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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » NEW PB / Polling Matters podcast. How important is the economy
Strange story. Very little data supplied, but the Guardian's yield calculation of 8% is gross, depends on a rent figure from heaven knows where (single data point?), excludes agency fees (10% + VAT usually) and service charge, and bases their valuation on the sale of a single flat in 2013 (the only one on record). 6-6.5%… -
Re: Honourable Members? – politicalbetting.com
Really quite extraordinary that that isn't headline news, given it's from the horse's mouth, and how often the argument of a false prospectus has been completed dismissed by the media in favour of the one of Hard Brexit being "democracy". -
Re: The SNP haven’t gone away you know – politicalbetting.com
When I was working in IT support in City banks in the late 1990s, it was quite normal for Senior-ish support staff (eg team leader / third line) to be getting 100k or more per annum, contracting. They would be on £50+ per hour on normal to long working weeks. And plenty of senior staff had been there for 5-10 years. I… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Playing it long. When will this Parliament end?
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » It might not be his objective but the Arron Banks plan makes T
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » LAB’s loss to the SDP in the Greenwich by-election exactly 30
That does seem really harsh. Mate of mines brother and family moved to Florida many years back, they had a successful business and they had been there for more years than I remember. Then he was told he and his son had to go to US embassy in London for a meeting - details are hazy now as this happened years back but I… -
Re: Will the panickers stop panicking when their tanks are full? – politicalbetting.com
Minor irritation of the afternoon: Middle daughter (year 5) has covid. She is fine - a bit of a headache, which goes away with calpol. At least six of her classmates also have it. So she's at home. We've lateral flowed everyone else in the house - all negative. However, Trafford public health have now changed the rules to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Make no mistake the polls point to the IndyRef being on a k
Malcolm you were warned this morning about swearing at other posters, and you've just ignored that again. As the site is going to be unmodereated for the next few hours, your ability to instantly publish has been revoked. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Mayor Pete’s The One To Beat
They won't do it because they have done the maths and know that they would lose their precious safe seats. The Tory Party has been, and continues to be, a convenient Trojan horse for their own nasty brand of nationalism/quasi-fascism -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The updated Wikipedia polling table for next week’s Euros
You wont get any complaints from me. It has to introduced and handled in sensible manner (which is where it will fall down with Jezza in charge). Greens have been arguing for a 35 hour week for yonks. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » ICM polls bring fresh pain for Remain
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Re: Macron’s campaign gets knocked off course by the Corsican riots – politicalbetting.com
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Big message from #Traingate: Virgin/Branson don’t think C
Simply providing longer trains and more seats is akin to putting extra lanes on the M25 - it's a stopgap solution. The real problem is one of capacity at key points on the rail network - the scandal of the unused Eurostar platforms at Waterloo which have been left idle for years (work has finally started) while the South… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Getting a sense of proportion over rail fares: the overwhelmin
They have been used in the past on the Southern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_Class_4DD Although they were split-level, rather than true double-deckers. The costs of introducing them would be massive: it's proving expensive enough to alter parts of the network to cope with enhanced freight clearances. The following has… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Positives for CON, UKIP and the LDs in Sleaford & Hykehem N bu
Perhaps because people get into their chosen industry young, and by the time they've been in it for a couple of decades all their best ideas have been exhausted? What you'd need is someone who swapped into another area of expertise later in life, and who excelled in that area. That's going to be relatively unusual; most… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Kamala Harris edging down in the Dem VP betting with Susan Ric
Afternoon all :) On a political point, I doubt any Conservative Mayor of London would have done anything much different in response to Covid than Sadiq. I also think conservatives are interested in air quality and housing so again it's hard to see the difference. London will of course adapt as it always has - as someone… -
Re: Disgraced Tory MP Scott Benton does a Boris Johnson and quits – politicalbetting.com
We shall see what happens in the Summer. My recollection of the last one is that it was really quite nice, though that may be coloured by the fact that we weren't all nearly roasted to death like we were in 2022. But yes, pretty much the whole of the last five or six months has been relentlessly terrible. A constant… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The limits of private polling
“For the 48 hours around David Cameron’s announcement on English votes, it was panic. Every option was considered. We were going to do English votes for English laws, an English parliament, and then we weren’t. It was like a democratic audit seminar.” There is a worry that the past fortnight has been a foretaste of the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » ConHome’s Paul Goodman says the Tories should unilaterally
@MickPork - Wow, you really are full of crap aren't you? Courtesy of my son who's brighter than me, here the full exchange: Your initial post: 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… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » On tonight’s PB/Polling Matters TV Show: The fight for Lond
The Exeter University Conservative Association has not been invited to the Prime Minister’s talk, which is scheduled for Thursday, 7th April. Sir Steve Smith, Exeter’s Vice-Chancellor, sent out personal invitations to a selected number of students and academics to represent the university. The invitation read: “I am…
