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Join the celebrations for PB’s 18th anniversary – politicalbetting.com
Join the celebrations for PB’s 18th anniversary – politicalbetting.com
Next month this site, politicalbetting.com will be 18 years old and to celebrate there is to be a party at the headquarters of Smarkets near Tower Bridge in London.
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NOTE The date is Wednesday March 2nd
Larry the Cat
@Number10cat
Replying to
@PippaCrerar
If it’s Carling then he’ll be gone within the hour
https://twitter.com/Number10cat/status/1489701515262582785
Beware. You might get some rambling, rageful incoherent posts for once.
...and yet at the same time why almost none have leaked. They also couldn't be deleted because they're official government photographs, now stored by Sue Gray.
If true, as the source told remarked to us, it added "a Nixonian air" to the entire episode.
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1489721930429124616
“It was back to maximum Boris, election-winning Boris.”
You don’t need a director of communications when you’ve got Wickham fearlessly reporting these truth bombs
HE WON THE ROOM ROUND
Hours after the Gray/Savile shambles
https://twitter.com/MattChorley/status/1489722987947470851/photo/1
Wish Tory MPs would get on with it
https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1489723496385191938
Senior minister accusing critics of playing “the wife not the ball.”
https://twitter.com/mrharrycole/status/1489721942009593862
And invite the local MP so we could all laugh at him...
I wasn't here from the start. I arrived when looking for some information about the Cheadle by-election - what, June 2005? I remember a conversation in so much more detail than is ever given to these things. Absolutely amazing that here were people who enjoyed the minutiae that I did. Discussion of the electoral geography of the Cheadle constituency quickly segued - indeed, ran alongside - a conversation about the merits of British cheeses.
Lots of names from those days still with us. OGH and Robert, of course. Roger. Stodge (with whom, I remember, very early on, a detailed conversation about the EU - how wonderful to find a place where such things can be explored in such detail without rancour), Nick Palmer (myMP at the time - how amazing to be discussing politics with my MP) - even Jack W still puts in the odd appearance. Who else from those days? Sean Fear, Alistair Matlock, Woody 662, Stuart Penketh. Seems I only remember lapsed Tories?
How have I been hanging around here for 16 years? Since when I have found a wife, had three daughters, changed career twice and home city once.
And ah, pb, we have been through such a lot together. Especially the last two years.
Well done Mike and Robert for running such a remarkable corner of the internet.
I haven’t posted since GE2019 as the prospect of Boris Johnson with a majority was just too ghastly to spend time discussing. Seems like a few more have now come to the same view!
As a 2005-er I’m delighted to see PB going strong and I will see if March 2nd is possible. We’ve just had a new baby so will depend on how things are at home.
Glad to see so many posters I remember on good form. And that list from Cookie brought back memories. I particularly remember the likes of SBS and Mark Senior no longer with us.
That's not a fate I'd wish on anyone.
On and off since. Two moves and three identities.
By that way, does anyone know what happened to the Tap? I enjoyed his nonsense.
There was also a very funny drunk bloke called SeanT, has anyone seen him around recently?
The government is quite clearly paralysed until he goes
SBS no longer with us? I don't think I knew that. That's sad. I was thinking about Mark Senior the other day, oddly. Remembering that he chose to celebrate winning a prediction competition with a picture of his son smashing him over the head with a chair.
I'm aiming to be there on March 2nd. It may not be the terrace of the National Liberal Club but it looks like being an excellent evening.
Perhaps a Cheltenham Preview thought or two may be on offer if you ask nicely though if you follow my normal racing tips probably not.
Thanks for the kind word @Cookie - I must confess I consider anyone who started posting after the 2005 GE a "newbie" but re-assuring to see a few of the "old guard" still around and perhaps we can raise a glass to those who aren't.
Hope everyone enjoys it
NOM EVS
Con Maj 9/4
Lab Maj 4/1
Who's SeanT?
The cabinet descended into rancour over Boris Johnson’s future last night after both Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak rebuked the prime minister.
One cabinet minister called for Johnson to dismiss Sunak, and two others accused the chancellor of being “on manoeuvres” after he criticised the prime minister for a personal attack on Sir Keir Starmer.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/civil-war-in-cabinet-as-boris-johnson-told-to-sack-rishi-sunak-hgdfjtdjj
(I’m pretty sure I first started posting in 2004.)
Perhaps have a Big Board up at Smarkets to show Zooms from the ends of the earth, from Bangkok to Budapest to Bognor and back? With prize for furthest distance (as crow flies) from Charing Cross?
There was some kind of spontaneous get together after work (ie 2pm in afternoon) and YET the official photographer was hanging around?
Feck me we are being taken for fools again and again and again.
Nick Gibb = letter.
Bugger Bognor.
Anyway, it's academic. We're all just computer simulations created by members of a hyper-advanced civilization with way too much time on their hands, after all.
Great post, Cookie!
Nailed on contest within hours.
Tragically I fear I shall be otherwise engaged that evening.
The simulation hypothesis.
He merely said he wouldn't have said the boundlessly stupid thing he said. As wouldn't anyone with half a Braincell.
Except Sue Gray.
There were so many parties that we are entering the realm of uncountable infinities.
Jimmy Carr condemned for ‘truly disturbing’ joke about travellers in Netflix special"
Could this Blabbering or Backbiting Cabinet be the handwriting on the wall for Boris Johnson?
Edit: given Leon's reaction to Wick, I wonder what he would make of Peterheid. Or the Broch.
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Farmer Tupac railing at Osborne. I watched polls being Baxtered in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Rod Crosby swinging back. Resolver Systems selling Python to the masses. Jack W consulting the Great Arse. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the afternoon rain at Bognor Regis Pier. Time for tea...."
I'm a closet LD.
Don't agree with their Europe policy (well, EU policy) so drifted a bit in 2015-2018, but I'll vote for them as long as they push my all time number 1 priority..... voting reform.
Oddly enough,I find his twitter persona nowadays much more akin to his old antifrank persona.
Though the proto-woke and kind hearted were in evidence, at the core of the backlash were PB punters who'd personally profited from Andrea's perceptive analysis.
She changed username and then diasappeared, although I’m fairly sure I saw her posting late one night not so long ago.
Easterross much missed. A proper Highland Tory. Hate to think what he makes of the current bunch of chancers denigrating the name of his party. Mike banned him. Forgotten why. When you see the scumbags that are allowed to post filth you have to wonder what a kindly old gentleman like Easterross did wrong.