empirically… -
Re: Breaking: Your Party – politicalbetting.com
The mob boss has other ideas. THE WHITE HOUSE has invited some Indiana state legislators to the White House. This comes after the state Senate president pro tempore said that the Hoosier state will not redistrict this year. Some of the attendees have been vocally opposed to redistricting… -
Re: The real winner of tonight’s debate was Starmer & Labour – politicalbetting.com
Your Sunak bet is toast and has been for a good week or so. Truss will win - but not because she had the better answers. She has no answers. She has done this extraordinary thing with her voice and wears Thatcher dominatrix clothes, but her economic policies are as un-Thatcher as you can get. OK, so the Tory MPs put Sunak… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The 2010 Lib Dems who have switched to Labour are more like
OGH said, "Public sector workers, of course, have borne a lot of the brunt of the coalition’s cutbacks. There are a lot of them and they are important from an electoral standpoint. One of the challenges of making cutbacks is that those who work in the public sector are voters too." This is one of the GBrown's problems… -
Re: Assessing SEND – politicalbetting.com
Thanks for that Horse. That is incredible from Coutinho. She has absolutely no shame. Milford Haven has been on its arse for decades. It was Esso, then it was something else, then it was Murphy and now it's Valero. I may be wrong but I believe it has been baled out before. That is just brazen from Coutinho. Effective, but… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The polls did far better at the EU referendum than is widel
FPT: @HurstLlama:- "But, but, but Herself always gives me lists of things to do around the house and always has. Not only that when she come home she is quite capable of walking round on an inspection tour to make sure I have done all that I was instructed and that I have done it thoroughly. I might also say that aside… -
Re: I do worry about Liz Truss – politicalbetting.com
Nothing wrong with a free market so long as its a proper free market. The problem we have is for a long time we've had a free market on people moving here but not a free market on them building a house once they're here. Its easier to move to the country, than it is to build a new house in the country. The result has been… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » New LAB member polling has them rating Corbyn as their most fa
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Re: Condoning Trump won't be helpful in the UK
Housing costs as a proportion of income are at their lowest since about the early 1980s, and have fallen sharply since about 2012. Even for the lowest income households, housing costs have been broadly flat since 1990. The reason you get the impression that they have gone up is that there has been a significant increase in…
