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Re: Moving the Goalposts – politicalbetting.com
Evening all :) On housing and planning, it's not easy and we talk a lot on here about residential development and house building but there's also the commercial aspect to planning such as the re-classification of sites and property and change of use from one type of commercial activity to another. That can also cause a lot… -
Re: Two thirds of CON members don’t think there’s a climate emergency – politicalbetting.com
FPT @Casino_Royale A sensible question! Here's my answer For nearly 50 years we've been insisting that tax is bad, but reluctant to cut spending to match the tax take, and have been making up the difference by debt. We have run out of road on this approach and need to change To accomplish that we need to move from taxing… -
Re: Punters react to the tariff announcements – politicalbetting.com
The problem with expecting a crash is that it usually takes much longer to arrive than you expect, and you can lose a lot of money during the period when it fails to arrive. Moneyweek magazine’s perpetual forecasts of a UK house price collapse during the 2010s is a classic example; following their advice would have been… -
Re: The retirees back the Tories so expect the workers to see their taxes rise – politicalbetting.com
Peter Hitchens has been on the case for ages “ Stupid bureaucracy that is ruining lives My colleague Keeba Critchlow is married to a junior doctor, Ben. They have had to move recently so that he can be close to the hospital where he works. Because of this, they have to pay for two homes at once and so they face bankruptcy.… -
Re: Has Sunak been too influenced by Uxbridge? – politicalbetting.com
The issue is the poor insulation of UK homes, many of which are old. Around 20% were built before 1900, and around 75% before 1980. In NZ, fewer than 10% predate the 1940s. This isn't easy to deal with: retrofitting good levels of insulation to old houses is hard, sometime impossible. Add to that the fact that little has… -
Re: A plurality of voters think gambling taxes are too low – politicalbetting.com
As ever, emotion seems to obscure fact. Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/oct/21/friedrich-engels-segregated-manchester-cambridge-historian ..The great socialist thinker, who co-authored with Karl Marx the Communist… -
Re: FT reporting that BoJo found to have committed “multiple contempts” – politicalbetting.com
Where are these land banks you talk about? land without planning permission applied for land where planning permission is being sought land where planning permission has been granted bot building has not started land where building has started but only a few houses out of the final total has been built -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Electoral reform might not be the panacea the left hope it
I live on around £30k in London. Commuting is about £150 per month depending on how many evening shifts I do. I'm not crazy enough to add a two hour commute on to my often long days. We're about to move into a three bedroom house. I've "paid off" my student "loan". Have you seen my screen name? But my point is not about… -
Re: Why the Republicans are in a panic about Hispanics – politicalbetting.com
The Senate passed a deemed as passed motion in respect of the Epstein resolution before the bill even got to them from the House so it went straight to Trump's desk with it being crystal clear that any attempt at a veto will be instantly overturned. There is a risk that he will still try to hide behind the "active… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Obama appears to be winning the battle for public opinion o
Crikey. The richest MP in Parliament has spoken of a £1million wrecking spree which saw a Jeep smash into three aircraft and demolish buildings on his country estate – just hours after he was sacked as a minister. Two planes were destroyed and a third was rammed into buildings at the airstrip, causing horses to bolt from… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » This poll just about sums Brexit up – 60% don’t care what happ
It's all down to Freedom of Movement for people as enshrined by the pernicious mechanism known as the Single Market so beloved of Mrs Thatcher and the Conservatives. Maybe you should mention that to your "lefty" wife. The rationale is simple - it's the same one that has perpetuated economic growth for three centuries -… -
Re: The betting markets are so far unmoved by Starmer’s speech – politicalbetting.com
I disagree. Here's a prediction: the first houses will go up on the Wintringham site in 2026. They've spent far too much money for it to stop now. My question is why it's been stopped for as long as it has. It isn't so that they can say work has started; there must be some other reason. Planning, or resources, perhaps.… -
Re: Diagnosing the NHS – politicalbetting.com
Harris had singer Beyoncé Knowles performing on stage with her last night, a good tactic to attract a crowd to a political rally which the Harris campaign has used quite a bit. She’s apparently trying to get Taylor Swift for one appearance next week. Trump has had a few country singers at his rallies, but not the A-list… -
Re: Donald Trump and the SNP have a lot in common – politicalbetting.com
I don't understand this peculiar questioning. Spare bedrooms is a basic statistic in the English Housing Survey which has been collected for years and years. I've discussed the survey fairly often here, and on occasion under-occupation. Under-occupied means 2 or more spare bedrooms, and in the recent survey 9.3 million… -
Re: Labour Leadership – The Betting Value’s With Rayner and Miliband – politicalbetting.com
@Anna_Giaritelli 📣 if you read one tweet on the chaos at DHS: Less than a week ago, I reported how Noem and Lewandowski had waged an ugly campaign to push out Rodney Scott, the head of CBP (which is over Border Patrol). It seemed like no big deal to some, but really it was about getting rid of someone who was not a “yes”… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If there was to be a new Brexit referendum then LAB voters wou
It's not often I find myself in agreement with the Daily Mail. However, is anyone, even a really tribal Labour loyalist, willing to defend Labour at this moment? Even leaving aside the calls for mass murder and the removal of certain racial groups, the whole approach to policy has been a shambles - did Corbyn really mean… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The rise of cultural leftism
The other issue economically is that the recovery has been very patchy, being centrered on London and SE England and some university cities, with many regions worse off in real terms, while the older and richer groups have done well. The BoE had this interesting speech on the subject a couple of years back:… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » GOP VP Nominee Pence comes out best in the VP debate polls
But the main reason British workers don't want the jobs, is because the pay and conditions are not attractive enough compared to the benefits that they receive. The pay itself for unskilled work has been kept down because there are workers from the EU willing to do the work in supermarkets, care homes, leaflet delivery,… -
Re: The political betting angle to whatever the hell happened in Venezuela – politicalbetting.com
In the entire history of Male Chancellors was there ever a wife of the Chancellor who had such an unbelievable conflict of interest as Reeves's husband ? In the farming industry, and self-employment generally husband and wife are one unseparable unit. The idea that you do not see Reeves and her husband as the same says… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The left could be preparing for Corbyn to stand down & be r
Matthew D'Ancona, who will be the last to die in the ditch with Cameron, wrote a tediously cringeworthy piece in the Standard on Wednesday praising Dave to the skies etc, etc. Not sure if you are wholly accurate on this. Cameron has enjoyed his share, some might say more than his share, of good fortune and even now the…