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Re: Could an Aberdeenshire hotelier become our Prime Minister? – politicalbetting.com
"He's probably been to more political meetings than anybody in history."Jeremy Corbyn joined the Labour Party in 1965 - a year before we won the World Cup - and he's still an MP today. Amazing to contemplate such longevity. He's probably been to more political meetings than anybody in history.Gladstone also had an enormously long political career, a minister in 1841, still prime minister in 1894!Identifying big leaps is key to that. Obviously Churchill will be a key leap he gets you to Asquith and then Gladstone, the route back to Churchill goes through Ken Clarke I guess and somene In The 1980s cabinet that gets us to the pre 1966 cabinet?Ive been entertaining myself with the shortest first class steps from Jimmy Anderson to WG Grace in first class cricket so im going to bore you with itVery good!
Jimmy played with
Alec Stewart Who played with and against
Ian Botham who played with
Brian Close (Somerset 1976) who played against
Bob Wyatt (MCC vs Yorkshire 1949) who played with
Wilfred Rhodes (Gower xi vs touring Australians 1930) who's first test was
WG Graces last test
I think that's the shortest route between the Goats
It would be interesting to do a political Kevin Bacon on this
"X was in a Cabinet with X who was in a Cabinet with Gladastone/Disraeli/Pitt/Wellington"
So you could probably get back to the 18th century fairly quickly
And that's just in the last three months.
Re: Could an Aberdeenshire hotelier become our Prime Minister? – politicalbetting.com
Ive been entertaining myself with the shortest first class steps from Jimmy Anderson to WG Grace in first class cricket so im going to bore you with it
Jimmy played with
Alec Stewart Who played with and against
Ian Botham who played with
Brian Close (Somerset 1976) who played against
Bob Wyatt (MCC vs Yorkshire 1949) who played with
Wilfred Rhodes (Gower xi vs touring Australians 1930) who's first test was
WG Graces last test
I think that's the shortest route between the Goats
Jimmy played with
Alec Stewart Who played with and against
Ian Botham who played with
Brian Close (Somerset 1976) who played against
Bob Wyatt (MCC vs Yorkshire 1949) who played with
Wilfred Rhodes (Gower xi vs touring Australians 1930) who's first test was
WG Graces last test
I think that's the shortest route between the Goats
Re: Could an Aberdeenshire hotelier become our Prime Minister? – politicalbetting.com
On topic.Indeed. We put an orange man in power in 1688, we could do it again.
Surely Trump wouldn't settle for PM. He's more a Glorious Revolution 2.0 kind of guy. If the US won't allow a Trump Dynasty perhaps PM Farage would invite him to replace those tree-hugging eco-loons in Buckingham Palace. It's not as if the UK doesn't have form for this sort of cancel culture.
ydoethur
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Re: Could an Aberdeenshire hotelier become our Prime Minister? – politicalbetting.com
He said *one* person.Quick pop quiz. Name one person dumber than Trump?@Leon
ydoethur
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Re: When will Rachel Reeves cease to be Chancellor? – politicalbetting.com
Sad news about Dickie Bird. We went to his final test match at Lords in 1996 and he got a huge round of applause when walking out.
Andy_JS
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Re: When will Rachel Reeves cease to be Chancellor? – politicalbetting.com
Woke email of the day:Speak to Leon as he is bi-sexual,
"Hi Everyone, Today is Bi is a day to recognise the bisexual community and celebrate bisexual people globally.
The bisexual community is frequently referred to as the forgotten part of the LGBTQ+ community and they face a number of negative stereotypes and expectations. Bisexual Visibility Day is an opportunity to celebrate bisexuals and discover the difficulties that many members of the bisexual community face."
Not quite sure of the difficulties, but then I'm not bi. Also not sure what celebration I'm supposed to be doing?
The only sex he gets he has to buy.
Re: When will Rachel Reeves cease to be Chancellor? – politicalbetting.com
Every single person who takes paracetamol will die. FACT!
Re: When will Rachel Reeves cease to be Chancellor? – politicalbetting.com
Proud husband: On yesterday's flight to Portugal there was obviously something serious going on and then an announcement was made for any Doctor on the flight. My wife stepped up. Interestingly she said they had an impressive amount of gear if she had needed it. Getting a bit concerning when the defibrillator came out, but wasn't needed and all ended well after about an hour.
We were offered anything free from the trolley, but having got up at 2 am for a 6 am flight a cup of coffee was all we could face.
Very proud
We were offered anything free from the trolley, but having got up at 2 am for a 6 am flight a cup of coffee was all we could face.
Very proud
kjh
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Re: When will Rachel Reeves cease to be Chancellor? – politicalbetting.com
Off thread: a vignette from drop off of my Y6 daughter (10) at school this morning - around 8 children, crowded around, looking at a thing (it was reported that this was a 'cube puzzle' - I never saw it, such was the scrum around it. Laughter, shouts of advice, 10 year old witticisms. Ubiquitous smiles. 10 yards away, the one child in the class who has been given a smartphone, standing alone, scrolling, blankly.
Cookie
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Re: When will Rachel Reeves cease to be Chancellor? – politicalbetting.com
There are too many Labour politicians who have been net recipients of government taxation/spending all their lives.But who would be better?Are we going to have to wait until October or November every year of this parliament wondering how she's going to make our shit sandwich even bigger?This is a key point - investment has dried up. To be fair to Reeves it isn't just her, it dried up before Labour took over. And its in every industry. It's been fascinating watching north sea industry leaders aghast at "drill baby drill" - that is the opposite of what they want. Planned, deliverable, profitable investment over a long period of time, with stable politics giving a platform they trust putting money into.
The uncertainty it drives into the economy and investment for months on end is criminal. And hurts UK Plc.
This is crazy. The UK economy has stalled completely, and the never ending shit show cycle makes it worse.
You're an investor. The UK has had 6 Prime Ministers and 8 Chancellors in 10 years. With wild policy swings in that time. Sometimes week to week. Why would you invest here? We need stability. Leaving Reeves in place brings stability to the ver changing cycle but in this case it is stability as the ship sinks. She needs to go.
As far as I understand it, the internal pressure in Labour is that she isn't borrowing and spending enough.
It's quite quite mad.
And too many Labour politicians who know too many people who have been net recipients of government taxation/spending all their lives.
The mindset develops that being a net recipient of government/spending all your life is 'normal' and that the net contributors are the unimportant outliers.
