Search
-
Re: Thistle do nicely, a 16% return in 9 months? – politicalbetting.com
-
Re: The Times They Are A’Changing – politicalbetting.com
No, because for all Cummings vaunted intelligence, he has no scientific method in his thinking and lacks any social skills to explain it. His contrarian nature is rooted in a lack of social acceptance, and he simply lacks empathy to engage with differing points of view. He's not always wrong, but most often he projects… -
Re: 44% of the public are liars, in fact 59% of them are liars once you add Don't Knows
That doesn't really work with Deal, which has decent architecture from many periods. -
Re: Flipping Texas and Florida? – politicalbetting.com
When I was a kid in Scotland, the only goalkeepers with big name recognition were Banks and Yashin, so I also have an unwearable jersey. -
Re: The revolting Welsh. Will they reject Labour? – politicalbetting.com
Yup, and I’ve been in that position multiple times in my career. Before retiring I just moved jobs. -
Re: Could one man win both Strictly Come Dancing and the next London mayoral election?
The obvious riposte is that it frequently doesn't. My objection to id cards is that it inverts the relationship between citizen and state. I do not serve it, it serves me. There is no war or other reason to invert this relationship. I have responsibilities towards the state which I try conscientiously to discharge but none… -
Re: Gizza job – politicalbetting.com
Agreed, there is an awful lot of ruin in a nation, and the US can still outperform its competitors. The damage is not so much the short term stupidity,it is that -increasingly- the US is ceasing to be a clean, predictable and fair jurisdiction: if that is something that gets priced in, then it would force a serious… -
Re: What are these ratings going to look like at the next general election? – politicalbetting.com
-
Re: I do worry about Liz Truss – politicalbetting.com
Ah, it as we know from PB, when the democrats do it they are just responding to the nasty Republicans who do it worse -
Re: Proposed changes to Driving Laws: A Quick Reaction – politicalbetting.com
Nah, it was a really weird book about a version of the railway bridge that had hundreds of people living on it and different parts of the personality of the same person giving you different perspectives. No solicitors I recall and relatively little as interesting as filing. -
Re: The next cabinet minister to leave – politicalbetting.com
We spent a week there and also toured the champagne villages. -
Re: The cost of living – politicalbetting.com
On the letter itself. It is interesting that it portrays a robust but layered attitude to security. Along other things, the protestors were aware that the actual aircraft and weapons at Greenham would have been defended with deadly force. What we are seeing is an intersection of legalism and accession to the words of… -
Re: Gordon Brown continues to annoy me – politicalbetting.com
It's a good point. The gloom is overdone. We're getting richer not poorer. However the 'stagnant post 08' narrative is essentially true if you look at things relative to previous times. And relative is usually a better measure than absolute for these things. -
Re: The latest next PM betting – politicalbetting.com
Megaton range hydrogen weapons require a decent amount of tritium, which is extremely expensive- roughly $30,000 per gram. If you were, for example, a moderately corrupt Russian General, the temptation of not renewing the extremely expensive tritium in the warheads according to the maintenance schedule and instead taking… -
Re: Reform & The Greens, the parties of Coldplay fans – politicalbetting.com
Russia is delusional: it doesn't know how failed a state it is. Or rather, it is not allowed to know. -
Re: How we see Starmer, Corbyn, and Farage – politicalbetting.com
It's more complicated than that (lesson plans are a moving target, for example, and free biscuits went some time ago), but yes- survive the initial trial by fire, and you get paid more for less effort. Outside London, a normal teacher atop the pay scale is on £45k, £50k or so if they can get the upper pay scale. Head of a… -
Re: Is Corbyn’s new party just too posh to appeal the voters? – politicalbetting.com
At a state grammar school in Cumbria we had an ex public school lad join us for the Sixth Form. As such he knew people who knew people at Andrew's school. According to this "source" when Andrew's Police Protection Squad wanted the night off, presumably for a shag or whatever they simply provided Andrew with a full set of… -
Re: What shall we read into this? – politicalbetting.com
But you won't park it on the drive, in the garage or on the road outside your house. When you want to go somewhere, it will come round and pick you up -
Re: Once again Reform voters show they are massive outliers – politicalbetting.com
He was elected in 2015 on that promise, but there was no need to schedule it for 2016. A date of 2017 or 2018 would have allowed a better planned campaign, would have allowed proper renegotiation and would have been more distant from the refugee crisis of 2015. Cameron owns the mistakes. -
Re: The downfall of Japan – politicalbetting.com
When Alastair Meeks (ex of this parish) posted "Jeremy Corbyn should now be favourite for Next Prime Minister" I almost had a coronary.