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How wonderful! My favourite dogs were three Border Collies we shared a house with in a Canada for a few weeks about ten years ago. They were so bright they knew I was ill and gave me a lot of fuss. That said I think Freddie will steal this accolade soon! He has been so good today. He was the last of the litter to be… -
Re: The conference season voting intention polls – politicalbetting.com
A large part of the North Island has gone into tougher lockdown measures because 1 woman with Covid went there. There's been more Covid in my house in the last week than that part of NZ. When are NZ going to be able to adapt away from their instant reaction being to impose lockdowns?… -
Re: The past year in Westminster by-elections – politicalbetting.com
2022 has been a personally terrible year for me one way and another. I didn't mention it on here because I thought it wasn't relevant (and bluntly, I didn't want to talk about it or have sympathy, so don't feel the need to comment) but the reason I quit teaching aside from the disaster that is unfolding is because my… -
Re: Rishi Sunak has taken my advice – politicalbetting.com
The lawyers and legal system come out of this very badly indeed:- 1. The Law Commission which misunderstood and misrepresented what IT experts told it. 2. The Post Office lawyers who drafted appalling contracts with the subpostmasters and failed to advise properly on even the basics of contract law - see the Common Issues… -
Re: West Lancs looks like a LAB hold on small turnout – politicalbetting.com
You need to tell the labour party to roll out my recommended strategy of choosing about 10 safe conservative seats on the periphery of London, areas with lots of undeveloped land and of limited landscape value, and pledge to pass an Act of Parliament in the first 100 days of being elected that grants outline planning… -
Re: Announcing the PB WH2020 election night Zoom “party” – politicalbetting.com
I’ve been catching up with the comments - was surprised my wife who has worked in local giervnment almost all of her career, completely hates Andy Burnham, and doesn’t back the free school meals campaign. This is because she is practical and has been involved in implementing the crap politicians come up with. She thought… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Coalition has left it too late to benefit from infrastr
Copping out of bank reform is not a fair criticism, Mr. Brooke. Banking sector reform started with Darling recapitalising the banks so that there were 'sufficient' shareholder funds to absorb loss in the event of another financial crisis. Brown and Darling pumped £85 billion of taxpayer's funds into bank shares. Even this… -
Re: The LAB MP in CON General ElectionTarget Number 1 knocks on my door – politicalbetting.com
The other problem, is that Charles has actually been ahead of the woke curve on a number of areas. He was raising what could be called institutional racism as a problem in 80s. Multiculturalism - "Defender of faiths". Long term involvement in environmental matters. Interest in the quality of housing. You can say that some… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The rolling IndyRef polling thread…New online poll from ICM
Given she was the most successful Conservative leader in history it didn't matter what House she sat in her supporters would still hang on her every word and I seem to recall she had some particularly scathing things to say about Maastricht for example from her speech in 1993 on that Treaty: I could never have signed this… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » How Britain should play the Trump card without folding or uppi
1) I'd say the use of a word like shithole as a descriptor is unnecessary to make the point that they feel, probably correctly, like their own countries are in general worse off or provide them with far less opportunities. Even being intentionally blunt and crude it wouldn't be necessary. However, I think the odds are high… -
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Both Sturgeon and Salmond are strong debaters so it was no surprise as a Scot to see Nicola performing well. The overwhelming impression as a Scot is that she is making the country further socialist. Not all of Scotland is like the Welsh Valleys. The first personal tax the Scots were given (house stamp duty) has resulted… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Despite the dire polling, Jeremy Corbyn is not going anywhere
One of the current proposals is to go back to the bad old days when all Council services were supplied in-house, and actually making it illegal for local councils to seek best value. By any measure that is extreme as well as bonkers; I'm not sure it's 'radical' as such, given that it is throwing away four decades of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A no deal Brexit on March 29th move from a 12% chance to 22% i
Conservative Leadership Race started in earnest this afternoon. Just wandering through Collonades in House of Commons this afternoon talking to Political Editor of a National Broadsheet when he points out a 'wealthy businessman' steaming past as if he owns the place with a cluster of cronys. "That's Raab's money man" he… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The pollsters got the big picture at GE2015 absolutely righ
Public sector workers and social housing tenants certainly but there weren't any real 'trendy lefty' constituencies in that list. None of those constituencies would have voted YEStoAV for example. The list was only to show that the claim that there had been a big fall in ethnic minority support for Labour in 2015 was… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » First full post Autumn poll from Populus online has LAB lea
Oh dear - file another one under "always wrong".. "The poll also asked voters whether they were worried that the emerging recovery was based on an unsustainable new property boom. Overall, voters dismissed this concern – which has been raised by the business secretary, Vince Cable, among others – by 49% to 34%. Even in the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » In head-to-heads Johnson comfortably beats main contenders in
The implementation phase has been shocking, my friend works for a jobcentre plus. People are going weeks without getting paid because of the hold ups, the system isn't fit for purpose. Plus paying housing benefits to those receiving the benefit and not to the landlord direct is also causing issues, both budgeting wise and… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The first local by election since GE17 – the results
I honestly don't know! I just wish he'd do his research (and others on here) and look at Companies House documents, which would stand up in a court of law and draw his conclusions from them. As far as I know, he and you have never seen the documents that I have seen so you live in blissful ignorance of what has been going… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » With with less than 11 month to go before the IndyRef SNP l
Has Dan been talking to tim? Over the next week or so there will be lots of attempts to “get behind the back” of today’s growth figures. How trend levels are still below their pre-recession peak. The way the recovery is not yet being felt in people’s pay packets. That it is based on precisely the same sort of explosion in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » On this day exactly two years ago YouGov had CON in the lea
Although, to be fair, the Conservatives didn't win a majority of the seats in the House of Commons. And I don't remember Cameron referring to his 2010 manifesto as 'drivel'. And given the primary policy of the Conservative Party in their manifesto was tackling the deficit ('debt' is mentioned three times in the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A former odds-on favourite for the Democratic nomination sa
"The man in charge of maintaining Buckingham Palace has been jailed for five years after he accepted more than £100,000 in bribes. Ronald Harper, 64, from Suffolk, took payments or gifts from companies who were then given large contracts. He was also responsible for St James's Palace, Clarence House and Windsor Castle from…