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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The New Year starts with little cheer for any of the parties
Morning all :) The annual kick in the teeth for commuters to start the year - 3.4%, well above my miniscule wage rise so I'm already worse off, thank you Mrs May. Yet there seems no shortage of people wanting to travel and as Richard T points out, in London the issue is one of capacity at the rail heads. It has been… -
Re: Rishi and Liz looking stronger on the betting markets – politicalbetting.com
Here on the Bucks/Oxon borders I think it must be around 36c but there is a bit of a breeze. I have certainly been in hotter places before but it is certainly very toasty for this country. I am remarkably impressed by how well our new build (4 years old) house has coped. I closed everything at just after 9am today.… -
Re: Mortgage payments increasingly becoming a big issue – politicalbetting.com
The positioning of all three parties on this has been awful. The Tories own the mess and show no willingness to change, the Lib Dems want to subsidise mortgages and undermine the BoE, and Labour supporting buy to let. Of the three, Labour probably still come out on top given they are more likely to give the green light to… -
Re: On the trail hunting for supporters of trail hunting – politicalbetting.com
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Re: The year according to YouGov – politicalbetting.com
Only today it has been announced Llandudno is to house asylum seekers and the social media is off the scale in fury and letters from politicians to the Council demanding more information This is the first time I have heard the subject raised at any time in our area -
Re: The papers after an historic day – politicalbetting.com
Good morning everyone. Boris will not earn his much-needed money through sales of his personal memoir. He may get a mildly decent advance but the actual books won't sell. No one wants to read a serial liar's spin and self-justification these days. Biographies about this turbulent time might do better but non-fiction… -
Re: Boris’s big Christmas gamble – politicalbetting.com
There's probably a significant element of truth to that argument, but it may also be that any form of lockdown short of herding people into their homes and nailing or welding the doors shut for a month simply isn't that effective, and may to an extent even be counter-productive. Going in hard and early has failed abysmally… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The persistence of lack of memory. How the state retirement ag
As has been pointed out this generation has enjoyed the benefit of huge rises in house prices, final salary pensions (which they may well have had in their own right of inherited their spouse's on death), free NHS, a wider welfare state and more. Women until this change were on average getting a state pension for ten years… -
Re: Bad news for backers and supporters of Ron DeSantis – politicalbetting.com
It’s a combination of things not a question of getting rid of them. Fundamentally the cost of living is too high in this country (some for good reasons) and so we subsidise insufficiently productive workers - but that has been abused by some firms in the past. Fix housing costs / housing benefits (I would tend to have… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Is Johnson really going to stick it out as PM till the next ge
Dundee has a really chronic problem with drugs and this has aggravated mental health issues in the city. It has a lot of poor housing and very poor leadership. Although there have been successes in the City, such as the Welcome trust expansion of the University, the R&A museum and some games makers they have provided a… -
Re: Labour are the favourites to win the most seats at the next general election – politicalbetting.com
My Mum grew up in a house with two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. One of my best friends growing up was Jewish. My best friend now has Israeli citizenship, but has left the country. Saying "There are a plethora of Arab nations for Arabs to live in" is, at best, deeply ignorant. That's like saying there are a plethora… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Disruption on the line
Good, albeit London centered, article. I think in Medium and smaller cities the changes are much less marked. Mine is a hands on job, so WFH is not realistic. The only real change to my working week is that departmental business meetings are on Teams rather than in person, and didactic undergraduate and postgraduate… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » NEW PB/Polling Matters podcast: That latest YouGov forecast, p
How is this any different from the ranting about the social care policy ? It's just another group of people who don't want to pay and expect the Government to pick up the tab. Yes of course we must help those and especially those struggling with dementia but to what extent should the care of the elderly be a family… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » More gloomy by-election news for UKIP and the LD surge continu
In-house counsel has long been viewed as the country cousins, when compared to the big law firms, but with two exceptions where the expertise was undoubtedly In-house - entertainment and energy. So lawyer of the year for energy and natural resources - that doesn't count for much in my book. BP had astonishing expertise,… -
Re: A fractured SNP will struggle to campaign at full-throttle – politicalbetting.com
Meanwhile, back at the ranch . . . The 435th and final US House seat from the 2020 election has finally been decided, in New York State's 22nd congressional district. NY state judge has ordered counties to certify final returns that make Republican Claudia Tenney, a one-term former congresswoman, the winner over Democratic… -
Re: Divide and conquer? Betting on the October 19th by-elections – politicalbetting.com
. Biden’s White House has been content to supply sufficient arms so that Ukraine does not lose while being insufficient for them to win. It seems pretty clear this has been deliberate. Meanwhile his comments on the eve of the invasion practically invited it and were a bigger disgrace in the field of foreign policy than any… -
Re: Who will flower in Scotland in 2026? – politicalbetting.com
Labour MP took £1.2m loan from Lord Alli to buy house for her sister Siobhain McDonagh says peer was ‘best friends’ with terminally ill sibling Margaret, Labour’s first female general secretary A Labour MP accepted a £1.2 million loan from Lord Alli to buy a house. Siobhain McDonagh, the MP for Mitcham and Morden, said the… -
Re: This bodes well for Labour to receive tactical votes – politicalbetting.com
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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » This is not an early April Fools’ Day story. Iain Duncan Smith
That course has already been locked in. Even if MPs suddenly rally round an option on Monday - permanent Customs Union for example - it simply won't happen. May knows that CU will split her party and therefore she will refuse to heel - it's only "advisory" remember and if MPs pass her deal they can have whatever they like… -
Re: Bridget Phillipson needs to channel her inner David Cameron – politicalbetting.com
The problem is that there are self evidently people who abuse the system. There is an example of a Bangladeshi man in the Mail today (let’s set aside whether the mail is reliable just to use as an example). He’s been here since 1997 and says he has a passport. Fine. He used to work in a restaurant but is now on disability…
