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Re: We have a by election in Wakefield – politicalbetting.com
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the Beeb live Ukraine feed from a couple of hours ago saying this, given it puts some shade on Johnson being Zelensky’s best mate “When he arrived, Zelensky was almost immediately interrupted by a call from the French president, Emmanuel Macron. "I'll have to call you back, I'm with the… -
Re: Starmer now a 74% betting chance to be PM after next election – politicalbetting.com
Latest from D Cummings, in a piece entitled "Hundreds of Auschwitz's [sic] in a hour": "It’s roughly 100% irrelevant to UK/US interests whether eastern UKR is controlled by the Putin-oligarchs-KGB-mafia or the Zelensky-oligarchs-KGB-mafia. ‘International law and the rules based order’? You mean the ‘rules based order’ that… -
Re: Just over a week till Truss moves into Number 10 – politicalbetting.com
Morning all :) It's probably a truism whatever any Government does is usually wrong however well-intentioned. If you target help, those just beyond the range of that help shout they've been left behind, abandoned, neglected etc while if you give everyone help some will ask why help is being given to people with… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Punters make it a 31% chance that the next general election wi
Leamington is another country, part 6,543: 1. The shops have been very, very quiet post-Christmas. 2. I called for a GP appointment yesterday and was seen within 90 minutes. Had to get a blood test done at the hospital this morning. Was in and out within an hour. -
Re: The strike by doctors is a huge challenge for Sunak – politicalbetting.com
Back from the hospital a couple of hours ago. Interesting chats. Small number of pickets outside. My clinic appointment turned out to be with a senior Junior Doctor (7 years), who was more sympathetic to the previous Nurses' Strike than the Junior Doctors' one based on how Doctors make more money later. Brought up in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » So after the MRP polls Johnson’s GE2019 gamble looks as though
...on the other hand, why bother at all when you're averaging 10 points ahead in the polls? Tony Blair would never have agreed to do an interview like that, he had far too much nouse. Mrs T would have done it, but as we all know, and as you keep saying, she was in a different league to our current crop of political… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » New Ipsos Referendum phone poll has the REMAIN lead down to
I once had a retired constituent (middle-class amiable chap) who had forgotten that he had been convicted of breaking a window when he was 16, 50 years earlier, so he ticked the "no convictions" box. He was detained, chained to a chair for several hours, then sent back. It was a big news story at the time. When I… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Monkey’s paw. Delivering on the referendum campaign promises
Jeremy Corbyn will be an idiot if he accepts a TV debate on Theresa May's terms. Here is what he should do: write an open reply to her offer. Record it as a video. Take the initiative. Keep mentioning the "British people". Make the following points. Dear Mrs May 1) As your crumbling government tries to remain in office… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Even Michael Foot had net positive opening MORI ratings. Ho
I'll do that later if I have half an hour. The top 4: LOTO - Jeremy Corbyn MP - Islington North FCO - Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP - Leeds Central Home Office - Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP - Leigh CE - John McDonnell MP - Hayes and Harlington Question: How does this "attends cabinet" thing work? Do they actually have a separate tables… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » “The next CON leader will not be a white man” – Tory inside
Firstly, I didn't choose to answer your questions because we were talking about roads: hospitals have little directly to do with Friday evening rush hour traffic on the M4. If your questions had been of relevance to the discussion, I would have answered them. Secondly, if you read my posts more closely you might realise I… -
Re: The King of the North succeeding Starmer? More like The King of Wishful Thinking – politicalbetting.
Thought you were right, so wanted to wanted to find some 2002/3 stories with DaveC future leader mentions.. I searched google for "David Cameron" from 1/1/2002 to 1/1/2004 and found an article he wrote in the Guardian about Macedonia and an Oxford Mail story about local MP visiting a school. (Also, don't think he was the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The latest PB/Polling Matters Podcast: Ireland post referendum
A friend of mine was kidnapped by a fake taxi driver at a Nigerian airport once. He had got a name from the ground crew and had a fake taxi greeting board. When my friend realised that was kidnapped, he started to sing "Onward Christian Soldiers" at full volume. Then repeated it, again and again. After 3 hours of this he… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A look at the next US. Secretary of State market
From a few threads ago, @alistairmeeks: "Until Leave come to terms with the way in which they won, this country is in for a grim time." There is no such person as "Leave". There were 17 million voters who voted leave, various campaigning groups such as Vote Leave, Grassroots Out, Leave.EU and the many smaller groups, there… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Brexit, the proroguing of parliament and the legal battle ahea
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Re: What did Parliament do? – politicalbetting.com
I'm not sure on that one. My MP Lee Anderson came across to me as a grandstanding barrack-room-lawyer - asking statistical questions based on multiple sub-categories, then having a go at Civil Servants for not having the answers immediately available in their heads. Perhaps if he had given appropriate notice (eg 48-72… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Given that Beaconsfield went Remain the odds on the Tory look
Trump ""University" - fraud Public money being spent at Trump hotels etc - corruption Trump's children using govt to sell stuff - corruption Trump Foundation - a fake charity spending its money on Trump himself There's also the general corruption of passing laws and regulations which directly help him and his super-rich… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » So the Deal’s going down. Then what?
It was always thus! Back in the 60's I can remember a staunch Labour supporter going to vote Conservative for the first time in her life, just because she had a telephone put in to her house...I think most of us on this site can relate similar or worse tales. Too many people in this country are unaware of the systems in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Meanwhile in the White House race the reverberations from t
I dont think youll find a single Tory MP who thinks that tax credits in their current state are in anyway desirable. But we are where we are. The system definitely needs to be massively curbed. But this is going to cause difficulties. People need to be weaned off these kind of things. The business of government carries on,… -
Re: Getting the tone of an ad completely wrong – politicalbetting.com
LOL. Although I do get why having to sit through an interminable meeting rather than head off for the beach on a sunny Wednesday afternoon is an intolerable surrender of personal sovereignty! Also impressed that a discussion that had already been running a couple of hours when I chipped in before lunch is still going on -
Re: Punters bet on the 2021 reintroduction of Enlgand COVID restrictions – politicalbetting.com
I've got this instinctive "punt it" approach to sticky issues. Labour had got stuck, I saw what Jezbollah could do with regards to engagement despite the obvious flaws and (wrongly) thought "screw it" and backed him in 2015. I'd already realised it was a catastrophic error of (a lack of both due diligence and) judgement…