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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » As we await the August IPSOS-MORI poll here’s the latest GE
This site contains a lot of basic statistics about UK debt: http://www.creditaction.org.uk/helpful-resources/debt-statistics.html It is not a pretty picture but the latest statistics suggest unsecured consumer debt is actually falling. I therefore really don't know what the basis of the Telegraph piece is. And these are… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » TMay has taken a hammering in YouGov’s “best PM” tracker but C
It's interesting you should name me in that. For the record: I support the people of Palestine *and* Israel, not their leaderships who often perform actions that are not in the interests of 'their' people. Criticising the actions of the Israeli government is fair enough (and there is bucketsfull to criticise); however if… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » There’s been no Glasgow games boost yet for IndyRef YES on
@FoxInSox "The combination of death duties and Western Front slaughter of junior officers was very effective at breaking up the Aristocratic estates of the 19th century, both in UK and Ireland." Was it really? I live in West Sussex and great tracts of the County are still owned by three families that have owned them for… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Another evening and another PB NightHawks cafe
This is a rather depressing article about the situation in Venice. "Fear and longing for life after lockdown This beautiful city has never felt so ugly, with spies everywhere Lisa Hilton The singing has long since stopped. In the first days of the Italian lockdown, Venice’s abandoned streets were full of music. Masked… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Farage against the machine. Why the Brexit party’s chances are
The removal of payments for solar panels is one of the stupider things this government has done. Bringing attention to it and demanding a reversal would be a useful thing to have done. I have solar panels here and in the Lake District where they also heat our water. We are benefiting from the previous schemes. But now… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Number 10’s power-grab is sowing the seeds of its own failure
I wish I could find these ‘three quarter empty trains’ he talks about. Last time I caught a train from London to Birmingham I had to stand until Solihull. He fails to mention that the ‘slower speeds’ of HS2 trains is where they will run on classic lines. That’s a tiny fraction of the whole. Some trains to Stafford and… -
Re: Johnson under fire for likening Ukraine to Brexit – politicalbetting.com
British volunteer fighters are feared to have triggered a deadly airstrike on a Ukrainian military base after their phones were detected in the area, the Telegraph can reveal. At least 35 people were killed, potentially including three British ex-special forces troops, when 30 Russian cruise missiles pulverised the Yavoriv… -
Re: Starmer takes a 15% best PM lead over Truss – politicalbetting.com
The ongoing crisis at Zap plant continues to get an undersized amount of news coverage in this country. Ukraine seems to have made some fairly stunning progress in the last 24 hours. The prospect arises of them opening up a second kill zone south of Kharkiv, similar to the one between Kherson and the Dnipro. There’s a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Rolling back green taxes will create some CON branding issu
On topic: The premise is wrong. You can still be the 'greenest government ever' and change the mix of policies to reduce the direct effect on household budgets of the the various taxes and levies. Some of those policies look pretty inefficient to me, so there may well be room for reducing the taxes/levies without… -
Re: Nikki Haley now clear second favourite for the GOP nomination – politicalbetting.com
I think there's less to Haley than meets the eye. She's been after the White House for a long time and has played quite a canny game so far. However, those decent political skills mask, IMO, a bit of an emptiness underneath. Though overall, that wouldn't be a bad thing for America or the world. As you say though, Trump's… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Some Royal wedding betting markets
FPT HHemmelig said: "Yeah, the US has definitely managed to round up and deport all the millions of illegals living there." My wife comes originally from a country that supplies the UK with immigrants, some of them illegal. She, of course, is here legally. But, since she runs a shop in a London market, she frequently… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Henry G Manson says get on Andy Burnham as EdM’s successor
This would be the same Darling that lost half a TRILLION pounds down the back of the sofa between six month statements to the House. And he was the best? Ed Miliband was part of the "others" that were worse. And as for Andy Burnham - the only way that his term in charge of the NHS could have been worse was if instead of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Away from the IndyRef – today’s Populus poll sees UKIP up 4
Thurrock’s been changing it’s demographics for some time. Still a lot of traditional WWC but now plus a lot of new, relatively low-cost housing. Lot of dissatisfaction ..... local hospital moved to Basildon, dock jobs at Tilbury containerised and so on. LD’s have never been in the running there, but at one time BNP were… -
Re: Now the knives are out for Hun – politicalbetting.com
Dubai is so successful because of oil money and leveraging independent wealth into allowing rich people to do what the hell they want, along with foreign workers to do the work of building and keeping that up where their passports get stolen, their pay gets withheld and they work 12 hour (or longer) shifts. Should we copy… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » ICM Phone poll sees Leave 4% ahead. A fortnight ago Remain
You might as well ask whether you'd swap to get a horse into Downing Street. It is about as likely. Leave is Labour's disaster as well as Dave's. It has been totally invisible and has made no effort to run any kind of serious campaign. Clearly this is because the leadership is not that bothered about the result. The unions… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The pollsters might have to start applying a shy Labour fil
There are some rather amusing quotes from union leaders about Corbyn This made me LOL, it has the reek of What Have We Done about it “I’m honestly shocked at how bad the operation has been for the past 48 hours. I honestly thought [Mr Corbyn] would be better than this.” -
Re: Can Sunak really win back CON to LAB switchers and retain power? – politicalbetting.com
Winter has come to Estonia. The first dusting of snow is making the pencil sharp roofs of the medieval towers of Tallinn´s walls, and the filigree spires of its churches gleam. It is not yet deep winter, when a metre of snow rests like a blanket over the country, but at seven below freezing it is cold enough to scatter… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Labour leadership election gets exciting as the Unions
My mistake, I thought he did. Thanks for putting me right. Wherever and whenever he lived, he clearly has no connection with the constituency now, and in my view that is completely wrong. Ed Balls may just have given a vivid demonstration of what happens to candidates parachuted into officially 'safe' seats to which they… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Fracking debate: We support even though we think it cou
FPT AA Gill skewers C4 "But it does raise a question that’s been bothering Tristrams for some time: what is the point of Channel 4? It has lost its role of being the smart young modern vision of high-low culture and turned into a car-boot sale of second-hand ideas and really unpleasant victim trolling. Its early-evening… -
Re: Are there any honest Scottish Nationalists? – politicalbetting.com
I like Klopp. I think he's a decent guy and he's been blinded-sided by this (apparently). He hasn't had a chance to process this properly so I give him a bit of a pass for now. However ... and it's a big however, if he's as decent and principled as we think he his then he could choose to make a stand on this. He could…