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Re: Starmer & the government’s ratings improve from dire to the merely appalling – politicalbetting.com
The National Interest. Is California and Jerusalem going to be nuked by Iran in just two weeks time? Or is this really all about getting Bibi re-elected? Does Donald actually believe he will appoint the next Iranian Supreme Leader himself, turning Iran into a Vassal State of his White House? If he says so publicly, turning… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » By nearly four to one those who had a view on Jenrick think he
The area next to Cheltenham Racecourse, which houses large numbers of students in halls of residence and contains a high proportion of communal housing has 27 cases? I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you. That it isn’t a dozen times higher. Meanwhile the wealthy areas of the county where the race goers will have been drawn from… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » It looks as though we’ll get an IndyRef poll from the firm
The last English monarch in the Queen's ancestry was Henry VII. The clue is in the name of the Royal Houses. House of Stewart/Stuart James VI and I through to his great granddaughter Anne House of Hanover from George I, great grandson of James VI and I through his daughter Elizabeth the last Princess born in Scotland… -
Re: Now is the time for nuance and subtlety – politicalbetting.com
One of the answers which was right (and has got messed up) is that taking a job doesn't negatively effect your benefits i.e. so if you try getting back into work and you aren't worse off. Re Zero Hours, my solution has always been they are fine with caveats, in fact there are people who really like them. The number one… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Nighthawks is now open
Yes. The politics is that Labour has been whinging endlessly about the lack of house build starts, when they changed the law specifically to reduce the amount of house build starts. If it is as reported, then all the coalition is doing is reversing that law. None of the stupid land confiscation nonsense. Surely you can see… -
Re: Finishing last in Gorton & Denton – politicalbetting.com
Its scandalous (although not surprising ) what the Brewdog founders have done to the minority shareholders. Of the £213 million that TSG invested in 2017, £110m went to the founders, the rest was capital but crucially the preference shares came with an 18% coupon. The magic of compound interest means this is now £800m or… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Corbyn has clearly won – the big question is the size of hi
Paul Sykes 2p http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/22/get-brexit-right-and-ill-be-a-tory-again-betray-it-and-youll-see/ I left the Conservatives in 1992. I had been a member for 20 years, throughout much of a career which began with scrapping buses and ended up creating 175,000 jobs. I worked my way up from the bottom… -
Re: The Truss view of “British Workers” could be an electoral liability – politicalbetting.com
The house price crisis was caused by Blair and Brown, the house price to earning ratio shot up under them. Under the current lot the ratio has stabilised but not reversed. Reversing the ratio in a low inflation environment is almost impossible though without negative equity which is why I've long been calling for either… -
Re: Let’s talk about your favourite Tube lines – politicalbetting.com
No I wasn't ( other than the Cardiff Bay bit) I am in the eye of the storm. I have strapped down the Warre hive and put paving slabs on to the Nationals. The cars have been moved from the house and there is an enormous Christmas tree planted decades ago on the paddock in front of my house blowing merrily in the gale force… -
Re: A Dismal Spectacle – politicalbetting.com
As the frilly fascists on the Tory right come out for Donald Trump, I can not help wondering what happened to the actual Conservatives in the Tory Party. The overwhelming majority of people in the UK would not vote for Trump if he was the last man on earth. So, when faced with late converts to the orange traitor, even the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » What is the effect being two metres apart is having on us all?
That depends where you live. Up north, where I live, hundreds of houses have been built over the past 15 years as the empty fields that led from my house to the motorway are built on (until in 5 years or so time they will meet the motorway). Of course that means my house is worth exactly the same as it was in 2004 as… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » On the 2nd anniversary of TMay calling GE2017 fewer are predic
The housing "shortage" is not solely about the number of houses, the bigger impact on society is the cost of housing. This has been driven up by large numbers of private landlords over the last 30 years speculating on cheap and loose credit, subsidised by the government. The government is rightly trying to re-balance this… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Looking at Leigh in Gtr Manchester – the seat which Paul Nutta
As a Greater Mancunian, I despair of the impending Andy Burnham mayoralty. Manchester has for years been led by an excellent Labour council which has worked well with governments of all stripes to do well for Manchester. Most of the other GM Councils too, and AGMA, are run by pragmatic Labour types who value getting the… -
Re: Time to write off a Mid-Beds by-election? – politicalbetting.com
Try using actual facts rather than anecdotes. House Price to Income Ratio were below 4x almost the entirety of the 80s. House Price to Income Ratio hasn't been below 4 since 2002 and has been at 6+ for the past decade. -
Re: Should Some Groups Need to Pay to Vote? – politicalbetting.com
I've never had a CCJ - but I was close to it. I left a room I was renting (1st year out of uni) as the landlord was letching over my girlfriend. A little while later I went round to chat to the guys who still lived there and they said I had mail. Sat there were various Housing Benefit cheques (still sealed in their… -
Re: People tell pollsters duff info – politicalbetting.com
I'd argue that Islington Labour offers competition in that respect. Remember Ed Milliband and his THREE kitchens. Anyhoo - it is ASHFIELD Labour supporter :smile: ; there aren't a lot of options here. The choices are: - a Tory who has vanished, - Lib Dems who do not exist, - the Ashfield Independent who is on about 15… -
Re: I have just one question to these MPs urging Burnham to challenge Starmer – politicalbetting.com
The rule in any organisation is to undertake one's dirty washing in private. Burnham seems, with his interview with the Labour house journal, the Daily Telegraph to have forgotten this. Let's not ignore the fact that Starmer has been a poor PM. Continuity Sunak was not what we voted for, but the personal hatred for the man… -
Re: Labour are, just, the favourites on the most seats markets now – politicalbetting.com
Get ready for another almighty shitshow before the midterms. The argument it's going to happened seems quite persuasive. The possible replacements range from worse than Alito to completely unhinged. It Sure Looks Like This Supreme Court Justice Is Getting Ready to Retire https://archive.is/qQfVj#selection-775.0-775.72… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Now most LAB leadership votes are in Osborne moves to under
2 theories - they think he's done enough to win already, so time to start with the attacks to solidify a view of Corbyn among voters in general, not just those tuning in to the labour leadership contest (something they will intensify when he actually wins), or they want to do that and give Corbyn a final boost from… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » As expected Fox drops out
That's an interesting question, and that's certainly what is being pushed by London's estate agents. I disagree. Firstly, people don't appreciate how thin the prime London property market is. There were something like 1,500 house sales over 2m in London in 2015. That compares to about 30-50,000 houses that are valued above…