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Re: Is Corbyn’s new party just too posh to appeal the voters? – politicalbetting.com
This one seems particularly harsh. If she gave 4 months notice in November, she's only a couple of months short of what the new law will be once the renters rights bill goes through. The house has apparently been on the market 9 months, and has been reduced in price. If the price was reduced in February, has been empty… -
Re: The Queen was right to give Tony Blair a knighthood – politicalbetting.com
My interpretation is that the opinion polls were swinging back to the Tories in the second half of that parliament anyway - the Tories had a spike from the Falklands effect, but this fell back to the trend line before the election. What won the Tories a landslide was the unelectability of a far left Labour Party. The… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A week to go until Iowa: the Great American Gamble – to Tru
Since when has adultery been some sort of limited preserve? Robin Cooks antics come to mind. IIRC he was installing his mistress as his diary secretary when found out. And when he was found out he promptly left his wife and children on the ultimatum of Campbell - an unelected public official. Thats before we get to John… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Time to have a dabble on Tristram Hunt at 33-1 for next LAB
I think he has argued it would stoke up house prices. The take home message from Rightmove's fairly reliable (though based on asking prices) report appears to be that he is right. Rightmove's argument is wrong anyway, because it ignores the fact that Help to Buy indirectly helps the upwardly aspirant owner of a £300,000… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Trump buzzword bingo market
I have a 3 bedroom house there - it’s 1.17% annually. But don’t forget that house prices are a lot cheaper there and the tax has been there a long time so prices reflect it already. If there had been a 1% tax on my current house it would have either been cheap enough or - more likely - I couldn’t have afforded it and would… -
Re: The numbers that Tories have to improve – politicalbetting.com
Nothing more that its a theoretical issue the results of which will take decades to be revealed. This seems to e something with more immediate effect: Labour’s pledge to build 1.5 million new homes by 2029 and deliver the “biggest growth in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation” has been plunged into doubt by… -
Re: Help keep PB going for another year – politicalbetting.com
My daughter (last year of school) has already said she is not going to university if its been done online and will defer until it is not. Not sure many teens are looking forward with barely contained excitement at sitting at a screen in their flat or parents house for 8 hours a day five days a week as they move into the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » What LAB voters like about their party: Some Opinium findin
Predictably they have gone and made it more complicated now: Early parliamentary general elections (1)An early parliamentary general election is to take place if— (a)the House of Commons passes a motion in the form set out in subsection (2), and (b)if the motion is passed on a division, the number of members who vote in… -
Re: #NU10K – politicalbetting.com
It absolutely should not come from the developer, the developer is not responsible for the water firm, the water firm is. Houses aren't full of shit anyway, people are, especially you it seems still regurgitating this shit despite having been called on it repeatedly. Our population has grown by nearly 10 million people in… -
Re: Two things we don’t yet know – politicalbetting.com
The house building rate to reduce house price inflation in the effected area is so insane, compared to what has been going on, that reducing prices by supply is impossible. We are in a situation where building an additional 250K houses a year might or might not reduce house price inflation to single digits. As to… -
Re: Our best days are still to come? – politicalbetting.com
On the grounds that it's probably cheaper than heating my house for a week, I've just booked a family holiday for October half term. We're going to Dunkeld. Youngest has a bee in her bonnet about Scotland, and about seeing a mountain, and I'm keen to indulge her. I'm very pleased. Have been hunting about holiday parks, and… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Marf on the speculation about the name
@tim Sid And Nancy 1. There is nothing wrong with house price inflation, tim. What is wrong is when house price inflation over a number of economic cycles consistently exceeds general inflation and increases in real incomes. 2. The solution to overpriced housing is either catastrophic falls in market prices (see Spain and… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Clegg makes clear that the LDs want the coalition to contin
With respect Tim that is ridiculous. Imagine you are part of a young couple starting out. Do you buy or rent? Will your house go up in value or fall into negative equity? This doesn't make a difference to your decision? When I started out in the very early 1980s the general view was that your mortgage payments went on the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Joe Biden’s VP pick – we’ve now got a date
Government message before Easter Weekend: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/coronavirus-government-launches-campaign-urging-people-to-stay-at-home-this-easter Press release Coronavirus: Government launches campaign urging people to stay at home this Easter Stay at home this Easter to protect the NHS and save lives. Stay… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Leader of Surrey County Council – The Unlikeliest Revoluti
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Re: How Sunak’s speech is being covered – politicalbetting.com
If you mean private sector investment as opposed to government investment there's been plenty in local towns across the NW. That's why we have full employment and people better able to afford their own home. The reason houses are more affordable here isn't a lack of growth, it's because housing growth has kept up with… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why Johnson can take little comfort from the Tory voting inten
It would be fun if that JRM actions have cost the Tories their majority, even if it is only for 14 days. You have to assume that Sharma will have been mainly in close contact with fellow Tories in the past 48 hours and there must be a fair number that he has been within 1m of at some point or another. Coupled with the fact… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Clinton-Trump battle could be a lot closer than anybody
That is why it is so poisonous over there and has even led to terrorism. The democratic state governments were overruled by a vey creative decision by unelected judges. Whatever you think of abortion at least in the UK it was legalised by elected MPs and can be banned by them if they see fit. Imagine what would have… -
Re: A week is a long time in politics – politicalbetting.com
My car experience of the last month has been awful. Car nicked from outside the house at the start of the month, second time in 3 years. Tracked to a place nearby, police don’t bother to look until next morning, by which time it’s gone. Claim on insurance and go about quickly finding a replacement as we had a weekend away… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Will Osborne’s Help To Buy help buy votes?
"The Housing Market Renewal Programme is expected to last from 10 to 15 years and, to March 2008, has cost £1.2 billion, with a further £1 billion committed up to 2011. ......So far, over 40,000 houses have been refurbished....... However, more homes have been demolished than built and without longer term support,…
