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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Plunging opinion polls are not the Conservatives’ biggest prob
The house down the road from me was empty for three years, the owner having died and it took years to sort out his estate, during which time the garden turned to a wilderness of brambles and weeds. When the house finally appeared on the estate agent's website the blurb read: "The garden has been managed in a natural way to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Breaking…Sky News on the Deputy Speaker, Nigel Evans
I have been looking at house prices over the past few days and this meme about London prices far outstripping prices elsewhere in the UK needs challenging. Yes, London prices have outperformed the rest of the UK but not by a large amount. Scotland and Wales for example have significantly outperformed England and Northern… -
Re: Starmer remains solid 71% favourite to be PM after the election – politicalbetting.com
Yes, but look at the smooth population growth curve and the explosion of house prices in the early to mid 1990s. This is in the period when there is still plenty of slack in the system - and we all know that that growth was fuelled by consumer borrowing; that was at the heart of Gordon Brown's economic policy. Since the… -
Re: The Entente Cordiale – politicalbetting.com
Most middle aged people never owned their house outright, even in the 1980s and 1990s at peak home ownership if they owned it was with a mortgage (hence Black Wednesday led to many reposessions). Though as has also been stated the more rent as they age the even more will be the resistance to ending the triple lock -
Re: What’s new pussy cat? – politicalbetting.com
So as we move into the last hours of the Con government, I can't help but think how disappointing it has been. Love them or loathe them but Thatcher and Blair transformed the UK. This iteration of the Cons have not achieved that much, if you think about it. For me, the problem has been the rotating cast of PMs and cabinet… -
Re: Speculation is starting to mount on the election date – politicalbetting.com
I’m sorry, this explanation go longer even begins to explain the weirdness. Biden’s White House has been notably reserved on this issue to date, either playing dumb or laughing it off. Now suddenly they take it seriously too? How does it benefit the White House Strategic Spokesman to say “there is stuff our pilots are… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Trump’s impeachment has almost no impact on the WH2020 betting
Indeed and Help to Buy has been working with that. Any more ways they can make Help to Buy work to improve home ownership rates is great for producing Tory voters - and great for the people getting out of renting and on to the housing ladder. It baffles me why some on this site are unhappy with policies that are ensuring… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The open field: Picking the next Labour leader
Ha! That would be a stupid thing to declare. It would be like saying my cat does not keep those bastard elves away from house and garden (everyone knows elves hate and are terrified of cats). I have had at least one cat in the house for the last thirty-odd years and have never been bothered by elves, or any other sort of… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Mortimer with a tip for the more adventurous gamblers
Research written by some academic type who probably has as much contact with working class people as our leaders. I'm not in favour of reducing immigration to the "tens of thousands" and neither am I that bothered by immigration as it is today, we could probably stand to reduce it to reduce the pressure on housing but… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If punters risking their cash have got this right TMay’s safe
Helpfully the Daily Mail has a list of possible Tory leader contenders. Let’s examine their records. Dominic Raab – a man who, despite having a seat in the South East, was unaware of the importance of the Dover – Calais route to Britain’s trade Andrea Leadsom – famous or, perhaps, infamous for having allowed a wholly… -
Re: How Starmer compares with other opposition leaders at this stage – politicalbetting.com
Sir John Hayes, on the Today programme: "You can’t grow your population at 700,000 a year – where on earth are you going to house these people? We build about 180,000 new homes a year. Of course more than a million have come because this is a net figure, if it does turn out to be 700,000. You just can’t grow the population… -
Re: The Sunday open thread. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – politicalbetting.com
Anyone who has ever tried to get a GP appointment in England will be familiar with the "8am scramble", as you phone your local surgery desperately hoping to get through. Many surgeries - like the Tudor House Medical Practice - open their telephone lines at 08:00, meaning that if you want an on-the-day appointment, you have… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Unique poll IndyRef poll confined to Scottish women only fi
One thing I can't stand about the US is queues at immigration.... grrrr, they don't even have a fast track system if you are in a premium cabin. I've missed one connection from this already, stuck in IAD where I had to queue at the United desk for another 2 hours to get rebooked on the last flight to the west coast (in… -
Re: Coming to a Lib Dem bar chart near you – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Is Biden going honour his commitment to make Washington DC a state in its own right? – politicalbett
On topic: I agree that Puerto Rico might get statehood before DC. In fact, PR just voted in an advisory referendum in November to seek statehood. There have been previous referendums on the island but these were all three-choice: statehood, independence or status quo with no one option getting a majority. Many of these… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If the next CON leader betting prices are an indicator then
Short-term - terrible week for Cameron, his ratings will plummet. Long-term - has Labour done a big own goal? Contrast with welfare cuts - on the face of it popular but long-term impact is the message that Conservatives = Nasty party. Now what message has Labour been making loud and clear? They don't like people inheriting… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A rather subdued speech by TMay which did not have much sub
This is good; http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/working-for-everyone/7017096.blog "In her rhetoric at least, Theresa May got some of this. One of the most intriguing passages in her speech was the one in which she talked of the problems caused by low interest rates: ‘While monetary policy – with super-low interest rates and… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » It is clear someone is leaking to damage Amber Rudd and I thin
Re the postscript - would Javid take the Home Office? Only one HS has gone directly on to be PM in the last 150 years (and only four in total, one of them thirty years later). He's clearly ambitious. Would he really take what has almost always proven a political graveyard? I'm doubtful. If it were the Treasury he'd bite… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Brexit deadlock: Some group has got to shift bit it is not
Name one airy generalisation that has categorically been shown to be complete horse feathers. What has been shown to be complete horse feathers was the Remainers projections for what happens if we vote to leave with the airy generalisation that we'd have an immediate recession and spiking unemployment when in fact the… -
Re: Some of front pages after Raab’s exit – politicalbetting.com
Right.. I'm ready to go! My ferry doesn't leave for eight hours, but I'm stopping for a few beers at a mate's place on the way down to Portsmouth and heading off in about half an hour This is all my luggage for the next three weeks (weighs just over 8kg), and my walking hat. The beer is for scale, and has now been opened…
