I was always fairly perplexed how someone with no ministerial experience and ridiculously large negatives could be considered a contender for the leadership, let alone the favourite.
I've played this strictly as a laying game, and Mogg, Miliband (D) and Farage are my full reds on this market. I have Boris at zero profit or loss, as he could make it but his odds are too short. Best of luck to all those playing a backing game.
I think Corbyn has a genuine chance of becoming next PM as by hook or crook May may well hang on to the next election. Obviously if that is the case he should be no greater than about 6-4.
I was always fairly perplexed how someone with no ministerial experience and ridiculously large negatives could be considered a contender for the leadership, let alone the favourite.
Because he is a) beloved of the tory grassroots (allegedly) and b) in an age of anti-politics and populism, his supposed "authenticity" is a winner.
There is a great piece about him in this month's Prospect.
Unsurprising. The bigger mystery is how this utter clown was ever anywhere near the Tory leadership in the first place.
No mystery at all - the madness that is the current Labour party is bound to impact on the rest. The only difference being the Tories are unlikely to be quite so stupid. Probably ....
I see that Stop the War are to protest against the Palestinian deaths - it's good to see such a quick response as with their protests against Russia and Syria....
I see that Stop the War are to protest against the Palestinian deaths - it's good to see such a quick response as with their protests against Russia and Syria....
I see that Stop the War are to protest against the Palestinian deaths - it's good to see such a quick response as with their protests against Russia and Syria....
I see that Stop the War are to protest against the Palestinian deaths - it's good to see such a quick response as with their protests against Russia and Syria....
Do you approve of the slaughter of Palestinians?
No. Your ability to miss the point never fails to amaze and amuse.
I see that Stop the War are to protest against the Palestinian deaths - it's good to see such a quick response as with their protests against Russia and Syria....
Do you approve of the slaughter of Palestinians?
Being anti-war isn't a bad thing. Being selectivly anti-war.....
I think Giuseppe Conte will be the next Italian PM, just added him to Betfair runners and riders.
For a moment I read that as Antonio Conte.
Would be one hell of a career change but if George Weah can manage it.
After alot of huffing and puffing Di Maio basically agreed he won't be PM to break the deadlock. So two names have been put forward, Giulio Sapelli and Giuseppe Conte with Sapelli being ruled out by M5S.
Which leaves Conte to take the role just as he finishes the season at Chelsea.
Urban Dictionary on gammon. Gammon (Noun/mass noun): A term used to describe a particular type of Brexit-voting, middle-aged white male, whose meat-faced complexion suggests they are perilously close to a stroke.
The term 'gammon' is linked to the unhealthy pink skin tone of such stout yeomen, probably because of high blood pressure caused by decades of 'PC gone mad', being defeated in arguments about the non-existent merits of Brexit and women getting the vote.
Gammon often make their appearance on BBC's Question Time jabbing their porcine fingers at the camera while demanding immediate nuclear strikes against Remain-voting areas, people who eat vegetables and/or cyclists.
When gammon appears en masse it is often referred to as a "wall of gammon".
I see that Stop the War are to protest against the Palestinian deaths - it's good to see such a quick response as with their protests against Russia and Syria....
Do you approve of the slaughter of Palestinians?
Violent protest should be met by force. Israel is entirely within its rights to do what is has done.
"Slaughter", by the way, is typically excessive. If Israel had wanted to slaughter the protesters, there'd be thousands dead; there aren't.
Though meaning, I believe, was 'nonsense' - as in "gammon and spinach".
QV Miss Flite's pet birds in Bleak House- named “Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.”
OED agrees. Gammon means nonsense (dated term). Also 'to hoax'. First used as criminal slang in 18th century.
Collins says the origin of that meaning may have been the backgammon one (a double victory in backgammon in which one player throws off all his or her pieces before his or her opponent throws any)
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
Massive decision....could change the face of gambling in the US.
Vegas benefits from people coming from anti-gambling states for thr weekend to bet on football in the winter and baseball in the summer. The sports betting areas in every hotel are jammed on Saturdays with betting on College Football as well.
The notion of "betting shops" across the USA is something to consider...
Massive decision....could change the face of gambling in the US.
The judgment is interesting - and points to a significant difference between the US and the EU: As to what this structure means with regard to Con gress’s authority to control state legislatures, New York was clear and emphatic. The opinion recalled that “no Member of the Court ha[d] ever suggested” that even “a particularly strong federal interest” “would enable Con gress to command a state government to enact state regu lation.” Id., at 178 (emphasis in original). “We have always understood that even where Congress has the authority under the Constitution to pass laws requiring or prohibiting certain acts, it lacks the power directly to compel the States to require or prohibit those acts.” Id., at 166. “Congress may not simply ‘commandee[r] the legisla tive processes of the States by directly compelling them to enact and enforce a federal regulatory program.’” Id., at 161 (quoting Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Recla- mation Assn., Inc., 452 U. S. 264, 288 (1981)). “Where a federal interest is sufficiently strong to cause Congress to legislate, it must do so directly; it may not conscript state governments as its agents.” 505 U. S., at 178....
Massive decision....could change the face of gambling in the US.
Surely it could change the face of gambling in Europe if it leads to more online bookmakers? More bookies = better odds as we had at the 2015 GE before Ladbrokes merged with Coral and PP with Betfair (lesson for the competition authorities there surely, who seem content for Sainsbury's and Asda to merge and acquire 31% of the food market...)
BTW I read that Ladbrokes opened a betting exchange but I couldn't find it on their website and occasionally it's definitely useful to lay a bet, e.g. Peak Mogg.
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
I nearly published a thread late last year suggesting Mrs May made JRM Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
I nearly published a thread late last year suggesting Mrs May made JRM Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Perfect. And if he turned it down, it'd demonstrate that he's a chancer who doesn't really want/know how to make Brexit happen.
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
DWP?
He'd attempt to have disabled welfare claimants scrubbing the decks of hulk ships in preparation for holding illegal migrants.
Massive decision....could change the face of gambling in the US.
Surely it could change the face of gambling in Europe if it leads to more online bookmakers? More bookies = better odds as we had at the 2015 GE before Ladbrokes merged with Coral and PP with Betfair (lesson for the competition authorities there surely, who seem content for Sainsbury's and Asda to merge and acquire 31% of the food market...)
BTW I read that Ladbrokes opened a betting exchange but I couldn't find it on their website and occasionally it's definitely useful to lay a bet, e.g. Peak Mogg.
I bet The PokerStars Group can't believe their luck. As well as having their own betting, casino and poker offering, they have just bought Sky Bet...
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
And furthermore, when she offers him, she should leak that he's getting offered it. A bit like Tim Farron in coalition who was ever so careful to keep his hands clean, and never offered a job. So JRM should either have to get his hands dirty or be seen to be a coward / not willing to support the PM when asked.
I see that Stop the War are to protest against the Palestinian deaths - it's good to see such a quick response as with their protests against Russia and Syria....
One reason for the protests is surely the supine attitude of our government with regard to Israel's behaviour. Atrocities carried out by the Russian and Syrian governments are rightly met with sanctions and, in the latter case, threats of military intervention. Israel, on the hand, appears able to commit atrocities with impunity. Why does Israel get a green light to do as it pleases, while other countries attract punishment for their evil-doing?
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
I nearly published a thread late last year suggesting Mrs May made JRM Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Or maybe he could replace Penny Mordaunt as Minister for Women and Equalities to let her concentrate on International Development?
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
I nearly published a thread late last year suggesting Mrs May made JRM Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Or maybe he could replace Penny Mordaunt as Minister for Women and Equalities to let her concentrate on International Development?
Nah, has to be a Leaver for Northern Ireland, they keep on telling us sorting out the border issue is easy.
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
DWP?
He'd attempt to have disabled welfare claimants scrubbing the decks of hulk ships in preparation for holding illegal migrants.
We really are channelling Dickens this afternoon...
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
I nearly published a thread late last year suggesting Mrs May made JRM Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Or maybe he could replace Penny Mordaunt as Minister for Women and Equalities to let her concentrate on International Development?
Nah, has to be a Leaver for Northern Ireland, they keep on telling us sorting out the border issue is easy.
Yes, good point. Plus, the DUP will no doubt enjoy working with someone who is a committed Christian. Oh, um...
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
I nearly published a thread late last year suggesting Mrs May made JRM Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Or maybe he could replace Penny Mordaunt as Minister for Women and Equalities to let her concentrate on International Development?
Too late for now unless there's another scandal soon but Home Secretary or Minister of State would prepare him for a high-flying career.
He's already about 47. At that age Harold Wilson was PM.
I see that Stop the War are to protest against the Palestinian deaths - it's good to see such a quick response as with their protests against Russia and Syria....
Do you approve of the slaughter of Palestinians?
Violent protest should be met by force. Israel is entirely within its rights to do what is has done.
"Slaughter", by the way, is typically excessive. If Israel had wanted to slaughter the protesters, there'd be thousands dead; there aren't.
Explanatory sessions, outlining in detail the two customs options that the EU have rejected.
Just in case any MP was unsure what had been turned down.
Mrs May is doing FIVE sessions on the same material one after the other? IMHO (and I’ve been there) a recipe for disaster. One get’s bored, forgets important points and even the place where the jokes go. Pity the guys and gals in the fourth and fifth sessions!
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
I nearly published a thread late last year suggesting Mrs May made JRM Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Or maybe he could replace Penny Mordaunt as Minister for Women and Equalities to let her concentrate on International Development?
Too late for now unless there's another scandal soon but Home Secretary or Minister of State would prepare him for a high-flying career.
He's already about 47. At that age Harold Wilson was PM.
Blimey, he's only 47! I thought he was born in 1850.
Explanatory sessions, outlining in detail the two customs options that the EU have rejected.
Just in case any MP was unsure what had been turned down.
Mrs May is doing FIVE sessions on the same material one after the other? IMHO (and I’ve been there) a recipe for disaster. One get’s bored, forgets important points and even the place where the jokes go. Pity the guys and gals in the fourth and fifth sessions!
Agreed if the delivery was by any mere mortal (been there myself), but with the Maybot delivering I am sure the first session will be every bit as tedious as the fifth.
I see that Stop the War are to protest against the Palestinian deaths - it's good to see such a quick response as with their protests against Russia and Syria....
One reason for the protests is surely the supine attitude of our government with regard to Israel's behaviour. Atrocities carried out by the Russian and Syrian governments are rightly met with sanctions and, in the latter case, threats of military intervention. Israel, on the hand, appears able to commit atrocities with impunity. Why does Israel get a green light to do as it pleases, while other countries attract punishment for their evil-doing?
In the case of Israel the atrocities you refer to are unproven. Note I do not offer an opinion on them and accept there is much amiss in the current Israeli government. However, they have free and fair elections so the government is legitimate which is more than can be said for the two you mention. My actual point which you ignore relates to the STW organisation and their selectivity in which 'wars' they choose to protest. with regard to the UK I think they take a fair line on Israel and remain wedded to the 2 state solution. I'm not convinced that Hamas and Hezbollah support that. Indeed they are committed to the destruction of the state of Israel which in part explains the Israeli attitudes to threats on their borders.
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
DWP?
He'd attempt to have disabled welfare claimants scrubbing the decks of hulk ships in preparation for holding illegal migrants.
We really are channelling Dickens this afternoon...
I see that Stop the War are to protest against the Palestinian deaths - it's good to see such a quick response as with their protests against Russia and Syria....
Do you approve of the slaughter of Palestinians?
Violent protest should be met by force. Israel is entirely within its rights to do what is has done.
"Slaughter", by the way, is typically excessive. If Israel had wanted to slaughter the protesters, there'd be thousands dead; there aren't.
If Theresa May really, REALLY wants to tank JRM's chances of getting power, she should give him a big, serious job in the Cabinet and watch as he crumbles just like Boris. It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
DWP?
He'd attempt to have disabled welfare claimants scrubbing the decks of hulk ships in preparation for holding illegal migrants.
We really are channelling Dickens this afternoon...
Brings a new Twist to the PB discourse.
I have a hard time believing you can't do better than that; so much for my great expectations...
I see that Stop the War are to protest against the Palestinian deaths - it's good to see such a quick response as with their protests against Russia and Syria....
One reason for the protests is surely the supine attitude of our government with regard to Israel's behaviour. Atrocities carried out by the Russian and Syrian governments are rightly met with sanctions and, in the latter case, threats of military intervention. Israel, on the hand, appears able to commit atrocities with impunity. Why does Israel get a green light to do as it pleases, while other countries attract punishment for their evil-doing?
In the case of Israel the atrocities you refer to are unproven. Note I do not offer an opinion on them and accept there is much amiss in the current Israeli government. However, they have free and fair elections so the government is legitimate which is more than can be said for the two you mention. My actual point which you ignore relates to the STW organisation and their selectivity in which 'wars' they choose to protest. with regard to the UK I think they take a fair line on Israel and remain wedded to the 2 state solution. I'm not convinced that Hamas and Hezbollah support that. Indeed they are committed to the destruction of the state of Israel which in part explains the Israeli attitudes to threats on their borders.
I did not ignore your point. My post directly addressed your point. To repeat: one reason that Israel's actions arouse such ire is the fact that the response of our own and other western governments to them is so half-hearted. When Arab countries defy UN resolutions, they get invaded; Israel gets a finger-wagging at most. This kind of favouritism makes people angry.
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Isn't a high crime rate quite a good indicator for Remainia?
Especially stabbings. Remainers are obviously far more likely to be stabbers.
Like JRM we’ve seen peak Boris.
Hunt looks and acts so Prime Ministerial. Hope you all got on at 100/1 and 66/1.
The same was true for corbyn, of course.
O/T if Bercow does step down as Speaker, will he take the Labour whip?
I have Boris at zero profit or loss, as he could make it but his odds are too short.
Best of luck to all those playing a backing game.
I think Corbyn has a genuine chance of becoming next PM as by hook or crook May may well hang on to the next election. Obviously if that is the case he should be no greater than about 6-4.
There is a great piece about him in this month's Prospect.
When the Speaker starts to abuse the procedures and structures of the House, whatever one might think of him, his time is up.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/may/14/speaker-john-bercow-bullying-allegations-commons-staff
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/995037243470426112
I don't think his ego could bear carrying on regardless in the manner of (for example) May....
As yue were Labour.
I'm not convinced that will be enough.
He used to sing anti Catholic songs too.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/05/14/theresa-may-meeting-every-tory-backbencher-today-find-way-brexit/
Would be one hell of a career change but if George Weah can manage it.
So two names have been put forward, Giulio Sapelli and Giuseppe Conte with Sapelli being ruled out by M5S.
Which leaves Conte to take the role just as he finishes the season at Chelsea.
QV Miss Flite's pet birds in Bleak House- named “Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.”
(Edit - I always wondered what 'Sheepskin' was doing in there...)
Gammon
(Noun/mass noun): A term used to describe a particular type of Brexit-voting, middle-aged white male, whose meat-faced complexion suggests they are perilously close to a stroke.
The term 'gammon' is linked to the unhealthy pink skin tone of such stout yeomen, probably because of high blood pressure caused by decades of 'PC gone mad', being defeated in arguments about the non-existent merits of Brexit and women getting the vote.
Gammon often make their appearance on BBC's Question Time jabbing their porcine fingers at the camera while demanding immediate nuclear strikes against Remain-voting areas, people who eat vegetables and/or cyclists.
When gammon appears en masse it is often referred to as a "wall of gammon".
"Slaughter", by the way, is typically excessive. If Israel had wanted to slaughter the protesters, there'd be thousands dead; there aren't.
It's easy to be an ideological purist when it's all theoretical.
The notion of "betting shops" across the USA is something to consider...
As to what this structure means with regard to Con gress’s authority to control state legislatures, New York was clear and emphatic. The opinion recalled that “no Member of the Court ha[d] ever suggested” that even “a particularly strong federal interest” “would enable Con gress to command a state government to enact state regu lation.” Id., at 178 (emphasis in original). “We have always understood that even where Congress has the authority under the Constitution to pass laws requiring or prohibiting certain acts, it lacks the power directly to compel the States to require or prohibit those acts.” Id., at 166. “Congress may not simply ‘commandee[r] the legisla tive processes of the States by directly compelling them to enact and enforce a federal regulatory program.’” Id., at 161 (quoting Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Recla- mation Assn., Inc., 452 U. S. 264, 288 (1981)). “Where a federal interest is sufficiently strong to cause Congress to legislate, it must do so directly; it may not conscript state governments as its agents.” 505 U. S., at 178....
BTW I read that Ladbrokes opened a betting exchange but I couldn't find it on their website and occasionally it's definitely useful to lay a bet, e.g. Peak Mogg.
Explanatory sessions, outlining in detail the two customs options that the EU have rejected.
Just in case any MP was unsure what had been turned down.
And if he turned it down, it'd demonstrate that he's a chancer who doesn't really want/know how to make Brexit happen.
He'd attempt to have disabled welfare claimants scrubbing the decks of hulk ships in preparation for holding illegal migrants.
He's already about 47. At that age Harold Wilson was PM.
Pity the guys and gals in the fourth and fifth sessions!
https://ex.ladbrokes.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNUcR-eMxaE
https://twitter.com/STVColin/status/996038734259933184