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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Starmer overtakes Johnson in latest YouGov leader ratings
Still very quiet in the Spa. Apropos of nothing, I queued for half an hour to get into the butchers on Saturday, then found out I had actually been in the queue for the coffee shop next door. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Results: February 12th 2015
OK I will look out for him. Had me laughing but I have been on the Bacardi and Pepsi Max for last 3 hours. Half a litre of Bacardi gone think the bottle is leaking! -
Re: The man who refused to be a sub to Dom is back in the cabinet – politicalbetting.com
A few years ago a colleague of mine, who was also a school inspector for the Catholic inspection agency, went to inspect a private school somewhere in the south (I forget where). Among other things, he found that one of the married female staff had been having sex with the Deputy Head. While on school premises. In school… -
Re: Is the Rwanda flight ban going to help the Tories or not? – politicalbetting.com
FPT: @BartholomewRoberts point is fundamentally correct. If every migrant crossing the Channel thought they would end up in Rwanda, then the number crossing would be zero. If you want close to zero asylum claims by boat, then sending every asylum seeker who arrives by boat off to Rwanda works, and it is ridiculous to claim… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Rebels with a cause
Stocksbridge you say. This is the conversation I had with another_richard about the Tories being unpopular oop North, because of Thatcher and the miners' strike. another_richard From TSE's previous piece: As a bona fide Northerner I still see and hear references from Labour voters to what they see as the evil perpetrated… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » As WH2016 moves into the final straight: The PB/Polling Matter
Afternoon all :) As a lot of people on here seem to think, hope and want Donald Trump to be the next POTUS, what would his election mean for the UK and the rest of the world ? Wearing my alternate history hat, I was musing on a post-1945 world where, instead of ideological confrontation, the US and USSR had agreed on… -
Re: Johnson could face a confidence vote from the Tory grassroots – politicalbetting.com
Republic now! Palace to ‘support Andrew in rebuilding his life’ as pariah prince makes surprise return to public duty If the royal family hoped — and most of them did — that the Duke of York would quietly fade away into a discrete existence of horse riding and private lunches with the Queen behind castle walls, their hopes… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » In betting terms the Richmond Park by-election is one of the t
She's inept, if she can mess it up with the Governor of the Bank of England, she's going to struggle with the 27 nations of the EU. "Within hours of May criticizing loose monetary policy in her Conservative Conference speech this month, her office moved to limit the damage by reassuring Carney the words were clumsily… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Expect Warren to get the biggest boost from last night – and t
Looks like there's going to be a hunk of Bloomberg support available for other candidates. Don't forget also that Tom Steyer has been polling well in some of the upcoming primaries - 15.7% in the RCP average for South Carolina, for example. Is that really going to happen? I'm sceptical, but even if it does, he's not going… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Lord Ashcroft’s mega poll suggests that Boris not the magic
Any thoughts on why Wales appears to have made such a horlicks of devolution while Scotland hasn't? Wales is quite real labour. The politicians there do not have to moderate their policies for fear of startling the middle class horses. The Welsh middle class is a very thin layer - the private sector middle class no more… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour’s deficit in the cuts “blame game” tracker drops to
Afternoon all :) To be fair, some Conservatives were still harping on about the "Winter of Discontent" well into the 1990s. I finally got to read Brogan's article about Cameron and the Coalition. The line has always been from Nick Clegg that the two parties would fight the 2015 GE as independent competing entities so… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » With the DUP and Moggsy backing Theresa it looks as though LAB
I respond honestly but negatively to your assertion that being asked to come into work at short notice is a moral issue, and despite your purported upset at the use of a single word which has no pejorative value (outrage can be a justifiable reaction), you respond with a dismissive summation which includes a word which, by… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Gains for the LDs and Greens the highlights of this week’s loc
Taxi drivers (not the black-cab ones and not Uber) have certain characteristics that inform their politics: * they tend to be self employed, either entirely or getting trade from a local cab firm * they have gigantic expenses. They maintain their own cars to council standards (they have to renew periodically) and that… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Richard Nabavi on the Brexit Blame Game
From the safe distance of a couple of thousand kilometres away, I had assumed that stuff like Simon Heffer's "let's restore the Imperial system of measurement" was an April Fool. Apparently he wasn't the only joker: what with this "singing the King of Spain's beard" nonsense from Michael Howard. Now, midweek it seems like… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » On the third Thursday of May exactly a year ago Mrs May launch
Morning all :) Interesting news on the FOBTs and the limit. Hancock has always been in the £2 camp but the bookmaker shave plenty of "friends" on the Conservative benches but in truth with the DUP publicly in favour of the £2 limit the Parliamentary numbers had gone for the bookmakers (another unintended consequence of the… -
Re: Trump’s indictment not going down well with independents – politicalbetting.com
A reply to @Stocky, minus the blockquotes as Vanilla is a pile of glitchy shite. I still think a Labour minority is the most probable outcome, but we shouldn't dismiss the Tories out of hand. Starmer isn't exactly setting the world on fire, is he? Other recent polling suggests that a lot of Labour voters are dissatisfied… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » McCluskey’s comments on Corbyn’s successor help move Emily Tho
Yes he was, he grew up in a million pound house in Notting Hill, his father was left wing aristocracy and had Tony Benn round for dinner. He went to Oxford and was only sent to a Holland Park comp for ideological reasons. Thornberry in any case was also state educated and did not go to Oxbridge unlike Ed M. Miliband may… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » New YouGov polling finds Brits more ready consider traveling o
I've had quite a few things delivered by DPD the last week and they've been great. I get a 1 hour window early in the morning, and even the name of the chap who's delivering my gear. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Betting on the Scottish battlegrounds
Anyone who's had it revealed to them in the past half-hour that the Tories are now the party of proper/hard Brexit (depending on your view - maybe even "proper, hard"!) really hasn't been paying attention. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » NEW PB / Polling Matters podcast: Are the public turning again
The Far Left have been riding the same hobby horses for decades. Why anyone would expect them to suddenly transform into pragmatists and master politicians the second they had a sniff of real power is beyond me.