Feeling a bit nauseous now about my LibDem constituency bets.
Now expecting to lose the 25/1 on Olney in Richmond Park - and also the nets on Bath going Yellow. They were still both excellent value bets, mind, and hedged my bullish Tory constituency bets...
You must be able to hedge the 25/1 on the seat itself to guarantee a profit?
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
Crosby is clearly no fool. But neither is he a genius. He's had a couple of major recent flops (in Canada and London) where he badly misjudged the theme.
And in the last Australian federal election where he was outsmarted by the ALP with their "Mediscare" campaign. He had no effective counter and lost a lot of NSW and QLD seats for the LNP. He brought piss to a shit fight.
The Liberals still won though and he was vital in John Howard's wins (Howard was quite similar to May). Canada was a lost cause after years of Tory rule and against Trudeau but the results could have been worse for Harper
I've just had a nibble on Clive Lewis at 8/13. Norwich Labour vote holding up very well and Tories well adrift in Bowthorpe. They can't win it on New Costessey alone.
I think this is free money. Labour making gains (from Greens) in Norwich.
Yep, they've taken Mancroft on a collapse of 20% in the green vote. Lewis looks like increasing his majority to me, Greens capitulation.
Yes, Crosby's re-branding of May has been quite extraordinary. Many moons ago May was actually a figure of contempt amongst the British Right: the 'nasty party' stuff was seen as self-flagellating and pandering; she espoused such notions of gender equality; she wasn't at all sympathetic to criticism of Islam. All in all May was seen as a robotic, unprincipled, PC jellyfish and the very embodiment of societal decline. That's all forgotten now, of course.
Feeling a bit nauseous now about my LibDem constituency bets.
Now expecting to lose the 25/1 on Olney in Richmond Park - and also the nets on Bath going Yellow. They were still both excellent value bets, mind, and hedged my bullish Tory constituency bets...
You must be able to hedge the 25/1 on the seat itself to guarantee a profit?
Yep - I could. I'm going to hold it for now, just in case....
Another one we were worried about in Notts is held easily - West Bridgford North (boundary changes make comparisons hard). Tories piling up big leads in seats they held before, but struggling to make gains so far - Labour (and in Collingham Independent) defences holding...up to now.
Just looking at the Notts live results - seems an independent has won in Ashfield. Is that a change?
Is that Selston? If so, no, it's a safe Indie seat, usually votes with Labour.
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
It very much is the EU problem - no deal no money for them
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
Barnier regards the dinner leak as 'unhelpful' (well, for the EU, anyway...)
I've just had a nibble on Clive Lewis at 8/13. Norwich Labour vote holding up very well and Tories well adrift in Bowthorpe. They can't win it on New Costessey alone.
I think this is free money. Labour making gains (from Greens) in Norwich.
Brighton Kemptown is a similar seat where Labour could well squeeze the Greens to pick it up.
Tories gain Eastwood from LibDems - this is the seat where I had to pull out as I'd moved out of the County boundary.
(Snip)
Eastwood, the birthplace of the best railway company in the world: the Midland!
(Born at a meeting at the Sun Inn in 1832).
And of D. H Lawrence. He's probably slowly rotating under the sod at having a Tory councillor.....
He would not recognise the modern world, yet alone any of the parties.
The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal (Democrats) are all radically different beasts a hundred years later. Although Corbyn's trying to drag Labour back ...
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
He owes his position to the EU27 heads of government. If he keeps on like this, he will be sidelined from Brexit totally and his influence in other areas diminished... what's the Luxembourgish for loose cannon?
@Steven_Swinford: Arron Banks: Under Farage Ukip was racing car. Nuttall has 'crashed the car at the first bend of the race killing driver and spectators'
Feeling a bit nauseous now about my LibDem constituency bets.
Now expecting to lose the 25/1 on Olney in Richmond Park - and also the nets on Bath going Yellow. They were still both excellent value bets, mind, and hedged my bullish Tory constituency bets...
Likewise Bath. I am also on Cheadle and Burnley.
Not a great bet on Bath with hindsight but I'd not write it off just yet.
The Bath and North East Somerset mayoral first count had Con 13,103, Lib Dem 10,021, Labour 6,137. That encompasses Rees-Mogg's seat (traditionally Con/Lab battle) as well as Bath. So that looks competitive.
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
It very much is the EU problem - no deal no money for them
The money is small change in the context of the overall size of the EU's economies. Yes, there would be arguments about where to find the gap, but a deal would be struck.
Leavers need to stop hyperventilating every time Jean-Claude Juncker picks up his pen to fill in a crossword clue.
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
He owes his position to the EU27 heads of government. If he keeps on like this, he will be sidelined from Brexit totally and his influence in other areas diminished... what's the Luxembourgish for loose cannon?
Get a grip. The reaction from most sane Britons, never mind your average Eurocrat, will be that if the more lunatic Leavers can't spot a joke, that's their problem not his.
Another one we were worried about in Notts is held easily - West Bridgford North (boundary changes make comparisons hard). Tories piling up big leads in seats they held before, but struggling to make gains so far - Labour (and in Collingham Independent) defences holding...up to now.
Just looking at the Notts live results - seems an independent has won in Ashfield. Is that a change?
Is that Selston? If so, no, it's a safe Indie seat, usually votes with Labour.
Ah no I see - it's the former LibDem leader Zadrozny who is no longer a member of the party due to a legal case which I believe is still ongoing (so I won't say more).
Another one we were worried about in Notts is held easily - West Bridgford North (boundary changes make comparisons hard). Tories piling up big leads in seats they held before, but struggling to make gains so far - Labour (and in Collingham Independent) defences holding...up to now.
Just looking at the Notts live results - seems an independent has won in Ashfield. Is that a change?
Is that Selston? If so, no, it's a safe Indie seat, usually votes with Labour.
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
It very much is the EU problem - no deal no money for them
The money is small change in the context of the overall size of the EU's economies. Yes, there would be arguments about where to find the gap, but a deal would be struck.
Leavers need to stop hyperventilating every time Jean-Claude Juncker picks up his pen to fill in a crossword clue.
He is very toxic but then I expect a remainer to defend anything to do with the wonderful EU
I've just had a nibble on Clive Lewis at 8/13. Norwich Labour vote holding up very well and Tories well adrift in Bowthorpe. They can't win it on New Costessey alone.
I think this is free money. Labour making gains (from Greens) in Norwich.
Brighton Kemptown is a similar seat where Labour could well squeeze the Greens to pick it up.
If there is any seat that might buck the national Lab/Con trend, I agree this is it. But the trend is strong, and I'm not sure 5/1 is tempting enough.
First Tory gain from Labour in Notts - Retford East by 37 votes. That eliminates the Labour majority (which was 1), though the Indies and LibDems have generally voted with Labour recently. Plenty of seats still to come.
Another one we were worried about in Notts is held easily - West Bridgford North (boundary changes make comparisons hard). Tories piling up big leads in seats they held before, but struggling to make gains so far - Labour (and in Collingham Independent) defences holding...up to now.
Just looking at the Notts live results - seems an independent has won in Ashfield. Is that a change?
Is that Selston? If so, no, it's a safe Indie seat, usually votes with Labour.
Ah no I see - it's the former LibDem leader Zadrozny who is no longer a member of the party due to a legal case which I believe is still ongoing (so I won't say more).
There is good news hidden in these dire results for Labour.
UKIP is collapsing, the LDs are moribund. Both could theoretically have replaced them as the main Opposition after Brexit, if we'd seen a massive, Scottish-style realignment. But it seems that ain't the case - yet.
Labour will survive. If and when they come to their senses, they will return to power.
True. I am really disappointed with the lds right now. What's the point?
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
It very much is the EU problem - no deal no money for them
The money is small change in the context of the overall size of the EU's economies. Yes, there would be arguments about where to find the gap, but a deal would be struck.
Leavers need to stop hyperventilating every time Jean-Claude Juncker picks up his pen to fill in a crossword clue.
He is very toxic but then I expect a remainer to defend anything to do with the wonderful EU
I'm not a fan of him at all. I think he should have resigned last summer. But I can recognise hysteria when I see it and far too many Leavers are descending into it so far as he is concerned.
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
Barnier regards the dinner leak as 'unhelpful' (well, for the EU, anyway...)
File under 'No shit, Sherlock'.
When the serious negotiations start they need to get rid of the drunken idiot, and in the meantime they need to understand that everything they say in the next five weeks will only give Theresa a bigger majority. She now doesn't need to care about keeping both Ken Clarke and Bill Cash happy.
Last week Lab's private pollster said Lab was polling 20% for the GE, I thought it was spin, now I think they were overestimating it.
As I have been saying for some time. The 28-29% we are seeing in national polls is nonsense. It has to be. Look at the reaction Corbyn gets from voters.
And two Tory gains in Hucknall, by 74 and 398. Hucknall had 3 Labour seats but was split into two 1-member divisions, so that's two and a half Tory gains, so to speak.
There is good news hidden in these dire results for Labour.
UKIP is collapsing, the LDs are moribund. Both could theoretically have replaced them as the main Opposition after Brexit, if we'd seen a massive, Scottish-style realignment. But it seems that ain't the case - yet.
Labour will survive. If and when they come to their senses, they will return to power.
True. I am really disappointed with the lds right now. What's the point?
Doesn't look bad in their target seats. My next door seat is Eastleigh and there they went from 3 to 7 (that's a clean sweep of all available County seats).
I've just had a nibble on Clive Lewis at 8/13. Norwich Labour vote holding up very well and Tories well adrift in Bowthorpe. They can't win it on New Costessey alone.
I think this is free money. Labour making gains (from Greens) in Norwich.
Brighton Kemptown is a similar seat where Labour could well squeeze the Greens to pick it up.
I think Labour can hold Hove as well. Smallish Green vote to sqeeze, but only a small UKIP vote too, plus a popular MP with first time incumbency and demographics moving in Labours favour. 5/2 seems decent value.
Feeling a bit nauseous now about my LibDem constituency bets.
Now expecting to lose the 25/1 on Olney in Richmond Park - and also the nets on Bath going Yellow. They were still both excellent value bets, mind, and hedged my bullish Tory constituency bets...
You must be able to hedge the 25/1 on the seat itself to guarantee a profit?
It's at 29-1 on betfair exchange when I checked....
First Tory gain from Labour in Notts - Retford East by 37 votes. That eliminates the Labour majority (which was 1), though the Indies and LibDems have generally voted with Labour recently. Plenty of seats still to come.
Does that mean Con gain Bassetlaw in June? It's an area which ought to trend Tory now the mining is gone.
Feeling a bit nauseous now about my LibDem constituency bets.
Now expecting to lose the 25/1 on Olney in Richmond Park - and also the nets on Bath going Yellow. They were still both excellent value bets, mind, and hedged my bullish Tory constituency bets...
You must be able to hedge the 25/1 on the seat itself to guarantee a profit?
It's at 29-1 on betfair exchange when I checked....
Now gone... May have been a glitch I think. Got some of it though.
Feeling a bit nauseous now about my LibDem constituency bets.
Now expecting to lose the 25/1 on Olney in Richmond Park - and also the nets on Bath going Yellow. They were still both excellent value bets, mind, and hedged my bullish Tory constituency bets...
You must be able to hedge the 25/1 on the seat itself to guarantee a profit?
It's at 29-1 on betfair exchange when I checked....
On sportsbook the Tories are at 10/11. A small bet on them and you can't lose overall.
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
He owes his position to the EU27 heads of government. If he keeps on like this, he will be sidelined from Brexit totally and his influence in other areas diminished... what's the Luxembourgish for loose cannon?
Get a grip. The reaction from most sane Britons, never mind your average Eurocrat, will be that if the more lunatic Leavers can't spot a joke, that's their problem not his.
Besides, who cares if Junckers loses influence? That is his problem.
Provided he does not have to stay back to get Trumpcare through the Senate but he is only meeting them after meeting May, Merkel, Trudeau, Abe, Xi, Turnbull, the PM of Denmark, the PM of Ireland,the King of Jordan and the President of Argentina so they were not exactly top of the list
Con have gained Swadlincote South (Derbys) - isn't that a former mining town?
Yep. The final colliery closed in the early 1990s - ?1994?. Rawdon.
It was also well known for its fireclays, which was quite a big business. I think that's also gone now. I used to know the town well, but haven't been back there in 20-odd years.
A town that really should have its railway line reopened to passengers, but problems elsewhere apparently preclude it.
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
It very much is the EU problem - no deal no money for them
The money is small change in the context of the overall size of the EU's economies. Yes, there would be arguments about where to find the gap, but a deal would be struck.
Leavers need to stop hyperventilating every time Jean-Claude Juncker picks up his pen to fill in a crossword clue.
He is very toxic but then I expect a remainer to defend anything to do with the wonderful EU
I'm not a fan of him at all. I think he should have resigned last summer. But I can recognise hysteria when I see it and far too many Leavers are descending into it so far as he is concerned.
Look, Alastair, stop calling everyone who you disagree with a 'Leaver'. You have no idea how I voted and seem unwilling to engage in debate, falling back on sneering about 'hysteria'. As Tusk would say: Stop being emotional.
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
It very much is the EU problem - no deal no money for them
The money is small change in the context of the overall size of the EU's economies. Yes, there would be arguments about where to find the gap, but a deal would be struck.
Leavers need to stop hyperventilating every time Jean-Claude Juncker picks up his pen to fill in a crossword clue.
He is very toxic but then I expect a remainer to defend anything to do with the wonderful EU
I'm not a fan of him at all. I think he should have resigned last summer. But I can recognise hysteria when I see it and far too many Leavers are descending into it so far as he is concerned.
Look, Alastair, stop calling everyone who you disagree with a 'Leaver'. You have no idea how I voted and seem unwilling to engage in debate, falling back on sneering about 'hysteria'. As Tusk would say: Stop being emotional.
I'm very sorry. At this sensitive time I should have more consideration of your feelings. We should get behind Theresa May against the enemy that is the EU. We shall fight them in the comedy clubs. We shall fight them in the jazz clubs. We shall never surrender.
Feeling a bit nauseous now about my LibDem constituency bets.
Now expecting to lose the 25/1 on Olney in Richmond Park - and also the nets on Bath going Yellow. They were still both excellent value bets, mind, and hedged my bullish Tory constituency bets...
You must be able to hedge the 25/1 on the seat itself to guarantee a profit?
It's at 29-1 on betfair exchange when I checked....
On sportsbook the Tories are at 10/11. A small bet on them and you can't lose overall.
Embarrassingly I think I looked at labour odds! Ah well... Greed worked out with the lib dem bet on RP the first time... So should still be well up either way.
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
It very much is the EU problem - no deal no money for them
The money is small change in the context of the overall size of the EU's economies. Yes, there would be arguments about where to find the gap, but a deal would be struck.
Leavers need to stop hyperventilating every time Jean-Claude Juncker picks up his pen to fill in a crossword clue.
He is very toxic but then I expect a remainer to defend anything to do with the wonderful EU
I'm not a fan of him at all. I think he should have resigned last summer. But I can recognise hysteria when I see it and far too many Leavers are descending into it so far as he is concerned.
Look, Alastair, stop calling everyone who you disagree with a 'Leaver'. You have no idea how I voted and seem unwilling to engage in debate, falling back on sneering about 'hysteria'. As Tusk would say: Stop being emotional.
He's well on the way to elvating anyone associated with the EU to sainthood.
And two Tory gains in Hucknall, by 74 and 398. Hucknall had 3 Labour seats but was split into two 1-member divisions, so that's two and a half Tory gains, so to speak.
I know Hucknall well - I remember leafleting and canvassing it when a teenager in the famous 1977 Ashfield by-election there.... 20.8% swing.
Basically it's Con taking the entire unionist vote. Labour and LD to get squeezed out everywhere they aren't strong (so, everywhere)
Exactly right. If you're a unionist (and remember that was 55% of the electorate in 2014), then you're going to be looking at the tories as being potentially the only game in town. Supported by Super Ruth.
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
It very much is the EU problem - no deal no money for them
The money is small change in the context of the overall size of the EU's economies. Yes, there would be arguments about where to find the gap, but a deal would be struck.
Leavers need to stop hyperventilating every time Jean-Claude Juncker picks up his pen to fill in a crossword clue.
He is very toxic but then I expect a remainer to defend anything to do with the wonderful EU
I'm not a fan of him at all. I think he should have resigned last summer. But I can recognise hysteria when I see it and far too many Leavers are descending into it so far as he is concerned.
Look, Alastair, stop calling everyone who you disagree with a 'Leaver'. You have no idea how I voted and seem unwilling to engage in debate, falling back on sneering about 'hysteria'. As Tusk would say: Stop being emotional.
He's well on the way to elvating anyone associated with the EU to sainthood.
You missed the bit where I said that I thought that he should have resigned and that I'm not a fan of him at all. But apart from that, carry on.
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
It very much is the EU problem - no deal no money for them
The money is small change in the context of the overall size of the EU's economies. Yes, there would be arguments about where to find the gap, but a deal would be struck.
Leavers need to stop hyperventilating every time Jean-Claude Juncker picks up his pen to fill in a crossword clue.
He is very toxic but then I expect a remainer to defend anything to do with the wonderful EU
I'm not a fan of him at all. I think he should have resigned last summer. But I can recognise hysteria when I see it and far too many Leavers are descending into it so far as he is concerned.
Look, Alastair, stop calling everyone who you disagree with a 'Leaver'. You have no idea how I voted and seem unwilling to engage in debate, falling back on sneering about 'hysteria'. As Tusk would say: Stop being emotional.
I'm very sorry. At this sensitive time I should have more consideration of your feelings. We should get behind Theresa May against the enemy that is the EU. We shall fight them in the comedy clubs. We shall fight them in the jazz clubs. We shall never surrender.
Juncker's crass comments about English language just shown live on BBC.
Someone needs to hook him off
Actually, if you watch the full clip, it's clearly a sardonic joke. A little dig at the English, but a joke nonetheless. He knows the reality of English language hegemony.
Worth noting that verbal jokes rarely work as well when written down and vice versa. You'd have thought a 'politician' as experienced as J-C Juncker would know this and take care at such a sensitive time, just days after his loose language had already put him on the naughty step.
What's sensitive about the current time? He has no reason to care how febrile public opinion is in Britain, especially if Theresa May has opted to pour petrol on the flames. That's her problem, not the EU's.
He owes his position to the EU27 heads of government. If he keeps on like this, he will be sidelined from Brexit totally and his influence in other areas diminished... what's the Luxembourgish for loose cannon?
Get a grip. The reaction from most sane Britons, never mind your average Eurocrat, will be that if the more lunatic Leavers can't spot a joke, that's their problem not his.
Besides, who cares if Junckers loses influence? That is his problem.
The eurosceptic Tory Right seem more obsessed with obscure EU functionaries now that we've left than they ever were when we were a member. Shame - if they'd had paid that much attention at the time, perhaps we could have shaped the EU to be much more to our liking.
Basically it's Con taking the entire unionist vote. Labour and LD to get squeezed out everywhere they aren't strong (so, everywhere)
Exactly right. If you're a unionist (and remember that was 55% of the electorate in 2014), then you're going to be looking at the tories as being potentially the only game in town. Supported by Super Ruth.
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https://twitter.com/JasonGroves1/status/860391216608890880
So much for tacking left.
https://twitter.com/kateproctores/status/860449610309021697
https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/860449674716749825
The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal (Democrats) are all radically different beasts a hundred years later. Although Corbyn's trying to drag Labour back ...
The Bath and North East Somerset mayoral first count had Con 13,103, Lib Dem 10,021, Labour 6,137. That encompasses Rees-Mogg's seat (traditionally Con/Lab battle) as well as Bath. So that looks competitive.
Leavers need to stop hyperventilating every time Jean-Claude Juncker picks up his pen to fill in a crossword clue.
https://twitter.com/afp/status/860435845563678721
When the serious negotiations start they need to get rid of the drunken idiot, and in the meantime they need to understand that everything they say in the next five weeks will only give Theresa a bigger majority. She now doesn't need to care about keeping both Ken Clarke and Bill Cash happy.
He needs to be sidelined by Tusk
Got some of it though.
Good afternoon, everyone.
It was also well known for its fireclays, which was quite a big business. I think that's also gone now. I used to know the town well, but haven't been back there in 20-odd years.
A town that really should have its railway line reopened to passengers, but problems elsewhere apparently preclude it.
LAB 71
SNP 3
LD 3
CON 1
SSP 1
https://mobile.twitter.com/RuthDavidsonMSP/status/860452990758637568
LAB 40 (-6)
CON 20 (+13)
LD 11 (-5)
PC 3 (+1)
IND 1 (-2)
Ah well... Greed worked out with the lib dem bet on RP the first time... So should still be well up either way.
Independent 28 (+19)
Labour 13 (−20)
Plaid Cymru 1(+1)
@rosscolquhoun: Scottish Labour rose wilts
*Jug of fresh water labelled 'independence' is in touching distance*
What's it to be?
https://www.ft.com/content/ea5c01f1-3aca-3517-a42b-4cfe439243f3
Not likely, but not impossible either.