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Re: Sunak is just like the Grand Old Duke of York? – politicalbetting.com
Who knows, but if SKS is there in July the mood in PB starts to change. A short honeymoon and then the fun starts, PB has been spending an inordinate amount of time rubbishing Sunak. Ive done it myself and slammed the Tories for being useless. However the assumption that SKS is automatically going to be better than Sunak… -
Re: The Tories are becoming a byword for ungovernable – politicalbetting.com
Also a good point, if Tory councils proposing new developments are replaced by LD and/or Independent/Residents Association or Green councils opposing any new development then you can't overturn NIMBYs at local level. Whether Sunak or Starmer win the next general election Labour or the Tories would have to ensure new… -
Re: BREXIT: Undoing (some of) the damage. Part 1: The Principles – politicalbetting.com
I do wonder if every day in the Cameron house starts with Dave rising with a happy smile, his mood then darkening as he remembers who the PM is, followed by throwing the papers in the bin so he never has to see the word "Brexit" ever again, before kicking the cat on the way to the shepherd's hut, where he spends the day… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Frontrunners Sanders and Warren get the edge in the latest Dem
But that wealth has been gained mainly by older people living in London at the expense of younger people who live or want to live in London. If you have no intention of ever living in London, which presumably the London haterz don't, then it's kind of dumb of them to resent it. In fact it is people like me - who live in an… -
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Well a much lower Pound and higher interest rates will do me a power of good thank you. Edit: and in my view the rest of us too. We have a huge trade deficit and that needs correcting. A lower Pound will help. House prices are nuts and as has been evidenced by BHS and Tara pension are currently utterly bombed out. Higher… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Only one PB Oldham competition entrant over-stated Labour i
Off topic, but we are getting hammered up here by the weather,without doubt the worst storm here I have ever witnessed, house leaking all over the place, Roads flooded etc, today has been terrible, seems to be abating now, I live on the Cumbria border,but I also often live in the Eden valley , which is getting a hammering.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Threatened women live longest. Bet against Theresa May going q
Civil unrest is most certainly justified if the referendum result is blocked / overturned. We are a long way from that though. The vote wasn’t about the flavour of Brexit, but that we would be leaving. The rest is up to parliament / government to decide. The House of Lords has not just been trying to get its flavour of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Henry G Manson: Words and the world of workers – how Labour
It´s a shame the politicos cannot come up with such a list. Of course, this would have to be balanced out by the negatives: pressure on schools, housing, health pressure on wages ghettoisation increased risk of terrorism and crime, etc With all the pros and cons an informed decision could be made. Much more honest than… -
Re: When will the Tories poll 30% or more again? – politicalbetting.com
I’m guessing you saw it rammed with tourists - it definitely and massively detracts Come now - right now - and you’ll find it much quieter. Won’t last The timing also matters in terms of the development of Cambodian tourism. In the last five years it has transformed. Phnom Penh is almost unrecognisable. And so much better.… -
Re: Why Trump is (a bit) like Hamas – politicalbetting.com
“2% isn't enough.‘ I don’t buy that at all actually, Gareth. Because what Trump is so clearly doing in 2024 is piling up new supporters - Latino’s; working class, underclass; young men; black men - everywhere, everywhere but including where they are no use to him at all, like in New York. This time, Trump could be close to… -
Re: Is Sadiq Khan Lon-done? – politicalbetting.com
Yes. It’s a bone dry market, has been very little liquidity for the last 24 hours. -
Re: Oh dear, oh dear – politicalbetting.com
I didn't get round to replying to your previous post due to work. But it is worth pointing out that Kyiv has only been Russian since 1709. Before that it was Polish, and before that Lithuanian. Kyivan Rus broke up in the 11th century and then the assorted Slav grand duchies and principalities were occupied by Lithuania and… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » YouGov has Clinton winning the debate by 47% to 42%
Jeremy Corbyn has been blasted for rewarding a Labour MP embroiled in a string of anti-Semitism rows with a frontbench job. Yasmin Qureshi, Labour’s new Shadow Justice Minister, said in 2014 that the Israel-Palestine conflict was “the same” as the Holocaust. It’s not the only time Qureshi has been in trouble: she invited… -
Re: Whilst CON MPs don’t decide who leads they can sack the winner – politicalbetting.com
Yes, but you're a ridiculous, discredited lunatic (sadly) so your opinion does not carry a lot of weight. I might as well listen to the homeless guy who walks past my house, every day at about 3pm, shouting "CARS! CARS! CARS!", and has been doing so for many years Indeed, if you replace the shouty word CARS with BREXIT you… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The good people of Oldham West could also be electing a fut
There's no real meaning in a single data point (One year). The trend over the last hundred years has certainly been one of a warming planet though, and the Antarctic ice sheet is certainly increasing in ice and thickness/size. I really don't hold any beef in the debate, those are the slightly inconvienient, lightly… -
Re: Why I think that LAB will struggle to get a majority – politicalbetting.com
Guardian have a longer read out on the Michelle Mone scandal. Seems a lot of buying and then selling of expensive houses, planes and yachts has been going on. I have a strong suspicion that taxpayer is not going to see much of that £200m coming back. What I want to know is... is it illegal to lobby for a company to receive… -
Re: The dramatic change in attitudes to sexuality on both sides of the Atlantic – politicalbetting.com
Try reading some stories on Mumsnet. Here is one https://tinyurl.com/b7p96jdy "I've now been here 7 weeks and I still feel overwhelmed by the workload. So 2 weeks ago I started writing down the work I did each day and how long I actually worked, and it was far beyond the 30 hours we agreed on. The first week was 47 hours,… -
Re: An update on the Tory commitment to a high wage economy – politicalbetting.com
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/04/keir-starmer-warned-by-labour-peers-not-to-waste-political-capital-on-lords-reform Keir Starmer has been warned by Labour peers that he risks getting bogged down in a “constitutional quagmire” that will prevent him completing other urgent domestic reforms if he pushes ahead… -
Re: Starmer still strong betting favourite for post-election PM – politicalbetting.com
Quite the opposite. The Truss/Kwarteng ethos is that taxes have been too high and interest rates too low for a decade or two. We've ended up with sclerotic growth and massive asset inflation, which when combined has benefited wealth holders rather than those who work for income. Higher rates will temper house price growth… -
Re: Starmer moves to a 30% approval lead over Johnson – politicalbetting.com
This sort of system has been talked about for ages, including some using molten metals. It's interesting that this system is very simple, and is purposefully not being used to generate electricity, and instead providing home heating. The energy density must be rather low, although with sand as a medium that might not…