@Sunil .. nothing quite beats the Red October speech
"Comrades, our own Parliamentary Party don't know our full potential! They will do everything possible to test us; but they will only test their own embarrassment. We will leave our MPs behind, we will pass through the Conservative patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest constituency, and listen to their chortling and tittering... while we conduct Austerity Debates! Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Telford where the sun is warm, and so is the... Comradeship!
"A great day, Comrades! We sail into history!"
Chortling and tittering... get's me every time
Six weeks at ConHome for you for that appalling misuse of an apostrophe
On a more serious note, I think I am going senile given my lapse in ability to spell recently.
I blame technology.
Things like auto-correct, red lines on chrome/Microsoft word flag up our mistakes, and we've gotten used to technology correcting our mistakes.
Well one of us does. It is a fact that they were both widely despised. I mean in the country, not in the narrow confines of the Tory party, golf clubs, and chambers of commerce.
@Sunil .. nothing quite beats the Red October speech
"Comrades, our own Parliamentary Party don't know our full potential! They will do everything possible to test us; but they will only test their own embarrassment. We will leave our MPs behind, we will pass through the Conservative patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest constituency, and listen to their chortling and tittering... while we conduct Austerity Debates! Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Telford where the sun is warm, and so is the... Comradeship!
"A great day, Comrades! We sail into history!"
Chortling and tittering... get's me every time
Six weeks at ConHome for you for that appalling misuse of an apostrophe
On a more serious note, I think I am going senile given my lapse in ability to spell recently.
I blame technology.
Things like auto-correct, red lines on chrome/Microsoft word flag up our mistakes, and we've gotten used to technology correcting our mistakes.
Yes.. technology... any excuse to get me out of my six week stint at ConHome.
For any oneirologists here, I had a dream last night that the Lib Dems triumphed in Sleaford and Ronnie Barker was their candidate. What can that mean?
OMG, forgot to mention:
On Tuesday night, I had the weirdest dream that I met Boris at what was presumably a Conference, and had lunch with him!
Well one of us does. It is a fact that they were both widely despised. I mean in the country, not in the narrow confines of the Tory party, golf clubs, and chambers of commerce.
"Best" is a matter of opinion. "Undoubted" is simply incorrect, unless only doubt in the minds of Tories counts.
In my opinion the best prime ministers since WW2 were Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson.
The legacies of every PM is always mixed.
Clement Attlee brought the NHS, but he also brought famine, bankruptcy and the end of the empire.
Harold Wilson brought the end of the death penalty, but he also brought crime, bankruptcy and industrial strife.
I don't rate them high, no PM should be rated high, all of them caused one disaster or the other.
Well one of us does. It is a fact that they were both widely despised. I mean in the country, not in the narrow confines of the Tory party, golf clubs, and chambers of commerce.
Current Betfair prices (midprice) Fillon 1.81 Le Pen 5.1 Macron 6.8 Valls 17.5 Montebourg 39 Mélenchon 100 Bayrou 470 Taubira 195 Hamon 500 Peillon 570
Macron's price continues to be much too low IMHO.
The gap between Valls and Montebourg seems absurd if you consider theyr are essentially tied for the primary second round. Of course Montebourg has virtually no chance in the general election but so does Valls on current polling...
Taubira's price briefly collapsed yesterday but, as she has not made any step towards a candidacy, the price is back to more logical territory
Betfair introduced Hamon and Peillon on the market today. Both have very high prices now and could be value bets at this stage. After all Hamon is now at 11% and in third place as Fillon was in October... Anyway I think that Peillon could be a better trading bet. As long as he has not been polled we have no idea of his potential but the support of many Hollande party apparatchiks could be very handy in a low-turnout scenario.
Farage pushing the UKIP line that we could leave in a matter of weeks if we wanted to.
Yeah Paul Nuttal is coming up with the 'brilliant' idea that we can do just that by repealing the 1972 ECA
We could. It wouldn't be a good idea but we could - in fact that's been said on all sides as to why Parliament is still sovereign for decades.
What would be the legal tariffs for goods and services coming into the UK following the abolition of the ECA? Would we revert back to the 1971 tariff schedule, or would we maintain the the EU one?
@michaelsavage: Early talk of bad night for Labour in #sleafordandnorthhykeham by-election. But with result not expected til after 2am, I'm not waiting up!
@britainelects: Sleaford & North Hykeham turnout estimated to be at 37%: around 32,000 votes cast.
I'm interested how close it is between the Tories and LDs/UKIP if the other tweet is accurate. On that vote total there could be 3 parties in with a chance of winning.
Current Betfair prices (midprice) Fillon 1.81 Le Pen 5.1 Macron 6.8 Valls 17.5 Montebourg 39 Mélenchon 100 Bayrou 470 Taubira 195 Hamon 500 Peillon 570
Macron's price continues to be much too low IMHO.
The gap between Valls and Montebourg seems absurd if you consider theyr are essentially tied for the primary second round. Of course Montebourg has virtually no chance in the general election but so does Valls on current polling...
Taubira's price briefly collapsed yesterday but, as she has not made any step towards a candidacy, the price is back to more logical territory
Betfair introduced Hamon and Peillon on the market today. Both have very high prices now and could be value bets at this stage. After all Hamon is now at 11% and in third place as Fillon was in October... Anyway I think that Peillon could be a better trading bet. As long as he has not been polled we have no idea of his potential but the support of many Hollande party apparatchiks could be very handy in a low-turnout scenario.
Current Betfair prices (midprice) Fillon 1.81 Le Pen 5.1 Macron 6.8 Valls 17.5 Montebourg 39 Mélenchon 100 Bayrou 470 Taubira 195 Hamon 500 Peillon 570
Macron's price continues to be much too low IMHO.
The gap between Valls and Montebourg seems absurd if you consider theyr are essentially tied for the primary second round. Of course Montebourg has virtually no chance in the general election but so does Valls on current polling...
Taubira's price briefly collapsed yesterday but, as she has not made any step towards a candidacy, the price is back to more logical territory
Betfair introduced Hamon and Peillon on the market today. Both have very high prices now and could be value bets at this stage. After all Hamon is now at 11% and in third place as Fillon was in October... Anyway I think that Peillon could be a better trading bet. As long as he has not been polled we have no idea of his potential but the support of many Hollande party apparatchiks could be very handy in a low-turnout scenario.
I would point out that I was pushing Macron very hard at 20s
@Sunil .. nothing quite beats the Red October speech
"Comrades, our own Parliamentary Party don't know our full potential! They will do everything possible to test us; but they will only test their own embarrassment. We will leave our MPs behind, we will pass through the Conservative patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest constituency, and listen to their chortling and tittering... while we conduct Austerity Debates! Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Telford where the sun is warm, and so is the... Comradeship!
"A great day, Comrades! We sail into history!"
Chortling and tittering... get's me every time
Six weeks at ConHome for you for that appalling misuse of an apostrophe
On a more serious note, I think I am going senile given my lapse in ability to spell recently.
I blame technology.
Things like auto-correct, red lines on chrome/Microsoft word flag up our mistakes, and we've gotten used to technology correcting our mistakes.
@Sunil .. nothing quite beats the Red October speech
"Comrades, our own Parliamentary Party don't know our full potential! They will do everything possible to test us; but they will only test their own embarrassment. We will leave our MPs behind, we will pass through the Conservative patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest constituency, and listen to their chortling and tittering... while we conduct Austerity Debates! Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Telford where the sun is warm, and so is the... Comradeship!
"A great day, Comrades! We sail into history!"
Chortling and tittering... get's me every time
Six weeks at ConHome for you for that appalling misuse of an apostrophe
On a more serious note, I think I am going senile given my lapse in ability to spell recently.
I blame technology.
Things like auto-correct, red lines on chrome/Microsoft word flag up our mistakes, and we've gotten used to technology correcting our mistakes.
Yes.. technology... any excuse to get me out of my six week stint at ConHome.
I wrote an 8,000 word report at work earlier on this week.
Only now noticed a huge typo in it.
Still not as bad as my friend, he works for an auction house, the jewellery/fine arts and he did a report about asset price movements.
He meant to say 'the influence of international jewellery prices has had a detrimental impact in the UK'
instead it read 'the influence of international Jewry has had a detrimental impact in the UK'
Well one of us does. It is a fact that they were both widely despised. I mean in the country, not in the narrow confines of the Tory party, golf clubs, and chambers of commerce.
I had a great teacher who stood in Trench for the Tories in the Blair years as a 'paper' candidate, Labour held it reasonably comfortably, how times change!
@Sunil .. nothing quite beats the Red October speech
"Comrades, our own Parliamentary Party don't know our full potential! They will do everything possible to test us; but they will only test their own embarrassment. We will leave our MPs behind, we will pass through the Conservative patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest constituency, and listen to their chortling and tittering... while we conduct Austerity Debates! Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Telford where the sun is warm, and so is the... Comradeship!
"A great day, Comrades! We sail into history!"
Chortling and tittering... get's me every time
Six weeks at ConHome for you for that appalling misuse of an apostrophe
On a more serious note, I think I am going senile given my lapse in ability to spell recently.
I blame technology.
Things like auto-correct, red lines on chrome/Microsoft word flag up our mistakes, and we've gotten used to technology correcting our mistakes.
Yes.. technology... any excuse to get me out of my six week stint at ConHome.
I wrote an 8,000 word report at work earlier on this week.
Only now noticed a huge typo in it.
Still not as bad as my friend, he works for an auction house, the jewellery/fine arts and he did a report about asset price movements.
He meant to say 'the influence of international jewellery prices has had a detrimental impact in the UK'
instead it read 'the influence of international Jewry has had a detrimental impact in the UK'
Emailed to their client base.
Fortunately he's half Jewish, so no p45 for him
Bwhahaha.. brilliant! I do dread sending out emails to large mailing lists, and have to triple-check them for any bad typos.
@Sunil .. nothing quite beats the Red October speech
"Comrades, our own Parliamentary Party don't know our full potential! They will do everything possible to test us; but they will only test their own embarrassment. We will leave our MPs behind, we will pass through the Conservative patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest constituency, and listen to their chortling and tittering... while we conduct Austerity Debates! Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Telford where the sun is warm, and so is the... Comradeship!
"A great day, Comrades! We sail into history!"
Chortling and tittering... get's me every time
Six weeks at ConHome for you for that appalling misuse of an apostrophe
On a more serious note, I think I am going senile given my lapse in ability to spell recently.
I blame technology.
Things like auto-correct, red lines on chrome/Microsoft word flag up our mistakes, and we've gotten used to technology correcting our mistakes.
Yes.. technology... any excuse to get me out of my six week stint at ConHome.
I wrote an 8,000 word report at work earlier on this week.
Only now noticed a huge typo in it.
Still not as bad as my friend, he works for an auction house, the jewellery/fine arts and he did a report about asset price movements.
He meant to say 'the influence of international jewellery prices has had a detrimental impact in the UK'
instead it read 'the influence of international Jewry has had a detrimental impact in the UK'
Emailed to their client base.
Fortunately he's half Jewish, so no p45 for him
He will be welcomed into the current labour party.....
Well one of us does. It is a fact that they were both widely despised. I mean in the country, not in the narrow confines of the Tory party, golf clubs, and chambers of commerce.
"Best" is a matter of opinion. "Undoubted" is simply incorrect, unless only doubt in the minds of Tories counts.
In my opinion the best prime ministers since WW2 were Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson.
The legacies of every PM is always mixed.
Clement Attlee brought the NHS, but he also brought famine, bankruptcy and the end of the empire.
Harold Wilson brought the end of the death penalty, but he also brought crime, bankruptcy and industrial strife.
I don't rate them high, no PM should be rated high, all of them caused one disaster or the other.
Indeed and of course being 'despised' and being 'liked' is not the same thing as doing the best job. For instance the most 'liked' PMs of the past 50 years are probably Callaghan and Major but both were pretty average PMs at best
@Sunil .. nothing quite beats the Red October speech
"Comrades, our own Parliamentary Party don't know our full potential! They will do everything possible to test us; but they will only test their own embarrassment. We will leave our MPs behind, we will pass through the Conservative patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest constituency, and listen to their chortling and tittering... while we conduct Austerity Debates! Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Telford where the sun is warm, and so is the... Comradeship!
"A great day, Comrades! We sail into history!"
Chortling and tittering... get's me every time
Six weeks at ConHome for you for that appalling misuse of an apostrophe
On a more serious note, I think I am going senile given my lapse in ability to spell recently.
I blame technology.
Things like auto-correct, red lines on chrome/Microsoft word flag up our mistakes, and we've gotten used to technology correcting our mistakes.
Indeed - when using the ipad I perennially hit K instead of L with woulds and coulds, so often I think the autocorrect assumes I know what I'm doing and no longer corrects it, and I never think to check no matter how many times it happens.
@Sunil .. nothing quite beats the Red October speech
"Comrades, our own Parliamentary Party don't know our full potential! They will do everything possible to test us; but they will only test their own embarrassment. We will leave our MPs behind, we will pass through the Conservative patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest constituency, and listen to their chortling and tittering... while we conduct Austerity Debates! Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Telford where the sun is warm, and so is the... Comradeship!
"A great day, Comrades! We sail into history!"
Chortling and tittering... get's me every time
Six weeks at ConHome for you for that appalling misuse of an apostrophe
On a more serious note, I think I am going senile given my lapse in ability to spell recently.
I blame technology.
Things like auto-correct, red lines on chrome/Microsoft word flag up our mistakes, and we've gotten used to technology correcting our mistakes.
Yes.. technology... any excuse to get me out of my six week stint at ConHome.
I wrote an 8,000 word report at work earlier on this week.
Only now noticed a huge typo in it.
Still not as bad as my friend, he works for an auction house, the jewellery/fine arts and he did a report about asset price movements.
He meant to say 'the influence of international jewellery prices has had a detrimental impact in the UK'
instead it read 'the influence of international Jewry has had a detrimental impact in the UK'
Emailed to their client base.
Fortunately he's half Jewish, so no p45 for him
I once did a Bloomberg news search on "earrings per share", and found about fifty quarterly reports with that typo in. It brought a smile to a few clients faces...
Current Betfair prices (midprice) Fillon 1.81 Le Pen 5.1 Macron 6.8 Valls 17.5 Montebourg 39 Mélenchon 100 Bayrou 470 Taubira 195 Hamon 500 Peillon 570
Macron's price continues to be much too low IMHO.
The gap between Valls and Montebourg seems absurd if you consider theyr are essentially tied for the primary second round. Of course Montebourg has virtually no chance in the general election but so does Valls on current polling...
Taubira's price briefly collapsed yesterday but, as she has not made any step towards a candidacy, the price is back to more logical territory
Betfair introduced Hamon and Peillon on the market today. Both have very high prices now and could be value bets at this stage. After all Hamon is now at 11% and in third place as Fillon was in October... Anyway I think that Peillon could be a better trading bet. As long as he has not been polled we have no idea of his potential but the support of many Hollande party apparatchiks could be very handy in a low-turnout scenario.
I would point out that I was pushing Macron very hard at 20s
Sadly, I sold out between 9 and 11.
At 20 it was a brilliant bet. At 6.6 it begins to look like he has friends with more money than betting sense...
Telford has some interesting local factors which probably don't tell us much nationally:
1. The council Labour leader called a (coincidental!) EGM last night to approve a possible judicial review of the local hospital reorganisation plan. He's pretty tribal, and has pitched this as people from outside (ie the rest of Shropshire) telling Telford what it can or can't have. So there's a strong whiff of Taking Back Control and More Money for the NHS. All he needs is a bus.
2. 17pc turnout.
3. Tory MP Lucy Allan has been virtually invisible for the past year since her unfortunate skirmishes on social media. She was elected on a wave of smart but shallow photo-opps and sound bites, but there may not be much substance there to back them up.
4. The local Labour leadership is pretty anti-Corbyn without making a massive deal of it, so it'd be hard to see it as a big pro Corbyn vote.
So all of this is pretty local and massively topical. It won't be the same in a GE in 3.5 years, though given the apparently less favourable boundaries for Ms Allan next time, she's probably not deeply-chuffed at this.
Telford has some interesting local factors which probably don't tell us much nationally:
1. The council Labour leader called a (coincidental!) EGM last night to approve a possible judicial review of the local hospital reorganisation plan. He's pretty tribal, and has pitched this as people from outside (ie the rest of Shropshire) telling Telford what it can or can't have. So there's a strong whiff of Taking Back Control and More Money for the NHS. All he needs is a bus.
2. 17pc turnout.
3. Tory MP Lucy Allan has been virtually invisible for the past year since her unfortunate skirmishes on social media. She was elected on a wave of smart but shallow photo-opps and sound bites, but there may not be much substance there to back them up.
4. The local Labour leadership is pretty anti-Corbyn without making a massive deal of it, so it'd be hard to see it as a big pro Corbyn vote.
So all of this is pretty local and massively topical. It won't be the same in a GE in 3.5 years, though given the apparently less favourable boundaries for Ms Allan next time, she's probably not deeply-chuffed at this.
What does Will Self actually do? I know he's someone that's on TV a lot talking about politics but what does he actually do? Journalist?
Talking on TV is what he does. But I have this impression he probably thinks he is equivalent to a philosopher, some elite observer of human nature who occasionally deigns to proffer his opinion to us all, with writing to pay the bills. He's clearly bright, and talented, and maybe his manner being offputting colours me unfairly as to what he is actually like, but gods he seems like such a tosser, the sort you can picture staring lovingly at his own reflection as he practices some clever quip or comment he plans to unleash on TV.
What does Will Self actually do? I know he's someone that's on TV a lot talking about politics but what does he actually do? Journalist?
Talking on TV is what he does. But I have this impression he probably thinks he is equivalent to a philosopher, some elite observer of human nature who occasionally deigns to proffer his opinion to us all. He's clearly bright, and talented, and maybe his manner being offputting colours me unfairly as to what he is actually like, but gods he seems like such a tosser, the sort you can picture staring lovingly at his own reflection as he practices some clever quip or comment he plans to unleash on TV.
All the hard drugs he has done have scrambled his brains.
What does Will Self actually do? I know he's someone that's on TV a lot talking about politics but what does he actually do? Journalist?
Talking on TV is what he does. But I have this impression he probably thinks he is equivalent to a philosopher, some elite observer of human nature who occasionally deigns to proffer his opinion to us all, with writing to pay the bills. He's clearly bright, and talented, and maybe his manner being offputting colours me unfairly as to what he is actually like, but gods he seems like such a tosser, the sort you can picture staring lovingly at his own reflection as he practices some clever quip or comment he plans to unleash on TV.
I thought he was the other snack head to get exposure.
What does Will Self actually do? I know he's someone that's on TV a lot talking about politics but what does he actually do? Journalist?
Talking on TV is what he does. But I have this impression he probably thinks he is equivalent to a philosopher, some elite observer of human nature who occasionally deigns to proffer his opinion to us all, with writing to pay the bills. He's clearly bright, and talented, and maybe his manner being offputting colours me unfairly as to what he is actually like, but gods he seems like such a tosser, the sort you can picture staring lovingly at his own reflection as he practices some clever quip or comment he plans to unleash on TV.
I thought he was the other snack head to get exposure.
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Things like auto-correct, red lines on chrome/Microsoft word flag up our mistakes, and we've gotten used to technology correcting our mistakes.
Even more Britons voted against the Steel and Owen comedy act
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/807003324826456064
On Tuesday night, I had the weirdest dream that I met Boris at what was presumably a Conference, and had lunch with him!
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/807001890135429120
Clement Attlee brought the NHS, but he also brought famine, bankruptcy and the end of the empire.
Harold Wilson brought the end of the death penalty, but he also brought crime, bankruptcy and industrial strife.
I don't rate them high, no PM should be rated high, all of them caused one disaster or the other.
Current Betfair prices (midprice)
Fillon 1.81 Le Pen 5.1 Macron 6.8 Valls 17.5 Montebourg 39 Mélenchon 100 Bayrou 470
Taubira 195 Hamon 500 Peillon 570
Macron's price continues to be much too low IMHO.
The gap between Valls and Montebourg seems absurd if you consider theyr are essentially tied for the primary second round. Of course Montebourg has virtually no chance in the general election but so does Valls on current polling...
Taubira's price briefly collapsed yesterday but, as she has not made any step towards a candidacy, the price is back to more logical territory
Betfair introduced Hamon and Peillon on the market today. Both have very high prices now and could be value bets at this stage. After all Hamon is now at 11% and in third place as Fillon was in October...
Anyway I think that Peillon could be a better trading bet. As long as he has not been polled we have no idea of his potential but the support of many Hollande party apparatchiks could be very handy in a low-turnout scenario.
Sadly, I sold out between 9 and 11.
One hundred weeks at Guido for your Americanism!
Why are there two Tories, anyway
Only now noticed a huge typo in it.
Still not as bad as my friend, he works for an auction house, the jewellery/fine arts and he did a report about asset price movements.
He meant to say 'the influence of international jewellery prices has had a detrimental impact in the UK'
instead it read 'the influence of international Jewry has had a detrimental impact in the UK'
Emailed to their client base.
Fortunately he's half Jewish, so no p45 for him
So the panel is balanced.
In a seat they were second in at the GE ?!
Normally I hate losing bets but this is the funniest tenner I'll lose to Paddy in a loong time !
Lab 98
Grn 79
Con 68
LD 36
The votes tallies are embarrassing.
A strong 7% turnout.
1. The council Labour leader called a (coincidental!) EGM last night to approve a possible judicial review of the local hospital reorganisation plan. He's pretty tribal, and has pitched this as people from outside (ie the rest of Shropshire) telling Telford what it can or can't have. So there's a strong whiff of Taking Back Control and More Money for the NHS. All he needs is a bus.
2. 17pc turnout.
3. Tory MP Lucy Allan has been virtually invisible for the past year since her unfortunate skirmishes on social media. She was elected on a wave of smart but shallow photo-opps and sound bites, but there may not be much substance there to back them up.
4. The local Labour leadership is pretty anti-Corbyn without making a massive deal of it, so it'd be hard to see it as a big pro Corbyn vote.
So all of this is pretty local and massively topical. It won't be the same in a GE in 3.5 years, though given the apparently less favourable boundaries for Ms Allan next time, she's probably not deeply-chuffed at this.
https://twitter.com/NCPoliticsUK/status/807005381348171776
It does mean the majority could be cut significantly.
If it is a Lab-Con swing, that is truly beyond awful !
Tory vote mostly stable, UKIP scoops the opposition vote to come a far second.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_by-election_records#Lowest_turnout
UKIP to the left, Lib Dems to the right
Stuck in the middle with Corbyn.
Thanks @AndreaParma_82 for ensuring that I can sleep easy!
#JesuisLamb
Edit: and definitely not the award winning novelist bit.