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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » From what Davis said, we need to think about a Limbo Brexit
It is also not clear that in these areas (inc Leics) that affordable housing benefits the Tories. Largely housing outside the South has remained affordable because real incomes have been squeezed. The former may favour the Tories, but the latter does not. -
Re: Why I’m not convinced that LAB will get a majority – politicalbetting.com
Hmmm. I see no prospect that messing about with Independent Schools will save any money whatsoever for the State. Even leaving aside the extra cost imposed by driving people out of the sector who can no longer afford it by missing holidays, decent cars and so on, it will still risk liquidating the support given to the… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Lynton Crosby’s magic fails to save the Tories in Canada
Yeah ours has electronic booking as well... If you are not logged on with your finger on the mouse button at 08:00:00 you are screwed. (At this time I am in the car on the way to work) Alternatively you can ring up for an appointment on the day...at 8.00 exactly and ideally with a good half an hour free to be on hold.… -
Re: PB 2025 predicitions competition – final chance to enter – politicalbetting.com
Obviously it has nothing to do with Ronald Reagan, there’s no-one involved in ATC now who was there four decades ago when the President took the nuclear option to resolve a labour dispute. That option wouldn’t be there now, as the airspace is so much busier and there are a lot of more civvy and a lot fewer mil controllers… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Will Jeremy Hunt be Health Secretary on the 1st of January
My thoughts..... There are a few things we could all do together to alleviate the immediate pressure. 1) Reduce attendance at A&E . It accident and emergency not anything else. By doing so the demand for ambulance service is reduced as is A&E waiting rooms and urgent cases are dealt with quickly. This may have to be a… -
Re: The one party coalition of chaos – politicalbetting.com
I absolutely get this. I recently spent £200 on a Ben Sherman jacket and shirt and T shirt and felt really guilty doing it. It should have been a cheap one from Sainsbury’s or M&S with the Mother in laws discount. I have been moving some of my SIPP to mixed assets, bonds and cash but a discussion with Ben Pointer the other… -
Re: Punters remain convinced that BJ will last the course – politicalbetting.com
I haven't read the details but presume the home has a charge against it similar to a mortgage, rather than has been sold? If the house gains 30% value or drops 30% value who gets the change in value? The homeowner or the state? If the homeowner, then no, it has not been sold before death, and is no longer "your" home after… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The LAB leadership: Liz Kendall is taking the lion’s share
The point being made, as it has been here for years, is there is a Conservative case for raising wages and against in-work benefits (WTCs and housing benefit) which distort both the housing and labour markets, and tilt the playing field against good employers. -
Re: The enduring legacy of Liz Truss – politicalbetting.com
I'm in the Keir Starmer is too weak to do anything about it camp. Not that it's impossible. For me house price reform needs much more joined up thinking which also includes immigration reform, some has already happened with the current government pushing up minimum income levels and barring dependents on certain types of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » London Local Elections 2018 : By-Elections Review and Forecast
I was talking a couple of days ago with an architect who does a lot of work in London with the big housebuilding companies. He was telling me about one planned development of 4,000 houses, which had been agreed in principle when Boris was mayor. Now Sadiq Khan is trying to move the goalposts, insisting on a higher… -
Re: They Change Their Sky, Not Their Soul – politicalbetting.com
The facts suggest that there was rather more control in the past than you seem to think. From the House of Commons Library - "How has migration to the UK changed over time? The number of people migrating to the UK has been greater than the number emigrating in each year since 1994. Before then, immigration and emigration… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Events, events – how even a government with a big majority can
1. Housing Owen Jones on Loch Gruinart until every country on the planet has been Covid-19 free for at least 12 months. 2. Housing anyone who follows Owen Jones on Twitter on Loch Gruinart until..... -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Electoral reform – Coming sooner than you think?
MD Absolutely correct. The role of the HoL or whatever it may be called, has not been decided. Is it to be a revising house with recommendations, or a revising house with real power? However I do not see the HoC giving up their primacy without a near revolution. -
Re: Can Liz Truss turn this round? – politicalbetting.com
Hard to judge without context but I suspect most socialists would agree with her. The true disparities in this country come from wealth, not income. It is the appreciation of capital assets, principally homes but not exclusively so, that has created division in our society. This has been greatly accentuated by QE which has… -
Re: Knives out. Will Labour MPs remove Sir Keir Starmer? – politicalbetting.com
In snouts in the trough news: The costs of managing the insolvency of the main trading arm of Greensill are expected to reach more than £90 million this year. Administrators of Greensill Capital (UK), or GCUK, which collapsed more than five years ago, said they are still dealing with the complicated fallout from its… -
Re: Is Donald Trump’s problem that he’s too good at his job? – politicalbetting.com
For me the logical political position for Labour to take is to let Reform get on with their business of demolishing Kent, as an exhibition of how they will run the country. I think Tice is making up gripping yarns in the hope that his siloed supporters will take it. The evidence is "but they have been criticising Kent CC… -
Re: I am sure that this will not be seen as a metaphor about Kemi Badenoch – politicalbetting.com
There is no Leader of the UK in recent history who has had to deal with tyrants like Trump and Netanyahu. No Leader since Churchill could have dealt with this situation any differently as there is one key component we have had to face in that time and that is a US President who is ROGUE! Add to that the most influential… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Is Any Other Party worth a bet for South Shields?
An unusually weak blog article by Fraser Nelson, evidenced by his two updates which show him retreating under pressure from tweets and comments: In disowning this agenda, Labour are making what Janan Ganesh calls “a truly strategic mistake that will hang over it for years.” Osborne agrees – hence his excitement. His… -
Re: The end of the Keir show – politicalbetting.com
Elon Musk’s Doge ‘no longer exists’ after contract ended early Tesla billionaire left White House in April after explosive fallout with Donald Trump and unit has now been disbanded https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/24/elon-musk-doge-no-longer-exists-contract-ended-early-usa/ (£££) -
Re: Favoured Voters – politicalbetting.com
I'm sorry but that's staggeringly naive. I studied politics 40 years ago and corruption was systemic then, as now. Dear old Wilson had his beer and sandwich sessions with the unions (and the unions are some of the most corrupt organisations in the country), Thatcher had the newspaper magnates, which Tony Blair then aped…