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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Burnham comes out against extending Sunday shopping hours
It is done on floor size. If the shop has a floor size of less than 280 m^2, then it can set its own hours. This has been a factor in the size of many shops built over the last few years. There will be plenty of small Co-op shops though, which gain (as our very local one does) from the local Morrisons shutting at 16.00 on… -
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You misunderstand the psychology. It's the arbitrary nature of it which would (rightly) be unpopular. Someone who moves house (or downsizes if you include roll-over relief) gets a £100K bill, someone who doesn't move house doesn't. Now of course many taxes are arbitrary - stamp duty is subject to the same criticism - but… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » David Miliband won the 2010 LAB members ballot by 8.8% – th
Fair point, and of course I don't believe Osborne for a second when he says that either. The real issue, as has been said many times, is our antiquated tax code, which is a charter for getting out of (words chosen carefully) paying tax in the hands of a clever accountant. True - but those were on big, emotive issues that… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour could be in trouble in the South Yorkshire PCC by-el
What would you replace them with? The police authorities they replaced hardly did a good job, did they? Unelected and unaccountable to the public (despite having 'independent members', many of whom were magistrates), yet curiously unable or unwilling to press the police on some of these abuses. If the police authorities… -
Re: There’s a lot for the Tories to worry about in latest R&W poll – politicalbetting.com
Yes, my father was also stubbornly refusing to go into sheltered housing even though he simply couldn't cope alone. I suppose it's natural and human but it was quite tough and the state of the house itself was a constant worry. The garage literally fell down when we got some work done to it. Fortunately the walls and roof… -
Re: Hopefully, we’ll see some Lineker polling this weekend – politicalbetting.com
It isn't at all unusual - and has never been unusual - for houses to be quite valuable but unmortgageable. If a home is (currently) uninhabitable or has a significant structural issue then mortgage companies just won't get involved as there's a real risk of deterioration affecting the value of the collateral, and the costs… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Well done to the main phone pollsters for now reporting Eng
Are you saying that would replace the current council banding system? If so, yes, that might be better. But if you mean in addition to the current system, then it's not simpler: it's surely another layer? What happens if a house has not been sold for thirty years? Surely house price inflation has outstripped CPI and RPI. -
Re: Why Reform winning the next election isn’t the certainty some think it is – politicalbetting.com
The Telegraph has also been talking to local estate agents and is suggesting that the house may have been overvalued: -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » On Betfair the chance of a CON majority edge to lowest level s
Not vanished at all, Mrs Cyclefree - but certainly a bit cheesed off by all the hardline Tory cheerleading on PB. Mr Ears seems to have a very good understanding of SVT, if I may say so without appearing to condescend. It is a tax on the value of the land, as if it had not been developed. It makes no difference if you have… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Henry G Manson looks at the politics of food banks
I never said that - you are very good at misrepresenting arguments. The discussion was about *Victorian* houses. Great houses are built by people with money, land and power. At various points that has been people with soldiers (Normans), people who were close to the royals (Tudor, Stuarts), financiers and politicans… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » PB Nighthawks is now open
FPT Nick P "Question I've been asked - how can one discover the market value of a house in 1991? I have no clue - anyone have any idea?" If you go onto Rightmove or one of the other sale sites you can look for house prices by street. This will give you both the current sale price of any houses on the market and also the… -
Re: Will Trump dump J.D. Vance? – politicalbetting.com
Vice Presidency of the United States is famously, traditionally, historically one of the inherently crap jobs of American politics. As in the old story, one brother was lost at sea and the other was elected Vice President; neither was ever heard from again. Lots of time just standing by, and if votes are tight in the… -
Re: Streeting overtakes Farage as the favourite to be next PM – politicalbetting.com
Good morning everyone. An HMO - Reform Councillor controversy in Oldham. A nuanced one with more than one angle, and for me it has some shades of Lee Anderson's fake "Migrant Hotel" from 2024 that was actually NHS Nurses on holiday together. Cooke, who was crowned world freestyle football champion in 2017, has built up a… -
Re: Will the weirdo cat hater be gone soon? – politicalbetting.com
There isn't a lot of difference in the principle Building Regulation across European countries. One interesting thing about the UK (maybe 'England') is that the methods are not compulsory as such. They are a combination of required outcomes and approved methods. If you convince your Control Officer that your alternative… -
Re: Voters eh? – politicalbetting.com
Efforts to focus that opposition more effectively are underway as well. To take just one small private-sector example: Senior executives at major tech companies including Meta, Google, Amazon, OpenAI, TikTok, Spotify, and Salesforce have been circulating a letter this week calling on their companies to break ties with the… -
Re: The pollsters could be missing a Harris surge – politicalbetting.com
Picking up the FPT Building Regs conversation. There isn't a lot of difference in the principle of Building Regulation across European countries. One interesting thing about the UK (maybe 'England') is that the methods are not compulsory as such. They are a combination of required outcomes and approved methods. If you… -
Re: £12 million pounds well spent – politicalbetting.com
Hard to see how Brown is a witness to the malfeasance, unless he is willing / able to testify that Mi5 bugged the Prince and he can backup that Andy emailed Epstein market sensitive info for financial gain. Brown is talking about the girls. And Andy has not been arrested for that. As I say, it’s hard to see how a raid of… -
Re: The scale of the Tory challenge (and why being a lawyer helps Jenrick) – politicalbetting.com
“health care is now based on the ability to pay + a randomly distributed charity sector, as are the universities, and what used to fund their state pension now is left in the pockets of bankers and hedge funds. Their social housing pensioner bungalow has been sold to Rachman Housing Inc, based in Panama.” But what will the… -
Re: May 5th – the 16th anniversary of the last time Labour won a general election – politicalbetting.com
Yes, in an ideal world house prices would rise in value by no more than inflation. Ideally they'd get cheaper, though I recognise there's all sorts of problems around debt etc why that wouldn't necessarily be a good thing unless it was very gradual. There's no other consumer good for which we celebrate seeing the price… -
Re: Trump derangement syndrome is real – politicalbetting.com
