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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Analysing the best Prime Minister polling
Well, they have around £30bn in foreign aid and EU contributions to play with and that's before they address other issues like winter fuel payments for millionaires and so on. If we consider the last decade, the corporation tax rate has been sliced by a third. The tax take from that tax is marginally up, however. The… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » It wasn’t just young people voting that cost TMay her majority
Yes I do deny it. It is not for the first time at all. It has been that way for many years - thanks to Labour. Currently if you receive residential care your house is included in the value of your assets and must be sold when you are still alive, to pay for your care. The Tory proposal moves this to after your death. The… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Lord Ashcroft poll on how Euro voters will vote next year
The colour doesn't matter. Mass immigration has helped push up house prices and rents, keep wages down, and increase unemployment among the low skilled. Labour and the Lib Dems don't accept there's a problem; the Tories haven't been able to get a grip on it - and the people who have lost out (or those who believe they… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » To Clacton and beyond, but just how far is that?
Sorry to quote myself, which is a bit of a solipsism, but I meant to add that my reason for thinking Labour will poll below 30% is that their working man's vote has never been so under threat, not even when Maggie won some of them over with the sale of council housing. I suspect UKIP are going to bite a sizeable chunk out… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Nighthawks is now open
Somewhere in the White House there will now be a wee note mentioning the fact that Ed Miliband is not trustworthy, and that his word is no longer his bond in International Relations. The fact that David Cameron can no longer rely on or trust Ed Miliband and his word as LotO has been glossed over, but its an extremely… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Punters move against Trump on the “will he survive ” markets
Rudd's comments on hacking over the weekend made it quite clear she doesn't know what she's talking about. Her view on encryption makes it clear that she not only doesn't know what she's talking about, but has been completely house trained by the security services. The hack over the weekend was a government-sponsored… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » First post-reshuffle poll has the public backing Cameron ov
The fault is in assuming that a disabled person who needs a "spare" room for example for a dialysis machine is being subsidised for excess space . Or for example that housing on which thousands of pounds has been spent in modifying it to suit a disabled person should be vacated by them because they cannot afford the so… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour’s new leader now has 2-3 months to prepare. How does he
I said at the time letting the Liverpool v Madrid game go ahead was disastrous. A day or so ago the Director of Health in Liverpool has come out and said it was a big mistake. At the time several PB posters couldn't see tany problem with it. You know who you are!) We are where we are because the government nor the people… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The spread markets continue to point to CON 100+ majority
Tbf when Winnie went tongue up the arse, it wasn't half measures. 'It is very fortunate for Russia in her agony to have this great rugged war chief at her head. He is a man of massive outstanding personality, suited to the sombre and stormy times in which his life has been cast; a man of inexhaustible courage and… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If Jeremy Corbyn wants to see Labour humiliated at a general e
Indeed. Labour bang on about the NHS because they have almost nothing else left. The available polling evidence suggests that, in terms of key policy areas, Labour only polls reasonably consistently ahead of the Tories on health and housing, and the latter issue is of disproportionate concern to poor and young voters who… -
Re: With three months to go opposition to Brexit reaches its highest level yet – politicalbetting.com
Thanks, and to everyone else. As I said, it's not to elicit sympathy, I didn't know him very well and only met him a few times a year at family functions and weddings etc... My worry is that the cure is worse than the disease. COVID is only part of what drove him to suicide, I think the ill thought out, confusing and… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The polling data on immigration is perhaps more nuanced tha
I'm sorry to hear about your difficulties, and never assumed you were just a poor code-monkey. With recruitment, a major problem is identifying the 'stars', which are what we particularly need more of, wherever they come from. I was never one myself (and never will be), but managed to identify a niche where I could earn a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Today we should have been getting the new Prime Minister
RE Fixed Term Parliament Repeal Slugger O'Toole says: There are a few things that are interesting about the new Bill. The first is that it is being proposed in the House of Lords, by a Labour peer – Lord Desai. This makes it unclear if the Government have had any hand or influence in the Bill. They may be attempting to… -
Re: Stodge and MoonRabbit’s Cheltenham Preview – politicalbetting.com
It’s a game of three halves. Or more. As it has been for a long time. Good middle class job + a smaller mortgage on a good property = “I hear things are tough for some” Bottom end job + mad rental rates = “I’m fucked” Retired from bottom end job = “I’m fucked, but I enjoy life more” Retired from a high end job on massive… -
Re: So far the polling’s not looking bad for LizT – politicalbetting.com
News Flash - my morning paper (Seattle Times) tells me that an old housemate of mine, Roger Nyus, has been nominated by President Biden to serve as US Ambassador to several former British possessions in the Caribbean, namely Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, and St. Vincent… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Ministers U-turn over the Saudi prison deal following an un
Not to use as an argument against HS2 even though as you know I oppose it as a white elephant. But I remember hearing a programme about some of those living along the HS1 corridor in Kent whose lives had been blighted by the extreme noise from the trains because the limits for compensation had been set too close. Whilst I… -
Re: Undefined discussion subject.
OF COURSE Nixon was NOT concerned with REPUBLICAN cheating in downstate Illinois, and neither have subsequent pundits & polemicists. Only comprehensive study of actual evidence from 1960 general election in Cook County ("Court House over White House") concluded that votes were definitely rigged in number of precincts, but… -
Re: They’re trolling us now. – politicalbetting.com
Yes, that will be matched across much of the south of England, I suspect. The departing cold spell has been the most memorable in December since 2010 not least for the longevity of snow lying and the number of days of prolonged cold. Only one actual ice day in my part of London (last Sunday) where the temperature stayed… -
Re: An update on the Tory commitment to a high wage economy – politicalbetting.com
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/04/keir-starmer-warned-by-labour-peers-not-to-waste-political-capital-on-lords-reform Keir Starmer has been warned by Labour peers that he risks getting bogged down in a “constitutional quagmire” that will prevent him completing other urgent domestic reforms if he pushes ahead… -
Re: Tories drop to new low in Ipsos “fit to govern” tracker – politicalbetting.com
Scotland began to coalesce as a nation in the mid-9th century under the House of Alpin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Alpin By that time Bede had already WRITTEN his HISTORY of the English people - completed in 731, a century before Scotland was even an idea. And Bede’s book was a history “The Ecclesiastical…