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Re: Messing with taxes on homes never ends well – politicalbetting.com
Did we do this yet ? Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/family-in-fear-after-tommy-robinson-shares-video-of-black-man-with-white-granddaughters ..Ayeni and his wife have been scared to leave their house because of threats.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Joe Biden raises doubts about whether hell run for White House
A few talking points in this: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/27/londons-property-prices-leads-to-exodus-of-early-30s ' London’s expensive property prices are leading to an exodus of people in their early 30s from the capital, according to a report showing the economy of Britain’s biggest city increasingly… -
Re: An LD Chesham & Amersham share of 40%+ would shake Tory complacency – politicalbetting.com
Oregon Public Radio - Expulsion vote could come Thursday evening, as sentiment toward [state] Rep. Mike Nearman shifts https://www.opb.org/article/2021/06/10/oregon-state-rep-mike-nearman-expulsion-vote/ Lawmakers were making arrangements for a rare evening floor session to take up a potentially historic vote. The Oregon… -
Re: Were you up for Boris Johnson? – politicalbetting.com
. . . meanwhile in America's Last Frontier . . . AP - Election overhaul in Alaska aimed at reducing partisanship By BECKY BOHRER JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — As partisan warfare has become the norm in state legislatures and Congress, Alaska is set to embark on an experiment to see if voters themselves can disarm the combatants. A… -
Re: LAB lead drops to just 10% in latest Opinium poll – politicalbetting.com
I'd interpret this as a Govt congenital inability to plan beyond the end of their nose. A reasonable amount of storage would buffer against price fluctuations and provide a modest supply guarantee. As it is, according to the piece Rough storage is has been reopened to only 20% of capacity - nothing has been done beyond the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Deputy PM after the election betting
Cameron "One issue though is that rent controls are great for those tenants who benefit from them but not so great if the supply of good quality rental property dries up." I agree. There are more obvious ways to solve the crisis and I don't believe Miliband's is the best but it's a start and probably the most politically… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Three months to go and focus moves to what should be good f
That's not a pub fight where someone has been glassed in the wee hours of the morning in Glasgow - the man dragged the poor lad back to his house to continue the assault. Does the judge have cotton wool for brains ? Or are the sentencing guidelines ridiculously lenient ? Which is it ? -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Turnout: the EURef big unknown
What you want is self-contradictory. You want to be on a housing "ladder". But the point about the "ladder" is that you keep going up it. You don't want to be on the housing snake. However, since people have been relentlessly climbing this ladder for several decades in the expectation of unearned wealth, housing is now… -
Re: “I’m a celeb”: 48% are viewing Hancock more positively – politicalbetting.com
Hmmm, I wonder what happened around 2008...? Anyway, I would contend that the appetite for working reduced hours or retiring outright is greater than it has ever been - hence all the reports of those hundreds of thousands of "missing" workers who have jacked it in during their 50s or 60s. The increase in the total number… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » May’s first PMQs: She’s going be a challenge for either Cor
It's either a moment of surprise revolution, or incredible blindness - Labour membership has never been more popular in modern times, and either they really are more reflective of the wider public than we think, or might prove appealing to it more than we think, or it is a party making itself unelectable in a really… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Will a struggling North West cost Cameron the election?
For an urban myth - the Guardian seemed to think it was true at the time and quoted the victim www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.society Self-styled vigilantes attacked the home of a hospital paediatrician after apparently confusing her professional title with the word "paedophile", it emerged yesterday. Dr… -
Re: The Mid-Mid-Terms – politicalbetting.com
It has now been revealed to have been "faked". It was teleoperated as I suggested at the time. The only thing it can do is navigate itself (quite slowly) around the house ( again as I suggested at the time) . Those putting deposited down is all on the condition that the company are promising to solve this sometime in 2026.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Now isn’t the time to push May, whatever the temptation
Very much off topic, but I wonder if anyone here is following what's happening in Brazil at the moment. It looks very much like ex-president Lula won't be able to run for president in November 2018 (he'd almost certainly win, were he to be allowed to run). His passport's been seized and he's likely to end up in prison in… -
Re: Clive Lewis once called Wes Streeting a jumped up turd, it appears things haven't improved
The cost of financing is the one thing that has changed recently, and so that will look like the issue, but historically financing costs aren't that high, unless there's a specific issue with the capital market for housing that isn't functioning as well as it used to. Houses have been built at times of higher interest… -
Re: The first post leadership polling not good for Truss – politicalbetting.com
Well you all wanted it, this leadership election. and I mean by that Labour, LD and SNP MP's and then Tory MP's. Now you ask the question will she be better or worse, well how do we know. Pointless question because too early to say. Ask me again in late 2023. I think though she would be better than Sunak, but I don't know.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » On Grand National day Marf links the big race to the genera
You won't build the required number of houses (at least traditional houses) piecemeal; at least in developments that are nice for people to live. Work on Cambourne started in 1998 and it is still not complete (around 4,000 homes planned). According to a friend who has been here from the literal beginning, it has only been… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Elevator Pitch
It can if Corbyn agrees to one. This is all in Corbyn's hands now. He gets to decide when we go to the polls. A large part of the Cummings/Johnson plan has been predicated on his sheer stupidity allied with his complete unelectability. That is not an unreasonable strategy. But they have lost control of events, which they… -
Re: Betting on another CON majority – Part 2 – politicalbetting.com
That's actually already been happening in lots of schools, at the urging of local authorities. Edit - I am really not sure it is a good idea, that said. All other points aside, do we really want these children taking pieces of cloth that may be impregnated with virus on and off all the time and putting them on desks,… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Harry Hayfield: How retiring MPs could add to Lib Dem woes
And how does freeing up a house on which lots of money has been spent adapting it for the special needs of a disabled person save any money at all . It may well be that the council would then have to spend more money removing the adaptions from that house and more money on adapting the new flat/house into which the… -
Re: In Other News …… – politicalbetting.com
And on the subject of where-in-the-world-am-I, good morning from Falmouth, which is bathed in bright sunshine under clear blue skies, is in full bloom and is basically like being in paradise or something. I would post a photo but I suspect you need your own website or something. Anyway, it's glorious. Beauty whichever way…