We just beat a whole pile of no hopers in a competition nobody else could even be bothered with.
No DJOKOVIC either.
Indeed - it's a complete farce - illustrated by GB beating a Belgium team in the final with nobody who anyone had ever heard of.
Stop dissing Belgium.
I love Belgium, a nation invented to get up the nose of the French.
What's not to love about the Belgians?
"What's not to love about the Belgians? "
Do you want the list alphabetically, or in order of importance?
Their chocolate is quite passable, the beer too, and their landscape eminently suitable for pitched battles between warring great powers. Conveniently located and not too much of significance that can get significantly damaged.
We just beat a whole pile of no hopers in a competition nobody else could even be bothered with.
No DJOKOVIC either.
Indeed - it's a complete farce - illustrated by GB beating a Belgium team in the final with nobody who anyone had ever heard of.
Stop dissing Belgium.
I love Belgium, a nation invented to get up the nose of the French.
What's not to love about the Belgians?
But the fact remains - how good a tennis nation are Belgium? Pretend for a moment that you have not paid silly money for the Davis Cup TV rights, then ask yourself how important is the Davis Cup in the world of modern tennis? We might think GB were brilliant to get to the final and maybe we were. But how is it that at the same time Belgium got there?
Good results for PP and PSOE Podemos did OK Citizens' undershot expectations and - more so - seats
New elections in February, I'd reckon
It looks like PP's worst result since the 1980s; could be PSOE's worst since the late 70s.
Yes, but compared to the Andorran polls, we saw the old parties outperform, and the new ones underperform. Citizens, in particular, had terrible vote-to-seat conversion.
We just beat a whole pile of no hopers in a competition nobody else could even be bothered with.
No DJOKOVIC either.
Indeed - it's a complete farce - illustrated by GB beating a Belgium team in the final with nobody who anyone had ever heard of.
Stop dissing Belgium.
I love Belgium, a nation invented to get up the nose of the French.
What's not to love about the Belgians?
"What's not to love about the Belgians? "
Do you want the list alphabetically, or in order of importance?
Their chocolate is quite passable, the beer too, and their landscape eminently suitable for pitched battles between warring great powers. Conveniently located and not too much of significance that can get significantly damaged.
Also, and this is of major importance, their capital city lent its name to a sprout.
Sinfield would have been a good choice - would have been like when Giggs won - basically a "career award".
Say Gerrard had been nominated - he would have had a good chance.
It's a bit silly really because half the nominations went to people that 99% of the public wouldn't have even heard of - ie "worthy" people in "Olympic" sports that nobody cares about. Hence why they were all 1000 on Betfair.
I would not give my vote or any award to any modern footballer. (Although I can foresee Vardy winning if circumstances conspire). Most leading modern footballers are overpaid prima donnas who get a bit upset and run home crying to their agent when someone tells them to pull their fingers out and actually do something to earn their salaries. If England were to win the 2017 RL World Cup (or even the 2016 4 nations then, now that Sinfield has broken the glass ceiling, I can see Burgess winning. Which Burgess I am not saying.
GB tennis have just won the team event. But wasn't it only Andy Murray who won a match? Murray cannot win both and should be disqualified from the individual event.
Can be expected to win by a respectable margin if those odds are correct.
I backed him £50 E/W at 5-1, then laid him off on Betfair at 4.44 ^^; Still he'll win me about £80
Good luck!
I laid a bit at 1/3 & some more @ 1/4 to top up my fury/ennis back bets.
I expect to lose, but won't feel too bad so long as he doesn't win by a huge margin.
If he barnstorms it, I'll give up punting on these type of bets!
I just can't see why he is 1.3, the Davis cup isn't Wimbledon. But I have no idea truthfully.
In the World Group First Round against the United States, they didn't play Murray against the Bryans, it required a point from James Ward.
Of course that point was gained before the doubles. It is possible the Murray's could beat the Bryans, who are at the end of their career and Jamie Murray's doubles rating must be close to the Bryans (as each individuals double's rating) by now.
So it wasn't 100% a win for Scotland but it could have been if needed and may well have been.
I was told that the Barcelona Podemos is quite pro-EU, while the Madrid one is vehemently anti.
Is that right?
Pablo Iglesias - the national Podemos leader - has been massively critical of the EU and its institutions, but I don't think he's anti-EU per se. Barcelona en Comu is in alliance with Podemos, but is very much a product of the local situation.
Podemos is the nearest thing to a Eurosceptic party in Spain, but it's a bit complicated as the Barcelona Podemos En Comu Podem is pro-EU, while the national Podemos is more anti.
Podemos - across its three separate party lists - got 18%.
I would do a thread on the Spanish election, but I have no fucking idea about Spanish politics
There are three possible outcomes to the Spanish election:
1. Minority PP government. PSOE and Cs decide to abstain on confidence vote. (35% likelihood) 2. New elections in February. (40% likelihood) 3. PSOE + P + Nationalists coalition. (10% likelihood)
I don't believe there is any real chance of a PP/nationalist agreement.
PNV could do some kind of deal with PP. In the old days CiU almost certainly would have done. But it's hard to see how the nationalist Catalan parties could find any way to deal with any of the national Spanish parties. It looks like the avowedly separatist Catalan parties have got well under 50% of the vote in catalonia today.
Podemos is the nearest thing to a Eurosceptic party in Spain, but it's a bit complicated as the Barcelona Podemos En Comu Podem is pro-EU, while the national Podemos is more anti.
Podemos - across its three separate party lists - got 18%.
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
The market overestimated Ennis but otherwise was pretty much on the money.
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
The market overestimated Ennis but otherwise was pretty much on the money.
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
Which confirms nobody cares less about the Olympic sports.
Ennis-Hill surprisingly low and Sinfield polled very well indeed.
I would happily bet that Gerrard would have been in the top 3 if nominated.
No paper ballots sure speeds things up, although with electronic voting there would no election night spectacle, the votes would be immediately tallied, and the results announced at 10:01 pm. Very boring.
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
The market overestimated Ennis but otherwise was pretty much on the money.
No paper ballots sure speeds things up, although with electronic voting there would no election night spectacle, the votes would be immediately tallied, and the results announced at 10:01 pm. Very boring.
Indeed, that couple of hours between the exit poll being released and the Swindon South result were great.
We just beat a whole pile of no hopers in a competition nobody else could even be bothered with.
No DJOKOVIC either.
Indeed - it's a complete farce - illustrated by GB beating a Belgium team in the final with nobody who anyone had ever heard of.
Stop dissing Belgium.
I love Belgium, a nation invented to get up the nose of the French.
What's not to love about the Belgians?
"What's not to love about the Belgians? "
Do you want the list alphabetically, or in order of importance?
Their chocolate is quite passable, the beer too, and their landscape eminently suitable for pitched battles between warring great powers. Conveniently located and not too much of significance that can get significantly damaged.
Also, and this is of major importance, their capital city lent its name to a sprout.
Don't forget the lace, there is always the lace. Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have... The Menin Gate! Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin... Eddie Merckx! Er... Yes and Audrey Hepburn... Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from... Potato Chips! Eh? They invented potato chips. All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
Which confirms nobody cares less about the Olympic sports.
Ennis-Hill surprisingly low and Sinfield polled very well indeed.
I would happily bet that Gerrard would have been in the top 3 if nominated.
Yeah.
Dunno what the odds on Sinfield top 2 / top 3 were, but that was probably the value bet all along.
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
The market overestimated Ennis but otherwise was pretty much on the money.
This tallies with what I said in September about Ennis having no real chance. The market hugely overpriced her.
We just beat a whole pile of no hopers in a competition nobody else could even be bothered with.
No DJOKOVIC either.
Indeed - it's a complete farce - illustrated by GB beating a Belgium team in the final with nobody who anyone had ever heard of.
Stop dissing Belgium.
I love Belgium, a nation invented to get up the nose of the French.
What's not to love about the Belgians?
"What's not to love about the Belgians? "
Do you want the list alphabetically, or in order of importance?
Their chocolate is quite passable, the beer too, and their landscape eminently suitable for pitched battles between warring great powers. Conveniently located and not too much of significance that can get significantly damaged.
Also, and this is of major importance, their capital city lent its name to a sprout.
Don't forget the lace, there is always the lace. Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have... The Menin Gate! Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin... Eddie Merckx! Er... Yes and Audrey Hepburn... Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from... Potato Chips! Eh? They invented potato chips. All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
We just beat a whole pile of no hopers in a competition nobody else could even be bothered with.
No DJOKOVIC either.
Indeed - it's a complete farce - illustrated by GB beating a Belgium team in the final with nobody who anyone had ever heard of.
Stop dissing Belgium.
I love Belgium, a nation invented to get up the nose of the French.
What's not to love about the Belgians?
"What's not to love about the Belgians? "
Do you want the list alphabetically, or in order of importance?
Their chocolate is quite passable, the beer too, and their landscape eminently suitable for pitched battles between warring great powers. Conveniently located and not too much of significance that can get significantly damaged.
Also, and this is of major importance, their capital city lent its name to a sprout.
Don't forget the lace, there is always the lace. Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have... The Menin Gate! Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin... Eddie Merckx! Er... Yes and Audrey Hepburn... Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from... Potato Chips! Eh? They invented potato chips. All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
We just beat a whole pile of no hopers in a competition nobody else could even be bothered with.
No DJOKOVIC either.
Indeed - it's a complete farce - illustrated by GB beating a Belgium team in the final with nobody who anyone had ever heard of.
Stop dissing Belgium.
I love Belgium, a nation invented to get up the nose of the French.
What's not to love about the Belgians?
"What's not to love about the Belgians? "
Do you want the list alphabetically, or in order of importance?
Their chocolate is quite passable, the beer too, and their landscape eminently suitable for pitched battles between warring great powers. Conveniently located and not too much of significance that can get significantly damaged.
Also, and this is of major importance, their capital city lent its name to a sprout.
Don't forget the lace, there is always the lace. Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have... The Menin Gate! Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin... Eddie Merckx! Er... Yes and Audrey Hepburn... Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from... Potato Chips! Eh? They invented potato chips. All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
We just beat a whole pile of no hopers in a competition nobody else could even be bothered with.
No DJOKOVIC either.
Indeed - it's a complete farce - illustrated by GB beating a Belgium team in the final with nobody who anyone had ever heard of.
Stop dissing Belgium.
I love Belgium, a nation invented to get up the nose of the French.
What's not to love about the Belgians?
"What's not to love about the Belgians? "
Do you want the list alphabetically, or in order of importance?
Their chocolate is quite passable, the beer too, and their landscape eminently suitable for pitched battles between warring great powers. Conveniently located and not too much of significance that can get significantly damaged.
Also, and this is of major importance, their capital city lent its name to a sprout.
Don't forget the lace, there is always the lace. Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have... The Menin Gate! Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin... Eddie Merckx! Er... Yes and Audrey Hepburn... Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from... Potato Chips! Eh? They invented potato chips. All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
less than a million votes all told for SPOTY.. I wonder how many votes were cast for Strictly in the final? I thought either the blonde girl or the little girl from Corrie should have won, Her indoors and I were very surprised at the Strictly result.
No paper ballots sure speeds things up, although with electronic voting there would no election night spectacle, the votes would be immediately tallied, and the results announced at 10:01 pm. Very boring.
Indeed, that couple of hours between the exit poll being released and the Swindon South result were great.
Honestly, surely Corbyn has to be a better leader than Johnson - he at least had the guts to stand. I understand the idea sometimes those who don't want to lead may be best at it, but I don't think it's true, you need to be tough enough to win the position and then stay there, and while I'm sure Johnson is plenty tough, he's obviously never wanted the position enough to go for it, and lacking that ambition is he best placed to make Labour the best it can be?
Although this quote from the other story is more concerning:
Mr Corbyn also said that Labour's pro-Trident policy could be changed by an email poll of party members, in the same way that he gauged opinion before the Commons vote on bombing Syria.
That type of electronic canvassing or voting only seems even vaguely plausible in ideal circumstances, and that previous canvass was riddled with flaws as I understand it.
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
The market overestimated Ennis but otherwise was pretty much on the money.
This tallies with what I said in September about Ennis having no real chance. The market hugely overpriced her.
If the BBC had the regular superleague season (and not SKY) as well as the Challenge Cup and internationals (although Sinfeld had retired) then Sinfield would have probably won! O'Loughlin's try in the first test against NZ was worth an award in anyones book.
The BBC have little top live sport and given the pathetic performance of local rugby union and the pointlessness of professional footballers (and the collapse of Hamilton after winning his title) then the big difference in votes between 2nd and the rest is not surprising. (Athletics is far too tied up with chemistry anyway) They have never been heard of by the voting public.
Plus Clare Balding has gone on record as wishing for Sinfield as the son she never had...
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
The market overestimated Ennis but otherwise was pretty much on the money.
Under AV, Yorkshire would have won.
They still might if England RL win their world cup!
I was told that the Barcelona Podemos is quite pro-EU, while the Madrid one is vehemently anti.
Is that right?
Pablo Iglesias - the national Podemos leader - has been massively critical of the EU and its institutions, but I don't think he's anti-EU per se. Barcelona en Comu is in alliance with Podemos, but is very much a product of the local situation.
Podemos significantly softened their debt default/bank nationalisation positions which they had as their platform in the eu elections after seeing what happened to Syriza. They were never explicitly for eu withdrawal but that was the logic of their positions. They are now much more mainstream anti austerity but not anti eu left. I waded through their manifesto last week and parts are interesting but it is undeliverable. Their main objective at present is holding their movement together and replacing psoe as the party of the left. Having an agnostic potion on independence but open position on referenda seems to have worked for them in both catalunya and pais vasco which could be a positive thing for Spain.
No paper ballots sure speeds things up, although with electronic voting there would no election night spectacle, the votes would be immediately tallied, and the results announced at 10:01 pm. Very boring.
Indeed, that couple of hours between the exit poll being released and the Swindon South result were great.
I'm sitting in Swindon South right now
You should do a marginals tour.
Next stop Nuneaton, then Warwickshire North, then Twickenham, then Rochester and Strood and the cherry on the parfait, Morley and Outwood
Don't forget the lace, there is always the lace. Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have... The Menin Gate! Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin... Eddie Merckx! Er... Yes and Audrey Hepburn... Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from... Potato Chips! Eh? They invented potato chips. All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen can't climb a speed bump. He doen't count.
No paper ballots sure speeds things up, although with electronic voting there would no election night spectacle, the votes would be immediately tallied, and the results announced at 10:01 pm. Very boring.
Indeed, that couple of hours between the exit poll being released and the Swindon South result were great.
Watching the Spanish results come in, and realising a lot will tern on what the small party do, while most are regional nationalist and/or very left wing, but can anybody tell me what this party is for: DEMOCRÀCIA I LLIBERTAT. CONVERGÈNCIA. DEMÒCRATES. REAGRUPAMENT
Don't forget the lace, there is always the lace. Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have... The Menin Gate! Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin... Eddie Merckx! Er... Yes and Audrey Hepburn... Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from... Potato Chips! Eh? They invented potato chips. All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen can't climb a speed bump. He doen't count.
There's plenty of uphill bits in the classics. He's done alright in those.
No paper ballots sure speeds things up, although with electronic voting there would no election night spectacle, the votes would be immediately tallied, and the results announced at 10:01 pm. Very boring.
Indeed, that couple of hours between the exit poll being released and the Swindon South result were great.
No paper ballots sure speeds things up, although with electronic voting there would no election night spectacle, the votes would be immediately tallied, and the results announced at 10:01 pm. Very boring.
Indeed, that couple of hours between the exit poll being released and the Swindon South result were great.
No paper ballots sure speeds things up, although with electronic voting there would no election night spectacle, the votes would be immediately tallied, and the results announced at 10:01 pm. Very boring.
Indeed, that couple of hours between the exit poll being released and the Swindon South result were great.
Don't forget the lace, there is always the lace. Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have... The Menin Gate! Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin... Eddie Merckx! Er... Yes and Audrey Hepburn... Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from... Potato Chips! Eh? They invented potato chips. All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen can't climb a speed bump. He doen't count.
There's plenty of uphill bits in the classics. He's done alright in those.
I'm afraid the best bit of toilet graffiti I have ever seen (not least for its dedication and earnestness) was 'Eddie Mercks is God!' Boonen cannot compete with that.
Watching the Spanish results come in, and realising a lot will tern on what the small party do, while most are regional nationalist and/or very left wing, but can anybody tell me what this party is for: DEMOCRÀCIA I LLIBERTAT. CONVERGÈNCIA. DEMÒCRATES. REAGRUPAMENT
With 8 seats, they could make a difference.
Conservative Catalan nationalists. Their previous party (CiU) split over the referendum issue. I think they have had a plurality in catalunya in national elections every time before this but have been overtaken by podemos and the left. They have done deals with PP in the past in return for more pork for catalunya, but such an approach would probably be fatal this time.
Don't forget the lace, there is always the lace. Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have... The Menin Gate! Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin... Eddie Merckx! Er... Yes and Audrey Hepburn... Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from... Potato Chips! Eh? They invented potato chips. All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen can't climb a speed bump. He doen't count.
There's plenty of uphill bits in the classics. He's done alright in those.
I'm afraid the best bit of toilet graffiti I have ever seen (not least for its dedication and earnestness) was 'Eddie Mercks is God!' Boonen cannot compete with that.
I didn't say he could. Your list was about what Belgians have achieved. Tom Boonen is certainly a worthy addition to that list.
Don't forget the lace, there is always the lace. Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have... The Menin Gate! Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin... Eddie Merckx! Er... Yes and Audrey Hepburn... Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from... Potato Chips! Eh? They invented potato chips. All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen can't climb a speed bump. He doen't count.
There's plenty of uphill bits in the classics. He's done alright in those.
I'm afraid the best bit of toilet graffiti I have ever seen (not least for its dedication and earnestness) was 'Eddie Mercks is God!' Boonen cannot compete with that.
I didn't say he could. Your list was about what Belgians have achieved. Tom Boonen is certainly a worthy addition to that list.
Am I being taken too seriously? There was I thinking that if I could perfect my soft shoe shuffle I could overtake Alan Johnson in the betting for next labour leader.
Watching the Spanish results come in, and realising a lot will tern on what the small party do, while most are regional nationalist and/or very left wing, but can anybody tell me what this party is for: DEMOCRÀCIA I LLIBERTAT. CONVERGÈNCIA. DEMÒCRATES. REAGRUPAMENT
With 8 seats, they could make a difference.
Conservative Catalan nationalists. Their previous party (CiU) split over the referendum issue. I think they have had a plurality in catalunya in national elections every time before this but have been overtaken by podemos and the left. They have done deals with PP in the past in return for more pork for catalunya, but such an approach would probably be fatal this time.
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
The market overestimated Ennis but otherwise was pretty much on the money.
This tallies with what I said in September about Ennis having no real chance. The market hugely overpriced her.
If the BBC had the regular superleague season (and not SKY) as well as the Challenge Cup and internationals (although Sinfeld had retired) then Sinfield would have probably won! O'Loughlin's try in the first test against NZ was worth an award in anyones book.
The BBC have little top live sport and given the pathetic performance of local rugby union and the pointlessness of professional footballers (and the collapse of Hamilton after winning his title) then the big difference in votes between 2nd and the rest is not surprising. (Athletics is far too tied up with chemistry anyway) They have never been heard of by the voting public.
Plus Clare Balding has gone on record as wishing for Sinfield as the son she never had...
You don't have to persuade me as to the merits of League, it is by far the better sport compared to all it's comparative versions. But it is still a tiny, minority sport played in three countries (and that is being VERY generous with how much New Zealand is an RL country).
I wish, truly, it were otherwise. But it isn't.
League was on the BBC for decades and failed to grow. It's not really grown much since Superleague but it's probably benefited to some degree both from the additional money and from a slightly wider profile that the BBC never gave it but Sky have.
Watching the Spanish results come in, and realising a lot will tern on what the small party do, while most are regional nationalist and/or very left wing, but can anybody tell me what this party is for: DEMOCRÀCIA I LLIBERTAT. CONVERGÈNCIA. DEMÒCRATES. REAGRUPAMENT
With 8 seats, they could make a difference.
Conservative Catalan nationalists. Their previous party (CiU) split over the referendum issue. I think they have had a plurality in catalunya in national elections every time before this but have been overtaken by podemos and the left. They have done deals with PP in the past in return for more pork for catalunya, but such an approach would probably be fatal this time.
I'm not sure; remember, 55% of Catalans - give or take - are opposed to independence. I think they could do a deal with the PP, but it would require a lot of pork.
Watching the Spanish results come in, and realising a lot will tern on what the small party do, while most are regional nationalist and/or very left wing, but can anybody tell me what this party is for: DEMOCRÀCIA I LLIBERTAT. CONVERGÈNCIA. DEMÒCRATES. REAGRUPAMENT
With 8 seats, they could make a difference.
Conservative Catalan nationalists. Their previous party (CiU) split over the referendum issue. I think they have had a plurality in catalunya in national elections every time before this but have been overtaken by podemos and the left. They have done deals with PP in the past in return for more pork for catalunya, but such an approach would probably be fatal this time.
Socialists have usually won most votes in Catalonia in Spanish GEs. CiU usually won the regional elections.
There are clearly some seats that are absolutely on a knife edge. I think Citizen's are going to come up about 80 votes short of taking another seat in Barcelona too...
Guardian want to turn this into Hunt bashing...Hunt has plenty of stuff you can throw at him, this is not one of them. This is something that has been running for a long long time and it is a "cultural" problem throughout the NHS. Norman Lamb commissioned work on this and found the NHS were a disgrace as an organisation on this issue and tried to bury it.
It has only come to light, because of the last and current government wanting to shine a light on this issue. We will hear a huge amount more about this issue over the next few years and it will make for some awful reading.
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
The market overestimated Ennis but otherwise was pretty much on the money.
This tallies with what I said in September about Ennis having no real chance. The market hugely overpriced her.
If the BBC had the regular superleague season (and not SKY) as well as the Challenge Cup and internationals (although Sinfeld had retired) then Sinfield would have probably won! O'Loughlin's try in the first test against NZ was worth an award in anyones book.
The BBC have little top live sport and given the pathetic performance of local rugby union and the pointlessness of professional footballers (and the collapse of Hamilton after winning his title) then the big difference in votes between 2nd and the rest is not surprising. (Athletics is far too tied up with chemistry anyway) They have never been heard of by the voting public.
Plus Clare Balding has gone on record as wishing for Sinfield as the son she never had...
You don't have to persuade me as to the merits of League, it is by far the better sport compared to all it's comparative versions. But it is still a tiny, minority sport played in three countries (and that is being VERY generous with how much New Zealand is an RL country).
I wish, truly, it were otherwise. But it isn't.
League was on the BBC for decades and failed to grow. It's not really grown much since Superleague but it's probably benefited to some degree both from the additional money and from a slightly wider profile that the BBC never gave it but Sky have.
If Eddie Waring couldn't raise League's profile then nobody can. He was hilariously mimicked by Graeme Garden in the 70s.
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
The market overestimated Ennis but otherwise was pretty much on the money.
This tallies with what I said in September about Ennis having no real chance. The market hugely overpriced her.
If the BBC had the regular superleague season (and not SKY) as well as the Challenge Cup and internationals (although Sinfeld had retired) then Sinfield would have probably won! O'Loughlin's try in the first test against NZ was worth an award in anyones book.
The BBC have little top live sport and given the pathetic performance of local rugby union and the pointlessness of professional footballers (and the collapse of Hamilton after winning his title) then the big difference in votes between 2nd and the rest is not surprising. (Athletics is far too tied up with chemistry anyway) They have never been heard of by the voting public.
Plus Clare Balding has gone on record as wishing for Sinfield as the son she never had...
You don't have to persuade me as to the merits of League, it is by far the better sport compared to all it's comparative versions. But it is still a tiny, minority sport played in three countries (and that is being VERY generous with how much New Zealand is an RL country).
I wish, truly, it were otherwise. But it isn't.
League was on the BBC for decades and failed to grow. It's not really grown much since Superleague but it's probably benefited to some degree both from the additional money and from a slightly wider profile that the BBC never gave it but Sky have.
My main point is how little sport outside the Olympics and Wimbledon the BBC has. A lot of name recognition is zero. The BBC do follow the RL regular season with a highlights programme which will have given Sinfield some exposure (as well as that he has been a fixture for over 10 years). RL is the national winter sport in Australia.
Maybe it's just me, but are stories about politicians having affairs really 'sleaze' scandals, unless there is something else about the affair that makes it sleazy? Frankly, while I don't approve of breaking marriage vows, if they are good enough at their actual job, I cannot say I'd let that personal failing influence my vote any. I feel like true sleaze stories would not be so easily overlooked.
Guardian want to turn this into Hunt bashing...Hunt has plenty of stuff you can throw at him, this is not one of them. This is something that has been running for a long long time and it is a "cultural" problem throughout the NHS. Norman Lamb commissioned work on this and found the NHS were a disgrace as an organisation on this issue and tried to bury it.
It has only come to light, because of the last and current government wanting to shine a light on this issue. We will hear a huge amount more about this issue over the next few years and it will make for some awful reading.
Yes - it is not NHS under pressure.... it is 'Hunt'. Where is Burnham - this is his legacy.
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
The market overestimated Ennis but otherwise was pretty much on the money.
This tallies with what I said in September about Ennis having no real chance. The market hugely overpriced her.
England in general does not match the Little Englander cadre on here, they voted on merit not nationality
Maybe it's just me, but are stories about politicians having affairs really 'sleaze' scandals, unless there is something else about the affair that makes it sleazy? Frankly, while I don't approve of breaking marriage vows, if they are good enough at their actual job, I cannot say I'd let that personal failing influence my vote any. I feel like true sleaze stories would not be so easily overlooked.
I think public reaction to this stuff has definitely changed. In the past, this kind of thing was automatic resignation, loads and loads of column inches, now it seems to be a one day thing, as long as it is seen to just be the bonking and not anything else.
Maybe it's just me, but are stories about politicians having affairs really 'sleaze' scandals, unless there is something else about the affair that makes it sleazy? Frankly, while I don't approve of breaking marriage vows, if they are good enough at their actual job, I cannot say I'd let that personal failing influence my vote any. I feel like true sleaze stories would not be so easily overlooked.
It's always the hypocrisy: Labour MP's taking bribes while preaching economic equality, Tory MP's in sex scandals while preaching moral virtue.
Andy Murray 361,446 Kevin Sinfield 278,353 Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898 Tyson Fury 72,330 Lewis Hamilton 48,379 Chris Froome 39,007 Mo Farah 31,311 Max Whitlock 25,925 Greg Rutherford 23,492 Lizzie Armitstead 22,356 Adam Peaty 13,738 Lucy Bronze 13,236
The market overestimated Ennis but otherwise was pretty much on the money.
This tallies with what I said in September about Ennis having no real chance. The market hugely overpriced her.
England in general does not match the Little Englander cadre on here, they voted on merit not nationality
You have just brought your little scotlander baggage into the argument. Murray is a Brit and it was Brits who voted.
Don't forget the lace, there is always the lace. Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have... The Menin Gate! Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin... Eddie Merckx! Er... Yes and Audrey Hepburn... Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from... Potato Chips! Eh? They invented potato chips. All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen can't climb a speed bump. He doen't count.
There's plenty of uphill bits in the classics. He's done alright in those.
I'm afraid the best bit of toilet graffiti I have ever seen (not least for its dedication and earnestness) was 'Eddie Mercks is God!' Boonen cannot compete with that.
I didn't say he could. Your list was about what Belgians have achieved. Tom Boonen is certainly a worthy addition to that list.
Am I being taken too seriously? There was I thinking that if I could perfect my soft shoe shuffle I could overtake Alan Johnson in the betting for next labour leader.
I am still annoyed I forgot the waffles.
Maybe. No cyclist can compete with the great Eddie. Even Lance (before he got rumbled) would refuse comparison's with Merckx
Guardian want to turn this into Hunt bashing...Hunt has plenty of stuff you can throw at him, this is not one of them. This is something that has been running for a long long time and it is a "cultural" problem throughout the NHS. Norman Lamb commissioned work on this and found the NHS were a disgrace as an organisation on this issue and tried to bury it.
It has only come to light, because of the last and current government wanting to shine a light on this issue. We will hear a huge amount more about this issue over the next few years and it will make for some awful reading.
Yes - it is not NHS under pressure.... it is 'Hunt'. Where is Burnham - this is his legacy.
Actually, I don't blame Burnham on this issue either. There is a cultural problem within the NHS when it comes to for instance treating people with learning difficulties, and then there is the whole ass covering, never admit anything is wrong, bury the issue problem which means this problem isn't properly addressed.
Maybe it's just me, but are stories about politicians having affairs really 'sleaze' scandals, unless there is something else about the affair that makes it sleazy? Frankly, while I don't approve of breaking marriage vows, if they are good enough at their actual job, I cannot say I'd let that personal failing influence my vote any. I feel like true sleaze stories would not be so easily overlooked.
It's always the hypocrisy: Labour MP's taking bribes while preaching economic equality, Tory MP's in sex scandals while preaching moral virtue.
Yes, I suppose, if the person committing the affair is a moralising type, that would make it more relevant. Do either of these two fit the bill?
Maybe it's just me, but are stories about politicians having affairs really 'sleaze' scandals, unless there is something else about the affair that makes it sleazy? Frankly, while I don't approve of breaking marriage vows, if they are good enough at their actual job, I cannot say I'd let that personal failing influence my vote any. I feel like true sleaze stories would not be so easily overlooked.
Lots of people, not least journalists, break marriage vows. Even Speakers wives. But life seems to move on. Not surprising when lives are lived by humans.
Don't forget the lace, there is always the lace. Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have... The Menin Gate! Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin... Eddie Merckx! Er... Yes and Audrey Hepburn... Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from... Potato Chips! Eh? They invented potato chips. All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen can't climb a speed bump. He doen't count.
There's plenty of uphill bits in the classics. He's done alright in those.
He hasn't won a classic in 3 years, he;s over, finished and never made a breakthrough in a proper race. He had the chance in his early career to shed the weight and do what Wiggins or Thomas has done and convert from classics man to a proper bike race. He refused.
Of course the stupid Belgians are happy with that, given how poor their recent record has been. But in all honesty, of their generation, Gilbert is the better man.
Watching the Spanish results come in, and realising a lot will tern on what the small party do, while most are regional nationalist and/or very left wing, but can anybody tell me what this party is for: DEMOCRÀCIA I LLIBERTAT. CONVERGÈNCIA. DEMÒCRATES. REAGRUPAMENT
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But the fact remains - how good a tennis nation are Belgium? Pretend for a moment that you have not paid silly money for the Davis Cup TV rights, then ask yourself how important is the Davis Cup in the world of modern tennis?
We might think GB were brilliant to get to the final and maybe we were. But how is it that at the same time Belgium got there?
Is that right?
Most leading modern footballers are overpaid prima donnas who get a bit upset and run home crying to their agent when someone tells them to pull their fingers out and actually do something to earn their salaries.
If England were to win the 2017 RL World Cup (or even the 2016 4 nations then, now that Sinfield has broken the glass ceiling, I can see Burgess winning.
Which Burgess I am not saying.
Of course that point was gained before the doubles. It is possible the Murray's could beat the Bryans, who are at the end of their career and Jamie Murray's doubles rating must be close to the Bryans (as each individuals double's rating) by now.
So it wasn't 100% a win for Scotland but it could have been if needed and may well have been.
1. Minority PP government. PSOE and Cs decide to abstain on confidence vote. (35% likelihood)
2. New elections in February. (40% likelihood)
3. PSOE + P + Nationalists coalition. (10% likelihood)
I don't believe there is any real chance of a PP/nationalist agreement.
I particularly enjoyed the links to obscure battles of 1800 years ago.
Small party just lost 1 - Democracia - whoever they are!
Podemos - across its three separate party lists - got 18%.
It won't appear as regularly as in the past, but I'm hoping to do a couple a week.
91.5% counted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-slovenia-rights-idUSKBN0U30BS20151220
Andy Murray 361,446
Kevin Sinfield 278,353
Jessica Ennis-Hill 79,898
Tyson Fury 72,330
Lewis Hamilton 48,379
Chris Froome 39,007
Mo Farah 31,311
Max Whitlock 25,925
Greg Rutherford 23,492
Lizzie Armitstead 22,356
Adam Peaty 13,738
Lucy Bronze 13,236
The market overestimated Ennis but otherwise was pretty much on the money.
Ennis-Hill surprisingly low and Sinfield polled very well indeed.
I would happily bet that Gerrard would have been in the top 3 if nominated.
Under AV, Yorkshire would have been least hated.
Yes but apart from the battlefields and the chocolates and the beer what have...
The Menin Gate!
Of course the Menin Gate, thats a given. But... apart from the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and lace and the Menin...
Eddie Merckx!
Er...
Yes and Audrey Hepburn...
Well of course there's Audrey Hepburn, but apart from...
Potato Chips!
Eh?
They invented potato chips.
All right then, but... apart from Sprouts and the chocolates and the battlefields and the beer and the lace and the Menin Gate and Eddie Mercks and Audrey Hepburn and potato chips...! What have the Belgians ever done for us!
Labour MPs want to oust Corbyn and make Alan Johnson new leader https://t.co/WmCqf328Di
Dunno what the odds on Sinfield top 2 / top 3 were, but that was probably the value bet all along.
Gets coat
Although this quote from the other story is more concerning:
Mr Corbyn also said that Labour's pro-Trident policy could be changed by an email poll of party members, in the same way that he gauged opinion before the Commons vote on bombing Syria.
That type of electronic canvassing or voting only seems even vaguely plausible in ideal circumstances, and that previous canvass was riddled with flaws as I understand it.
https://www.politicshome.com/party-politics/articles/story/george-galloway-could-rejoin-labour-hints-jeremy-corbyn#sthash.vCqzQgW6.dpuf Saves having to make some tough decisions, makes sense.
O'Loughlin's try in the first test against NZ was worth an award in anyones book.
The BBC have little top live sport and given the pathetic performance of local rugby union and the pointlessness of professional footballers (and the collapse of Hamilton after winning his title) then the big difference in votes between 2nd and the rest is not surprising. (Athletics is far too tied up with chemistry anyway) They have never been heard of by the voting public.
Plus Clare Balding has gone on record as wishing for Sinfield as the son she never had...
Next stop Nuneaton, then Warwickshire North, then Twickenham, then Rochester and Strood and the cherry on the parfait, Morley and Outwood
With 8 seats, they could make a difference.
One of the picture rounds was constituencies with big name losers...
Too easy.
Boonen cannot compete with that.
Again.
What are you going to do with the spare time now you don't need to watch the post season?
Again.
97.65% counted.
Your list was about what Belgians have achieved.
Tom Boonen is certainly a worthy addition to that list.
I am still annoyed I forgot the waffles.
I wish, truly, it were otherwise. But it isn't.
League was on the BBC for decades and failed to grow. It's not really grown much since Superleague but it's probably benefited to some degree both from the additional money and from a slightly wider profile that the BBC never gave it but Sky have.
There are clearly some seats that are absolutely on a knife edge. I think Citizen's are going to come up about 80 votes short of taking another seat in Barcelona too...
Guardian want to turn this into Hunt bashing...Hunt has plenty of stuff you can throw at him, this is not one of them. This is something that has been running for a long long time and it is a "cultural" problem throughout the NHS. Norman Lamb commissioned work on this and found the NHS were a disgrace as an organisation on this issue and tried to bury it.
It has only come to light, because of the last and current government wanting to shine a light on this issue. We will hear a huge amount more about this issue over the next few years and it will make for some awful reading.
The BBC do follow the RL regular season with a highlights programme which will have given Sinfield some exposure (as well as that he has been a fixture for over 10 years).
RL is the national winter sport in Australia.
Just like old times.
Labour MP's taking bribes while preaching economic equality, Tory MP's in sex scandals while preaching moral virtue.
Murray is a Brit and it was Brits who voted.
Even Lance (before he got rumbled) would refuse comparison's with Merckx
Of course the stupid Belgians are happy with that, given how poor their recent record has been. But in all honesty, of their generation, Gilbert is the better man.