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Re: Great expectations for 2025 – politicalbetting.com
Starmer is clearly trusting that 75% of the British public will within 5 years see what Musk is doing and find it abhorrent. All very gallant and noble. The problem is that the opponent is an undiluted toxic narcissistic meglamoniac who gets more dangerous by the day. We can only hope that Trump retains enough of his own… -
Re: Not very big, and not very Cleverly – politicalbetting.com
The population growth in Ireland mirrors that of the UK but one tenth the scale. Ireland has taken a different approach. Over the last 25 years there has been a massive increase in road building with new motorways, plus big increase in housing, schools. health centres etc. This has created an economic boom with improved… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The polls have the battle broadly tied – the spread betting
The Cabinet Manual offers "guidance". "2.19 Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, if a government is defeated on a motion that ‘this House has no confidence in Her Majesty’s Government’, there is then a 14-day period during which an alternative government can be formed from the House of Commons as presently… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Latest batch of Lord Ashcroft polling finds
I have loved the left wing apoplectic at the right to buy policy, which has surprised me to say the least. As the guild flawless website noted today this could easily have been a Labour policy and the party and its supporters are in the main doing their usual Labour policy good Tory policy evil reaction. The thing that has… -
Re: Punters think Rishi is going to be disappointed – politicalbetting.com
Another reason why WFH is awesome. WFH is closing door on rocketing property prices, economist says The era of massive house price rises is coming to an end because of the increase in working from home, rising interest rates and slower population growth, a senior economist at the government’s spending watchdog has said.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » LAB’s one big hope is that the Tories will tear themselves
Cameron and Blair were alike in that they gave the impression of meaning well - a useful asset for a politician - and also that as their red lines are few, they will bend to the pressure of public opinion. You may not agree with what they're doing, but it's mostly not done on ideological grounds. As long as they give an… -
Re: Think Caerphilly before betting on this by-election – politicalbetting.com
Sky Speaker can't give time if MPs want Prince Andrew debate His statement essentially says that he cannot give parliamentary time for criticisms of the prince under convention through things like urgent questions. However, if MPs they can do it through being given time via the government or the backbench business… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » David Herdson on “Miliband’s leadership landmine”
I'm rather baffled as to why so many Labour supporters are feeling so defeatist (other than just having been defeated, I guess) less than 3 months into a 5 year parliament. Any talk about "going down" is bizarrely premature, to say the least. You don't yet even know who you'll be facing at the next election. You might get… -
Re: A 50/1 tip to start your day – politicalbetting.com
Indeed, but except briefly under Boris, the Conservatives have always been seen as the NIMBY party nationally. Their approach to housing and infrastructure has generally been to bury their head in the sand and pretend there's no problem there, even though many of their MPs will admit that the whole situation is… -
Re: Partisan economies – politicalbetting.com
I agree it isn't a biggy. I was just pointing out the lengths many MPs go to imply they are local (ie living in the constituency) by renting a house or buying a flat in the constituency. 20 miles away is peanuts, but the prospective MPs are keen to show they actually live in the constituency, even if that is actually not… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Wear and tear. The fate of Dominic Cummings
What the header doesn't seem to consider, few people have, is that Cummings was quite ill last year and delayed an operation to join the Tory GE campaign. I guess with a virus that kills people with underlying conditions spreading through the country, and into his house, he thought he might get quite ill without neeing to… -
Re: Will Richard Burgon be our next Prime Minister? – politicalbetting.com
The boss of Next has warned there has been a "dramatic fall" in the number of entry-level job opportunities in the UK. Lord Wolfson told the BBC that just two years ago, Next typically received 10 applicants for every job in its shops, but that number had since risen to 19. "That doubling of applicants for shop jobs is… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The latest PB cartoon
Yes, according to the Font Of All Knowledge: In the United Kingdom, it has been alleged that arresting a member of Parliament in the course of carrying out his duties may constitute contempt of Parliament,[16] although immunity from criminal arrest was removed by the Parliamentary Privilege Acts of the 18th century. It is… -
Re: Johnson is next CON leader favourite – but only a 14% one – politicalbetting.com
Weather-Or-Not-You-Want-It-Report Here in Seattle, temperature on my humble porch is 30F, the warmest it's been in last couple days. Snow feel just before the cold snap, and has thus been hanging around. Travel on main road has been ok, but back streets AND sidewalks are not. The REAL news, however, is the fact that the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Ipsos MORI ends a morning of bad news for the Tories with the
It's been a poor campaign, but nowhere near as poor as people are saying atm. I reckon her problem has been expectations. The media love stories, and unfortunately for May and the Conservatives, Corbyn being an idiot and Labour's unelectability are not stories that will particularly interest their readers. It's all been… -
Re: Now we have polling on who’s been the “PM of the Year” – politicalbetting.com
Weather-Or-Not-You-Want-It-Report Here in Seattle, temperature on my humble porch is 30F, the warmest it's been in last couple days. Snow feel just before the cold snap, and has thus been hanging around. Travel on main road has been ok, but back streets AND sidewalks are not. The REAL news, however, is the fact that the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Tomorrow night’s C4 Boris documentary looks set to add to Tory
I don't think he has been that disloyal to May considering she told the House of Commons Boris 'could be put down like a dog' when she was riding high in the polls. He led the Leave campaign and is simply ensuring the transition period does not become permanent, nothing he has said on it ie a two year maximum transition… -
Re: What’s King Charles going to say about fracking – politicalbetting.com
It's been quite a time since I was there, but having seen some of the staff quarters and back rooms I'd say Buck House could be as difficult to renovate as the House of Commons - apart from having less complex decoration and less control-freaky occupants :smile: . BP is about 77k sqm of floorspace (just under 8 Hectares… -
Re: Stripping Prince Andrew of his titles, the country wants the King to act – politicalbetting.com
Apparently yes. Federal buildings such as the White House are not subject to State planning requirements. The White House itself has a committee who can make recommendations to changes in the White House but their recommendations are neither mandatory or required. A sitting President can therefore do what he likes to the… -
Re: Will this impact Reform’s chances in the Senedd? – politicalbetting.com
You wouldn't believe it's in a coma if you look around where I live. Several massive developments are going up, including one about four minutes walk from my house. As an aside, all the planning and regulations we have can oddly appear not to work at times. Our secondary school has a long and convoluted access road. The…