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Re: Why Isn’t Labour Cutting Through? – politicalbetting.com
Delivered by a bloke in a van, just as an online order for something was delivered to me three hours ago. This is the weapons grade lunacy that our People’s Soviet in Cardiff Bay has contrived. Spend your money locally, nope illegal, buy the exact same thing anywhere else on planet Earth and have it delivered? Yup fine… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The pressure mounts from Britain’s biggest car manufacturer
This whole process has been significantly derailed by "talking heads" on both sides sitting on the sidelines thinking they know far more than they do Norman Smith on the BBC was claiming only four hours ago that there was more chance of Ed Balls becoming a world dancing champion than there was a deal with the UK and… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » PaddyPower make LAB 4-5 odds-on favourite to win target num
Aviation expert David Learmount, who appears in the programme, has said in the last few hours that there could be a few similarities between flight 447 and the Malaysian Airlines flight which has disappeared, despite the fact that the latter involved a Boeing 777 rather than an Airbus. I think he means the fact that they… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Populus back to “normal” following Friday’s shock LAB 11pc
"ITV's Laura Kuenssberg has been speaking to business secretary Vince Cable about revelations that one million workers in the UK - four times official estimates - could be on zero-hours contracts. Such agreements give employees no guarantee of work. He told her he would not consider an outright ban but wants to look into… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour’s paradox: The huge increase in members hasn’t led t
Another example: our old handyman (since moved to Germany) had a PhD in biology. After getting his doctorate, he did some research at Cambridge. After a couple of years of watching plants grow, he left and became a handyman. He earned more, and the job satisfaction was much higher: he could see a project come to fruition… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Michael Gove’s very big night out
I am sorry, Mr. Charles, but much as I love the City (and I really do) it would be wrong to ignore its failures and, it has to be said, the fact(?) that it has not been a nett long term benefit for the the UK. I'd love to come up to Town and debate this with you and we can go back to Gresham, and the later founding of… -
Re: The banning EU mineral water story is surely a spoof – politicalbetting.com
True, though that's more because public spending that isn't health, pensions (and to an extent) schools have been ruthlessly squeezed for a decade or so. In the medium term, things cost what they cost and politicians who try to buck the market get found out. In the UK, we've had a fairly long run of politicians (certainly… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The year end YouGov polls from 2010 – 2014
You'd be surprised how few people have actually been permanently banned from pb. HD2 was one, and there are a few others. But most people (including yourself on a couple of occasions) are just stopped from posting for 48 hours so. That has, in many cases, been enough to discourage people from coming back again. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Age versus social class: ComRes assess the first test for t
House of Lords has just lost another 4 Peers - new rule under the 2014 Act - if you don't attend at all in a whole session (ie a year) you are out. Result: one Lab, one LD, two Crossbenchers out. There have been a lot of departures in the last few months - in 2016 there had already previously been 6 deaths, 11 retirements,… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Now all eyes are on the DUP – if they’re happy then a deal mor
Say 20 MPs had flipped position before last night. I don't see how she gets the other 95: the DUP carry 50 including themselves, prior flips having reduced the DUP influence, Labour a dozen or so, Cox will be disbelieved and only carry a few. I fear, at best, the government goes down by 50 tonight. Given I was a Remain,… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Surely the time’s come for the media to treat Moggsy’s ERG boy
It doesn't matter. May isn't prepared to walk away so she will sign whatever crap deal Barnier deigns fit to give her. We all know it too and the cabinet knows it yet they've chosen to keep her. Speaks volumes. May has been let down in her negotiations with Europe by the same critical failure that Cameron had. Neither have… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If the coalition collapsed then the LDs are NOT going to ke
Changing the law in the middle of a crisis would be difficult, and designed to be so - it would need to go through both Houses in government time. If there was a persistent situation in which no government had a majority, though, eventually everyone would say "oh well!" and have an election. But Clegg's strategy hasn't… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » My prediction: Ukip to gain 100+ seats and get a big result
Maybe it is the hot house of PB but I think and fear we are going to see something pretty significant today/tomorrow. I think that UKIP will end up with something like 200 gains in a wave of anti politics that does indeed mirror what we saw with the ex clown in Italy. I think the tories will take the biggest hit but all… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Antifrank looks at what now for the House of Lords
Did the House of Lords, this supposed knowledgeable chamber, really know what it was voting about? If nothing had been done about Brown's tax credit madness then this year it would have stood at £38bn and next year £40bn. In 2010 nine families in ten with children received it.Because of cuts under the LD coalition it has… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Next Foreign Secretary betting
Jeff Randell in his usual form http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10279556/Now-for-Labours-lies-about-immigration.html "... Labour MP Jon Cruddas admits that “historians will look back on the past few decades and identify immigration as perhaps the major change to our country.” Not everyone thinks it is a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Cyclefree on What Do They Mean By That?
It seems to me that Ms Cyclefree has six groupings too many. I would suggest that, in terms of voting, we are fast approaching a situation where the nation can be so substantially divided into just two parts, that those falling outside one or other of them are mathematically insignificant. The core of my argument is that… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Corbyn is more in touch on Europe with the voters Labour needs
Mr. Ace, 'Brexitards'? *sighs* Also, I never felt European, as an identity. Perhaps you feel a deep and abiding kinship with Slovenians and Greeks and Spaniards. But that's not the only perspective; others are available. You scoff at sovereignty as if it's a matter of no import. Perhaps it isn't, to you. Perhaps the UK… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Judging by his betting price collapse Boris’s back LEAVE de
@RCS1000 "The UK has been a lot more advanced at pushing energy saving measures than France. While there is some catch up now, new homes in the UK are simply more energy efficient than in France." Mr. Robert, I am at a loss with this. We are talking about electricity consumption are we not? I have my home insulated to the… -
Re: A Suggestion on Political Reform – politicalbetting.com
Have you ever been canvassing with a candidate, in a less than rich area? I have. It is pretty sobering. About every 3rd house you think, OMFG these people are deciding the future of the nation. They haven't got a clue. They can barely boil an egg. I love the idea of democracy but I wonder if it has peaked. I'm serious.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If the Tories get a good turnout in the Rochester all posta
I was always of the opinion that the rebels stole the missile system used to shoot down MH17 - all the contemporary reports suggested that the rebels had stolen the system - for example here's the Economist from July Early on July 17th, several hours before MH17 was destroyed, journalists from the Associated Press reported…