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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why the Tory plotters wanting to oust May need have no worries
This thread is now approximately 4 hours old. In that time the EU has, on average sold us £2.7m more than we have sold them (£5bn a month/31/24). Or to put it another way the entire annual GDP per head of 77 Britons has been spent to keep citizens of the EU in their jobs. I am sure the thank you cards are in the post as… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Concern about immigration moves to highest level ever recor
Name-calling only makes you look bad - not those pointing out the ludicrous lines you have been spinning for the past few hours. The SNP got this one wrong. Badly wrong. They selected someone without proper scrutiny and it has backfired. Trying to pretend this has nothing to do with the SNP makes you look really rather… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If TMay survives a confidence vote she’d be immune from anothe
So I have been doing more productive things in the last 2.5 hours, principally enjoying the pub. What have I missed? Gove doesn't seem to have resigned yet, nor does Mordaunt. Has anyone else gone since the press conference? I presume we haven't quite got to 48 letters yet, remarkably enough. Has anyone worked out what May… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The general election now the UK’s number one story
Yes, objectively it's a rotten price and we all know why. Apparently some of the big bookmakers will have to give a profits warning if it wins. Might be good long-term for racing but short-term it's a nitemare for the layers. A lady-jockey winning would also be pretty sensational and Nina Carberry has the ability and a… -
Re: The Telegraph thinks Johnson can turn Tory fortunes round – politicalbetting.com
I think there is a problem with inter generational fairness that has been hugely exacerbated by covid, and the response to it. Take my parents. Dad retired at 57 after 30 years in the police, 8 previously in the Guards (which got him into the police directly - let’s say the interview wasn’t challenging). Mum worked on and… -
Re: Trump becoming an even stronger favourite in the WH2024 betting – politicalbetting.com
Yes he is brighter than his great uncles JFK and Ted Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, his grandfather, were and got good grades at Stanford in engineering and management science and Harvard Law. He has been an assistant DA and worked in the peace corps in the Dominican Republic before being elected to Congress. He also does… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Nighthawks is now open
Just been to The Guaridan website. Why are they still trying to push the line that this was some huge corporate conspiracy going from Murdoch down? Murdoch's link to NI, Rebekah Brooks has been found not guilty on all charges.If she didn't know about phone hacking how on earth can James and Rupert have been expected to… -
Re: The by-election betting – a LAB gain and CON hold – politicalbetting.com
Boris Johnson has committed a "clear breach" of the rules surrounding jobs outside parliament after only informing a key watchdog of his new Daily Mail column half an hour before it was publicly announced. Whitehall's anti-corruption watchdog said the former prime minister - who has vowed to offer uncensored views - had… -
Re: January 6th is what some Republican congressmen are now calling a “tourist visit” – politicalbetting
I lived there back in 1999. There was plenty of supermarkets. There IS a slight lack of big shops (and, particularly, pubs) in the university-ish part of Bloomsbury, but this is for two highly specific reasons: the university and its ancillary buildings - ULU, Senate House, Halls of Residence, takes up so much of the land… -
Re: Aside from his vaccine approval and voting bounce the weekend’s other Johnson-Starmer ratings look t
Johnson seems to be rapidly trying to turn the U.K. Govt into the US Presidency. Passing legislation with wide ranging powers to effectively allow Governance by Executive fiat. I wonder if he is toying with just abolishing Prime Minister’s questions? Perhaps even other ministerial questions? What is to actually stop him?… -
Re: The Ballad of No Deal “WTO” Brexit – politicalbetting.com
On America, and the bonkers contortions some of the Republicans are using to argue that the fight goes on. On the logic of the Trump supporting argument there were 3 elections on Nov 3rd. The most important was the Congressional election - because they decide what electoral college votes to approve on Jan 6th (and thank… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » In praise of Boris – the cycling enthusiast
Argh The British Empire has sometimes been described as an accidental Empire because the intention in most cases was not to seize territory, but to secure trade. It was principally a mercantile empire. This contrasts with earlier/other empires - such as the Arab caliphate, or the Russian Empire - which were explicitly… -
Re: Could LAB return as top Scottish party at the general election? – politicalbetting.com
The Conservatives risk losing the next general election and becoming the “party of nimbyism” after dropping housebuilding targets, MPs have warned. The government has been criticised by Tory backbenchers on WhatsApp and faced accusations of “short-termism” after Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, said he would reinstate… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Now partisan politics is getting back to normal and looks even
It is, and in many cases the government intervention is only going to give them a few more months. We are going to have to rethink our high streets, as many, many retailers (who were on the brink anyway) are just not coming back from this. There is, of course, a serious housing shortage. Reinventing liveable town centres… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » After the ice. The Lib Dems’ prospects for 2024
The real problem with inheritance tax is and always has been that it’s so easy to avoid. The 1st Viscount Rothermere, one of the the UK’s richest men, died penniless according to his tax return. That could be replicated many times over. We keep getting this inane wittering that only 5% of estates are eligible for… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Irish General Election 2020 : Predictions & Review (Final Part
The REAL question is: can ANY journo afford posh school fees if he or she has arranged their career to end up as Master of an Oxford college? Our hedgie neighbours point out that fees at Eton are a trivial part of the annual bonus (and who'd want to be a Head of House at 60 anyway?). The ex-journos (whether Masters in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » YouGov snap poll: Johnson wins 52-48
The White House’s threat of retaliation against countries trying to raise taxes on US tech companies has been rebuffed around the world, as Canada, Austria and Indonesia joined the UK in pledging to press ahead with new digital levies. Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, said on Tuesday that the UK wanted to ensure… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Betting on a Peterborough by election in 2019
Yes it is. The buck stops with her. Quite frankly Tony Blair with the build up to the Iraq War spent months/years building the case, pushing for it, arguing front and center both in the Chamber and on the media. Whatever the rights or wrongs of Iraq, he argued passionately and forcefully for it and carried the House in the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A tweet that seems to sum up British politics today
All those jobs he's juggling are really starting to take a toll on George Osborne. He keeps forgetting his pass to get into Northcliffe House, home of the Evening Standard. When it happened again this week, the security guard let him in through a side door but politely (yet firmly) asked him to please make the effort to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Almost all of LAB’s current problems stem from eight years
That is just awful, that a man should die with these allegations hanging over him, and that the police didn't bother to inform him of his exoneration in a timely manner. I hope her lawyers sue the Met, this whole scandal has been caused by the police trying to play politics - see them calling the BBC in to film a raid on…