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Re: Something to watch over the next few weeks? – politicalbetting.com
Yes, right, trot out the English Nationalist trope why don't you? I'm just some ordinary bloke with nothing directly to do with politics, I'm not responsible for the mess that has been created. Scotland is not Quebec, the same solutions that work for Canada won't necessarily work here. Besides anything else, (a) Canada is… -
Re: The Russian proposals – at least something is on the table – politicalbetting.com
No, those whinging are spoilt brats on the whole (and not all that generation to be fair are whiners, some actually get on with it without complaint). There are tuition fees now as 20 year olds today are more likely to have been to university than any generation before them, have a longer life expectancy than any… -
Re: Punters make it a 65% chance that Johnson will still be PM on Jan 1 2022 – politicalbetting.com
My feeling on the lockdown. I think, as long as R tips below 1 broadly everywhere, that we should drop into an England wide tier 3 mode for the remainder of the run up until Christmas. I'm not too worried whether this is slightly modified tier 3 or not. Tier 4, a continuation of full lockdown, should be available for… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » GE2015 could be decided by whether enough people have felt
"GDP figures simply won’t win votes on their own. " That is a correct and important observation Henry but it does have its limitations. The news for much of the Parliament has been downbeat with the double dip/triple dip story lines and the undoubted flatlining over an extended period. The news over the next 18 months will… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The IndyRef maybe over but a fierce flare-up is going on ov
A lot of cant on here this morning about Cameron and Miliband's positions. Nothing is going to be passed before the next general election to the House of Commons. The parties' positions have been formed with that election in mind. Miliband's advocacy of the status quo, dressed up in the language of a convention of the… -
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And responding to this ridiculous comment from perdix two threads back: "Your argument is a false, opportunistic, kipper-like one. In order for the widest improvement in lives for all, the nation needs sustainable growth. If you don't create the wealth as a nation, there will be less to spread around. London has always… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Ipsos Mori Issued Index out
I think we'll be hearing a lot about the cost of living in the run up to 2015. We'll be sick to death of it by May. Thing is, if you are GO you have a _lot_ of tools at your disposal to resort to good old-fashioned bribery. You suffered for so long, you saw austerity through with us so here, here's a tax… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Alastair Meeks wonders whether the LEAVE campaign has alre
This piece from Trevor Kavanagh sounds like a lot of the things I hear from Mr and Mrs C1,C2 and DE:Both Labour and the Tories insist immigration boosts our economy. But if mass immigration makes us richer, why has scruffy Britain been so desperately short of housing, hospitals, schools and jails even before Labour’s boom… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » For the first time YouGov finds more supporting a second refer
There is a fundamental shift happening in the world economy. The internet has allowed massive disintermediation. It often was the case that goods we produced for say 10 pounds were sold in the pharmacy for 40 pounds with most of the value and profit taken by the pharmacy. We have just launched a massive campaign on |EBay… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » CON, the LDs and SNP net gain of one each while LAB finish all
This is going to be my last rant on this. Why do we care about the legal domicile of the parent company? De La Rue PLC might be a British company, but its biggest shareholder, with 10% of the firm is Brandes who are a Southern California firm, with a customer base that is largely American. The largest shareholder of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Developments this afternoon show that Yvette Cooper is stil
Totally off topic. Syria/Iraq So the press reports a detente between the UK & Russia over trying to deal with the Syria issues. In reality this is just a sign of something thats been happening for weeks. A few days ago I mentioned that there stories about communication between London & Damascus regarding the status of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » With ten days to go before the July 4th lockdown easing the nu
Classic Guardian / BBC bias by omission...trying to find uk version of George Floyd, after last week tasering of rappers dad, where when you looked they obstructed the police and a number of people in the house found guilty of criminal offences...we have this tale. BBC News - Man paralysed in Taser fall says race made him… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Republican dilemma: Would dumping Trump be worth the ha
I will cast the options the GOP has from Worst to least Worst. Worst: 1. Person X The GOP disintegrates, dissatisfies 90% of GOP voters. 2. Kasich Both Trump and Cruz camps bolt off at least for this years election, dissatisfies 75% of GOP voters. 3. Cruz Trump and his supporters bolt off at least for this years election,… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Cameron quits the Commons sparking off the first by-electio
Cameron's maiden speech: Since 1945, west Oxfordshire has been represented by Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, who parachuted into France in the 1940s; by Neil Marten, who served with the special forces during the war before embarking on a long and distinguished ministerial career; and by Douglas Hurd, now Lord Hurd, who was an… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Germany’s inherited war-shame is in danger of eating itself
It's not really "globalisation", it's capitalism. It's the same as when agricultural workers moved from the country to the towns to work in the factories. It was a fundamental cultural, social, political and economic change for them and I suspect they didn't all adapt smoothly. Economic development in the capitalist model… -
Re: The sex cases’ by-elections are to be held on June 23rd – politicalbetting.com
Yep, I realise the black dog is real. I've just been fortunate enough never to personally encounter it - despite some firm groundings for it. I'm the sort of guy who walks across Bodmin Moor at night, without a map, and does not sink into the morass or encountering The Hound. ;) But I've known people who have encountered… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » David Herdson tries to makes sense of the Lib Dem local by-ele
A very intelligent analysis and as someone who has witnessed Farron and his local LDs at close hand since he emerged in 1999 I can certainly say this is all his, or more accurately his agent Paul Trollope's, doing. Essentially they divide the world into ardent LDs, possible LDs and the rest. The rest are ignored except for… -
Re: One in nine of those younger than 25 on the YouGov panel don’t even know who Tony Blair was – politi
"The slightest suspicion that someone may be entering Britain to work is often enough for them to be locked up, held at detention centres for up to a week and then expelled to wherever they have travelled from, some of those caught up by the policy have said. An Italian NHS consultant told of his horror when his niece… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » We are more than six months away from the primaries yet the
Exactly the sort of glib conclusion that you'd do google research on until the wee hours to refute if it were an accusation about the SNP. But when it's not your own pet cause your searchlight switches off and you're not bothered about digging behind the soundbites. For my money they did exactly what you'd do if you were a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Lib Dems fall into 5th place in this week’s Ashcroft Na
I think it is unthinkable that the tories will poll less than 33%. We see one of the opening salvoes of the campaign today. The Mails articles on NHS Wales. Various allegations are made of which I will not dwell however, it is also claimed that the Labour Welsh Assembly "has been accused of making cuts of £500million"…