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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Plebgate: This is Michael Crick’s report from last December
tim I think it is you that is out of touch not Dave. Consumer Price Inflation is only one factor in a family's or individual's living standards. Tax rates and benefit payments, housing costs (mortgage interest and rental rates) and income levels all impact on the amount of disposable income available. You might like to ask… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The trends for Labour’s lead and UKIP’s share in Sunday Tim
There was a story a while ago that caught my attention: "A British woman was strip-searched and locked up in a German prison cell for two weeks after being arrested for an alleged 'crime' a former boyfriend had been suspected of committing years earlier. Tracey Molamphy's nightmare ordeal began during a 2008 flight to… -
Re: Some very encouraging polling worldwide and especially in the UK – politicalbetting.com
Re. "MMR causes autism hoax perpetuated by Andrew Wakefield, aided and abetted by the likes of The Lancet and Private Eye", see Dominic Lawson's piece in today's Daily Mail, in which (between the lines) he calls the Lancet the property of the Chinese Communist Party. Having a rare understanding of how ideology works,… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Are we being premature writing off Bernie’s chances against Tr
Tigers can be very greedy though. Just the other day a time came for tea at my house and wouldn't leave until after it had drank all my beer. -
Re: Memo to Tory MPs and members thinking about backing Boris – politicalbetting.com
You won’t listen because you don’t but anyway I’ll set you right. I’m expecting the Anglophobia/personal abuse that will result. But here we go. The Claim of Right of 1689 specifically provided that an appeal from a civil law decision of the Court of Session would lie to the Parliament of Scotland. The House of Lords was a… -
Re: If controlling hospital admissions is the objective then the pandemic is almost over – politicalbett
To be honest, business is the least of my concerns. My youngest daughter has lived 20% of her life in a situation in which playdates have been banned, in which she cannot, by law, hug her grandparents. My oldest daughter is having her end of primary school residential trip away because - well, I'm not sure why, but… -
Re: Could Jeremy Corbyn hand the Tories the London mayoralty next year? – politicalbetting.com
Your commentary, and those of your green fellow travellers, might have more value if it contained some factual material rather than just turgid invective. Your first 'point' is simply 'I disagree with you'. You have zero evidence that Fishing isn't sincere in his beliefs, rather than trying to pull the wool over anyone's… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » How each of the constituencies voted at the Referendum
Well, I did know that Japan had not had daylight saving since 1953. I had just assumed that the two games were on at the same local time. As it was, they timed the second game one hour later. The assumption must have been that a six nations side was going to be in that semi - so it was done for the European audience. -
Re: Most Brits would either be unbothered or pleased if the Malvinas went to Argentina
Sure. Buttigieg dismisses Musk’s Helene federal response claims https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4916893-pete-buttigieg-elon-musk-hurricane/ Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called out tech giant Elon Musk on Friday for making false claims about the federal government blocking flights with… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » It is now five months since “right to Leave” had lead in YouGo
Would you go on a plane if you thought the pilot had been up all night working the night before? Or let your child be driven to school by someone who had done that? Or be operated on by a surgeon who had had no sleep for twenty four hours and was still on the go? Of course not, to any of the above, but apparently it's… -
Re: The Clash: London calling for Corbyn? – politicalbetting.com
Evening all :) Not wishing to pour petrol onto a perfectly good fire but it's been instructive to see how the delays at Dover and Folkestone have been reported and analysed. There are two distinct and very different interpretations - one says the French were ill-prepared, didn't have enough staff and caused the delays. The… -
Re: In the Johnson exit betting the money’s going on 2022 – politicalbetting.com
He made the final two last time. He mismanaged the junior doctors strike, but was smart enough to learn his lesson and kicked the Consultant contract into the long grass. One of the legacies of that strike is a contract so Byzantine in terms of what is permitted to keep below the limits on hours that any Omicron absences… -
Re: Truss manages to infuriate Nadine – politicalbetting.com
I love a bit of hyperbole. 'Impossible to move house' is utter bullshit. We've been in an exceptional period of low interest rates for the last 15 years. if you had a mortgage and didn't make overpayments to get it down, well maybe you should have. If you thought interest rates could never go up - talk to your parents.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour’s Brexit dilemma: the right policy led by the wrong peo
I seriously disagree, as does Janet Daley who had this to say in today's Sunday Telegraph: “The attempt to undermine her was so crass and inept, and such a gross betrayal of common courtesy, that it succeeded in uniting the nation behind her ............ So counter-productive was its effect that I seriously wonder whether… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Leadsom leads in new CONHome survey of party members
Also off topic, have a look at this abomination that has just been dumped on Bedford. It is a foot bridge at a new development on the river. As this article shows it is nothing like the bridge proposed in the planning drawing. It's hideous. Profit over aesthetics rules OK, even if it involves lying.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Now the Electoral Commission orders an investigation in LeaveE
I think it's too early to judge Theresa May just yet. Maybe she's just being too dangerously honest in steering the media and therefore the public towards what they might expect under her Premiership, but she'd better take care not to overcook things, otherwise she might find her would-be majority disappearing like the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Meet the ex-chief of staff to the BrexSec now the de facto Bre
The problem for the EU is that they remain 27 competing countries. When it comes to obeying EU rules, it becomes farcical. The UK signs up to them and generally enforce them, Germany certainly does (diesel emissions excepted). Scandinavia usually approves of them and does their best. The Mediterranean countries sign up… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » On the day of the royal birth – Marf and the weekend genera
OT boxing in the early hours this morning - I've backed draw at 16/1. Split decision at 5/1. And laid a five hundred quid against both fighters getting knocked down average 10/1. I'm already halfway drunk and may regret the latter but I'll be shocked if anyone gets knocked down here. Floyd has never been knocked down in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Trump card. Shuffling the deck on Brexit
Fleets of coaches have been filmed bussing in protestors - CraigsList has dozens of adverts for paid protesters in big cities - they've got to be busy for 10hrs approx per day for the full rate and 95% of the placards are handed out. There's shed loads of footage of this stuff on Twitter. IIRC Soros funds MoveOn or a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The polling that’s persuaded me that turnout will be greater t
There was polling evidence that Labour lost in 2015 because voters believed Labour was right but did not believe Labour could enact its proposals to solve the problems it had identified. (Even the government took to cherrypicking the Edstone.) This 2019 manifesto runs the same risks, on steroids. As you suggest, it is…