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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » This morning’s YouGov should ease some of the Tory jitters
The growth in attendance at A&E predates the NHS reforms and has been linked to the decline in GP out of hours service - thanks to the contracts negotiated by the previous government. This wasn't the first time Labour "stuffed their mouths with gold" If its Cameron's fault - why have waiting times in Scotland trebled? The… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The French Presidential polls edge back a touch to Macron who
I remember as a young teenager living in Berwick, in the early fifties, Wendy Wood (the modern day Nicola) regularly popping up in the early hours painting a white line across the middle of the road bridge indicating the Scottish border, which of course it would be if it didn't move north east just before Berwick. Berwick… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why the Tory plotters wanting to oust May need have no worries
This thread is now approximately 4 hours old. In that time the EU has, on average sold us £2.7m more than we have sold them (£5bn a month/31/24). Or to put it another way the entire annual GDP per head of 77 Britons has been spent to keep citizens of the EU in their jobs. I am sure the thank you cards are in the post as… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Concern about immigration moves to highest level ever recor
Name-calling only makes you look bad - not those pointing out the ludicrous lines you have been spinning for the past few hours. The SNP got this one wrong. Badly wrong. They selected someone without proper scrutiny and it has backfired. Trying to pretend this has nothing to do with the SNP makes you look really rather… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If TMay survives a confidence vote she’d be immune from anothe
So I have been doing more productive things in the last 2.5 hours, principally enjoying the pub. What have I missed? Gove doesn't seem to have resigned yet, nor does Mordaunt. Has anyone else gone since the press conference? I presume we haven't quite got to 48 letters yet, remarkably enough. Has anyone worked out what May… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The general election now the UK’s number one story
Yes, objectively it's a rotten price and we all know why. Apparently some of the big bookmakers will have to give a profits warning if it wins. Might be good long-term for racing but short-term it's a nitemare for the layers. A lady-jockey winning would also be pretty sensational and Nina Carberry has the ability and a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Exactly two years to the day after the AV referendum this i
ar Here is an extract from a February 2008 Telegraph article based on the BoE's first Quarterly Bulletin of the year. It quotes both the report and Mervyn King's statements to the press following release. Families have been warned to expect a decline in their standard of living as rising food and fuel prices place… -
Re: For 78-year-old Biden not being Trump is no longer enough – politicalbetting.com
Mr Wallace added that earlier this afternoon, he was told by officials that no such charter plane had been hired. An MP on the call said that one had subsequently been paid for, but Mr Wallace shot back that "two hours ago when my officials talked to them, they had not secured a plane". -
Re: Ayrshire hotelier wins the GOP nomination – politicalbetting.com
Let’s cut out the waffle and make this practical Let’s say GPT5 or 6 absolutely aces any Turing Test. It is extremely intelligent, it is funny, profound, wise, and helpful - it appears to have a personality: wry, wistful, yearning, sagacious, maybe over sensitive at times (all this has been glimpsed in early models). It… -
Re: Ipsos Scotland poll has the SNP winning 56 of the 57 Scottish seats – politicalbetting.com
The progress in the last year or so of a lot of transformer models has been extremely impressive. I don't know whether or not we are on the cusp of AGI and the Singularity, my hunch is we are not, but I'm fairly certain there is going to be an ML arms race and I expect the tech giants to snap up a lot of new ML accelerator… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The EU referendum: A battle between the social classes
Had Heath lost in 1950, chances are he'd have either fought the seat again in 1951 - another election would have been anticipated shortly given Labour's tiny majority - or found a seat for himself somewhere else. He was clearly set on a political career and didn't really have any other distractions from that objective.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Kamala Harris, betting favourite for the Democratic nomination
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Just 4,000 of Rochester’s 70k+ electors took part in in the
@KentRising The Guardian's John Harris wrote a piece today about mass immigrations effect on the working class I agree with almost all of it, probably because it is what I have been saying on here for two or three years, and his conclusion is why I don't vote Labour anymore "This year I visited Wisbech – where a third of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » What now for Damian Green?
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » There’s a Sheffield rally style hubris around Jeremy Corbyn an
I'm assuming you're referring to the Curragh Mutiny? If so your author isn't quite correct. What happened was the garrison commander (on instructions from Seeley, Secretary for War) asked his Protestant officers what they would do if given a choice between enforcing Home Rule in Ulster or resigning their commissions. They… -
Re: Your chart du jour – politicalbetting.com
To be fair, we had a situation when a sport was covered extensively on two channels for decades - you had both BBC and ITV which covered the sport differently. Then came Channel 4 Racing which moved coverage into the modern era and now ITV Racing which does a tremendous job regularly winning awards for production and we… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Good Friday open thread
I know only what I have seen on documentaries about education in China/Korea. In both, the school day is 9-5, and since their 18+ exam is life chances-determining, almost all students attend 'crammer schools' in the evening, typically for 4 hrs/day. [I assume therefore, that the schools set no formal homework!] In… -
Re: Something to ponder before betting on this election – politicalbetting.com
And yet.... and yet. The vast majority of people who will vote on July 4 couldn't give a tinkers cuss about Gove stepping down or Rishi standing near a sign saying 'exit' or the rain, or Starmer having a stinker of an interview this morning or Newsnight being bad for Holden. They're waiting to see manifestos and enjoy an… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Euro elections – what we know about turnout local authorit
> @Foxy said: > > @RochdalePioneers said: > > I've just seen her speech for the first time. She filled up, turned and marched at speed into Downing Street where I expect she cried. When you feel emotional it's hard not to crack - I did a couple of weeks back during my best man speech for an old friend. > > > > I've heard… -
Re: Johnson’s opposition to Sunak could have the reverse effect – politicalbetting.com
I've been in Missouri in the summer, fairly consistently in the high 30s (Celsius), but the difference was that every house I went to had air conditioning, they had public buildings with air conditioning that were designated cool zones for people without air conditioning at home, all the cars had air conditioning, etc. The…
