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  • OnlyLivingBoyOnlyLivingBoy Posts: 15,976
    viewcode said:

    viewcode said:

    carnforth said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Who's the most "famous" person you've met? Question of the day on PB.

    I've met six British Prime Ministers.
    Including Truss? She only counts half.
    Not including Truss.
    If I list them as Avuncular, Charming, Intelligent, Smarmy, Needy and Tetchy you should be able to figure out who they all are.
    Avuncular - Major
    Charming - Blair
    Intelligent - Brown
    Smarmy - Cameron
    Needy - May
    Tetchy - Boris

    ?
    I've met four of these but only Cameron is successfully aligned with his adjective!
    You joined in 2019 so I'll assume you're a young fella and haven't met the earlier ones. That leaves us with

    Brown - Tetchy
    Cameron - Smarmy
    May - Charming
    Boris - Avuncular
    Truss - Needy
    Sunak - Intelligent

    If you are an older person that leaves us with

    Callaghan - Avuncular
    Thatcher - Intelligent
    Major - Needy
    Blair - Charming
    Brown - Tetchy
    Cameron - Smarmy

    Callaghan is correct. I met him as a child, he was a friend and former neighbour of my grandparents and I met him at their golden wedding anniversary.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,095

    HYUFD said:

    ‘I’ve earned £575 in six months’: The ex-Tory MPs who can’t get a job
    The sudden shift into unemployment after an election defeat is brutal – and so is finding work when you were a Conservative parliamentarian

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/16/ex-tory-mp-unemployed-political-views/

    I often wondered who would employ Lembit Opik. Then I heard him on local radio.(Kent)
    No need for those sort of words, OKC.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 53,241
    I surreptiously fed bags of Maltesers to Lauren Bacall on set.

    Wife of Bogart.

    Lover of Sinatra.

    Friend of Hemingway. (Although his wife warned her off by dropping two bullets into her hand. "I'm a good shot. I won't need both....")

    I also - soto voce - sang The Gremlin song to her rather horrible Papillon.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 29,368

    Sandpit said:

    carnforth said:

    carnforth said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Who's the most "famous" person you've met? Question of the day on PB.

    I've met six British Prime Ministers.
    Including Truss? She only counts half.
    Not including Truss.
    If I list them as Avuncular, Charming, Intelligent, Smarmy, Needy and Tetchy you should be able to figure out who they all are.
    Oh, political dwarves then.
    Still one short.
    John Bercow?
    Starmer is surprisingly tiny.
    Same height as the statuesque, muscular Adonis Alexander Johnson I believe.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,700

    HYUFD said:

    Rachel from Accounts hits the back of the net. She is Alexander Isak

    With a per capita decline?

    Population is growing more than 0.1% so per capita that is recessionary.
    Only because of immigration, our birthrate is well below replacement level.

    Cut immigration further and per capita it will be growing too
    It doesn't work that way, cut immigration and you cut all the production and demand that those migrants do.

    So we'd probably be officially in recession were it not for migration, but evading a recession because of a per capita decline isn't replacing the fact that it's a decline either way.
    hotel business would lose big time, public purse would be overflowing with saved cash. Usual utter bollox from you, if brains were dynamite you could not blow your nose.
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