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Re: Looking ahead to 2022 Senate Elections – politicalbetting.com
Au contraire. The plan makes perfect sense. That's because the plan isn't to make housing more affordable for young families, or to help first time buyers onto the housing ladder. The plan is to keep the ponzi going at all costs to inflate the asset value of existing home owners, most of whom are a) older and b) vote… -
Re: It’s just like the 1990s – politicalbetting.com
Very overdone. If you want to know what may happen here, look at Germany, Italy or several other countries who have median population ages 5-8 years higher than the UK or France. For a European country we are well positioned on this one. As for the rest, a lot of it is in place and the housing market since 2010 has been… -
Re: 2 polls on the day the govt taxed workers more & gave pensioners an increase – politicalbetting.com
From their perspective of course it makes sense, and they usually believe it is best irrespective of it also being practical politics. It's why, unfortunately, you cannot really address housing problems whilst taking much if any account of local concerns and why government policy invariably seeks to bind the hands of local… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Lord Ashcroft becomes the third pollster in a row not to su
I'll tell you the arrangements which are disgraceful... i) for the third election in a row the majority of people who even bother to vote will elect nobody. ii) that in a national election the national votes have no direct bearing on the outcome - the sixth party may come third, while the third party comes eighth, first… -
Re: The Great Unknown: A Betting History Of The Great British By-Election
Housing is a primary issue and house prices are a major consideration in the other cities too, as opposed to across the Red Wall were Barratt Homes-style new builds have been getting built and bought all over the North outside of the cities.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Betfair figures show that Scotland totally dominates curren
You misunderstand - my point was that Scottish social housing has traditionally been much more broadly based (and a bigger sector of the housing market) than England's - so Bobawhateveritisnow's automatic assumption that Social Housing in Scotland was the preserve of the DEs was pure ignorance. When I was growing up it was… -
Re: There’s certainly no herding on today’s MRPs – politicalbetting.com
Actually, I would say the group that is more negatively impacted by immigration is 40-55 year old non-homeowner, who works in a non-skilled role. This group didn't go to University, has seen a lot of competition - leading to lower wages - from immigration, didn't benefit from the house price surge, and has now been sucker… -
Re: Trump’s women problem? – politicalbetting.com
In her budget speech Reeves made the direct claim that three-quarters of farms would be unaffected by the inheritance tax changes. Since then there's been a lot of sound and fury suggesting that this was not true, and that small family farms will have to be sold. If Reeves has misled the House on this it should be a very… -
Re: Well this is awkward – politicalbetting.com
OT It has been an hour or more so I can officially declare my 5½ hour nosebleed over. Three boxes of Kleenex, a ruined polo shirt and a patch of carpet were notable casualties. It is funny how such trivial things can run on. -
Re: Johnson will find it hard taking the plaudits for the vaccination success and continuing with a stri
I'm sorry to hear that mate and I agree with basically all of what you're saying. This lockdown has been the worst and if it hadn't been for our house move I think it would have been a lot worse because I'd have had nothing outside of work to set my mind to. Now that it's done both my wife and I are definitely struggling.… -
Re: Mid Beds betting – CON and LD up while LAB down – politicalbetting.com
NYT live blog - > Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said “all options are on the table” for Democrats in terms of their response to some mainstream Republicans’ resolution to empower Patrick McHenry as a temporary speaker. He reiterated House Democrats’ two goals: preventing a Jordan speakership, and keeping the government… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If teachers are as hostile to the Tories as they were 16 mo
If I understand you correctly you are saying that its difficult to get a mortgage and buy a house - so no one is buying houses, but house prices at the same time are rising out of people's reach because of demand. I think people are putting their money into property *before* they reach pension age as an alternative to… -
Re: You Rub My Back …. – politicalbetting.com
Thankfully governments across the globe are more tech savvy these days. Hang on, Peter Hegseth has just sent me a Signal post. Apparently the invasion of Canada has been pencilled in for 1500 hours Eastern Time. -
Re: I think the Tories would be happy with these MRPs all things considered – politicalbetting.com
A lot of the increase in housing demand post WW2 has been driven by changes in lifestyle separate to any immigration issues. People mrrying later, divorce, kids wanting independence and the growth in second home ownership have all had a substantial impact on housing demand. -
Re: That YouGov LAB lead poll is increasingly looking like an outlier – politicalbetting.com
I don't believe it can have a significant impact in a highly globalized world. If British firms are paying more for the same skills, then either their profit margins will need to shrink, the pound will need to fall to compensate, or they will choose to hire overseas. Having actually done a lot of hiring, I have never found… -
Re: The front pages that should frighten ministers – politicalbetting.com
I don't believe it can have a significant impact in a highly globalized world. If British firms are paying more for the same skills, then either their profit margins will need to shrink, the pound will need to fall to compensate, or they will choose to hire overseas. Having actually done a lot of hiring, I have never found… -
Re: Just 23% of voters think Badenoch is doing a good job – politicalbetting.com
Don’t worry people, Marjorie Taylor-Greene has resumed normal service. “ Republican US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she believes in demons, surmising that they might be aliens who fell from heaven, and claims to have been unaware that key figures in the antisemitic space lasers conspiracy she floated were… -
Re: This could be Cleverly’s moment – politicalbetting.com
How many people still refer to a snickers as a marathon... Once something has a known name changing it takes decades for the new name to be used. Round here the House of Fraser / Frasers department store was Binns. It's been House of Fraser for 20+ years - everyone still refers to it as Binns., Likewise Bainbridges is… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Leave’s major advantage in the last three weeks of the camp
This is the letter referring to what she said in July 1993 - she felt too many powers had been surrendered *before* Maastrict was signed, and wanted a referendum prior to its passage. That was 23 years ago: 11 April 1997 Dear Sir, In view of your report in George Parker's column today, I wonder if I may make the facts… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » NEW PB/Polling Matters podcast: NHS funding, ‘Brexit dividends
The main reason of course is that there are nearly 2 million more people in London than 20 years ago - and that is the usually resident population so excludes short term migrants. If you increase your population by 25 per cent without building sufficient housing prices will go up. Quantitative easing, low interest rates,…