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Re: If we all agreed about an outcome there would be no betting – politicalbetting.com
As OldKingCole says, we can but hope. The 1945 comparison is a good one. War brought people together, across class and social divides. To an extent so has this pandemic. However severe you consider the pandemic to have been, every single one of us has also contemplated the 'what if I die' moment at some point over the last… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Welcome to Lockdown – Boris style
Just caught a bit and he was basically claiming Idaho and Nebraska are doing great, because they have low numbers and a great governor, where as clearly California and New York are doing shit....has he ever been to Idaho or Nebraska? There is f##k all people there at the best of times. Idaho has like 1.5 million and the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Tonight’s polls range from ComRes 12% CON lead to Survation’s
My wobbles (no party affiliation but very anti Corbyn) have steadied in the past 48 hours and I've expressed already that I think there is nothing particularly special about the youth vote this time around and am expecting an increased Tory majority. Tonight has certainly helped reinforce my views and has been a good… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Estimating the “house effect” for each pollster. How much d
That is the protocol in case the Russians or the Chinese or any other nuclear power attacks NATO. It will be the first and only response since most of the world would blow up within an hour, that is why there has been no major war between great powers since 1945, nuclear weapons makes it to costly for war as a policy… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Can anyone stop Sanders – looking at the contenders one by one
Tonight on Channel 4 news there was no one available from the government or from Public Health England to answer questions about the crisis. No one. This is not leadership. This is arrogance, incompetence and cowardice. I agree this could be Boris's Falklands but he has to start leading. Same over the floods. So far he has… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » It took 330 days before TMay’s “best PM” rating dropped below
Incidentally, without the same fanfare as there was earlier but between the 24th July and the 3rd August Britain again used no coal to generate electricity. Moreover, at no time since April has it been used to generate more than about 0.5GW and then only for brief periods - twelve or so hours at a time (which is a pretty… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Nick Clegg’s next career more should be to run for Mayor of
The BBC has apparently been snubbed as the official broadcaster for the Queen's 90th birthday celebrations next year. A spectacular pageant involving more than 600 horses and 1,200 people at Windsor Castle will be broadcast live by ITV instead.… -
Re: Hey Siri, show me what ‘hoist with his own petard’ looks like – politicalbetting.com
I guess she's been told her peerage has been blocked: Nadine Dorries, five hours before she resigned, triggering a by-election [VIDEO] "The last thing I would want to do is cause a by election in my constituency" https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1667184705601519622?s=20 -
Re: Do you fancy a 2% return in a week? – politicalbetting.com
Working day 7 on the road - I'm such an international jet-setter I may as well be @Leon This morning - a lovely stroll down the prom in Bournemouth Today - 6 hours on my feet at a customer trade show Teatime - stuck on the Oxford ring road as the M40 was shut Now - in Sheffield again Excitingly* I am now completing the… -
Re: LAB lead in Redwall seats now up to 15% – politicalbetting.com
My girlfriend has worked in hospitals in London and Lothian. From her experience, it's hospital by hospital. I've personally had a great experience on the NHS everywhere I've been, from shoulder surgery to snow blindness. Even the GP has finally got their act together - did an econsultation a couple of days ago, phone call… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » After the Romney attack on Trump the latest GOP Nominee TV
Peggy Noonan, always worth reading, describes this as the end of the republican party no less: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-republican-party-is-shattering-1457050017 What occurred to me is that if you replace the word Trump with the word Corbyn so much of it holds true: a man who has never been elected to or held office… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Returning to the Holy Land after a gap of 46 years – and st
Good evening all and let us not forget the current Israeli PM has been a strong supporter of the Israeli settlement incursions into Palestinian territory over the past 20 years. What is the point of the UN when it seems every country is expected to conform to UN Resolutions except Israel? I resigned from the Conservative… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » After the advocacy, what next for the Article 50 case in the S
Worth keeping an eye on changes in the House Of Lords - of which there have been several just in the last two weeks - all moving in the Government's favour. Lord Taylor of Blackburn (Lab) - unfortunately died after traffic accident outside Parliament Baroness Oona King (Lab) - gone on Leave of Absence as moving to US to… -
Re: Will the Ayrshire hotelier follow Musk’s lead in renouncing Farage? – politicalbetting.com
Horse dips in and out quite regularly anyway and Beibherli_C has been relatively infrequent. Sorry to see Matt stop posting. He’s one of the good ones. I get the discussion is uncomfortable for many of us. But it’s a discussion we need to have. Again it’s a case of institutional inaction, in this case due to ‘community… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Listen to the PB / Polling Matters experts dissect polling on
Whilst I think the honourable course of action is to resign to create a by-election, I would hate for that to be enshrined in law. My belief has always been that we return a series of individuals to Parliament - and such a law would alter that relationship. Could I see some form of recall mechanism? Perhaps. But mandatory… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Latest GE2015 betting
Pleased to see this - been a oligopoly for far too long. "Britain’s biggest IT companies are being warned to expect to lose billions of pounds worth of Whitehall contracts as part of an aggressive renegotiation. Officials have identified more than 100 deals that they want to scrap, with the work reassigned to in-house… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour’s “cunning plan” for the Richmond Park by-election
In the header Don Brind quotes an anonymous MP as saying, with regard to Zac Goldsmith: “The man’s a disgrace. His office is just along the corridor from mine and I never see him. He obviously doesn’t want to be an MP." I've inserted the closing inverted commas since curiously he omitted them. This rather obnoxious… -
Re: A Tory coronation? – politicalbetting.com
Hot weather like this has always happened. Someone posted the hottest temps going back a hundred years or so, and back in the early part of the 20th century there were 35 deg days on occasion. The difference is that climate change has shifted the dial a few degrees hotter, and hence what might have been mid thirties is… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour continues to lose the economy blame game: EdM needs
Chris Bryant has done none of the following, which is why his speech has been such a dog's dinner. 1) Identify and specify a problem well. 2) Work out potential solutions. 3) Work out the advantages and disadvantages of each solution. 4) Decide on a solution (or none, if the disadvantages are too large) 5) Sell not just… -
Re: Two warnings for Johnson in today’s YouGov poll – politicalbetting.com
"Postal voting is extremely open to abuse" is a right-wing hobby horse not the settled PB view, except to the extent that the PB comments section is mainly a platform for right-wing hobby horses. I mean, it definitely has attack vectors - the big ones being that it's open to bribery and coercion, because you can show the…