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Re: Biden now a 63% chance of being the WH2024 nominee – politicalbetting.com
In the US, there is no tradition or history of the Speaker as non-partisan, not since powdered wigs went out of fashion anyway. Has ALWAYS been a partisan position. Only difference through the decades has been the shifting definitions as to the uses of, and limitations upon, partisanship. The kind of setup you describe may… -
Re: Stand up for the rights of the disinterested masses. – politicalbetting.com
They could, if they've never been to Greenock before and don't know what they're getting into... But seriously, Greenock the surrounding area is a good illustration of one side of the housing shortage. It does not have a housing shortage, it has a people shortage. Nobody wants to move there. The local authority, Inverclyde… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Review : November 2018
Reduce the number of Unelected Has-Beens Lords, NOT elected MPs! -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why I am betting that the Conservatives have a better than
for which the taxpayer picks up the tab so our taxes go up unless you have a heavily regulated housing market. So far the private sector has been pretty poor at responding to the rise in population. The response has not been to build decent housing but to make more units out of the existing stock. Even the housing trusts… -
Re: Sunak’s ratings fall after his big week – politicalbetting.com
From the Beeb: "Pat McFadden, Labour's campaign co-ordinator, has been talking to the BBC this morning, saying the dream of home ownership has become “more and more difficult to achieve” and the party want build the next generation of "new towns" near English cities. New towns were the most ambitious town building… -
Re: Labour become the favourites to win most seats at the next general election – politicalbetting.com
The judge in the Murrell case has done the media a massive favour by allowing the release of the items on the list following the guilty plea. The drip feeding into the news is damaging for those who were senior management at the time. Was Swinney's tactic to introduce a new referendum into the debate yesterday a deliberate… -
Re: The PB 18th Birthday Celebration – March 2nd – politicalbetting.com
Hm. This is an issue in Manchester too - I put the LD victory in Ancoats and Beswick ward down to this very issue. But I don't totally take Dave Nellist's line. I am very supportive of Manchester CC supporting the development of high value apartments in the city centre. We need fundamentally different city centres to what… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Theresa Maybe? Definitely not
The Lords are naught but a bunch of unelected has-beens and electoral failures! There - I said it :) -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » NEW PB / Polling Matters podcast. Election preview / will ther
Reduce the number of Unelected Has-Beens Lords, NOT the number of elected MPs!! -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Conservative David Herdson wonders whether Theresa May’s merit
Labour has been made unelectable by the decision of its greater membership. -
Re: Why abolishing the triple lock would be political suicide – politicalbetting.com
A disabled man says he has been left "rotting away" in hospital for the last eight months after his local NHS board stopped his 24-hour home support. Ravi Mehta, who has a life-limiting disability, was admitted to hospital in September 2025 for a routine appointment to fix his ventilator settings. He was supposed to go… -
Re: This seems like a quality Streeting plan – politicalbetting.com
A VONC now has the effect of causing the government to resign, followed by the possibility of an alternative configuration and leader commanding the confidence of the house, absent this there is an general election. The exact and silly rules of the FTPA, now repealed, have gone and, IMO, we are back with the old Victorian… -
Re: The politics of envy – politicalbetting.com
Just to add - there has been a relative drop in owning with a mortgage in the UK. Increases in renting and owning outright has squeezed that cohort, which was usually the political battlefield. And the number of housing transactions per year is roughly half what is was in 2006 - that's by far the most obvious change in the… -
Re: Ed Miliband is 33/1 to be the next Chancellor – politicalbetting.com
Aspiration comes in many forms, I'd argue, but obviously somewhere nice to live is a good start. Yet we are building properties and selling them at prices (in London) no one can afford until or unless they inherit from parents/grandparents etc. In my part of town, the answer is rental - young couples have to rent because… -
Re: You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you – politicalbetting.com
As I understand it... If Farage gave his girlfriend money to buy a house (which he says he didn't), that is legal and attracts no tax (unless he dies soon and it comes under inheritance tax). If Farage gave his girlfriend money to buy a house specifically as a way to avoid paying more stamp duty, that doesn't change… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Trump 2024: the game’s changed and a third term is possible
It's can be more insightful than fanboy hagiography.... It would be hard to argue that it has been a good couple of weeks for the Government. The Prime Minister promised a ‘world-beating’ track and trace system by 1 June, but we are some weeks from it being fully operational. The Chair of the Statistics Authority has… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The planned new boundaries give CON 40 more seats than LAB for
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Re: Biden now a 40% betting chance of winning WH2 – politicalbetting.com
Apols for the off topic so soon. As part of my series of parish-councils- are-a-menace series of posts, I offer this for your delectation. (Apologies for the length, I’ve split it in two.) Two weeks ago I was tipped off that a parish council meeting in a neighbouring village would be worth attending as parishioners were… -
Re: Reform become the favourites for winning most seats again – politicalbetting.com
Sky News has won news channel of the year, and is the ninth year in a row, at the Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards. Yousra Elbagir has been named television journalist of the year Yalda Hakim, who hosts international news show The World With Yalda Hakim, won presenter of the year Home news correspondent Mollie Malone… -
Re: Now I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals.. – politicalbetting.com
There is a June 2025 press release from the White House that has the headline “Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News”.