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Re: Choosing Jo Cox’s sister might just be enough to save Labour’s bacon in Batley and Spen – politicalb
Bishop's Avenue is surreal. It has the worst pot-holes in the world because of all the underground development causing subsidence (ten storey down swimming pools etc). Yes, lots of houses are left to rot by arrested sheikhs and oligarchs. The architecture gets crazier every year. There has been lots of new building in the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » For first time since Osbo’s March 2012 budget more people s
@tim The next govt will have to decide whether to keep on with Osbornes policies. Stalled deficit reduction and a deliberate inflationary bubble 1. "Stalled deficit" ONS Public Sector Finances - February 2013 Let's look at Public Sector Net Borrowing For the period April 2012 to February 2013, the public sector net… -
Re: Starmer extends his approval lead over Sunak – politicalbetting.com
BIB - How crass can you get? A former Metropolitan police officer who investigated Wayne Couzens over two indecent exposure incidents hours before he kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard has been barred for life from the police service after being found guilty of gross misconduct. Samantha Lee carried out a “sloppy”… -
Re: What is it about British party leaders and sandwiches? – politicalbetting.com
I promised @Andy_Cooke some opinions on the NPPF and Planning. This is some of my thoughts so far, but I'd say we can currently only see the first 14 feet of 100 on the centipede. There's a lot more to come, in strategy and in detail. And I have more thinking still to do to come to a more thorough assessment. As I see it,… -
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Boris may well win a majority as@HYUFD has long predicted to some derision. However, I do not see him presiding over a change in the sort of people who run the media, civil service and judiciary. Does anyone? Therefore he is the Establishment. Just like Trump and Berlusconi. Why can't Conservatives just argue they are… -
Re: Starmer was a drag on the Labour vote in Wales but the King of the North might need to become the Ki
Breaking News Starmer shocked and angered to discover that he has been the PM all along. “I thought it was the short arse and then Kemi running the country” Starmer further said that he thought that No.10 was just a house that a mate had lent him while he did some studying. “No one told me I was PM, officially. No papers… -
Re: This look problematic for ministers – politicalbetting.com
Our 'village' is being extended by 2,350 homes (currently 4,250). On top of this, the local council is using land that had previously been set aside for employment into a further 260 homes. I have no problem with the former development; it was clear that the surrounding land was going to be developed (and there will be… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » From YouGov: The budget in five charts
How can you have an 'artificial demand' for housing? There is huge pent up demand and has been for years. You need to build, not tax. How many million more people are in the UK now than there were 20 years ago? Has the housing stock increased by at least the amount needed to cope with that? My last house in the UK cost me… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Political cross-dressing
Sailed past there in September on our Nova Scotia, Canada and New York cruise I have family in Canada and would not wish a bunch of unelected has-beens on them -
Re: Looking forward to tomorrow’s locals from Michael Thrasher – politicalbetting.com
Politico.com - McCarthy launches campaign to replace Cheney https://www.politico.com/newsletters/huddle/2021/05/05/mccarthy-launches-campaign-to-replace-cheney-492738 . . . The vote on Rep. Liz Cheney’s future in leadership has rocketed forward, and few House Republicans are ready to throw her a life jacket — at least not… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » This looks like how REMAIN will play the closing four weeks
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why the decline of the BNP is good new for Farage’s UKIP
Back in the 90s the Tories delivered a successful economy but it was successful for the few, not the many. Those that were dependent upon the State received services which were impoverished by the fact those services had been starved of money for too long. We desperately needed more new schools, hospitals and the staff to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Iowa could still go either way with 97% of precincts counted
Indeed. However, Trump isn't responsible as such for accelerating the increase in national debt - it's just ticking upwards at the same rate it has been since the start of the Obama administration. The debt/GDP ratio crossed 100% in 2012 and has been reasonably steady ever since. Obama's hand was obviously forced by events… -
Re: How many CON Mps will join these 52 before the election? – politicalbetting.com
I find it utterly remarkable people are still repeating this bullshit lie that public services are an externality of construction of housing. If that were the case, we'd have world class public services right now as our construction of housing has been trailing population growth so there is much less of an externality… -
Re: Should we be talking about a Nicola Sturgeon comeback? – politicalbetting.com
Evening all from the country's most overlooked city. Bradford is less than 50 miles from my house. And I have been pretty much everywhere in the North. But actually I'd be exaggerating only a little to say that in my almost 50 years on the planet, I've never been.. Actually, I have been here a couple of times: I came on… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The betting market that reflects the mess Labour finds itse
Top trolling from Ruth Davidson Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election marks the demise of the Labour Party as a credible UK political force. His victory last year could have been written off as a spasm. But yesterday’s result has confirmed the fact that the unelectable hard left has now assumed a lock grip on Britain’s main party of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Induction Technique. Comparing and combining betting markets
Governments win elections, they also have the power to lose them. Governments can spend their way to victory or mitigating defeat. They can cut taxes, increase spending or just advertise themselves to victory. In the 2010 General election and the period leading up to it there was a government advertising blitz that was… -
Re: Keir today, gone tomorrow? – politicalbetting.com
House of Commons Library: Once an individual has been selected, the Foreign Secretary (with the Prime Minister’s approval for senior postings) makes a formal submission to the King recommending their appointment It is not credible that the FS and PM did not know of the vetting fail and overruled the decision. The power… -
Re: Your morning must read – politicalbetting.com
It's not window dressing, it's for real, but your central point is right. It's important for our democracy that the Conservatives lose this election. SKS has done everything possible (rather too much imo) to demonstrate that Labour occupies the moderate centre ground of politics, and here they are now running against a… -
Re: Why I now think an early election is likely – politicalbetting.com
. The greater failing by this and previous Governments is for being in denial. By acting as if net migration will be marginal or in the tens of thousands, there has been insufficient investment in services like schools, hospitals, roads, rails etc - or permission for the market to build enough houses and other things too.…
