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Re: Hyperliberalism – politicalbetting.com
Answer as above - this was about the miner's strike in the 1980s. There is a pit tip next to this woodland which has been bulldozed for housing though - and some of the bulldozing has infringed on the edge of the wood. The developer owns the bit they have messed up but it will be a failure to meet planning conditions I… -
Re: If Farage doesn’t distance himself from the odious Trump then his polling might struggle
The centrist dads aren't happy with that, either. The difference is the UK or Europe's ability to influence events. Which, in the case of whatever it is that Netanyahu and Trump are about to do in Gaza, is close to nil. Note that Saudi Arabia's bid of $55bn to rebuild the place has just been rejected out of hand by Trump.… -
Re: Why 2023 is the value bet for the year or the next election – politicalbetting.com
What is striking right now are the states of the housing market and the labour market. The pandemic has forced (or enabled) a lot of people to reassess their priorities, and there is no doubt that the virtues of a cheaper but quieter life away from the ‘rat-race’ of the city has escalated massively, particularly for those… -
Re: A second referendum, is this how Starmer wins a second term? – politicalbetting.com
Donald Trump appoints child sex offender to presidential council: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-inviting-sex-offender-white-house-2107403 Lawrence Taylor is a former professional football player. He pleaded guilty to charges after having sex with a 16-year old (below the local age of consent), having paid her $300.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Now the speculation is that these could be TMay’s final days a
No but he has a point. The tail end of the Thatcher regime coincided with the privatisation of the Building Research Establishment. This epitomised the growing idiocy of 'the market will provide'. Since 1979, the housing construction rate has roughly halved from about 300,000 to 150,000 dwellings per year. The demand for… -
Re: Tories take 4% lead in the “Blue Wall” – politicalbetting.com
You may be interested to hear that our house in Finland is in a zoning system. We cannot cut down a tree in the garden without permission. The guy across the road is trying to do a self build and has been waiting for 10 months for permission to knock down the existing building and because the new house is 1m higher than… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The numbers game. Alastair Meeks on the forthcoming Parliament
As some one who was there at the time the things I remember:- It trapped those people who had bought just before the crash who had to wait a long time for prices to rise again Those who could afford to purchase still could purchase. Mortgage transaction numbers remained virtually the same during and after the crash of 1989… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » As Biden moves to evens on Betfair new Ipsos WH2020 poll has h
I’m not hedging my view – Trump is unelectable and thus Toast – but I do have a couple of nagging concerns about the election and I don’t see why I shouldn’t share them. They are as follows – (1) Kamala Harris She’s a woman. Not only that, she’s assertive and blasian too. So that’s a little bit of a scary package. Let’s… -
Re: The LAB lead is very steady across the range of pollsters – politicalbetting.com
Has this been covered Mike Pence to enter race for White House https://news.sky.com/story/chris-christie-to-enter-race-to-be-republican-candidate-against-president-biden-for-white-house-12893823 -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Results : January 21st 2016
This is for SeanT, though I'm not sure if he's around - he asked for info on Bhutan, and I promised to ask a friend who's familiar with the area. May be of interest to others: I've not been to Bhutan but it's culturally similar to Nepal . My advice would be: Take some iodine and a dropper bottle,dead cheap from a… -
Re: Is there any way back for the Truss Tories? – politicalbetting.com
(May have paragraph problems) Hmmm. That doesn't convince. This is a cross-Europe issue. Germany - 87% of family businesses with this problem. France 50%. Germany has broken ranks on Russia and offered to let 1 million Russians in. France is targeting their structural unemployment problem.… -
Re: Latest next Tory leader betting on the Smarkets exchange – politicalbetting.com
According to WhatsApp messages form my family over there, there has been at least one community transmition of the omicron variant confirmed 24 hours ago. I haven't seen it on news, but also haven't looked, so I cant confirm, however this may be a response to that, if so it may tern out to be 'shutting the stable door… -
Re: Operation Epstein Fury is achieving its goals – politicalbetting.com
This is roughly where I am at present in my thinking on Hormuz. This is Trump's personal war, and he (& the USA with him) has been lead by the nose into it by Netanyahu. Meloni of Italy - Trump's most ideologically aligned Euro leader, has in the last 24 hours made comparison with Russia's war on Ukraine. The US Govt has… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The mood changes on Brexit but the devil will be in the detail
All informed journalist opinion agrees something big shifted yesterday. The Irish are publicly very chipper about it. There is complete Radio silence from the British end. We know Barnier/Barclay talks sre scheduled this morning to decide whether to go into tge tunnell or not. Arlene Foster's sporting tweet may have been… -
Re: Another parable of UK industry – politicalbetting.com
This is from the House of Commons Library paper on the deportation of criminals which I happened to be looking at this morning: "The Immigration Act 1971 originally envisaged deportation being discretionary. A person would be liable to deportation if the Home Office decided it was conducive to the public good or a judge… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » It’s time for the rest of the polling industry to follow Su
Long and O/T - but interesting I thought. PropertyVision view on the future of the market. Can't do a link unless someone shows me how to upload a PDF. Note, tim, that there is no mention of HtB or any other schemes impacting prices. It is now five years into the financial crisis. In those words there is a something of an… -
Re: Penny now drops to third in the betting – politicalbetting.com
Curse of the new thread... 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… -
Re: Liz Truss – the Tory gift to Keir Starmer – politicalbetting.com
The Tories key selling point has always been the fact that it persuades people that it can spend taxes more wisely than Labour. Rinse and repeat. The British public is small c conservative- they like the Government to add 1 and 1. That point has won the Tories every election despite Labour being trusted to run public… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Polling Analysis: Johnson approval ratings are markedly better
I would suggest that in this case the 'interruption' is as much the government's response to COVID as COVID itself, given that the disease is far, far less harmful to the general population than the pandemic of 1920, and the tools for fighting it more powerful. COVID alone has not broken old habits as much as those habits… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The US Presidential Election: David Herdson’s guide to anal
CNBC has caved to Trump and Carson - the debate will be limited to 2 hours (hurray!) and will have opening and closing statements (Boo! - we know what they stand for already). Clinton is hammering the House Benghazi investigation, which is irrelevant at this point to her email problem. Huma Abedin testified in secret…