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Re: That don’t impress me much – politicalbetting.com
One of the charms of PB is that posters know not only who runs water companies but who are the 'politicos' behind them. I've just been chatting to an attractive Sevillian who was telling me about her year in Llandudno learning English! I told her that her English accent was delightful which it was. Maybe there's a new… -
Re: When will the 32 counties reunite? – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Reform isn’t very popular – politicalbetting.com
Lol. No. They are wholly functioning parts of the same city. Simple geography. That someone called them something different hundreds of years ago doesn’t change that. Are the Houses of Parliament and St Paul’s in different cities? -
Re: Things can only get better (Starmer hopes) – politicalbetting.com
You just seem like such a decent person Dr Foxy. -
Re: Father Christmas is being cancelled in the UK. – politicalbetting.com
The civil servants in the Cabinet Office wanted it. But, IIRC, it was a combination of “who authorised and pays?”, “listed building?” Etc etc. The Process State eats itself. -
Re: Badenoch is absolutely right on a potential Tory and Reform alliance – politicalbetting.com
Worth pointing out that the drive for powerful urban mayors was an Osborneism. I wrote a dissertation on local government reform, with a heavy focus on Redcliffe Maud. Even then, my rather weak conclusion was that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. On the continuum of rationalist to romantic, I've swung very… -
Re: Naughty and nice. Who is on Santa’s list? – politicalbetting.com
There's been some reporting this morning on R4. There is a copy of File on Four on the Archbishop of York, here. I recommend listening. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00260xs If it were the case that he did everything he could for reasons of law, and had done everything he could to keep the offender from anything that… -
Re: The polling you’ve all been waiting for – politicalbetting.com
Is that not just Chump through and through? He spent years wazzocking on about dealing with "THE BORDER", but when they propose doing it he gets his drones in Congress to vote it down because a worse problem existing benefits him politically, personally. -
Re: New poll confirms the infinite wisdom of the British people – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Voters says Europe is better than the UK – politicalbetting.com
Big demonstration in PrincesStreet today about saving democracy in SK and to arrest the President. Do these people not read the news? Or even PB for goodness sake. -
Re: What is it about British party leaders and sandwiches? – politicalbetting.com
@cathynewman Chairman of @marksandspencer Archie Norman @therealarchie tells me on @TimesRadio that Brexit means they've had to hire a warehouse just to store the paperwork needed to export to the Republic of Ireland…. -
Re: It’s Kemi Badenough for the Tories as they sink to third – politicalbetting.com
Especially given that the seats that Reform won look like their best chances and presumably have their top-tier candidates. -
Re: Environmentalism, feminism, liberalism, and socialism are the favourite ideologies of Brits
Just wait a couple of years, and see what they’re feeling by then. -
Re: Farage remains the favourite to be the next PM – politicalbetting.com
If the most recent poll is the start of a trend - the Tories continue to make no progress and go slightly backwards in the face of an unpopular government - Jenrick will not be seen as the answer. This may of course be that there is no answer unless and until the Tories decide what they are for. If they exist to support… -
Re: How the general election would have looked under different voting systems – politicalbetting.com
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Is one of my favourite grammatically correct sentences in English -
Re: Some 2025 specials – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Just one in five people are pleased by what Labour have done in office so far – politicalbetting.com
That is probably because Merz would be the most rightwing German chancellor since WW2. No centrist like Merkel is he. The average SPD leader would beat him, the fact the SPD is running so unpopular a government is what gives Merz the chance to take power -
Re: The disconnect between the betting markets – politicalbetting.com
They made sure we got a big whiff of CS gas in initial officer training in the RAF, and we usually got a whiff every year in annual NBC training. I turned out to have a below-average sensitivity to it, fortunately for me. I still wouldn't want to be stuck in clouds of the stuff, but I never found it that bad. -
Re: Braverman set to defect to Reform (no, not that one, yet) – politicalbetting.com
Why do you suggest that Turkey is an Arab state? They are not, for example, members of the Arab league. AIUI they would be Turkic - along with Azerbaijan etc. * Just as Iran are not Arab, being Persian. * Checking, Turkey has an Arab minority of around 2%. -
Re: It’s the NHS, stupid? – politicalbetting.com
AIUI it's Becnstein's bats at that site, which are tree dwellers. They use woodpecker holes and similar. Looking at the numbers, I do wonder if cut-and-cover or a different route would have been more effective. But if it terminates at Birmingham, it's a £66bn white elephant branch line, anyway.