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Re: Ratings blow for Sunak from R&W – politicalbetting.com
The 2% inflation target, though better than what came before, is heavily flawed for two main reasons: - it does not distinguish between demand and input cost inflation, which need radically different answers. The former needs jumping on immediately, but if you do so with the latter after, say, a spike in global food… -
Re: For Boris Johnson fans, in short BJ sucks – politicalbetting.com
I am of the opinion we have had centrism for the last 40 years and it has landed us where we are now. Most Peoples lives have been getting shitter under centrism and its support for globalisation and we have now reached the point where its begun to affect just not the poorer 2 deciles but the lower to middle classes who… -
Re: The next cabinet minister to go – politicalbetting.com
"Executive style homes" are better than no homes at all. And complaining about building homes "in the wrong location" (ie where people want to buy them, near communities and where jobs etc are) while ranting about new towns that nobody has been able to get going in decades. Get some new towns built, solve the housing… -
Re: Ayrshire hotelier’s troubles mount – politicalbetting.com
I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in Hertfordshire today it's been the nicest day for an absolute age. Not cold, dark and miserable, not blowing a gale and not pissing with rain either. The big yellow glowy thing in the sky has even put in the occasional appearance. It's not exactly subtropical, but at… -
Re: An outlier or harbingers? – politicalbetting.com
Or back to the Tories. Notice how, just lately, that practically the entire Conservative campaign has been about nothing but Keir Starmer's supermajority? They gave up trying to spin the £2k tax bombshell, for example, some time ago. Whether or not that means they believe they have good evidence, from focus groups or… -
Re: Sunak just edging it at the moment in the betting – politicalbetting.com
My position on Penny Mordaunt is this. "Whoever is faithful in small matters will be faithful in large ones; whoever is dishonest in small matters will be dishonest in large ones." It's not just what the lie is about. It's the fact that the default instinct is to lie. That tells you everything you need to know about a… -
Re: What should the West do? the UK view of a range of suggestions – YouGov – politicalbetting.com
Well, am back in A&E following a 111 call. A daft thing really but tiresome - a thumb infection which has lasted a week and is now getting worse and painful. I'll spare you the gory details. 3rd time in 2 years my immune system has been unable to fight off a small infection. Not ideal. The wait is estimated to be 5 hours… -
Re: No overall majority back as favourite in the GE betting – politicalbetting.com
Thank you and he has already saved several lives with his fellow crew and they receive such universal praise from everyone. He has been in the service just18 months They give enormous hours of their time completely free and as his Dad and Mum we are so proud of him but do worry when his pager goes off ( I am notified at… -
Re: The last 12 hours on the £420m Betfair next President market – politicalbetting.com
Big losers: CNN - godawful inability to compute the differences in WHEN people voted. 'Impressive leads' in XYZ were nothing of the sort, as it turned out. NYT needle - I love the New York Times but I wish they had put needles in the Midwest which currently look likely to decide the result Spreadex - their spread has been… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Meanwhile a message from Marf
He - Farage - has been making major speeches all over. It's just that it's not being reported on the MSM. Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Sep 9 In my speech in the European Parliament earlier, I made clear that we must stop the boats coming http://youtu.be/pH46_PVpqnk Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage 22h22 hours ago French media… -
Re: More polls like this and a January 2025 election will be nailed on – politicalbetting.com
I don't accept your framing of his choice as culpability, as you know - even in its stunted form I think the benefits of being outside the EU have been shown to be significant. In common with many, my take on Rishi's Brexitism is that he picked a side as many did (we cannot know his reasons), made a fairly equivocal… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Given Dave’s more popular than CON his announcement should
The major problem with macro economics today is trying to cope with internationalisation and the virtual end of closed systems on which models are based. The result is that a lot of the Keynesian tool bag no longer works. So if you increase demand (which BenM claims has been weak) you can simply suck in more imports (as we… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » At exactly this stage before GE2017 punters rated TMay’s major
You might be able to argue that they are cuts but cuts are not the same as 'austerity'. And this typifies all the claims about 'austerity' - a failure to see the wood for the trees ie lots of comments about rough sleepers or food banks or zero hour contracts or some specific cut in government spending. While ignoring that… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Small minds and Brexit. Jeremy Corbyn’s latest gambit
The problem is that he has (apart from many other faults!) a long history of anti-europeanism. Since the referendum he has been dragged reluctantly to the point where he grudgingly agrees a further referendum as the price of power. He cannot be trusted on the issue. This is just horse trading over who gets the role of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » BoJo’s assertions on leaving by October 31st fail to convince
It has been a sad night and I have missed all the goings on here. A young deer that often visits our garden walked up to me (it has never done that before) as if to seek help (I know you shouldn't attribute human emotions to animals). Its head had a wound that was infested with greenbottles. After looking after it for 2… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Hillary is now even more than reliant on the First Lady to get
The frightening thing is not so much that the entire Times website has gone down - these things happen - but that no one seems capable of fixing it even after two hours. You might have imagined that an organisation such as this would have some sort of back up system to come to the rescue immediately, but seemingly not . I… -
Re: The ambulance service is becoming a huge problem for Tories – politicalbetting.com
There are two major issues here that need resolving. The first is the problems with A&E which mean we have ambulances waiting for hours with patients inside who can't even get in through the door of the hospital. This is clearly a major issue, perhaps the main issue and has got much worse more recently. . But the other one… -
Re: US attitudes to Trump – the great American divide – politicalbetting.com
In Leaverstan thing were ugly *before* Brexit. That is why we saw such a massive turnout of non-voters to vote for it. I'm not talking about southern well-off pensioners with a wartime fetish. They vote anyway. I'm talking about the poor sods stuck in rust belt communities where just like in Bon Jovi's Dry County where the… -
Re: How Betfair has been reacting over the last few days – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Barely a third think they’ll get timely treatment from the NHS – politicalbetting.com
"It’s time for Anglofuturism Westminster's stagnant ideology will guarantee collapse BY ARIS ROUSSINOS ....................................................................................................... Today, however, the British state’s inability to provide the most basic of functions — stopping crime; providing…
