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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Antifrank considers what the Blairites could do if Liz Ken
Disagree: if the original money from the German tourist had been a loan, then there would have been an injection of money into a closed system, which could have repaid debts and then been withdrawn. But it wasn't: it was stolen from the tourist for a period of time. In fact, there has been no money injected into the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Harry Hayfield’s local elections report: What’s happened so
Oddly enough in rural areas it is the Parish council that has charge of producing the development plan for their area. You know, where houses and stuff can be built. So actually quite an important role. In my area a proposal to build houses on some land has just been seen off because it is not in the village plan.… -
Re: The revenge of the cat ladies? – politicalbetting.com
Completely wrong. I want lots of new houses built. I am the one who has been proposing new towns/cities in my own county. I can always tell when you feel you are losing the argument. You start lying about other people's views even when they have been perfectly clear for years. My argument is not about the need for new… -
Re: Rwandan discussions – politicalbetting.com
Talking about tatties, the place where I come from has been increased about 5x and he still thinks we don't do enough. Huge loss of good arable farmland for growing tatties and corn too (some used for trading estates though mostd of the old factories have been used already for that and housing). They've started using… -
Re: A Good Sport? – politicalbetting.com
OK, PB Brains Trust, how much would it cost to build a two storey house, 3.5metres by 10metres, bathroom and bedroom upstairs, living room and kitchen downstairs. The points are as follows:* Assume the land has been purchased and detailed planning permission has been granted. * Assume conventional building techniques:… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The big picture is that Labour still has a majority winning
@tim I want the royal baby to remain an anachronism. The fact that its future is not so different from lots of other little princes and princesses who will be able to lord it over their less fortunate peers points to a profoundly dystopian vision of Britain’s future. A pity this wasn't the first paragraph as it would have… -
Re: SNPeaked? How far could they fall in 2024? – politicalbetting.com
Talking about shitty entitled politicians and on topic. One of Scotland’s most left-wing MPs is under fire for using parliamentary expenses to have his phone couriered from his house to Westminster. Chris Stephens of the SNP has promised to repay the £130 he claimed to retrieve his phone, which he had left at home, to the… -
Re: Sunak-Braverman: Misreading the public mood on immigration? – politicalbetting.com
But that doesn't work because if that were the case then the houses that were not built in one year would be completed in the next - or the one after that. To consistently build only 60% of the houses that have planning permission over a decade cannot be due to the fact that developments take time. What we see is an ever… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Move over right v left: John Curtice says the new political di
Morning all :) It's an interesting argument. Theresa May has, from the moment she became Prime Minister, emphasised the role of the State as an empowering part of her conservative philosophy. Indeed, her role model looks to be Heath or Heseltine rather than Thatcher or Cameron. It's a strand of conservatism that was in… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » In the fight for the WH2020 Democratic nomination 37 year old
Bricks and mortar reflecting social change Cracks in the pavement reveal cravings for success Why do we try to hide our past By pulling down houses and build car parks? Windows and mirrors like a two-way glass This is progress, nothing stands in its path Yellow bulldozers, the donkey jackets, and J.C.B.'s While hundreds… -
Re: A LAB majority NO – but PM Starmer more likely – politicalbetting.com
I know, but 3 elections since then have seen huge swings to the tories but with very little change to the make up of the Council. The other thing to note is that this LD council has given lots of planning approvals for new houses, many villages round here have been building sites for the past 5 years with 100s of new… -
Re: Tonight’s Southend W result will be compared with 2016 Batley & Spen – politicalbetting.com
If it's from an Estate, it seems quite reasonable to recover it. Though I trust that someone has switched the heating to "frost" setting, rather than 22 C. My mum's estate has been stuck with paying Council Tax on an empty house because probate has taken such a long time, due partly to it taking 6 months to get through the… -
Re: The Monday open thread – politicalbetting.com
As it's an open thread, here are some observations that some may find interesting. Obviously they're personal and doubtless not at all representative. I have just spent a pleasant couple of months on the Canadian and US West Coast and I've found: Unsurprising: a) Food prices really are outrageous, at any rate if you want… -
Re: In the last 13 Westminster by-elections just one has been won by a man – politicalbetting.com
This Tom Kitchin: HOTEL and restaurants are on the brink of going bust because they can’t recruit enough overseas staff due to Brexit, industry leaders warn. Hospitality chiefs revealed they have been forced to scale back services and opening hours amid a desperate struggle to fill key jobs such as kitchen porters,… -
Re: Your regular reminder that betting markets are often laughably wrong – politicalbetting.com
She was better than her replacement, who was decidedly grumpy on Peston(?) the other week. In other news, has Sadiq Khan been spotted at the races as a guest of the Jockey club? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/09/sadiq-khan-to-announce-plans-to-build-houses-on-london-green-belt… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Johnson can’t go on being as dire at PMQs as he was yesterday
I think what has happened is that around about the time of the IMF programme the UK started dismantling the constraints on capitalism that had been put in place after WW2, a process that was accelerated under Thatcher and has not been meaningfully rolled back by any of her successors. That has led to an economy that has… -
Re: And From The Other Side of the Pond… – politicalbetting.com
We kind of agree on the last pointl it's nowhere near a free market current - the Government imposes huge costs to apply for housing, which it then puts into an approval tombola. This forces out a lot of potential suppliers. Then they insist on ridiculous standards for anything to get built which means that unless you have… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Theresa May sends a strong reminder that she’s still in the
Morning all :) As I've been sick for much of the week, I've watched snippets of the Conservative gathering. To be fair, one could certainly not accuse the Conservatives so far of hubristic triumphalism. It's been about people this week but the mood has been relentlessly downbeat. If you're here, expect to work longer hours… -
Re: The politics of oil – politicalbetting.com
At the time, train frequency from Edinburgh and Glasgow to London had been reduced, and was much lower than it is now, also due to airline competition. Over the past few years it has increased significantly, both because trains are faster and due to airport hassle. I don’t know whether a seven hour train journey from… -
Re: What will this betting market look like next Friday morning? – politicalbetting.com
You've already had (and to your credit admitted) mention of the massive failings of previous Governments notably (but not exclusively) 2010-24. I continue to struggle with the nature of the Russian "threat" and what seems to be an over-reaction. Is there a "threat"? Yes, inasmuch as I'm sure Putin (like every Russian ruler…