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Re: Why the mainstream parties will be swept aside next week – politicalbetting.com
This is a good article. My only criticism is that it's parochial. The last two decades, across the developed world, have been shit. Now, not shit in absolute terms; no one is starving. But shit in relative terms, with the historic pattern of progress, and children wealthier than their parents breaking down. This economic… -
Re: Minding Our Manners – politicalbetting.com
Definitely feeling that way with the Senate. Have not been focussing that much on House races, so don't have much of a feel. But it is the House where gerrymandering has an impact, the the USSC has been helpful to the GOP in rejecting challenges to new maps this round. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The GE2017 gloss start to come off Corbyn
Third. FPPT I agree with your sentiment about decisions to effectively in some areas ban shared houses and HMOs, driven partly by prejudice-based NIMBY campaigns. In Oxford it is comical - the Keystone Kops Council have made it very difficult to do eg loft conversions to increase density, so single professionals who could… -
Re: LAB moves to a 72% betting chance of winning most seats – politicalbetting.com
Virginia Dems squeeze House special election into one breakneck week https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/16/virginia-dems-house-primary-election-00074270 ...State Sens. Jennifer McClellan and Joe Morrissey are among the Democrats running for Virginia’s vacant 4th District, previously held by the late Democratic Rep. Don… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » I think Clegg will survive the Rennard crisis but if he doe
I have been thinking in the last few days that the outcome of this battle / crisis / situation will be political (i.e. that Clegg will win and that Rennard will be out) rather than legal (i.e. that Rennard will be cleared and re-instated) because the elected element will triumph over the unelected - regardless of the fact… -
Re: The Osborne legacy remains popular – politicalbetting.com
That's the standard argument against any increased cost for landlords, direct or indirect. I'm not so sure. I think that the rents are ultimately set by the overall demand and supply of housing in an area - not just that for rental properties. If increased costs for landlords mean that some rental properties aren't made… -
Re: Oh, the humanities – politicalbetting.com
FPT: A little bit of data, possibly, on Musk. In my area (well-off Seattle suburbs), as far as I can tell most Teslas were owned by nice folks worried about global warming. If anything, they seem to be more careful around the pedestrians than the average driver here. Not everyone here shares those sentiments about global… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The economy remains top concern in latest Ipsos-MORI Index
@williamglenn Osborne's policy, like the last administration's, has always been to keep house prices artificially high. Osborne is now compounding that error by trying to inflate them yet further. He has no real interest in sorting out the housing issue, because the political benefits would accrue after the next general… -
Re: This is bad news for people laying Andy Burnham as next Prime Minister – politicalbetting.com
Weird, thought this had posted. Anyway, good morning. The race has been moved three hours earlier, starting 6pm UK time. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/breaking-new-start-time-confirmed-for-miami-grand-prix-following-weather-concerns.36mNfBCj5LLIRbgxAgjZIn -
Re: Women voters switching: the big driver behind Trump’s polling decline – politicalbetting.com
Housing Estate Build up the road from me started building in about May, and is continuing. This had had wrangling with the Council over the S106 for a couple of years. I know that because I have a tenant who is fizzing because they left a hole under her fence that would have let the dogs escape, when they took out the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour drops to its lowest level with YouGov since the summ
Agreed. The real challenges of the next few years is going to be creating and maintaining employment in this country without exploiting the weak. So issues like zero hour contracts, casualisation, training, investment, the minimum wage, housing and inequality should be the central objectives but within a workable… -
Re: Is Sunak too rich to be an election winner? – politicalbetting.com
Well, it WAS pretty darn little even for a little qualifier! Among my lefty friends (some of whom would curl your hair IF you've still got some) PEPFAR is the ONE thing for which they give Bush the Younger high marks. You may have seen this story in the Seattle Times last month: NYT (via ST $x2) - AIDS relief program under… -
Re: Money, money, money – politicalbetting.com
Interesting proposal, and a hysterical reaction. I'd don't believe, but a modest reduction in price should be welcome everywhere. I'm not sure what caselaw is around Article 4 directions and relevant planning matters. Normally, who owns a house would not be relevant, but may be so under Change of Use. A council has been… -
Re: A Streeting named desire – politicalbetting.com
Its not been particularly boring either. A scandal every other week. Freebie gate, Mandy big mates with Epstein, housing ministers stiffing tenants, corruption minister up for corruption, the transport minister a thief, the Deputy PM a tax dodger, the chancellor fake CV and lying about knowlege of housing licence, the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Warren looks a promising bet in Massachusetts following the Bu
The House of Mouse is chicken. Disney has been forced to scrap plans for a glitzy European press launch for Disney+ in London this week after the event became one of the latest industry gatherings to be hit by coronavirus fears. Disney was hosting the party at the Exhibition London event space on March 5 to “celebrate the… -
Re: Oh, Mandy, Well, you came, And you gave without taking, But I sent you away – politicalbetting.com
There’s precedent for this. Two officers from MI5 visited Downing Street in 2020 to brief Boris Johnson on the national security risks of giving Evgeny Lebedev a seat for life in the upper house of Parliament. The then prime minister argued that the life peerage could go ahead because the MI5 officers’ security concerns… -
Re: Squaring the Circle – politicalbetting.com
The trouble is it's a tax on the transaction, not on the property. It's going to disincentive downsizing, which is an enormous issue when the UK has 26 million spare bedrooms (and rising). Look at house transactions since 2008. They have collapsed - it's the most important symptom and perhaps contributor to why young… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » How the Iowa Democratic caucuses at WH2004 were the trigger fo
We clearly don't know the details and I have a low regard for the media re details, but there are some known facts: a) We clearly know people have been told to self quarantine. The minister said so in parliament. In itself that might be very logical. The risk may be very low in terms of transmission, impact on most people… -
Re: Have Tory MPs the bottle to oust Johnson? – politicalbetting.com
This has been my massive bugbear for years. We build a couple of hundred thousand houses a year in the UK. Why can we not make it a planning condition that every new house has to be fitted with solar panels during the construction process? Both economies of scale and removing the need for remedial alterations to fit them… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Two of the latest EP2014 polls have just 4% separating top
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27459663 Bank of England's Mark Carney warns on housing market I think that Carney has left it a bit late to warn of a possible collapse of housing prices. However the Cheeky Chappie of the day is that well known chameleon, "Every Which Way Cameron" who said, "...the government needed to…