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Re: Just imagine if Boris Johnson was still PM – politicalbetting.com
British nationalists: 'the Tories were puppets of British nationalists in order to hold onto power', is what you mean. -
Re: The Met is right to resist pressure on Palestinian march – politicalbetting.com
Although assassinations have advantages over mass slaughter, they have this disadvantage for us, too: As American history reminds us, it is easier to assassinate leaders in open societies than closed societies (asuming both are run with basic competence). Sadly, the murders of David Amess and Jo Cox show that your nation… -
Re: What will the King’s speech do to rising pessimism? – politicalbetting.com
Alternatively, of course, it might mean Biden's prospects are somewhat decoupled from Democratic performance. Hard call. -
Re: Just how large Khan’s lead would be without ULEZ? – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Why Trump not winning WH2024 could be a value bet – politicalbetting.com
I don't think Israel had any choice but to take military action - any other response would simply encourage more attacks and more funding for Hamas. In one respect, that's been successful - the likes of Hezbollah and other actors have reverse ferreted. But the immediate impact of these measures is not to subdue Hamas at… -
Re: Class warfare – politicalbetting.com
You can well and truly bugger up a bridge with the use of a relatively few kilograms of quality explosive hand-placed in exactly the correct places - on the saddle/bearers, for instance. To bring a bridge down - as in demolition - is much, much harder. -
Re: Rasputitsa – politicalbetting.com
Sales volumes are way up on 2022 which were up on 2021. Inventory is adequate at best so there are no deep discounts to be had. BMW, Alfa and DS are all struggling for volume so they might be bargain lease deal out there on some of those if you're not too fussy about colour, etc. I recently got an offer from BMW Finance… -
Re: Ireland’s gamble – politicalbetting.com
Desperate people do desperate things. Why they are desperate and whose fault it is they are desperate is the raging global debate. -
Re: The Covid 19 legacy – politicalbetting.com
Er, um? An airburst is one in the air. Nagasaki was 20kt, so if it airbursted under 200m the fireball would still have touched the ground. The trick with fallout is to suck it up and let the winds carry it out. If you do it on the ground you irradiate less ground plus there's less impulse to suck it up Groundbursts do a… -
Re: How viable are Green targets in 2024? Part Two – politicalbetting.com
He will do precisely nothing about it, both for the reasons you cite, and the fact he hasn't got an original bone in his body. He's relying on a million different people hopecasting onto him - he doesn't care what for or why so long as they vote for him. -
Re: How viable are Green targets in 2024? Part One – politicalbetting.com
It seems to be the attitude of both of the establishment and of those who love to protest that China must never be criticised for anything. Whether that is covid, carbon emissions, oppression of Muslims, threatening neighbouring countries or anything else you can think of. -
Re: Starmer is satisfying Lab councillors except on one topic. – politicalbetting.com
Were your previous 5001 posts as crazy? It's very reminiscent of tim..late of this parish. -
Re: Why Labour’s large leads could be a chimera – politicalbetting.com
Oh, before I forget. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(mythology) -
Re: Sir Keir Starmer: Malleus Scotnatorum? – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Polling on yesterday’s man and his next career move – politicalbetting.com
I don’t mind apologising. I am so rarely wrong, like once in a decade, apologising shows humility which I have oodles of. Though some of my apologies do need some work ‘I am sorry for calling you stupid, I thought you knew.’ -
Re: Lab voters trust Starmer more on Israel/Palestine than they trust Corbyn – politicalbetting.com
Hamas are religious fundamentalists who believe it's their duty to drive Jews out of the Middle-East even if that means millions of deaths. They've said as much again and again. The conflict in Ireland (and to some extent disputes between Israel and the PA) were/are political - about how Northern Ireland should be governed… -
Re: Today reconfirmed why the Tories were right to ditch Boris Johnson – politicalbetting.com
Can you remember what it was like back then? Lockdowns were unprecedented in modern Britain, and they had to be sold. And yes, robust debate is fine; but sometimes it is necessary for that debate to occur behind locked doors, and once a decision has been made, for everyone to back it in public. We needed to lockdown. A… -
Re: Anything you can do, we can do worse. – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Glad to be back with PB – politicalbetting.com
50-50 toss up between that and nuclear Armageddon. Do ya feel lucky, punk? -
Re: We need a new Green Policy – Part 2 – politicalbetting.com
On Topic Part 2, a revelation after Part 1. It's good. We need to do this. I'd add in a massive push to end fossil fuel extraction. Just stop oil are on the right track. Food security and climate driven migration are going to be very disruptive. You are getting there. :)