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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Henry G Manson on Dave and green policy
That's not how the wind market works. The government has not paid for those turbines. Private companies (wind farmers) have committed their own money, and borrowed from banks, to pay for turbines. Those turbines are not guaranteed a rate-of-return, but instead a price-per-megawatt hour for 15 years. Historically, that… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Calling all PB Football Fans!
1)We are still -2.5%,so prediction number 1 is correct. 2)Million public sector jobs have gone and more part-time,zero hours and self-employed jobs with wages falling in comparison to inflation for 39 out of 40 months that Cameron has been PM. 3) Darling suggested a slower pace of deficit reduction halving the deficit in 4… -
Re: France 2022: An update – politicalbetting.com
*Betting Post *racing post *partially on topic post as involves French runner Paging @Stodge @Malky the Super Stud @Topping @Kinny and @anyone who wants to join in PBs Stud Club and talk racing tips I did tip a 18-1 hurdle winner last week (sort of, as we now know other outcomes than winning and losing) but Malky is the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The first voting poll since TMay’s “not a quitter” assertion h
Yes we've done a few very rough channel crossings in our past (once stuck outside Dover for 3 hours waiting for the waves to die sufficiently). But generally we don't get too seasick (fingers-crossed!). If you'd asked me years ago, a cruise would not have been on my list but most people who have actually done one seem to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Farage says that in many seats at GE2015 only UKIP will be
@Josias - Do I spend more than three hours each year watching each of my employees writing articles, speaking to people on the phone, having meetings etc? No. I train them, then I assess their results and decide whether these are good enough. If they are not, I take action. That is exactly what has happened in schools and… -
Re: Will Hunt’s political career turn to ash on July 4th? – politicalbetting.com
Malmesbury said: "Some years ago, the US Army spent a fortune on a series of programs to design a new super duper rifle. To increase hit rate. They discovered, almost by accident, during the testing, that the biggest improvement was teaching soldiers to shoot, and giving them practise." The US Army should have remembered… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour’s Brexit Divisions
A lot of people have only been given two years or have had problems providing the necessary paperwork and unfortunately many are unaware of what’s required. As an aside I’m hearing stories out here in Spain at a sudden increase in Brit’s putting houses up for sale at dramatically under market value to shift them quickly,… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Gary Johnson could be the WH2016 king-maker
I saw him present just after he took over HBoS, and his whole pitch was that the most important thing in banking was "mending the roof while the sun was shining". It was richly ironic, therefore, when 18 months later, it turned out the roof had been stripped of tiles under his watch. He was a man - I suspect - trapped… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Lots of rumours going round of a major LAB figure about to
I've read and seen many articles, books, documentaries about the holocaust, I even know people who lost family members. But it wasn't until I visited Dachau and Auschwitz 30 years ago that I realized the true horror and immensity of it. It is literally almost unimaginable. The first concentration camp was built in Dachau… -
Re: The king over the water for the Tories? – politicalbetting.com
A friend of mine was an mining engineer in South Yorkshire. He was beaten up on the way to work and had his bike thrown in the river. He and other managerial staff had to arm themselves with iron bars and stand in a corridor (and I quote) 'so they could only come at us one at a time'. All he was doing by working was… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Scoping the scale and geography of Labour’s Scottish collap
What a lot of tosh from Rifkind, I used to have a lot of time for him http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11252116/Lee-Rigby-report-live.html The one issue which we have learned of which, in our view, could have been decisive only came to light after the attack. This was an online exchange in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Trouble over bridged waters. Boris Johnson’s plan to link Scot
Can I just say that NY Times, with their model of New Hampshire, got it exactly right very early on last night. I was forecasting a 5% Sanders lead over Buttigieg based on early results. They said 1.7%. The actual number looks to be 1-1.5%. That's pretty impressive. Normally, in a Primary contest, Iowa and New Hampshire… -
Re: Let us talk about the man who wanted to castrate Michael Gove – politicalbetting.com
One of my best sporting memories was being in a beer garden right outside the swimming arena with a huge screen while Ellie Simmonds won her gold medal in 2012. The noise from the swimming arena and in the beer garden was incredible. Everyone went berserk as she lost ground on every turn and then engaged those propeller… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Will Nick Clegg lead the Lib Dems at the general election?
@Socrates, @RichardTyndall I'm not sure I agree with you that immigration would go through the roof under my scenario. My view is that migrants are economically rational - they will go (as I would go) where they have the best chance of a good life. This is something I personally applaud. If you get rid of state subsidised… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » From a media perspective Team Boris will regard last night as
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A grim set of local by-elections for Corbyn’s LAB losing a sea
Check out the last thread header, this is what Mike wrote For the third Friday in a row I’m off to hospital this morning after being one of those who’ve added to this winter’s unprecedented demand on the NHS. At the start of February after a heavy cold I woke one morning to discover both my ears had been bleeding and I’d… -
Re: LAB up to a 15% lead with YouGov – politicalbetting.com
You've jumped from "It does, you can’t build outside the Local Plan areas allocated" in your claim that Neighbourhood Plans prevent building outside their areas to "Liz Truss will scrap housing targets" That's a jump from something that DOES happen to something you HOPE will change from it (words are cheap and I can't… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The pandemic costs: Who bears the risk?
The quotes are Rory Stewart, who hasn't seen the SAGE evidence and isn't a scientist. I should add I don't disagree with him. I was on here calling for the lockdown to happen earlier. BUT, my original point is the media narrative omits that Ferguson and others had been producing models for the government from way back in… -
Re: What gerrymandering looks like in Texas – politicalbetting.com
5 live reported this morning that only 37% of the population in Bolton's main hotspot had been vaccinated, though most had qualified for it Their local labour mp then went on to say it was because there were a lot of zero hours contracts and they had to travel a couple of miles to the vaccination centres And you wonder why… -
Re: This doesn’t look good for the SNP at the general election – politicalbetting.com
I'm quite angry about HS2, and the last thread hadn't helped. Sure, travel patterns have changed, but Crossrail* is immensely popular and ScotRail, for example, are adjusting their capacity and removing the concept of peak hours. Meanwhile roads mileage will probably return to pre-pandemic levels in 2023. People are still…
