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Re: If the polls are right Macron is heading for victory – politicalbetting.com
We bought the former Bank of Scotland building - a 1795 bank with an 1860s extension. Which means a big U-shaped building with the house as the southern wing and all the first floor and the bank the middle and northern wing on the ground floor. Bought the bank bit for cash and other than my consultancy business using the… -
Re: How would a “progressive alliance” work? – politicalbetting.com
Yes I did, it's ridiculous. My wife has been agonising over her decision to move us to Switzerland so who knows what will happen now. We haven't sold our house so ultimately it will be nothing serious other than paying for some unnecessary legal consultations if we don't go. -
Re: The pressure could be back on Sunak – politicalbetting.com
This place tonight is rather nasty. It’s perfectly possible to be a conservative and be a decent guy. Being conservative is a view of how the world works, and how you think the country should be run. Being labour has different views on that. Their is an astonishingly nasty streak of some posters on here tonight (not… -
Re: The mood in former Soviet states – politicalbetting.com
In white collar I once had to deal with the following. A consultant who - On client site, refused to do tasks when asked by the team lead, because "he didn't like them" - Discovered to be writing code for his uncles IT company on the client site, on the client computers. - When called in for a third review of his… -
Re: Crouching tiger, hidden dragon – politicalbetting.com
£270,000 is the median house price in the seats the Tories held in 2019 (almost all of which May won in 2017 which enabled them to stay in government). Now Brexit has been done (which needed a majority and the Red Wall) retaining those would be enough to stay in power, the Red Wall seats are just a bonus -
Re: Boris Johnson’s opposition to Indyref2 might be as Herculean as his opposition to a border in the Ir
What subsidies do landlords get? Purchasing a series of properties for rent now is not a particularly financially viable opportunity. Problems with stamp duty and not been allowed to account for loan interest as an expense now make quite thin margins. The money in renting has come from buying up houses pre boom and bathing… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The prospect of a vaccine by Christmas dominates the front pag
If its a "stupid idea", how come so many BTL are doing it then? There are whole streets in my nearest town where just about every house has been changed from owner occupiers to BLT HMO in last decade or so. Letting them throw up two stories is just pouring petrol on the fire imho. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » New polling has Biden ahead in his three “MUST WIN” WH2020 sta
Apparently they tested supermarket customers. Are they representative? More likely to be spending time outside their house I imagine. Younger, maybe? In actual factbthe figure was 14% showing positive but they extrapolated from that. LA had results about 4%, so the way New York has been badly affected is clear from the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Compulsory house arrest for the 70+group risks causing seconda
There has been some discussion attributed to the government of bring back recently retired doctors and nurses to help with treating patients in the epidemic. However some of these could be over 70. Also some MPs are over the age of 70 including the current Father of the House. I wonder if there could be some exemptions to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The polling trend that suggests a Cummings “People v Parliamen
Nearly all MPs have voted for a deal of one kind or another. Now it might be that there is no deal that satisfies a majority of the House of Commons, as cold reality does not match the racy fantasies of our gung-ho Leavers. But there has been no serious attempt to try to find out if there is one. The fulcrum is at a point… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » PB Video Analysis: UK Property wealth could rest on Castles of
Not sure this has been commented on? Trump keen to invade Venezuela: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/04/trump-suggested-invading-venezuela-report You'd hope there are still enough people in the White House with the sense and ability to dissuade him. This is presumably also absolute political manna from heaven… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Polling on whom would make the best Tory leader after Dave
'Overloading the health service' is not, and has never been a criminal offence. It is, if anything, a political failure by Her majesty's Government, and the remedy lies at the next general election to the House of Commons. It is something which is entirely different in principle to being directly mixed up in an unlawful… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » US midterms early voting is reaching presidential election lev
Don’t underestimate the power of the House to investigate and subpoena. Thus far Trump has been pretty well immune from this - other than the tightly constrained, and necessarily un-public Mueller probe. And, of course, Democrats are likely to win quite a few Governorships. Which is probably the one thing about these… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Picking the nation’s leader. Why the Conservatives are running
Regent's Park is the worst. There's giant terrace upon giant terrace in and around Park Rd, NW1, with no-one in there at all. You can look inside the houses and it's obvious that not a speck of dust has been displaced for months. I don't see why some of these places couldn't be used on a temporary basis, in an emergency.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Marf on the Latest from Sexminster: Social Mobility Failure
The fundamental problem is not BTL, or second homes or any such thing - it is a huge lack of housing supply to meet demand, particularly in certain areas. Address that and you solve the problem. Yes, I know that it is an easy problem to state but by no means easy to solve. But it has been the case since the 1970s in the UK… -
Re: Undefined discussion subject.
Lol, quite sure. I'm neutral on who is PM because I detest traitorous Labour and the Conservative economic dream of trickle down has been hijacked with any recovery in the pockets of the rich, in short, they've buggered it, so a plague on all their houses and bring on the new centrists. David Owen would have cleaned up now. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » To mark the massive Central European Bank’s massive QE prog
Now all becomes clear... "Here’s some news just in. His publisher – Random House Penguin – is launching a new Al Murray product to coincide with the election publicity campaign. Given the long gestation period of a book, this must have been months in planning." Not only got the tour, he has also written a book..... -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Voting has closed now and the speculation begins
Figures from the House of Commons Library show that between 1979 and [2011], the average time between an MP's death and the subsequent by-election - or general election in cases where there was no by-election - has been 73 days. In Feltham and Heston it was 35 days, making it the third 'quickest' by election in 33 years… -
Re: Party brands – politicalbetting.com
Non - union, slave labour workers in China and Asia can turn out the same products the rust belt used to for 10 times cheaper, as their incomes ten times smaller. This is the essence of Globalisation. Donald Trump doesn’t have an answer to it. His Tarrifs are not an answer to it. He’s simply fooled a lot of gullible people… -
Re: Chesham Tory Peter Fleet was on a losing run right from his selection as candidate – politicalbettin
In my local area a huge amount of housebuilding has been taking place recently, and yet house prices still continue to rise. This is what happens when the population of the country increases by 10 million in 20 years, whereas in the 1970s and 80s it hardly increased at all. That's why people could afford to buy homes at…