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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » UKIP within 5 points of taking Thanet South according to ne
Perhaps the most obvious solution is that RBS is rebranded as Nat West and the group is reconstituted in England so they have the protection of the BoE. The consequences for the housing and private school market in Edinburgh would be very severe with thousands of well paid head office jobs going south. Whether they then… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » An amazing statistic from the Survation Dudley North poll
Most Labour policy, so far as I understand it, is negative. So they will reintroduce the spare room subsidy, they will remove the cap on benefits, they will fiddle about and increase housing benefit again, they will re-introduce a 10% tax band somewhere at some level somehow, they will reinstate lost benefits for the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Opinium London Mayoral boost for those who took the 33/1 PB
FPT JosiasJessop said: » show previous quotes It's hardly a bribe though, is it? Turkey has spent billions over the last five years housing up to two million refugees, mainly from Syria and Iraq. Some estimates have this cost at around 8 billion dollars, on top of which are the other costs of the conflict to the country.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Of all the Westminster constituencies affected by Heathrow Ric
Hillary Clinton's evidence to the FBI Inquiry on her e-mails was under oath. It does look as if what Comey has seen on the Weiner lap-top shows with great clarity to him - being familiar with both sides - that Hillary Clinton perjured herself in her evidence. So he's raised a red flag. America can elect her as President -… -
Re: Setting An Example – politicalbetting.com
Given the way that so many people seem to be focussing on pushing the boundaries of whatever restrictions are set up, a shorter period with fewer numbers might have been advisable. It seems we can't see a barrier without wanting to get past it, even if that means we fall down a precipice. I've often wondered about the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Big news in the French Presidential race is that odds-on favou
I see Mr Trump has been busy overnight - and executive order for the wall is expected imminently "President Trump plans to sign executive orders Wednesday enabling construction of his proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and targeting cities where local leaders refuse to hand over illegal immigrants for deportation,… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Get ready for possibly the Xmas TV event of the year – May v C
Having an Ombudsman is treating the symptoms and not the cause. The construction industry has been called a 'jungle' for >50 years. What's really needed is to educate, train and regulate the industry like its counterparts in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany or Denmark, or indeed Austria or Switzerland, where houses are… -
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Absolutely agree that anything on free movement was unachievable which is why it was maddening to see Dave waste his time on such stupidity, I mean who really cares if we give £50m per year to parents with children overseas, sure it is irksome, but it really doesn't matter that much. As I said before the migrant benefits… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Pax Osbornia: recasting the political landscape into the 20
Are we now at peak Tory hubris? The budget was framed as a payrise for all. If the IFS is correct millions of working families will be worse off. Seeking to depict them as scroungers and sneering about "prizes for all" is not the way to sell what the Tories cheered last Wednesday. Experience trumps rhetoric, and if enough… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Betting on Labour’s vote share in the the Lewisham East by ele
Totally one sided coverage on the death of Tessa Jowell. Whilst I wish no one ill health, and certainly not brain cancer. there has not been one word about her separated husband David McKenzie Donald Mills, who was convicted in an Italian court of fraud, theft and money laundering, and no prizes for guessing where those… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Leader of the Opposition is the toughest job in British pol
I don't know a great deal about the NHS, apart from the fact that the ambulance service is at absolute breaking point. We regularly have to wait an hour or so for an ambulance, and more and more we are told that there are no ambulances available to transport casualties to hospital. On the subject of emergency service cuts… -
Re: Will Keir Starmer face leadership challenge before the next general election? – politicalbetting.com
Mr Ed makes very good point, as illustrated by the actual proposed map (source is conservative think tank, but map is still the map) https://files.illinoispolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Illinois-congress-map.jpg Note that the late Phil Burton of San Franciso (Nancy Pelosi now represents his old US House district)… -
Re: For those betting on a Labour poll lead in 2021 – politicalbetting.com
Of course, there is only so much Labour can say in the next couple of years - besides anything else, if they try to develop a firm platform the Government will watch to see which ideas retail well and then steal them. What you probably want nearer the election is a combination of selected practical solutions to pressing… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » David Herdson looks at the post-referendum purpose of UKIP
One of the more worrying features of this result is that Labour still don't get just how far they have drifted from their voters. The really striking thing about the results is that many Conservative areas voted remain, but outside London, Bristol, Manchester/Liverpool, West Yorkshire and Newcastle the Labour vote was… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Changing the subject – our first look at the May 2nd local ele
Second, and FPT because it's relevant: Yeah, this is the big trend for the forthcoming GE and tallies with that analysis doing the rounds of the Conservatives becoming more and more alien to young people -… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » David Herdson on why it suits all that a debate on the econ
Thankyou Scot P For advertising Salmond's interview on the Today programme. He was a fair amount of sweetness and a great deal of light about England and the English. He explained patiently to Jim Naugthie why the vast majority of votes in the Commons concerned finance and therefore England, Scotland Wales and Northern… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » LAB lead amongst Unite members jumps 14 to 26 percent
AJ really should be advising EdM. " Mr Johnson, who resigned as shadow chancellor in 2011, said his successor, Ed Balls, was facing a “tough” task to shake off his links to Gordon Brown. Mr Balls, who was part of Mr Brown’s Treasury team, has been unfairly but consistently blamed for overspending and contributing to the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Suddenly the polls and the betting move away from Donald Tr
Evening all :) An interesting week overall. I thought (though I would, wouldn't I ?) the LD Conference went pretty well. I got to hear Tim Farron's first leader's speech. Naturally it was personal and introductory and long on generalities and short on specifics - again, not surprising given we are less than five months… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The indicative votes are the right question at the wrong time
There are a lot of unsupported assumptions in this post. I’m not sure where to start. Everyone I speak to wants the whole thing called off as a disaster. We move in very different circles it seems. I’d remind you that the current elected Parliament has a fresher deomocratic mandate than the referendum. Parliament is made… -
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FPT because it's relevant (and Vanilla is going weird...): Yeah, this is the big trend for the forthcoming GE and tallies with that analysis doing the rounds of the Conservatives becoming more and more alien to young people -…