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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Today Labour MPs are set to vote for return of shadow cabin
"They could be co-located with major trauma centres and large A&E wards to help mitigate the need for urgent cases to travel to use the equipment." Have you ever been in a large hospital A & E at peak time? The Royal Sussex County Hospital on a Saturday night looks like something out Beirut in the civil war, but with added… -
Re: Jupiter in eclipse? Macron looks a very weak odds-on favourite – politicalbetting.com
For me, Macron was always a candidate born of despair with the political system and the dinosaurs burdened with excessive baggage that dominated it. As David points out by far his greatest strength was that he was not them. He was also something of a blank sheet onto which those who wished to could paint their own wishes.… -
Re: BoJo goes next week but what then? – politicalbetting.com
There's a second time for everything, though. And the Conservatives have set themselves a stinker of a problem to solve demographically. It's always been the case that people get more right-wing on average as they get older. But since about 2016, the effect has become huge. Really huge. I like this set of graphs because it… -
Re: The State of Process – The Process State – politicalbetting.com
The Tories insist that local councils must fulfil several onerous statutory duties they and then offer a block grant that not only allows for no discretion, but is insufficient to fulfill even the statutory duties now required by law. Result: bankruptcy. So then they promote the merger of local authorities in order to gain… -
Re: London Falling. The Capital and the election – politicalbetting.com
I must say for me Horse's post is useful because, taken altogether, it hints that some Tories may be even be thinking of dumping Sunak now. That would be fairly crazy at this stage, ofcourse, but then again this has been a crazy election period overall, so anything can happen, -
Re: Heart of Oak – politicalbetting.com
It quite surprising that Farage, alongside other well-known-in-America British commentators on the child abuse issue such as Konstantin Kisin and JK Rowling, haven’t been all over Twitter in the last 48 hours saying they want nothing to do with “Tommy” and that he belongs in prison. “Tommy” appears to have something of an… -
Re: A new Street victory? – politicalbetting.com
Several hours later, I've caught up with PMQs. Rishi was surprisingly good when answering questions rather than reciting his scripted attack lines. Has there been a change of personnel in his PMQs prep team? -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Tonight from PB’s Marf
" - Put pressure on / shame those institutions which provide a home / space / support for hate preachers e.g. UCL, the Quakers and others. - We’re meant to be a country of free speech, right? That means defending the right to free speech of those with whom you most strongly disagree. Any totalitarian regime has no problem… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » PB Video Analysis. Brexit: How We Got Here & What We Want
I am disappointingly unannoyed by the video which seems to me a fair and useful summary of where we are. Hopefully the solutions to where we are are in part 2! Just a few points. What comes across loud and clear is what a disastrous misstep the backstop plan for NI was in stage 1 of the negotiations. I remember the DUP… -
Re: Is the CON “Lab Eco Mob” strategy going to resonate? – politicalbetting.com
@leon Much as I complain , when it is nice it is hard to beat and you can travel easily , no pollution , on coast with open country all round. My wife would not live elsewhere as our grandchildren live locally. I have to say I should have stayed in USAbut chose to come home in 2000 as daughter was here, though seems lots… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Farage in trouble in Thanet S while Clegg could be struggli
I have come to the conclusion that I live in a parallel universe. In the UK I live in, it is extremely hard for non-EU people to get visas to come to this country and it has been since before 2010; while benefits are not handed out like confetti. A bloke at our work whose girlfriend is Australian is now in his fifth month… -
Re: A Very Dark Horse for Johnson’s successor – politicalbetting.com
Highly unlikely, every new PM who has come in midterm since WW2 has held one of the Great Offices of State in Cabinet ie Chancellor, Home Secretary or Foreign Secretary. I therefore cannot see beyond Sunak, Truss or Patel (or indeed Raab or Hunt who have been Foreign Secretary in the past or Javid as a former Chancellor)… -
Re: The HomeSec saga is now a test of Sunak’s authority – politicalbetting.com
So Suella is a Brit who is going to lose her job because migrants coming over here. Allies of Suella Braverman fear she is the victim of a smear campaign amid an increasingly acrimonious battle over her efforts to crack down on net migration. The Home Secretary has been accused of asking civil servants to help organise a… -
Re: The Lib Dems look likely to give it a go in Chesham and Amersham – politicalbetting.com
The UK has recorded one Covid death within 28 days of a positive test across all settings in the latest 24-hour period, official figures show. This is the first time since August 30 - also a Bank Holiday weekend - that just one death has been reported. It comes as a further 1,649 people tested positive for the virus.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Author & ex-political journalist, Robert Harris, suggests TMay
Corbyn has just undone any good he did himself last night. He must have thought Women's Hour would just be a cosy chat. Emma Barnett has been viscous with him and left him looking an idiot. He had absolutely no idea of any figures behind Labour's childcare policy, despite it being 'launched' today and obviously a key topic… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Even though it is fighting fewer seats and had no MPs the BBC
Mr. B, I still think you're being too pessimistic about the Prancing Horse. Practically no difference on pace in qualifying, and if Mercedes still has the turned-up-wick mode then that means Ferrari has the edge on race pace. Plus they've been sharper on strategy. Hard to pass, and the start will be critical. Got a few… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Dramatic events in Australian politics
Treasury leak to the press "£100 million Capital boost". Less than an hour after Gideon sits down: Danny Alexander has just clarified that no new capital expenditure has been announced, despite talk of £100bn spending.“We are allocating the budgets that we set out in March,” he tells the BBC's Daily Politics special.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Conference and its aftermath could be BoJo’s best chance of mo
...but the whole week has had 'Sheffield rally' written all over it. If Mr Johnson does indeed defenestrate Mrs May, and he has been on manoeuvres in the Czech Republic in the last 24 hours, a snap election will surely follow a Johnson coronation. Boris will be riding the crest of a wave and the landslide Mrs May failed to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » This morning’s YouGov should ease some of the Tory jitters
The growth in attendance at A&E predates the NHS reforms and has been linked to the decline in GP out of hours service - thanks to the contracts negotiated by the previous government. This wasn't the first time Labour "stuffed their mouths with gold" If its Cameron's fault - why have waiting times in Scotland trebled? The… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The French Presidential polls edge back a touch to Macron who
I remember as a young teenager living in Berwick, in the early fifties, Wendy Wood (the modern day Nicola) regularly popping up in the early hours painting a white line across the middle of the road bridge indicating the Scottish border, which of course it would be if it didn't move north east just before Berwick. Berwick…