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Re: Blow for Truss as Rishi becomes the members’ favourite – politicalbetting.com
Bush Snr wasn't really a one term government in UK terms as his party had already been in the White House 12 years by 1992. The Wilson and Callagan government of 1974 to 1979 was close to it, just it technically won 2 elections in 1974, one to be a minority government, one with a small majority -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Tonight’s PB quickie poll and this week’s local elections r
Yes true enough. But if all the lifeboats had been filled and indeed a bit over filled then many more could have been saved. I've often thought that with 3 hours available then why could they not build a few rafts? -
Re: Trump’s extraordinary on the day voting gamble – politicalbetting.com
What is problematic for the Dems is that less doorstepping stuff hasn't been done, reportedly, because of Covid whilst the GOP has been at it for some time. As a result, there is a scramble on the Dem side for last minute canvassing in key states. Here's a reality check again for the nervous. There is a) that transition… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » How a CON majority moved from a 31% chance to victory – the GE
QTWAIY. The House of Saud have always been baddies. Even without Climate Change getting rid of our reliance on oil and gas makes sense just to be able to get away from the Middle East completely and not rely upon this morally bankrupt nation at all. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Preview : August 14th 2014
what? if only the police had showed such alacrity about the robbery of a house at 45 The Avenue, Cheam in 1955. What the chuffing hell is your point? It is quite obvious that the police have been going after all kinds of decades-old impropriety. Why the surprise at this one? -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » So TIG becomes Change UK in time for the possible Euro Electio
Don't really see how this can work when nothing else had. There's still no deal that can pass the house, not split the Tories and be agreed with the EU. The two solutions are as they have always been: accept the Tory split or try to change the parliamentary arithmetic via an election. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » New YouGov poll has the Tories back with a double digit lead
Agreed but given that it wasn't done then the sensible time to have made mask-wearing in shops mandatory would have been to coincide it with the the general relaxation at the beginning of this month. I suspect Johnson will dither for a couple more weeks and finally shut the stable door when the horse has well and truly… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The first YouGov for a fortnight sees CON/LAB/LD holding prett
The UK and Gibraltar governments might like to know that the Swedish foreign minister, Margot Wallström, is currently live on breakfast tv driving a coach and horses through their version of the Strait of Hormuz oil tanker incident. The tanker was UK-flagged, but Sweden-owned. Sweden has been heavily interfering in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Farage’s surprise backing could put a second Brexit referendum
This has potential to be one of those amusing cases where both sides of a libel lawsuit end up bankrupted by their own legal bills. Probably the first over a Twitter spat though. Maybe a mediator hired for half a day at £100 an hour might have been a more sensible course of action? -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » My favourite political betting moment of the year
I hold you guilty of appalling idiocy. Perhaps you won't believe in the rule of law until you are fitted up by the authorities. The last hour on this thread has been truly appalling. This trial (and the one of the marines) is what sets us apart from the very people you seem to hate. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The vibes are that the lockdown could be set to be eased
I have been trying to buy a share price, having set up an account with a spread betting firm this morning, for three hours and a combination of bank details, commas in my address, utility bill sending, and suspected fraudulent activity has meant I still haven't managed it! What a palaver -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why I’m taking the 12/1 on the Tories polling under 10% in the
Note to the golf fans - the final round of the Masters has been bought forward by 5 hours due to an incoming storm. Sky coverage starts at 1pm UK time. (as anyone who was watching their F1 coverage would already know, as they were making the point every 10 minutes through that broadcast). -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » At GE15 the result in Watford is set once again to be the m
I think this has been the plan for some time (although its only 35 hours), eg from 2012 - http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/how-universal-credit-will-destroy-part-time-work/ It all depends how the requirement to be actively looking for full time work is judged. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Smith’s leadership chances fall to a 6% chance on Betfair f
The technology in theory has been shown in academic setting as potentially possible, but not exactly reliable & easily defeatable. The chances they are really going to deploy it is horses##t. At most they will do what they always do target addresses who don't have a licence & try and trick avoiders into making an… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Labour share of the vote in 2020
(Two threads ago) Yesterday I went to the monthly Poetry Hour at Croydon library. The theme was "art" and my poem was about the paintings of Piet Mondrian. While I was writing it, I considered the thought that a Jackson Pollock painting is a Piet Mondrian painting which has been released from prison. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » LAB jump 4% to take 9 point lead in first post Juncker voti
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Re: The Johnson 2022 exit betting gets tighter – politicalbetting.com
Yep, we are through the looking glass... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/24/new-wales-coalmine-may-soon-be-approved-despite-cop26-pledges According to Wales’s deputy climate change minister, Lee Waters, the Aberpergwm scheme could emit 100m tonnes of CO2 over its lifetime, along with considerable quantities of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » No promotion and the backbenchers are restless
All parties are Chimaeras. Yes they lied. they said there'd be about 15,000 Poles, then, all of a sudden there were 1.5million. In the meantime, we've had Brown's economic genius, and the expenses outrage, etc... You are seriously trying to imply that the WWC are somehow foolish for turning to UKIP after the treatment… -
Re: Sunak needs to move the voting polls or else he’s in trouble – politicalbetting.com
Yes. And that is true of any task you give it. The longer you interact and the more intense the dialogue, the better and more expressive it gets I gave an example late last night of some of the prose ChatGPT has been coughing up, after an hour or two of requests, suggestions and tweaks. Seriously good. Not far off… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Storm Doris to hit Stoke and Copeland tomorrow with winds of u
I always think of the marvellous book - A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush - it's one of my favourites from another era - 1958. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2006/oct/29/travelobituaries.travelbooks.escape "We had been on the march for a month. We were all rather jaded; the horses were galled because the drivers were…