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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » It’s Black Friday and another less than optimal day for Lab
Livingstone was disgusting last night. McDonnell is today revealed as an open advovate of IRA terrorism. Abbott has now said Mao did more good than harm. Nick Palmer should feel ashamed for his choice of Labour leader this morning. He and 250,000 others knowingly put apologists for and supporters of cold blooded murderers… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Polling Matters / Political Betting Podcast with Ed Milband
That Corbyn is about to win the election has little to do with the man himself. He's simply been the conduit for his views and its they that'll have him elected. The measure of the ability of the man will be his performance in office. Of course, his apologists will claim he'll be unfairly treated by the 'Tory press' and… -
Re: Private polling klaxon – politicalbetting.com
This has been an issue in Highland for decades: a Council with an area larger than Wales and roughly the same population of Blackpool!!! The problem here its that even if it has no children now, there might be some in a year or to so we mothball the school not close it. It might seem daft to keep a school open with only a… -
Re: Donald Trump experiences FAFO with Latino voters – politicalbetting.com
Can you give a number for this 'massive gerrymandering' ? A district in Louisiana, a district in Tennessee, a district Mississippi, a district in Alabama perhaps. What's potentially more damaging for the Dems is that the extra four districts they're trying to gerrymander for themselves in Virginia has been put on hold by… -
Re: This explains modern politics today – politicalbetting.com
Playing Devil's Advocate - housing simply isn't much of an issue for most people in the UK, as the polling keeps finding. On average, housing costs are the lowest they have been (as a proportion of income) since the early 1980s. Health, the economy, immigration, even crime and defence are higher - even for 25-49 year olds.… -
Re: The Jenny McGee departure from the NHS is a tricky one for BoJo – the man she nursed – politicalbett
Yes, lots of us have, over the past 30 years, vastly increased the amount of square footage of house we occupy - largely through the process described above. A family of four who bought their house in the 90s and lived in it perfectly happily is now a retired couple of two, living in the same house, plus two children each… -
Re: It’s the NHS, stupid? – politicalbetting.com
The fast-track planning process would apply to housing proposals and associated infrastructure such as schools, if they had already been broadly agreed as part of local development plans where councils set out a strategy for land use in their areas. If the proposals "comply" with these plans, the government has said, they… -
Re: Did Peter Murrell’s embezzling cost Yes the 2014 independence referendum? – politicalbetting.com
Business is not a strong skillset of Ms Sturgeon. She has always been very fond of her working class Ayrshire background, I'd have assumed that living a life with luxury and high ticket items around you wouldn't have been her bag. Of course if she didn't know their cost, that may be a different story. I'd like to think if… -
Re: Punters aren’t giving the Tories an earthly in Thursday’s by-elections – politicalbetting.com
That's the wider problem. An awful lot of blue bills that the UK has been stuffing under a cushion are turning red. Neither tax cuts or service improvements are on the agenda unless the UK can sort out its prosperity. Frankly, the best service the Conservatives can do for the nation is to become unelectable for a decade or… -
Re: Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be – politicalbetting.com
I think people should be careful about government stats on numbers of people housed in hotels. If the building was once a hotel, but now the government has signed a long term lease where they control all of it i.e. there are no opportunities for the public to book a room, is that still a hotel? ...I am not going to be… -
Re: Housing: Who to blame and the solution – politicalbetting.com
1. It's not The Guardian saying we don't need more houses, it's a barrister writing in The Guardian, a paper which often publishes views outside the Overton window. 2. How do you answer the assertion in the article, supported by OECD data, that the UK has in fact about the average number of homes per capita when compared… -
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Re: The latest Makerfield betting – politicalbetting.com
Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger named UK’s fastest-growing business Producer of The Rest is … podcasts reports sales of £37.9m, boosted by rise in subscriptions and live events https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/05/gary-lineker-goalhanger-fastest-growing-business-podcasts On the live event front, TRiP's Rory Stewart has… -
Re: Badenoch & Reeves sink to new lows – politicalbetting.com
That said, asylum seekers never used to be put up in hotels. They'd be sent to low-quality HMO housing. I remember stories about locks being changed on their accommodation when their initial claims had been rejected, making them homeless. Not sure why so many are in hotels now when previous governments, both red and blue,… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » David Herson asks: Where’s Cleggy?
The Cabinet Manual seems to indicate what people have already made of them:- '2.19 Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, if a government is defeated on a motion that ‘this House has no confidence in Her Majesty’s Government’, there is then a 14-day period during which an alternative government can be formed from the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » How Britain’s electoral patterns are changing – three great FT
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Re: Being usurped, Nigel Farage as Henry Bolingbroke to Kemi Badenoch's Richard II –politicalbetting.com
HMRC are awarding bonuses to staff who manage to prevent properly due tax rebates being handed to the rightful recipients. Big issue in the film industry, where taxes coming back timely are a major part of the finanace plans. I hope questions get asked in the House. Chancellor, do you approve of this? Has the person who… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » GE2019 – the general election that the pollsters mostly got ri
Nicky "Unelected Has-Been" Morgan :lol: -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The curtain-raiser to Tuesday’s vote – Monday’s ECJ ruling on
Remember - the Lords are entirely unelected has-beens! -
Re: Holyrood election – seats to watch part 2 – politicalbetting.com
OK then - we can all agree that it is a silly, nasty, unlawful etc policy. But note how @rcs1000 complains about it. First he says that for a long time politics was about being in power for all the people not just those who voted for you. This is frankly childish nonsense. Politics has never been like that - not in the US…