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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » YouGov finds 7 out 10 voters, and 4 out 10 Tories don’t Mrs Ma
When I was last in Burma she was still under house arrest, and it was a military police state. It was about the only time that I have travelled solo in a police state, and a rather unnerving experience, with spies and informers everywhere. You cannot divorce a country from its history, and the last century in Burma has… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Some Brexit betting specials
Brexit is the quick and easy fix that those on the right have been gulled into blindly supporting. We have seen its supporters call judges the enemies of the people and call for them to be sacked, attack the governor of the Bank of England and the Chancellor of the Exchequer for expressing inconvenient views about the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Cameron versus Corbyn – the first Ipsos MORI comparison sin
@Apocalypse Why do you concentrate on Osborne as being the next Conservative leader? Have a look at the alternatives - forget Boris and May they are the past - look at some of the youngsters coming through the pack. My money remains on the contest being between Liz Truss and Sajid Javid (assuming neither of them blow up in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour’s TINA* nightmare.
And Trump will say he is going to campaign positively, to MAGA, while Crooked Hillary has nothing positive to say about what she will do for millions of disadvantaged Americans, only what she can do for her millionaire supporters. Or words to that effect. Trump is doing a good job of biting his tongue, we all know he can… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Latest Lord Ashcroft marginals polling finds it’s not going
Lots of nota voted lib dem in 2010 I don't know that thurrock has many affluent areas... Maybe a couple of big houses in the countryside, but not many. I literally live next door to it, my dad was manager of tilbury town fc, and I used to work in lakeside! The affluent people would vote tory Id have thought...believeme,… -
Re: Ipsos Scotland poll has the SNP winning 56 of the 57 Scottish seats – politicalbetting.com
The progress in the last year or so of a lot of transformer models has been extremely impressive. I don't know whether or not we are on the cusp of AGI and the Singularity, my hunch is we are not, but I'm fairly certain there is going to be an ML arms race and I expect the tech giants to snap up a lot of new ML accelerator… -
Re: A great resource for all who follow UK politics – politicalbetting.com
Having just consumed a bottle of wine (ok, I added a dab to the pasta sauce and Mrs S. sniffed half a glass) I'm bound to ask 'why do people take drugs?' There are, of course, many answers, just as there were in the days of Gin Lane and the Rake's Progress. But ultimately it boils down to the desire to feel slightly better… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » NEW PB / Polling Matters podcast. Looking back at the locals (
There are currently no direct scheduled flights between London and Baku in the week of the final. If you want to fly to the game on the day then a lengthy wait in somewhere like Istanbul or Kiev would be needed. The quickest journey by air on the day of the final takes six hours 55 minutes, with the majority lasting more… -
Re: This bodes ill for the Tories & Reform – politicalbetting.com
Oh give it a rest (the journo, that is)!. If anything this election proves that the post-1987 centrist consensus lives on. We’re going to get a government in a weeks time that has been desperate to play its centrist pro-businesses cards and to avoid anything that will scare the horses. And if it fails, it’s not the left… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Tonight’s polling and GE2017 betting round-up
With the calling of the snap General Election, I wanted to try and set out in detail my position on fracking as a whole and the INEOS application for an exploratory well at Bramleymoor Farm in Marsh Lane in particular. These are my own personal views which I have arrived at after a great deal of research. These views are… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If the Conservatives do lose power next May they’d be fooli
@rcs1000 Halifax House Price Index: Part II Anyway here is the yellow box which shows that on a quarterly basis UK houses prices have grown by 2.3% and on an annual basis by 8.8%. These remain the highest rates of growth recorded over the past year, though the current price/earnings ratio at 4.95 has begun to fall back… -
Re: Barack Obama has moved the Betfair market – politicalbetting.com
Eleven hours of Times Radio election coverage (on its YouTube channel) from a whole fortnight ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ZuE4V5Jc0 Presented by Matt Chorley who iirc has been signed up by the BBC now. It is where I spent much of election night. Its budget of £2.50 meant there were no gimmicks like the main… -
Re: This looks better for Starmer than Sunak – politicalbetting.com
Man City has hired Boris Johnson's brief. Lord Pannick KC is set to defend Manchester City FC again, after the Premier League brought more than 100 charges against the football club yesterday. The leading silk, whose recent instructions include advising Boris Johnson in relation to the Partygate inquiry and acting against… -
Re: Could the Tory 41% Bexley majority really be in danger? – politicalbetting.com
No the journey times on HS2 - which has been properly modelled and planned - are well known. Their points are what happens on everything that's non-HS2 where absurd claims have been made that haven't stood up to about half an hour of expert scrutiny. -
Re: A Johnson exit in 2022 moving up in the betting – politicalbetting.com
1. How much do British investors own of German Railways, French Energy? 2. As far as the railways and telecoms are concerned, the big driver has been technology. 3. Zero hours contracts have not been of great benefit to many workers. -
Re: Cummings going opens up a little UK-EU trade window. But only a little one – politicalbetting.com
Cummings looks a bit well dressed in that cartoon. I can report universal delight amongst my mates who have been texting the last 24 hours. He has been literally hated by many in this country since Barnard Castle. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Tonight’s bumper polling night – all the main online firms
A previously unpublished document which reinforces claims that the investigation into the death of Dr David Kelly was an establishment ‘whitewash’ has been obtained by The Mail on Sunday. A letter written by Lord Hutton, who chaired the public inquiry into Dr Kelly’s death, shows he was asked to do the job just three hours… -
Re: From apotheosis to arrest – politicalbetting.com
You are absolutely correct in this and whilst I expect the conservatives to lose many seats in Wales at the next GE, the Senedd elections in 2026 will be interesting As the only poster( as far as I am aware) on this forum currently facing a serious health issue here in Wales it has come to something that my son is on 24… -
Re: Starmer’s speech gets a good reception – politicalbetting.com
'Beyond the correct rate of taxation, however, lie the much deeper problems of the country. For years, regardless of who was in power, government policy has been to import cheap unskilled or semi-skilled labor' This bit is true. Under Blair and Brown, this was open and explicit for both EU and non-EU migration. Under… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Sunak (tipped on PB when he was 200/1) now betting favourite t
JAMES MATES EUROPE EDITOR Disappointment is everywhere as the evidence that the Europe-wide lockdown may be defeating the coronavirus remains frustratingly elusive. Nowhere will they be more disappointed than Italy, where an improving ‘trend’ has been reversed. Deaths and infections are up again, but it’s even worse in…