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Re: Going postal – politicalbetting.com
I think you've completely misread the Labour position. They're quiet as a church mouse all the time, so them being quiet now is their usual MO and no different. For the last two years Labour's policy under Starmer since the partygate story broke and they took poll leads has been "don't interrupt an enemy while they're… -
Re: As Johnson looks securer Sunak’s next PM chances decline – politicalbetting.com
We already have a level of engagement with Russian forces, via our weaponry put in theatre. Can't imagine the Russian Army and its mercenaries look forward to full engagement with NATO, so it's hard to imagine Putin is provoking an encounter that he would lose very quickly indeed. Those columns of vehicles would be gone… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » LAB leadership latest
I am highly suspicious of the leak about Hs2. We are not getting the full report just some juicy figure, that has obviously been released by those in government/civil service that don't want to build it. I belong to a group that is interested in UK railways and occasionally there is a meet up. It has some old hands from BR… -
Re: The Starmergeddon is coming for the Tories if the MRPs are right – politicalbetting.com
It all kind of misses the bigger point. FWIW when I went to private school (a minor one) lots of my peers were the scions of minor local businessmen. Sons of doctors, corner shop owners, the local lawyers' son etc. Even just a decade latter they've been priced out - fees at my school have doubled in that time. I can't for… -
Re: With 7 weeks to go before Scotland votes the latest three polls find voters opposed to another IndyR
For political balance, let's add Leon Brittan, Christopher Soames and Christopher Tugendhat. If you want a trading bloc, fine, just have a loose co-ordinating centre to make sure it all runs smoothly and leave the real power with national Governments. If you want political union, you have to be serious about it and that is… -
Re: The second coming of Boris Johnson? – politicalbetting.com
I live in Hampshire, so do Portsmouth-Caen or Porstmouth-Cherbourg. Dover-Calais has never attracted me. The only travel problem I've had in the last few years has been flying (back) from Switzerland (non-EU) to the UK because non of the buggers work on a Sunday and it took 2 hours to get checked-in and through control. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Now the talk is of a Donald Trump Sarah Palin ticket
An Iraqi lawyer is being paid £150 an hour by the Government to help build war crimes cases against British troops, it has emerged. British-trained Zainab Al Qurnawi is representing the families of Iraqi civilians who were allegedly wrongfully killed during the Western invasion of the country. She is claiming money from… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The New Hampshire aftermath: This week’s PB/Polling Matters
There have been several changes to my terms and conditions during my time with the YBS. The most recent was a change to pension arrangements that was imposed on us. The fact is that the government was elected on a manifesto promising a 7-day-per-week NHS. Getting out of the mentality of 'core hours' and 'out of hours' is… -
Re: Getting Brexit done, badly – politicalbetting.com
Well, that is very nice of you to say so. I am here because the cat has been sat on my lap for the last 3 hours preventing me from doing any of the things which I must do - writing and also fixing a leaky sink. She has a will of iron and claws like steel traps. But I must be off. I have deadlines!! -
Re: The final debate: Trump better than last time but this was no game-changer – politicalbetting.com
On your first paragraph my wife and I (81 & 77) have no problem shielding nor with the surgery We have a weekly Asda delivery and our son or daughter pick up our medication from the chemist and leave it in our porch Since March our surgery has moved to online triage and it has been a great success together with a ban on… -
Re: What we think about Reform – politicalbetting.com
Where would you class horse racing? It's a national sport but there isn't an England horse racing team for example. The Leger is one of the five classics - I'd argue if the Prime Starmer attended the Grand National or the Derby or Cheltenham Gold Cup these can be considered national sporting events. I'm trying to… -
Re: LAB YouGov lead down to 2% but Johnson trails Starmer by 7% as “best PM” – politicalbetting.com
Biden barely gets through this speech without lapsing into total incoherence https://twitter.com/SarahRosemary3/status/1501237580402249732?s=20&t=Xfjy5j18coREz1PHnfGE9g I feel for the guy. He's old and teetering on the edge of senility. He's still a trillion times better than Trump, but oh for a younger, sharper president… -
Re: What REMAIN and LEAVE voters now think of Brexit – politicalbetting.com
Halfway House is good also Jinglin’ Geordies next door, a good, old fashioned boozer. The Doric Tavern round the corner was an absolute haunt of mine for several years. My dad had a very ill advised share in the adjacent Hebrides bar last century. The Oxford Bar has been a bit Ian Rankin-Ed but still ok. I remember the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If this trend goes on Johnson’s CON government will soon have
You reference Gwynedd but the problem is far more acute in our part of North Wales and including Snowdonia, which are within less than one hour or two hours from Liverpool and Manchester. Before the police controlled our border we were overwhelmed with visitors both on our beaches and in Snowdonia making social distancing… -
Re: Why Burnham shouldn’t be the favourite to succeed Starmer – politicalbetting.com
I am mostly just taking the piss and pushing back against the traditional distain with which South London is viewed. But I do think that South of the river some more of what makes London a great place to live has been retained. Such as proper boozers. Housing that is almost affordable. Friendly neighbours. Cheap,… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » On the eve of New Hampshire the Hillary campaign takes its
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Re: Why Boris Johnson and the Tories may soon experience a surge in the polls – politicalbetting.com
Pah! "It doesn't work"? It's not been tried. Liquidating assets? 0.5% per annum should be easily payable from any return on assets over £1m, with the possible exception of primary residences. The 'little old lady or man in a big house' problem already has a solution which is used for social care costs (it's called property… -
Re: MAYBE BABY: POPULATION POLITICS PART 2 – politicalbetting.com
Mark Woolhouse has always said we should not lock down and that there was no transmission in schools. From his second house on I believe the Isle of Islay... He's the flip side of Susan Michie. Sorry to have been absent, have spent the day dealing with family stuff and then a very long time talking to my friend who is a… -
Re: The Scottish leader ratings suggest that LAB might beat the Tories for second place – politicalbetti
The problem with London is that the process that built it - the slow assimilation of villages into the mass - has been carefully and explicitly stopped. Stopped, without changing the other portion of the dynamic - the increasing population. At this point people start with bullshit about how everyone needs to live in tiny… -
Re: The Georgia run-offs – almost as important as the Presidential election itself – politicalbetting.co
Has Easter been cancelled? Plenty of hints, leaks, briefings, statistical models and graphs for Tier 4 lockdown rules, guidelines masked by broad state powers for an unspecified period. A year ago if @SeanT had posted an outlined plot for a dystopian sci-fi novel set amongst a backdrop of a population under mass house…