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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If UKIP can’t crack FPTP soon it’ll find itself almost without
Actually, Corbyn's carefully prepared quote seems to me to fall well short of a commitment to fight on indefinitely. "When he was asked if he would resign in the light of the fact that Labour’s share of the vote has been falling in a series of byelections now, he ruled out the proposal. He replied: 'I was elected to lead… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The economy could be growing too far and too fast
TimT2 Cruz is formidably bright, at Harvard Law School his tutor Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant." He was a brilliant lawyer too. Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Tories close the gap by 1.4 percent in this week’s PB
The only part of Help to Buy which is being extended is the initial stage which is solely targetted at new-builds and first time buyers. This part of the scheme has been extraordinarily successful in stimulating residential construction and preventing further attrition in the number of first time buyers entering the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » LAB is still ahead in England which the Tories won at GE10
The country is divided, but not north/south. Labour are still very strong in inner city areas around the country and the Tories are strong in more rural areas. Labour can win seats from Tories in the suburbs, as some of the suburbs are changing, with Labour voters moving out to these and the Tory voters moving to more… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The first of tonight’s three polls has the Tories still ahe
' A teenager has been arrested by police investigating abuse of Team GB diver Tom Daley on Twitter. After coming fourth in the men's synchronised 10m platform diving event on Monday, the 18-year-old from Plymouth received a message telling him he had let down his father, Rob. A 17-year-old boy was arrested at a guest house… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why Ed Miliband can take some comfort from Tony Abbott’s vi
@Tim 'Encouraging stuff from Ed Balls on housebuilding, and admission that Labour got it wrong on housebuilding and an acceptance that for the last forty years we haven't built enough houses.' Great stuff from the deficit denier. www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Most-annoying-MP-Ed-Balls-stops-denying-Labou... 1 Apr 2011 - Coming… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » YouGov asked people to predict what the national voting int
Yes, but the MEPs choice of Commission President is only between candidates that never faced within party electoral options. Cameron, Clegg and Miliband were all chosen by within party elections. The Queen is a figure head with no power (although, as a republican, I would prefer even figureheads were elected), and the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » As CON MPs vote in 1st round the latest live Betfair bettin
I think we have been here before, Mr. Charles, and my position has not changed. There are more important considerations in deciding national infrastructure than what time you have to get up in the morning. Besides in your recent house move you could have chosen to move to South London Rather than North London. You could… -
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: Foreign affairs and laying Michael Gove – politicalbetting.com
If there has been a community previously settled/"dumped" in Gateshead, Middlesbrough and other such places, then it makes sense for people coming here to want to join them, especially if they are asylum seekers. Loss of community by "dumping" them in say Truro or Bromsgrove would just compound the anguish they are going… -
Re: Is Sunak going to give state pensioners an 8% increase? – politicalbetting.com
I see the argument, but big-bang solutions are politically appealing but tend to be disruptive. The suspension of stamp duty turned out to be an expensive mistake IMO - main beneficiaries were existing house owners (who put up prices to compensate) and it produced a bubble of frantic sales which is now poised to deflate. I… -
Re: Sending best wishes to PBer JohnO – politicalbetting.com
I will read it... just no time! Funny you type this just as a wild mate of mine who has been in AA for about ten years is what’s apping that he is struggling In his mad days he once went into a Romford brass house, off his head on gear and booze, and shagged every one of them, then left his Oyster card, work tools and… -
Re: AOC-2024? Yes, the Democrats really could go from their oldest nominee to their youngest – political
The left's trouble getting the nomination in 2024 is that their whole argument in 2020 is the Democrats would get nowhere with a cautious moderate and needed to respond in kind - a radical Democrat to take on a Trump GOP. But they were wrong. Biden won the Presidency, and tended to outperform radical congressional… -
Re: Special relationship: the British right’s appeasement of Donald Trump – politicalbetting.com
On topic, Alastair should have added this to his piece. John Redwood penning an open letter to Joe Biden after the US election lecturing him on Brexit, and Owen Paterson meeting Donald Trump when he came to Britain and celebrating renewing links between North Shropshire and the White House ("The meeting has been brewing… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Biden (77yo) just beating Trump (74yo) as having the mental an
Well, Gov Lujan Grisham made the top 3 on my own VP list (does anyone have Joe's number handy?) Has been NM Gov for less than a year, but served 3 terms in US House. Would be helpful to Biden with Hispanic voters in NM and AZ among other states, and with appeal to non-Hispanics in western states (note that in this context… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The sure guide to knowing if you live in a marginal – how m
The EU has been sticking its fingers into its ears, shouting "La la. We can't hear you" for a decade or more. Only when the flames are licking at their ankles will they notice that the house is on fire. Greece exiting the euro could be a black swan event. So could some ghastly atrocity on the streets of Rome or London.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Challenges, challenges
The facts are these: Oxford University, which has a lot of competition for each place, made Young a conditional offer with a much lower than normal entrance requirement. Which he failed to reach. His dad, a member of the House of Lords, phoned the admissions tutor and he was admitted after all. Someone else who actually… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The hold that Putin holds over Trump could be revealing that t
Seems unlikely, given the interview they just ran with her stressing that she is a remainer. She makes the quite strong point that a House of Commons arranged on party lines is ill equipped to deal with an issue that splits both main parties, and which is quite unlikely to vote for the May 'compromise'.= which is… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » NEW PB / Polling Matters podcast. Looking at the US Midterms w
Land and house prices in South Gwent have been rising, but from a low base. Locals so far ( I work there) see it as more of a boon than a problem ( that has its limits, sure). Industrial land values are well up (struggling to see the issue there), but unless the Welsh Govt actually build the M4 relief road any benefit will… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Punters make it a 54% chance that TMay will go next year with
I think it highly unlikely that Mrs May will lose a VNOC from her own MPs for the reasons that have been well rehearsed on here. But I think it is increasingly likely that the Government will lose a VNOC from all the MPs if the DUP and some of ERG desert them. This could happen in the near future before a deal is agreed…