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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Michael Gove could be set to play the role of Brutus to Dav
What have you been smoking ? I put a flyer through some busy professionals door, saying I will put together his flat pack for £20 an hour, and he phones me up and say he has two bedroom cabinets, how long will that take, I say 2 hours, £40 and he says "Your on!". Where is the dishonesty, a clear offer was made and… -
Re: Liz takes a bit of a tumble in the betting – politicalbetting.com
Eh, it'll be fine, I'm sure they can keep putting off a decision until the price of restoration magically becomes something that won't upset people. The Palace has caught fire 44 times since 2012, new data obtained by @CallumWilliamT via FOI reveals. In March 2021, a fire had to be put out in the Speaker’s House despite… -
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Yes, I'm afraid a number of local authorities who have gone into the property speculation market to fund local regeneration projects are going to end up in a bad way. The centre of Woking (for those who don't know it) has been transformed by the Victoria Square development. Apart from the hotel and office space which they… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If the Tories can keep their losses to LAB down to fewer th
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Re: Rishi’s integrity problem – politicalbetting.com
This is a very funny PB pedant dispute, since of course not 'every part' of Scotland voted remain, if there was no constituency involved you could find a town or some other subdivision which did somewhere, which is why 'part' is meaningless as it has no definition. Even if the vote was 80/20 there'd be an estate or two… -
Re: The polling that should scare Tory MPs – politicalbetting.com
Looking at the piece - it suffers from journo confusion. For "Total value of UK property market", the journo actually means something more like "total value of uk residential property", which is how I took it. The balloon needs to be popped gently, but too many people are in on the South Sea Housing Bubble. One small… -
Re: YouGov MRP poll has CON losing to LAB all but 3 of 88 marginals – politicalbetting.com
So you tax a company more to pay for handouts and the loss by the fuckwit civil servants handling it more than offsets that I doubt it by the time we pay not only their wages but the ludicrous 20% odd pension contributions. If the state is the positive answer you are asking the wrong question. Simply put wages = value of… -
Re: Hard to see anything other than a LAB hold in Chester – politicalbetting.com
They are also a bit shit. ...Although the weaknesses of the BTG were the most evident, similar issues have bedevilled other Russian branches, most notably the VKS. Ukrainian assessments concluded that given limited flight hours and the practice of training being delivered in units, the VKS entered the conflict with fewer… -
Re: Improving public services, Labour’s best hope? – politicalbetting.com
Not yet. I heard some quite interesting commentary around that on (of all places) the Times "The Royals with Roya and Kate" podcast - not my usual listening. Amongst the Royal Family fluffiness it also covered: - Prince William being deliberately positioned as an "international statesman" (UK soft power, future role). -… -
Re: A point of agreement – politicalbetting.com
Assuming you mean MPs? It depends what you mean by "left". Polling of attitudes shows that Labour MPs were as left wing economically as members, and more liberal, even when Corbyn was in charge. They just appear to be more aware of the need to get elected, and speak to enough people from across the spectrum, to realise… -
Re: And for tonight “50 Ways to Leave the White House” – politicalbetting.com
Firstly, one of the points made in the video is that there's no reason Biden himself couldn't be nominated as Speaker of the House rather than Pelosi (needn't be an elected Congressman)... and in this incredibly far-fetched case, that may well be the outcome. Secondly, it seems to me blocking the election of Biden (with a… -
Re: This is starting to look like landslide territory. – politicalbetting.com
I imagine then that she must have a mortgage and therefore has to bear the cost of that. If that is the case then I would agree that the problem there is that mortgages arent covered by housing benefit. If however she is renting then she should be getting her rent paid most of her council tax and have however much cash in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » How GE2019 is being treated on the front pages
We are now up to 52 MPs standing down at the election, some way up from the 31 who stood down last time. Allowing for seats changing hands we could see over a 100 new MPs. Dennis Skinner would be father of the house if he stands again and wins. In other news, I'm off to the polls today to vote in the Maidenhead Riverside… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Yvette Cooper should be shadow chancellor in place of her h
And while I am confirming my lefty credentials I have to say that I disagree with the thread as well. Moving Balls at this point would be terrible politics. It would be an admission of defeat and give the clear impression that Osborne has won. If only life was so simple. What is needed from a Labour perspective is a… -
Re: BoJo says is won’t happen Punters make it a 72% further restrictions will come in this year – politi
The article is exaggerated. The Speccie deals in decent writing, simple presentation of biggish and very general ideas, looking as if it thinks for itself, and in recent years happens to have have been the house journal of a lot of people in or close to power. This is bound to be the case for at least one major UK… -
Re: Memo to the Tories: Look stupid, it’s the economy – politicalbetting.com
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » How steep is Starmer’s mountain?
Indeed. Your problem is that the downward pressure on wages is a result of Tory policies and not foreigners (unless the foreigners suppressed wages whilst still in Romania...) and the pressure on housing and public services is the result of Tory policies and not foreigners. Like I said, you know literally Fuck All about… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » It looks like mentioning Ed’s name is no longer a drag for
Surprised more hasnt been made of this from Sadiq Khan Too little, too late. Uncontrolled borders from poor countries will always adversely affect the working class. Stop it and forget about about smart arse, twisty turny words,. The working class voters Labour are losing dont want benefit handouts, tax credits or the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Growing in size Britain’s weirdest voting group: The Kippers w
I'm not sure that the US Constitution has worked very well, because it (like the European one) fudged the federal/confederal choices, to the point that you could say that a 6-year civil war was fought over how to interpret it. It is still fundmaentally broken, in that (a) it's undemocratic, giving small states… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Portsmouth South would make an interesting by-election but
Hugh - I have already ordered three boxes of popcorn for the Tory bloodletting. We coud have a post Euro Tory bingo. I predict the following will be all the rage: "Cameron is not a real Tory" "Cameroons wrecking the party" "Referendum, referendum, referendum" "It was only the Euros and Ukip always fall back" "Ukip wont get…
