depends if people can be arsed to vote for him, he has the weakest support base of the lot
seems a bit of a gobshite
He's level of committed support is exactly the same as Hamon's which reflects the fact that traditional PS voters are wrestling with their loyalties. As election day approaches, expect Macron's vote to solidify.
Unrelated, other than Trump is involved in both, but I don't expect Tillerson to last a year as Sec of State.
Why don't you expect him to last? You think he will quit?
Quit. He can't get the job done with Trump as far as I can see, and as a CEO of Exxon, he aint gonna put up with that.
Surely he did... Maybe ten minutes... Of research and realised it would be like that. Donald doesn't care about most countries so I imagine Rex will have a free hand in most areas...
I must admit that when I made that comment I wasn't thinking about white collar crime, just various people that I've worked with or known socially. Edit: buggered up the snipping. This is a response to CF not me trying to put words in her mouth.
No great surprise there. Despite years of sloganeering about "repeal and replace", an actual plan to replace has not been forthcoming. That leaves just repeal, which means millions lose coverage, and many, many lost votes.
I must admit that when I made that comment I wasn't thinking about white collar crime, just various people that I've worked with or known socially. Edit: buggered up the snipping. This is a response to CF not me trying to put words in her mouth.
May I put in my bid for knowing the most crooks? After all, I met most of Saddam's regime (save him).
Update from Copeland: Labour in the pub; Tories smiling like having had a mild orgasm. In Stoke, UKIP incommunicado. I.E., f*cked.
Your ramping is more obvious than what goes on on the Betfair Forum. I suppose once you've clear out your positions the information will dry up.
Yep, does sound like Billy Bullshit has got a login.
I thought this site was about politics and betting. Apologies if passing on information is a bit of a drag. Nobody knows the outcome. I'm just passing it on. I also apologise for knowing senior people in 3 parties who are happy to talk to me. I must ask them to stop. What shall we discuss? The weather?
No, it's interesting, with all due reservations. Carry on!
I must admit that when I made that comment I wasn't thinking about white collar crime, just various people that I've worked with or known socially. Edit: buggered up the snipping. This is a response to CF not me trying to put words in her mouth.
May I put in my bid for knowing the most crooks? After all, I met most of Saddam's regime (save him).
Is that all - why not ask for 100 billion. The idea we will pay blackmail sums to leave is only for remainers dreamland
The idea is that the Brexiteers will call them all 'tools', the negotiations go nowhere, and the dream of the German car industry imposing a velvet divorce with lots of goodies for Britain will be exposed as a fantasy.
Is that all - why not ask for 100 billion. The idea we will pay blackmail sums to leave is only for remainers dreamland
The idea is that the Brexiteers will call them all 'tools', the negotiations go nowhere, and the dream of the German car industry imposing a velvet divorce with lots of goodies for Britain will be exposed as a fantasy.
The hysteria around comments on Brexit are entirely predictable from both sides. In the end a deal will be done, both the EU and the UK cannot afford not to agree
Update from Copeland: Labour in the pub; Tories smiling like having had a mild orgasm. In Stoke, UKIP incommunicado. I.E., f*cked.
Your ramping is more obvious than what goes on on the Betfair Forum. I suppose once you've clear out your positions the information will dry up.
Yep, does sound like Billy Bullshit has got a login.
His info chimes with George Eaton, Tory, Lib Dem sources regarding Stoke and the local rag in Copeland though........
Let's be honest it's more likely 1 person has said something and others have run with it and recycled the information. Unless people reveal their source or have a great track record then little is to be believed at this point in the day. We've been here before many, many times.
This. It's like choosing to believe what you hear on transfer deadline day. Just go to bed and wake up the next day (hopefully).
Certainly my plan. The bets are in, if I try to improve my position after midnight I'll probably just make things worse...
The problem was the wife never gave him blow jobs anyway and he was the one who cooked the tea every night. No wonder he divorced her. Never should have married her in the first place.
The largest share of NATO's direct funding in Europe is from Germany and France. I suppose they can redirect it to EU defence...
The Germans are about €25bn per annum short of the amount they are supposed to be committing to defence spending under the 2% of GDP commitment.
And, they would be on the hook for €4bn a year of additional contributions to the EU budget if the EU wish to carry on spending as they have without the UK contribution.
They are just going to have to get used to the idea that the country that provided just over 26% of the net contribution in 2015 is no longer paying for them.
First EU head of state/government to publicly back to €60bn Brexit bill figure.
To add insult to injury he calls it a 'check'. The common language of the EU will be American.
I think that's American Bloomberg rather than him!
The language issue is amusing, actually. When Britain withdraws, English will no longer be the first languag eof any EU stte (Ireland decided to go nqationalist and claim they only spoke Gaelic). That means in principle that there will no longer be any official translations into English (which would be very bad news for me personally as a translator), unless Ireland says well, um, actually we do mostly speak English (embarassing).
In principle this would be a nuisance for countries like Denmark whose politicians are very comfortable in English. And it'd be a big nuisance for business - probably an unofficial inustry in translation would spring up for anything with commercial relevance.
“There has been no problem whatever… with any of the British nationals who have been released from Guantanamo Bay, who, in fact, have made a commendable contribution to arguments for justice and for closing it down.” - Mr J. Corbyn of Islington
First EU head of state/government to publicly back to €60bn Brexit bill figure.
To add insult to injury he calls it a 'check'. The common language of the EU will be American.
I think that's American Bloomberg rather than him!
The language issue is amusing, actually. When Britain withdraws, English will no longer be the first languag eof any EU stte (Ireland decided to go nqationalist and claim they only spoke Gaelic). That means in principle that there will no longer be any official translations into English (which would be very bad news for me personally as a translator), unless Ireland says well, um, actually we do mostly speak English (embarassing).
In principle this would be a nuisance for countries like Denmark whose politicians are very comfortable in English. And it'd be a big nuisance for business - probably an unofficial inustry in translation would spring up for anything with commercial relevance.
This is absolute nonesense. For EU (not domestic) purposes, Ireland's main EU language has been English since 1973. They added Irish in 2007, but not all documents have to be translated into it in recognition that it's a total waste of time and money.
I also fail to see how the UK leaving would automatically lead to English ceasing to be one of the 3 main working languages. Eastern Europe and the Med would be utterly opposed, as shown by the farrago over the EU patent court.
Is that all - why not ask for 100 billion. The idea we will pay blackmail sums to leave is only for remainers dreamland
The idea is that the Brexiteers will call them all 'tools', the negotiations go nowhere, and the dream of the German car industry imposing a velvet divorce with lots of goodies for Britain will be exposed as a fantasy.
The hysteria around comments on Brexit are entirely predictable from both sides. In the end a deal will be done, both the EU and the UK cannot afford not to agree
You're so deluded. They CAN afford it. We can't. Wake up!
Is that all - why not ask for 100 billion. The idea we will pay blackmail sums to leave is only for remainers dreamland
The idea is that the Brexiteers will call them all 'tools', the negotiations go nowhere, and the dream of the German car industry imposing a velvet divorce with lots of goodies for Britain will be exposed as a fantasy.
The hysteria around comments on Brexit are entirely predictable from both sides. In the end a deal will be done, both the EU and the UK cannot afford not to agree
You're so deluded. They CAN afford it. We can't. Wake up!
They are the ones with a huge hole in their budget!
Is that all - why not ask for 100 billion. The idea we will pay blackmail sums to leave is only for remainers dreamland
The idea is that the Brexiteers will call them all 'tools', the negotiations go nowhere, and the dream of the German car industry imposing a velvet divorce with lots of goodies for Britain will be exposed as a fantasy.
The hysteria around comments on Brexit are entirely predictable from both sides. In the end a deal will be done, both the EU and the UK cannot afford not to agree
You're so deluded. They CAN afford it. We can't. Wake up!
They are the ones with a huge hole in their budget!
They have a hole in their budget, whether they do a deal with us or not. And 27 states to share it around.
I have had a shit week this week: I was working late on Job One every day and I was freelancing last night until 4am, so not in good mood. I have done no work wrt Stoke or Copeland and I have no idea who will win. As I have no position to hedge (it's not going to move GBP) and I have no idea who's going to win, there's no point in betting. So I won't be betting on Stoke/Copeland, so apologies for being the wussiest wussy wuss that ever wussed. I hope you all win money tonight.
Apparently Sky News's election show will be based in Stoke tonight, not Copeland as someone implied earlier.
@BethRigby: One train, one car, eight hours later, we've #MadeittoCopeland. Join us for our special by-election coverage with @adamboultonSKY from 10pm
Apparently Sky News's election show will be based in Stoke tonight, not Copeland as someone implied earlier.
@BethRigby: One train, one car, eight hours later, we've #MadeittoCopeland. Join us for our special by-election coverage with @adamboultonSKY from 10pm
First EU head of state/government to publicly back to €60bn Brexit bill figure.
To add insult to injury he calls it a 'check'. The common language of the EU will be American.
I think that's American Bloomberg rather than him!
The language issue is amusing, actually. When Britain withdraws, English will no longer be the first languag eof any EU stte (Ireland decided to go nqationalist and claim they only spoke Gaelic). That means in principle that there will no longer be any official translations into English (which would be very bad news for me personally as a translator), unless Ireland says well, um, actually we do mostly speak English (embarassing).
In principle this would be a nuisance for countries like Denmark whose politicians are very comfortable in English. And it'd be a big nuisance for business - probably an unofficial inustry in translation would spring up for anything with commercial relevance.
This is absolute nonesense. For EU (not domestic) purposes, Ireland's main EU language has been English since 1973. They added Irish in 2007, but not all documents have to be translated into it in recognition that it's a total waste of time and money.
Not for long. Irish will be used for ALL EU documents from 2021:
@BethRigby: One train, one car, eight hours later, we've #MadeittoCopeland. Join us for our special by-election coverage with @adamboultonSKY from 10pm
First EU head of state/government to publicly back to €60bn Brexit bill figure.
To add insult to injury he calls it a 'check'. The common language of the EU will be American.
I think that's American Bloomberg rather than him!
The language issue is amusing, actually. When Britain withdraws, English will no longer be the first languag eof any EU stte (Ireland decided to go nqationalist and claim they only spoke Gaelic). That means in principle that there will no longer be any official translations into English (which would be very bad news for me personally as a translator), unless Ireland says well, um, actually we do mostly speak English (embarassing).
In principle this would be a nuisance for countries like Denmark whose politicians are very comfortable in English. And it'd be a big nuisance for business - probably an unofficial inustry in translation would spring up for anything with commercial relevance.
This is absolute nonesense. For EU (not domestic) purposes, Ireland's main EU language has been English since 1973. They added Irish in 2007, but not all documents have to be translated into it in recognition that it's a total waste of time and money.
Not for long. Irish will be used for ALL EU documents from 2021:
Given how widely it is used as a second language, how can it make any sense to not translate things into English even if the Irish are going to pretend it is not their main language? It would be a chance with no benefits, surely?
Is that all - why not ask for 100 billion. The idea we will pay blackmail sums to leave is only for remainers dreamland
The idea is that the Brexiteers will call them all 'tools', the negotiations go nowhere, and the dream of the German car industry imposing a velvet divorce with lots of goodies for Britain will be exposed as a fantasy.
The hysteria around comments on Brexit are entirely predictable from both sides. In the end a deal will be done, both the EU and the UK cannot afford not to agree
You're so deluded. They CAN afford it. We can't. Wake up!
They are the ones with a huge hole in their budget!
They have a hole in their budget, whether they do a deal with us or not. And 27 states to share it around.
Many of the 27 make zero contribution to the EU budget, do not meet their defence spending obligations and are negligible trade partners for us.
First EU head of state/government to publicly back to €60bn Brexit bill figure.
To add insult to injury he calls it a 'check'. The common language of the EU will be American.
I think that's American Bloomberg rather than him!
The language issue is amusing, actually. When Britain withdraws, English will no longer be the first languag eof any EU stte (Ireland decided to go nqationalist and claim they only spoke Gaelic). That means in principle that there will no longer be any official translations into English (which would be very bad news for me personally as a translator), unless Ireland says well, um, actually we do mostly speak English (embarassing).
In principle this would be a nuisance for countries like Denmark whose politicians are very comfortable in English. And it'd be a big nuisance for business - probably an unofficial inustry in translation would spring up for anything with commercial relevance.
This is absolute nonesense. For EU (not domestic) purposes, Ireland's main EU language has been English since 1973. They added Irish in 2007, but not all documents have to be translated into it in recognition that it's a total waste of time and money.
Not for long. Irish will be used for ALL EU documents from 2021:
Given how widely it is used as a second language, how can it make any sense to not translate things into English even if the Irish are going to pretend it is not their main language? It would be a chance with no benefits, surely?
I've said before India is probably a model. The Raj ended but English didn't primarily one assumes. because it suddenly attained neutral status.
No great surprise there. Despite years of sloganeering about "repeal and replace", an actual plan to replace has not been forthcoming. That leaves just repeal, which means millions lose coverage, and many, many lost votes.
Recent Town Hall events have been brutal for the GOP - I saw some of Tom Cotton's TH in Arkansas last night. People are very angry about the ACA. Midterms approaching.
Continued use of English by the EU after Brexit would presumably be cultural appropriation, if done without our permission. We should charge a licence fee of, oooh, £365m a week if they want to keep it.
I have had a shit week this week: I was working late on Job One every day and I was freelancing last night until 4am, so not in good mood. I have done no work wrt Stoke or Copeland and I have no idea who will win. As I have no position to hedge (it's not going to move GBP) and I have no idea who's going to win, there's no point in betting. So I won't be betting on Stoke/Copeland, so apologies for being the wussiest wussy wuss that ever wussed. I hope you all win money tonight.
No great surprise there. Despite years of sloganeering about "repeal and replace", an actual plan to replace has not been forthcoming. That leaves just repeal, which means millions lose coverage, and many, many lost votes.
Recent Town Hall events have been brutal for the GOP - I saw some of Tom Cotton's TH in Arkansas last night. People are very angry about the ACA. Midterms approaching.
It appears that people really didn't realise that Obamacare WAS the ACA. Which politiically is obviously what the opponents wanted when the coined the term. They should probably just declare Obamacare "dead" and leave the ACA in place!
I have had a shit week this week: I was working late on Job One every day and I was freelancing last night until 4am, so not in good mood. I have done no work wrt Stoke or Copeland and I have no idea who will win. As I have no position to hedge (it's not going to move GBP) and I have no idea who's going to win, there's no point in betting. So I won't be betting on Stoke/Copeland, so apologies for being the wussiest wussy wuss that ever wussed. I hope you all win money tonight.
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Donald doesn't care about most countries so I imagine Rex will have a free hand in most areas...
I must admit that when I made that comment I wasn't thinking about white collar crime, just various people that I've worked with or known socially.
Edit: buggered up the snipping. This is a response to CF not me trying to put words in her mouth.
Stoke should be safe for Labour.
https://twitter.com/Brexit/status/834815178642436096
And they probably render Esquimaux as Eskimos too.
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/834828984076627969
Well he would, wouldn’t he.
EU contributions by member state 2015.
(3) UK, 12.57%
(10) Austria, 2.17%
And, they would be on the hook for €4bn a year of additional contributions to the EU budget if the EU wish to carry on spending as they have without the UK contribution.
They are just going to have to get used to the idea that the country that provided just over 26% of the net contribution in 2015 is no longer paying for them.
The language issue is amusing, actually. When Britain withdraws, English will no longer be the first languag eof any EU stte (Ireland decided to go nqationalist and claim they only spoke Gaelic). That means in principle that there will no longer be any official translations into English (which would be very bad news for me personally as a translator), unless Ireland says well, um, actually we do mostly speak English (embarassing).
In principle this would be a nuisance for countries like Denmark whose politicians are very comfortable in English. And it'd be a big nuisance for business - probably an unofficial inustry in translation would spring up for anything with commercial relevance.
It's unlikely to get better than this for the blue team.
How many Rafael's will that buy per year?
Con gain Bootle if the blues take Copeland tonight by 4,000
I also fail to see how the UK leaving would automatically lead to English ceasing to be one of the 3 main working languages. Eastern Europe and the Med would be utterly opposed, as shown by the farrago over the EU patent court.
This is all very reminiscent of the Cleggasm, and one or two deluded Lib Dems thought they had a chance of gaining Witney!
http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-370204.htm
On the wider issue, there's a discussion here:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/european-commission-rejects-claims-english-will-not-be-eu-language-1.2702734 It's pretty clear that English will still be used, but it's possible that it will swap places with Irish and only used for primary legislation. I hope you're right and this won't happen, though.
Also still just about sticking to Labour holding Copeland, although possibly chickening out of my prediction of a swing to Lab.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2921524/sarah-beeny-pinpoints-the-best-50-places-to-live-in-the-uk-in-new-tv-show-and-youll-never-guess-the-winning-area/
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