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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » George Galloway could put himself forward for the Manchester G
DavidL, Corbyn has been in Glasgow today, it took him just a few hours to not only undermine, but also totally wreck the SLab fightback across Scotland before the local elections. The Scottish Labour spin team can file this headline under you couldn't make it up.... The Scotsman - Jeremy Corbyn: indyref2 would be… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Farage’s biggest mistake was to duck the Eastleigh by elect
But that doesn't *matter* any more. There's a massive referendum coming up. You know, the one that has always been denied to you. It's no good sitting on your high horse, wearing a union jack and sneering at the *corrupt establishment* for the next two years - you've got to get moving! You don't need to win another… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » REMINDER: The CON poll deficit maybe getting smaller but th
It is true that the Yes campaign for Scottish Independence is all over the place. As much as Osborne was being childish yesterday with that daft Treasury report, the fact the question over currencies is being raised at all is fatal for all the arguments for independence. In fact a coach and horses has been run through the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Your regular reminder that you should always look at the full
I totally agree. In my view he was a poor leader and got so many timing decisions disastrously wrong. First the failure to call an election for Autumn 78. Secondly it became clear almost a week ahead of the No Confidence Vote on 28th March 1979 that the Government was likely to lose it - most calculations had them losing… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Guest Slot from Peter the Punter: Matthew and Peter Go To T
I'm not so sure that the situation in Canada is not exactly the same as here. http://o.canada.com/news/immigration-temporary-foreign-workers-435030 ''In 2008, the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada outpaced the number of new permanent residents for the first time, and in 2012 the gap had grown to 491,547… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » There could be hope for CHUK yet because of being top of the b
> @eek said: > > @Gallowgate said: > > Anecdotal as usual but almost all of my millennial, metropolitan, university educated, former Labour Party voting friends in the North East say they are voting Lib Dem. > > > > Not exactly surprising but noted none the less. > > Given the voting system and the fact we only have 3… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why the bar that the Tories will have to surmount at the next
Even if she wanted to run again, which she doesn't, she'd get slaughtered in the Primaries. She's not new and shiny (Buttigieg) or untainted by defeat to Trump (Biden) or in tune with party activists (Warren and Sanders). She's a scandal ridden old lady with appalling negatives, who can't campaign to save her life, and who… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » And now the Tory Brecon bar chart to try to beat off the Brexi
For a start the number of temporary employees has fallen significantly: Twenty years ago 7.2% of employees were temps and 34.6 of those were because they couldn't find a full time job. While currently only 5.2% of employees are temps with 25.2% of those because they cannot find a full time job. In absolute numbers the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Dems, surely, are. not going to choose someone in their la
I absolutely agree with you David. I have a theory “dots theory” that the first wasn’t clear, leave deliberately stitched up. Remain part was very clear. But leave has come to mean an encyclopaedia of things. Correct me where I am wrong, hours after leave won Cameron is in Europe asking for a leave as close as possible to… -
Re: Is 81 year-old Biden really going to run again? – politicalbetting.com
Yup. To some extent all our political systems rely on party elites to vet those in leadership roles to weed out those who may have an appeal but have disqualifying traits. Here in the UK both parties have struggled with that but ultimately got there in the end as enough MPs were prepared to risk or end their career to do… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Harriet Harman’s comments today have been interpreted as op
"Nope. Their victories, and soon their crushing defeats in the case of Hollande and Syriza, was all about the economic disaster by the policies of the governments of the day. They would have never been elected if George W. Bush, Sarkozi and the half dozen Liberal Greek governments hadn't flushed their country down the… -
Re: Punters far from convinced that Johnson is going – politicalbetting.com
I was against gerrymandering in the United States before it was cool to be against it. I opposed it when it was (mostly) done by Democrats, for the same reason I oppose it now, when it is done by both parties. When did Republicans get the chance to get in on the act in a big way? After the 2010 election, where they swept… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » One thing’s for sure post GE17 – incumbent PMs won’t risk skip
Evening all :) While it's entertaining to watch Conservatives play "who was the worst leader?" it doesn't really get us very far. May did enough not to lose and that's the truth of it. Whether the arrangement with the DUP will provide for good governance and better governance than had the Conservatives won an overall… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » LAB has 16% lead amongst 17-22 year olds – but they may not
Oh, I’ve got it OK. It’s on everything I’ve had (I think) from HMRC. It’s just that I couldn’t remember when it was first issued. It’s almost 60 years ago now, but thinking about it, it must have been when I worked on the Christmas post. I had to pay tax, too, but got it back aftwerwards. Excellent experience, although the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Henry G Manson on Tony Blair’s criticism of Miliband’s elec
FPT Alanbrooke said: » show previous quotes Happy Hogmanay malc - have you a full house tonight ? Same to you Alan, will be quiet night with just wife and myself. Had hectic Christmas at daughter's and been busy at work this week so looking forward to 4 lazy days. Hope you enjoy. -
Re: A glimmer of hope? – politicalbetting.com
FPT @Omnium malcolmg said: Hand to hand combat here............. brave man goes for all or nothing https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/01/my-sworn-evidence-on-the-sturgeon-affair/ What's your thinking on this? I'm hugely pissed off with Scottish politics at the moment. But that aside I quite like both Sturgeon and… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » PB Video Analysis: Will Donald Trump be Re-Elected in 2020?
Not had chance to watch the piece - later, hopefully but Trump's re-election chances rest mainly on who the Democrats nominate and how effectively Trump can campaign negatively against him/her. The wild-card is a big economic downturn, for which the US is very badly positioned. If that happens, Trump could be looking at… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The referendum: The affluent versus the non-affluent summed
Moves in the financial and betting markets would appear to indicate this is squeaky bum time for the leave campaign, particularly Farage’s provisional wing of it. Is Nigel going rogue? Ancient referendum campaigning law declares that if you can’t spot the liability at the table, then it’s you. Farage has spent significant… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Who’ll be the Judge? Legitimately elected governments are not
Um. So confession time. I'd been up 26 hours with her and the midwifes had taken pity on me. At the time the doctors rushed in I was asleep on a made up bed on the floor next to hers. The doctors asked if she wanted them to wake me up but she said no as I'd then panic and stress her out even more. So I slept through the… -
Re: If Biden doesn’t run at WH2024 Buttigieg should be as strong a nomination contender as Harris – poli
Yes, that seems like a textbook example of snowflake behaviour - getting histrionically worked up over something incredibly minor and presenting individual choices in response as some grand gesture. The key is it is not enough to merely complain, one must complain in an over the top way, seeking some kind of martyr like…