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Re: Labour wins a majority but it is a bit complicated – politicalbetting.com
The Conservative performance has been so woeful that even their eleventh hour "supermajority" nonsense would appear to have bolstered Farage with no net benefit to themselves. The clamour for Ref-Con alliance is inevitable. The Conservative Party under Johnson, Truss and Sunak have fed the monster that is Farage and he is… -
Re: Is it any wonder the Nadine peerage move has been stalled? – politicalbetting.com
Except that time and again my point has been that developments should be able to be done a few houses at a time by independent developers, rather than the oligopoly of large developers. That the planning system works in the favour of the oligopoly who can work the system and manage landbanks but stands in the way of small… -
Re: A reminder of the polling on today’s big political issue – politicalbetting.com
Yes, I've been busy at work but I heard that he was less than completely convincing. Quelle surprise. I'm 95% certain that the committee will find against him, and impose a penalty stiff enough to open the way for a recall petition. The man's defence is risible, and the committee members must know that letting him off with… -
Re: 2024 opens with LAB a 75% betting chance of winning the election – politicalbetting.com
Michelle Mone's husband Barrowman has issued a "statement" this morning after @thetimes report showing the National Crime Agency is investigating a £3 million payment into Mone's Coutts bank account, which would prove her direct benefit from the PPE Medpro contract as well as indirectly through trusts. The statement is… -
Re: New French Presidential poll has Le Pen just 6% behind – politicalbetting.com
It depends how quickly the whole sort of mood in favour of doing it can change I think is heart of your question? I think he is probably mor vulnerable now than at start of year when it was also so quiet and he looked in no immediate danger, simply because so much of his credibility has been eroded away. Thinking back to… -
Re: The LAB lead continues to stay in double figures – politicalbetting.com
I'm really not majoring on poorer areas., FFS. Look at the list. I've been to some of the richest states in the Union: Colorado, New York, California, Utah, Maryland, DC. I generally go where I am sent by the Gazette, apart from this roadtrip, where I chose to see parts of America I have not seen (not because they are… -
Re: Can you cope with two massive elections at the same time? – politicalbetting.com
I don't agree. The clinical side has generally been fair to good for as long as I've known it, and it's only now that real horror stories like Northern Monkey's have become common (of course any system has the occasional disaster). The problem was the immense waiting time both for A&E and for non-urgent operations -… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The reason Theresa May is rating so well, even amongst LAB
BBC - A Team GB athlete has been robbed while returning to their accommodation at the Olympic Games in Rio. The Guardian reported that the victim had been held up at gunpoint while enjoying a night on the town in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Fast coming to the opinion that Rio is a good Olympics, depressingly let… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » John Curtice on the exit poll
I don't know what but looks as if something significant happened about an hour ago. All day Con Most Seats had been around 1.24 or 1.25. Then suddenly it came in sharply and it's holding. Con 1.19/1.20 Lab 6.0/6.4 £23,000 has been matched at between 1.19 and 1.22 inclusive. -
Re: Truss isn’t working – politicalbetting.com
Almost none of the announced measures have been put to Parliament. So as soon as conference is over and the charnel house reopens, the government has to table the legislation for an early vote. I entirely agree - they have to vote this down. Ordinarily the threat of voting it down would make them change tack. But this… -
Re: What a difference a year makes – politicalbetting.com
Morning all. Sorry to go off-topic already, but there has been a horrific incident overnight on the East Coast Mainline. Cheapo Thatcher electrification brought down again again again south of Retford and it produced delays I have never seen before. Single line working was put in place at Retford with 10mph trundling… -
Re: Where do we even start? – politicalbetting.com
That section of the legislation applies to MPs. Johnson is not an MP. I can’t see how any action now can apply to Johnson at some future point in time should he be re-elected, which appeared to me to be the suggestion being made. The legislation does not talk about non-MPs who might get elected at some future time. Were… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Dreadful set of local election results overnight sees CON l
I am in a mood so apologies in advance for the tone of this post. But - re Jim O'Neill - 1. We can't moan about politicians all being infantile SPADs and other useless tossers with no experience of the world and all in it for themselves and then get snippy when someone older and experienced tries to give something back.… -
Re: Join the celebrations for PB’s 18th anniversary – politicalbetting.com
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » On the third day of Christmas, our MPs sent to me – a general
Interesting article IMO: "Over the past 20 years, the old British trait of self-deprecation has been killed off. And in its place, boasting is booming. Last week, I was told by an 80-year-old Scottish businessman what a successful shipping tycoon he is, how wonderful his poems are, and why young women find him so… -
Re: Record breaking Rishi – politicalbetting.com
George Galloway has compared Israel’s operations in Gaza to the Holocaust, less than an hour after being sworn in as MP for Rochdale. In an impromptu press conference outside parliament, Galloway said the International Court of Human Rights had already found that there was a “plausible” case that Israel’s actions in Gaza… -
Re: Once again Johnson surviving till 2024 is the betting favourite – politicalbetting.com
Have only had a scan through the last hour, but there does seem to be this odd thing where HY thinks our Trident missiles would restrain the russian bear. "we would threaten to attack Moscow" or some guff. So lets understand how the hour or so of nuclear war would last. We threaten to nuke Moscow. They detect that we are… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Boris Johnson – The False Favourite for the Tory leadership
I will be voting for one of the two candidates Parliamentary Party sends me. Regardless of how someone voted back in 2016 EuroRef, for me it's a simple choice as we look forward, not back: We need someone who can get us to 2022. We don't want someone who will crash and burn on Bonfire Night having failed to get… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Good IndyRef poll for YES, LAB moves to 7% YouGov lead whil
Labour's position still seems to be that you cannot have growth in employment without increases in government spending and that cuts are self defeating. This has been proved to be wrong on a truly epic scale. As I have said before on here the question is whether we can have too much of a good thing. If welfare reform is to… -
Re: Could Attorney-General Barr be next in line to be sacked by Trump? – politicalbetting.com
Every government announcement is leaked ahead nowadays. The key fact, in this case, is that the whole of the NHS was advised and has been planning on one basis, which has now changed. That is very clear from the sequence of HSJ articles and you have it also from a horse's mouth here on PB. Bringing the Pfizer to the island…