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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The “any other” government option on this new Betfair mark
Churchill didn't have to explain anything. The British people were well aware German tanks were 25 miles from Dover and the prospect of invasion (though some historians have argued the likelihood was much smaller than is generally believed) seemed very real. The debt/deficit issue is different. Amounts like £100 billion… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Yippee ki-yay, The British public say Die Hard is NOT a Christ
http://www.propertyindustryeye.com/ex-prime-minister-blair-calls-for-new-annual-property-tax-and-rent-caps-to-reform-housing/ The comment is interesting; " 40yearvetran08 December 4, 2017 at 10:46 I have been a lifelong conservative voter but when I look back on my 40 years as an Estate Agent my business has made more… -
Re: Allowing door-to-door distribution of commercial leaflets but banning election ones would be thwarti
I still don't think there's much evidence been proffered for substantial outdoor transmission, even in winter. Yes, temperature is a strong factor in how long COVID survives, but almost certainly less strong than dissipation in outdoor air, and slightly stronger than relative humidity (which improves COVID survival at both… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Tories need to move the agenda off the NHS if they’re to h
Now its possible that the labour market is increasingly erratic or that the ONS has produced some dodgy stats but there seems to have been a very big increase in employment and an even bigger change in the demand for workers. From a quarterly reduction of 56,000 in the three months of August to October to a quarterly… -
Re: Where the race stands (0510 GMT) – politicalbetting.com
I'm not sure about that, personally. Trump's public background is in TV, and the 24-hour media spectacle of twitter has also been central to his presidency . He's already shifted the norms of US public life and office to the extent that BIden has already felt compelled to tweet in quite a different and more routine way… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Can anyone stop Sanders – looking at the contenders one by one
Tonight on Channel 4 news there was no one available from the government or from Public Health England to answer questions about the crisis. No one. This is not leadership. This is arrogance, incompetence and cowardice. I agree this could be Boris's Falklands but he has to start leading. Same over the floods. So far he has… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Nick Clegg’s next career more should be to run for Mayor of
The BBC has apparently been snubbed as the official broadcaster for the Queen's 90th birthday celebrations next year. A spectacular pageant involving more than 600 horses and 1,200 people at Windsor Castle will be broadcast live by ITV instead.… -
Re: LADBROKES tighten the odds on Sturgeon NOT being the First Minister by the end of the year – politic
It's a Sin has been widely praised but it's another example of a watered-down and weak version of a better American one, in this case Angels in America. (Roadkill to House of Cards is another example). The problem is lack of character development. It's all so superficial and breakneck that you never get a chance, properly,… -
Re: Home truths about Covid-19 – politicalbetting.com
"All current approaches seem reactive and focused only on the next few weeks." Fair enough, but there is a huge class of problems to which reactive, short term approaches are all that's available: shaving one's face, mowing one's lawn, cleaning one's house, painting the Forth Bridge. A long-term framework within which to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » As Covid soars to new US peak YouGov polling suggests that Tru
Yes, unless people start to abandon big cities and live in the countryside where they have to drive to go to the shops, etc. Greater working from home has so many benefits to society, I've been thinking for twenty years that it should become the new normal, where the job allows it. For many, it means higher productivity,… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Remainers of the Day. Why are pollsters consistently findi
Interesting Article from AM. If you keep finding too many Remainers in samples and this continues between pollsters then you have a real issue . Demographic changes are likely anyway to have removed the 2016 mandate if you remove other variables . Putting that aside it’s impossible to ignore that Remain has led every… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Bad news for Theresa May as ORB brings horrible polling for he
From the perspective of say Poland, the EU has played a significant role in what is one of the miracles of our lifetime; the transfer of Eastern Europe from communism to functional capitalist economies reasonably well integrated into Europe. I have been visiting Eastern Europe from the 1980s to date, and the transformation… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » What will be Ed Miliband’s First Question in this week’s PM
It's post like that that deny a problem exists that infuriate the public so much. It is 4-5 times higher than in the 1990s and housing and infrastructure pressures in London and the South-East are acute. Neither do they like the rapid social change that has been concentrated in certain areas. We have around 400 million… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » With a possible LAB leadership in prospect Laura Pidcock could
Unison's Brexit break with Corbyn is huge. It clears the way for breaks on other issues and may mean it playing a much bigger role in the next leadership election. Pidcock - who I have been talking about on here for a while as the chosen Corbyn constinuity candidate - is close to Unite. But Unison now has more members than… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Cummings & Johnson strategy could well be dubbed as the ch
Oh, OK. I can understand the impatience, if not now, when, etc? But I can't imagine that we will see any real development until after the 2021 SP elections. There has been talk of a Corbyn-SNP alliance in the event of a hung parliament granting a referendum but that will never pass the House because significant numbers of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » On the betting markets it’s now a 74% chance that TMay will go
I note the minister again states the Govt has contacted 150,000 business to help prepare for leaving the EU. I have been winding down my business and retired as of this month, but the Govt does not know that. My company is still registered with companies house as active with all returns up to date and I have filed… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why Mr Corbyn’s plan to win the next election by signing up
Another case, its outrageous. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11902296/Second-German-woman-evicted-from-her-home-to-make-way-for-refugees.html A woman in Germany is being evicted from her home of 23 years to make way for asylum-seekers, in the second such case to emerge. Gabrielle Keller has been… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » How LEAVE responds to authority interventions that it doesn
As a strong Remainer, I do think the Remain campaign has been splurging out too much and too quickly on the negative arguments, the IMF and Mark Carney both so close together and used up early seems like a waste to me. There will be more and more diminishing returns. A well placed Pensions or House Price warning a week… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Two massive poll boosts for REMAIN with voting starting in
Pt 2 That's why I think voting to leave is in the interest of both ourselves and the other members of the EU. If the 2nd largest EU economy and 2nd largest contributor walks out the door it will force the other 26 countries to have a major reassessment of what the EU should do and what it shouldn't. Let's face it we've… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Two weeks to go in Scotland and NO edges up on the exchange
It is doubtful that the perfidious Turks would be allowed to use the Parthenon as a munitions store again, but you never know. Or for the belligerent Venetians to lob a few shells at it. However there are other arguments for keeping the Marbles here in the UK. We saved them: if they had been left in place, it is unlikely…