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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » How it could go wrong for LAB in South Shields: 1. The man
Osbrowne leading the charge with a Romney master strategy on welfare. How he's going to pull that one off when the toxic liability will be hiding during the next election campaign (just like the last time) doesn't seem to even have occurred to the tea party tories. As usual. The quiet man who the tories dumped after his… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Harry Hayfield’s guide to the Aberdeen, Donside Scottish Pa
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » At this critical time reflections on “Cultivating Democracy”
Afternoon all :) Thanks, as always, Cyclefree for an interesting piece. My late mother always said the end of civilisation began when they got rid of the park keepers because it showed that once the cost of looking after the park was deemed more important than the unquantifiable beauty, sense of community and identity a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Britain’s brittle stalemate
Blairs are created, not born. So, it is an interesting exercise to create the next Blair (who will disappoint, after election victory after election victory) The Blair for 2022 would be no fan of the EU, but very critical of the way Brexit has been implemented by the Tories and how it has affected "my constituents". He… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Preview: March 13th 2014
We have now arrived at the point that Obamacare does not resemble at all the bill passed by Congress. The White House has unilaterally changed Obamacare almost 30 times. We were told that the employer mandate and individual mandate were essential to Obamacare, and the administration argued to the Supreme Court that the tax… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Never mind Super Tuesday, get ready for Mega March
"FactCheck has covered this issue before, and it is not as straightforward as at first it seems. The 'Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe' was signed in October 2004, and it was this treaty to which the Labour manifesto referred. But it was rejected by France and the Netherlands and thus abandoned. So Labour can… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Turning on taxes. The tectonic plates of Scotland’s politic
The Scottish economy is facing a triple whammy at the present time. Firstly, the on going shrinkage of the Financial Service sector and the RBS in particular has lost Scotland a significant percentage of its private sector higher rate tax payers. Secondly, the collapse in north sea oil prices has drained money out of the… -
Re: RIP Prince Phillip 1921-2021 – politicalbetting.com
As I have mentioned before, in 2012 I was his designated escort during HMQ’S royal visit to our Borough. His technique for engaging with the crowd during his walkabout was to zero in on anyone of an ethnic appearance and ask them where they came from. He then followed up with an anecdote about his long past visit to their… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Johnson care home comment row – Day 2
I asked two hours ago what evidence there was. The answer is just vague anecdotes about people who are competing for jobs, as well as supposed criminality of EU migrants. No evidence has been produced to show that EU migrants lowered wages, in fact it seems that migrants actually increase native wages because they allow… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » At the end of the tunnel
This is where I've never agreed with you over the date. The date had to be set in stone, in order to get movement. For a long time the competing demands have been irresistable force meeting immovable object so we've gotten nowhere. Changing the date was the path of least resistance so rather than actually compromising… -
Re: The public really don’t rate Liz Truss – politicalbetting.com
Ringo Starr and his wife woke up one morning in the late 80s. The house was trashed and I believe Mrs Starr had sustained injuries. Neither had any memory of what had happened. They immediately checked into rehab and have been sober ever since. -
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Re: Kids Company. I saw a comment from a mother that KC paid for her child to have top quality trainers as he was being bullied because he couldn't afford them. Social services had refused to pay. I'm sorry but if her son was being bullied, then shouldn't the issue of bullying be addressed rather than giving in to the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » None of the Above takes 44% lead in new CON leadership poll
The Prostitutes' Party took place in a villa that Oxfam hired for their Head of Operations. I am pretty sure that if the Army discovered that prostitutes had been entertained on Army property, then the outcome would be disciplinary proceedings. The double standards in British political life are truly jaw-dropping. When… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Ipsos-MORI: The demographic group which has most moved away
"It is this group, arguably, which has had to deal most with the consequences of austerity. " So the very last thing Cammie or Osbrowne would want to do is appear gleeful and posture like peacocks when introducing yet more austerity measures. Well, they blew that then. "The challenge is not about the rhetoric but… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Take the Ladbrokes 10-11 IndyRef NO victory with turnout un
As someone who grew up living ten miles away (and do again) and has a similar background to perpetrators in Rotherham time for me add my tuppence worth. I had no idea this was going on, the first time I became aware of it was when Nick Griffin raised it. My instinct was it can't be true if he says it. I might be one or two… -
Re: And so to New Hampshire where one of the primaries won’t count – politicalbetting.com
FPT: There is no economic reason why Britain can't import housing, if you want to. In the US, RVs are often used as homes. For example, I've been told about a friend of a friend, who retired and is doing just that, right now. He and his wife sold their home, bought an RV, and are now touring the US. There are now about a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Now the talk is of a Donald Trump Sarah Palin ticket
An Iraqi lawyer is being paid £150 an hour by the Government to help build war crimes cases against British troops, it has emerged. British-trained Zainab Al Qurnawi is representing the families of Iraqi civilians who were allegedly wrongfully killed during the Western invasion of the country. She is claiming money from… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The New Hampshire aftermath: This week’s PB/Polling Matters
There have been several changes to my terms and conditions during my time with the YBS. The most recent was a change to pension arrangements that was imposed on us. The fact is that the government was elected on a manifesto promising a 7-day-per-week NHS. Getting out of the mentality of 'core hours' and 'out of hours' is… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If this trend goes on Johnson’s CON government will soon have
You reference Gwynedd but the problem is far more acute in our part of North Wales and including Snowdonia, which are within less than one hour or two hours from Liverpool and Manchester. Before the police controlled our border we were overwhelmed with visitors both on our beaches and in Snowdonia making social distancing… -
Re: The China Peril – politicalbetting.com
"This isn't the Brexit we voted for" is already the cry. From the fishing industry that has gone from emaciated to dying. From importers and exporters. From supply chains who suddenly find themselves unable to function - the "how do we export to Ireland" story involves "new" problems long since identified and dismissed as…