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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Nighthawks is open
Labour have a deep understanding of all things house building related. Can't you remember the stunning success of John Prescott's Pathfinder Scheme "More than £2 billion of taxpayers' money has been wasted demolishing thousands of homes without any discernible benefit that a rising housing market could not have achieved by… -
Re: Labour leads Reform by 8% (on preferred choice) – politicalbetting.com
"Three people have been charged after four Jewish charity-owned ambulances were set on fire in north London last week. The Hatzola ambulances were set alight in the car park of a synagogue in Golders Green in the early hours of 23 March. Two British men - Hamza Iqbal, 20, and Rehan Khan, 19 - and a 17-year-old boy who is a… -
Re: Kemi Badenoch is determined to bring the nasty party label back– politicalbetting.com
Some confusion about this: https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/2015939758858371393 Chief Gregory Bovino has NOT been relieved of his duties. As @PressSec stated from the White House podium, @CMDROpAtLargeCA is a key part of the President’s team and a great American. -
Re: Like Churchill will Boris Johnson defect from the Tories? – politicalbetting.com
John Rentoul In fact, there are just so many ways that Rayner’s tax affairs are a gift to Nigel Farage. I have seen some outlandish theories on social media about the deputy prime minister’s difficulties being manufactured by the government as a distraction from Reform’s annual conference in Birmingham today and tomorrow.… -
Re: Ken Clarke is dead right on the Rwanda bill – politicalbetting.com
It's not actually a new high for Wales, just one for R&W in Wales. The high is YouGov's Labour lead of 34% in Wales from Feb 23m, and indeed the Labour lead has been higher than 28% in every single one of the 5 YouGov Welsh polls published under Sunak. That is not down to any trend, just house effects. YouGov's Welsh… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Marf on the Cyprus aftermath
The problem with first year GCSE Economics pupils is that they are not taught how to research the markets and sectors on which they are asked to comment. Had they been so taught, they would have identified Osborne's intercession in the mortgage finance market as a move to stimulate demand for residential property with a… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The results so far have developed not necessarily to Remain
I hate "the bastards" making the Tories unelectable and the nation ungovernable in the 90s, plus there are simply more important issues than Europe. Whatever the result is, it needs to end this question for the foreseeable future. A leave vote is final, there is no coming back from that. A remain landslide ditto. This… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » What could really drive LAB voters away is Corbyn ignoring the
It's worse than that; Brokenshire's ingrowing twattery deserves a Blue Plaque, and a veterinary intervention with a captive bolt for the sake of the public. He was clueless at NI, and he is either boneheaded or a liar at Housing. One week ago he declared that "Private Rental is the fastest growing tenure" on Conhome. The… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why one ex-LAB member has decided to rejoin the party
We all know how the average age of home owenership has been rising and rising in the UK, with 30 year olds today much less likely to own their own home than 20 years ago. What is curious is threefold: 1. This trend seems almost as pronounced in areas of the UK where house prices have barely budged (the North West and East… -
Re: Ahead of the May 6 locals – some key facts and figures – politicalbetting.com
Idly house hunting at the moment and a trend that has amused/bemused me is the retention of built-in 'garages' in houses. Most of the garage has been converted to another room, but a 1-1.5m long bit is left at the front with a garage door and still described as a garage. I know very few people keep cars in garages… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Ex-LD leader, Paddy Ashdown launches move to have one non-C
Wrong, Trafford has selection and the highest house prices in Greater Manchester, Buckinghamshire has selection and the second highest house prices of any county in the South East. Plenty of areas in Kent like Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge have a grammar school premium, however many areas of Kent used to be mining… -
Re: It’s not a good win for Reform but a great win for the Greens – politicalbetting.com
It comes from the belief that spending should not be constrained by anything other than social requirements. See the articles in the Guardian, in the run up to the Greek Crisis, that claimed it was immoral and undemocratic that Greece couldn’t borrow as much as it liked at the same interest rate as Germany. To this has… -
Re: Could Canada join the EU? – politicalbetting.com
Therer are several connected problems for publicans, but the major problem is the property market. Those PubCos with big estates can get a massive windfall if they convert to housing. The overhead on pubs, including large taxes on alcohol, makes many pubs marginally profitable, at best. Converting loss making pubs into… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » PB Nighthawks is now open
Some of the discussion on here today regarding the spare room subsidy has been some of the most ill informed discussion of a subject that I can remember on this site or in fact any site for years. Have any of you ever worked for a housing needs department of a local council or know anyone who has. All the nonsense that has… -
Re: A big gap has opened up among the pollsters – politicalbetting.com
Try recruiting in South Yorkshire and you'll see that employment has been fuller than anyone has experienced. Or have a basic inspection of all the restaurants with 'staff wanted' signs on their windows. Now people doing crappy jobs will always struggle to afford housing wherever they live. But that doesn't apply to all… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The bad news for LAB from Prof John Curtice – Corbyn has NOT s
There are three things that will help the housing market. 1. Fewer households - less immigration, divorce, lower birth rate 2. More houses - at all price points and especially in areas of high demand 3. Interest rates getting off the floor - making other investments more attractive than BTL. Until we see significant… -
Re: Meet Reform’s new chairman – politicalbetting.com
The RRB pretty much follows reforms which happened in Scotland back in 2015 or so. If an LL can't deal with it, they should leave the industry. On the "cheap housing in London" point, it may loosen up but not that much, and TBF there has already been a measure of rebalancing between regions as shown by regional price… -
Re: Gordon Brown continues to annoy me – politicalbetting.com
Big and brown has been difficult to give away for a long time. I furnished this room with stuff they couldn't sell at a local auction house which regularly appears on Bargain Hunt et al. I had the Wearing and Gillows table, great granddad bought it for £10 before WW1 when a local pub went bust. I got 8 spindle leg dining… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A Politico survey of early voting data in key WH2020 swing sta
From the Indy - Boris Johnson has criticised the US president Barack Obama and suggested his attitude to Britain might be based on his “part-Kenyan” heritage and “ancestral dislike of the British empire”. Writing a column for The Sun newspaper the outgoing Mayor of London recounted a story about a bust of Winston Churchill… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » With the media narrative moving against UKIP the Tory prosp
I do agree that the government has protected the freebies, most of them introduced by the last government in an entirely disinterested way, for pensioners as Cameron promised. I also agree that cannot continue into the next Parliament. The rest is nonsense. Why would pensioners gain disproportionately from the (non…