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Re: A Biden ad featuring just a Trump speech – politicalbetting.com
One of the supermarkets that is surprisingly close to me in what I thought was an extremely rural area, has recently been refurbished and the new manned tills have a bucket for counting coins and a slot the cashier feeds notes into, rather than a box that opens up with all the notes and coins in separate sections.… -
Re: David Cameron’s maxim about Twitter proved right once again – politicalbetting.com
Electoral Calculus also gave us no chance of winning the neighbouring Oxford West and Abingdon seat in 2017. The shift Lib Dem-wards across all of Oxfordshire over the past eight years has been considerable, and Labour have been moribund here for many years. That Labour leaflet I mentioned is the first I’ve seen in a… -
Re: Even though it’s Xmas the Tory poll gloom continues – politicalbetting.com
*Betting Post *🐎 Boxing Day Paging as usual @Malky @Stodge and @anyone who wants to join in PBs Morning Line thing and share love of the sport or add racing tips. I do appreciate not every gambler loves sharing, or sharing publicly. But I suspect some people reading PB may be putting on bets or accumulators regular on a… -
Re: Polls like this make a confidence vote more likely – politicalbetting.com
They were for coat pockets, IIRC. Pocket pistols were very popular - zillions made and many still around. The impression that all flintlocks were huge has been helped by Hollywood. They tend to use horse pistols as generic pistols for "period" films. Much as they equip modern heroes & villains, very often, with huge modern… -
Re: Justice Delayed …. – politicalbetting.com
I do wonder why you’re so invested in dismissing this as a “non-issue” - least of all after the Cass report. In this case - after many similar judgements: Tribunals just don't throw around terms like 'heresy hunt' or invoke Kafka when there is a borderline case of harassment. This was an extraordinary abuse of power… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Preview May 18th 2017 (T-21 days until Elect
I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand “I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!” or “I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!” “I am homeless, the Government must house me!” and so they are casting their problems on… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » First post-Supreme Court polling finds the LDs main beneficiar
I am interested by the debate put forward today: "General Debate on the Principles of Democracy and the Rights of the Electorate". This could go a number of ways, but it seems like a day dedicated to "People vs Parliament" campaigning. The issue I find is that our system has evolved with the general understanding that when… -
Re: Can there be anything more symbolic than Monday’s Indy front page? – politicalbetting.com
Reshuffle? Does that mean we are getting another pair of Transport and Housing Ministers. They've been in for 13 and 8 months already, so we are overdue some more. :smile: I wonder what Mr Cameron would be, apart from perhaps a new member of the Lords. While Cameron looks good to obsessives and centrists in the light of… -
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These are very good insights just as true for England. There is something similar going on in Ireland. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/report-claims-rent-controls-have-backfired-and-worsened-crisis-1.4881856 Buy to let and landlords have been absolutely trashed through tax and regulation, so the effect is that… -
Re: Andrew totally dominates the front pages – politicalbetting.com
I think a reason this is salient is because oil and gas has already been written off by Nicola and here's a threat to another part of the engineering/manufacturing sector in Scotland. Its' credible because rUK would be somewhat unlikely to order warships from a foreign country if there were yards in rUK that could do the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If Boris is serious about helping his party he’d seek to be
I thought this is an interesting point of view from another Kipper. Below is a post by Helen J Blogging on http://www.coffeehousewall.co.uk/the-coffee-house-wall-25th31st-august/#comment-144433 I have to say one has to be careful with high-profile defections because of the Trojan Horse. What if Carswell stabs Farage in the… -
Re: Can Rishi possibly turn it round? – politicalbetting.com
Our village's Catholic priest has been campaigning for this since he assumed the job. His house (right opposite the church the Anglicans took from us 500 years ago) is now the only building in the village still displaying an external Christmas tree: till last Friday there were dozens. With Lent almost always starting in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » TMay hasn’t had front pages like this since she made the fatef
Even so I expect even Debenhams now employs more people in its warehouses processing online deliveries and in its vans delivering them than in its actual stores nowadays, Amazon of course now has just warehouses and deliverers with no store at all and a few techies to manage its online service Amazon will soon be virtually… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » We haven’t seen any post-Obama but punters are moving to IN
Looking at the article, Boris doesn't say 'ridiculous weird Obama'. I think he's been stitched up by that front page Barack Obama is entitled to his view and he is an honoured guest, but it is ridiculous to warn that the UK will be at the back of the queue for a free trade deal. The UK has never been able to do a free… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Boris Johnson – the man who was overstated in every final p
Around here global warming has been coming down for about the last three hours. Not settling though the flakes are getting bigger so it might yet. Soddin' cold too, and the gas bill is due next week. Still on the bright side I read that the DfID has had a massive increase in its budget this year, so I can bask in the inner… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Memo to Seamus Milne: Your boss, Mr. Corbyn, needs to have a r
The rage is something else, however, and, characteristically, out of all proportion to the offence that has itself been imagined. So this has been a depressing, if also uncomfortably revealing, 24 hours. A reminder too of how easily so many of the things the ‘Leave’ campaign said it was campaigning for can be surrendered… -
Re: Why I’m reluctant to bet on a LAB majority pt2 – politicalbetting.com
The Ukraine conflict has shown "nukes" is all Russia has - the idea of Russian armoured divisions sweeping across Poland and Germany to the Rhine brushing NATO resistance aside has been shown to be false in extremis. Russia knows to engage NATO in a military conflict places it in the position NATO believed it was in the… -
Re: LADBROKES tighten the odds on Sturgeon NOT being the First Minister by the end of the year – politic
It's a Sin has been widely praised but it's another example of a watered-down and weak version of a better American one, in this case Angels in America. (Roadkill to House of Cards is another example). The problem is lack of character development. It's all so superficial and breakneck that you never get a chance, properly,… -
Re: Home truths about Covid-19 – politicalbetting.com
"All current approaches seem reactive and focused only on the next few weeks." Fair enough, but there is a huge class of problems to which reactive, short term approaches are all that's available: shaving one's face, mowing one's lawn, cleaning one's house, painting the Forth Bridge. A long-term framework within which to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » As Covid soars to new US peak YouGov polling suggests that Tru
Yes, unless people start to abandon big cities and live in the countryside where they have to drive to go to the shops, etc. Greater working from home has so many benefits to society, I've been thinking for twenty years that it should become the new normal, where the job allows it. For many, it means higher productivity,…