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The Bannon & Arron Banks backed Johnson now clear leader in the betting to succeed TMay pic.twitter.com/3rJSu3mK75

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  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 55,898
    Like Bannon and Arron Banks are Boris's only backers....

    (Corbynesque eye-roll....)
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822
    Number one rule... lay the favourite....
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 67,986
    2nd. Like Hunt or Javid.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 67,986
    Which is a shame for my wallet, and probably the country.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822
    edited August 2018
    rottenborough said:

    2nd. Like Hunt or Javid.

    .. and the second favourite...
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    FPT
    williamglenn said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.

    Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
    They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
    No they didn't.
    Ask HYUFD about the polling.
    The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
    You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
    All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    Richard_Nabavi said:

    rottenborough said:

    2nd. Like Hunt or Javid.

    .. and the second favourite...
    And the joint third favourites?
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822
    edited August 2018
    AlastairMeeks said:

    Richard_Nabavi said:

    rottenborough said:

    2nd. Like Hunt or Javid.

    .. and the second favourite...
    And the joint third favourites?
    One of them at least.

    Edit: Actually I don't think Javid is a lay at those odds, I was trolling @rottenborough. Hunt, Gove and Javid are all possible. Boris is unlikely but can't be excluded; however, those odds are too short. Then there's a longer tail of more speculative possibilities amongst the cabinet.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 34,281
    MarqueeMark said:

    Like Bannon and Arron Banks are Boris's only backers....

    (Corbynesque eye-roll....)

    ... and Mr Yaxley-Lennon!
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 44,320
    Philip_Thompson said:

    FPT

    williamglenn said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.

    Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
    They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
    No they didn't.
    Ask HYUFD about the polling.
    The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
    You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
    All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
    I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,809
    It'll be a quiet September.

    I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.
  • ExiledInScotlandExiledInScotland Posts: 1,540
    I think OGH means the person most popular with the members of the Tory Party. Banks and Bannon are irrelevant
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 44,320
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    It'll be a quiet September.

    I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.

    Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    Any Tory MPs oppsoing BoJo in a future leadership election should just suggest their colleagues re-read chapter 30 of All Out War. That'll put paid to his campaign.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    FPT

    williamglenn said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.

    Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
    They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
    No they didn't.
    Ask HYUFD about the polling.
    The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
    You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
    All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
    I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
    No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,344
    Benpointer said:

    Any Tory MPs oppsoing BoJo in a future leadership election should just suggest their colleagues re-read chapter 30 of All Out War. That'll put paid to his campaign.

    Is that the one at the party where Leadsom fails to get a tweet?
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    Some at least are answering the call to entryism:

    https://twitter.com/micky_norcross/status/1030131476099215361?s=21
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,344
    I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 67,986
    https://twitter.com/AmIRightSir/status/1030166760190865408

    Vaguely remember him as a regular on QT back in the day.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 44,320
    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    FPT

    williamglenn said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.

    Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
    They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
    No they didn't.
    Ask HYUFD about the polling.
    The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
    You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
    All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
    I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
    No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
    No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    Mortimer said:

    Benpointer said:

    Any Tory MPs oppsoing BoJo in a future leadership election should just suggest their colleagues re-read chapter 30 of All Out War. That'll put paid to his campaign.

    Is that the one at the party where Leadsom fails to get a tweet?
    Yep. And where Johnson fails to deliver a letter, fails to write a speech, and generally fails to look like PM material.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,809
    Mortimer said:

    I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...

    I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 67,986
    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    It'll be a quiet September.

    I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.

    Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
    What about May?

    Odds on a double defenestration?

    That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Mortimer said:

    I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...

    I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.
    In which case it’s not the story I thought it might be.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 67,986
    Is it me, but tweet links don't appear. Another Vanilla moment?
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,344
    Benpointer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Benpointer said:

    Any Tory MPs oppsoing BoJo in a future leadership election should just suggest their colleagues re-read chapter 30 of All Out War. That'll put paid to his campaign.

    Is that the one at the party where Leadsom fails to get a tweet?
    Yep. And where Johnson fails to deliver a letter, fails to write a speech, and generally fails to look like PM material.
    Yep. It doesn’t reflect well.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 67,266
    Benpointer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Benpointer said:

    Any Tory MPs oppsoing BoJo in a future leadership election should just suggest their colleagues re-read chapter 30 of All Out War. That'll put paid to his campaign.

    Is that the one at the party where Leadsom fails to get a tweet?
    Yep. And where Johnson fails to deliver a letter, fails to write a speech, and generally fails to look like PM material.
    But that is his whole personna - he will not have my vote
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,344
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Mortimer said:

    I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...

    I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.
    Oh dear, really? What an anticlimax.

    Has an embargo ever been worthy of the hype?
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 56,314
    rottenborough said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    It'll be a quiet September.

    I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.

    Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
    What about May?

    Odds on a double defenestration?

    That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
    The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 56,314
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Mortimer said:

    I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...

    I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.
    A Stormy in a teacup.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    AlastairMeeks said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Mortimer said:

    I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...

    I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.
    In which case it’s not the story I thought it might be.
    Oh, the suspense....

    https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1030210103906066432
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    rottenborough said:

    Is it me, but tweet links don't appear. Another Vanilla moment?


    Not working for me either.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 44,320
    williamglenn said:

    rottenborough said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    It'll be a quiet September.

    I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.

    Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
    What about May?

    Odds on a double defenestration?

    That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
    The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.
    Plus Trump indicted.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,809
    AlastairMeeks said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Mortimer said:

    I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...

    I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.
    In which case it’s not the story I thought it might be.
    I could be wrong, it does happen occasionally.

    I believe it will be published at 11.05pm
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    williamglenn said:

    rottenborough said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    It'll be a quiet September.

    I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.

    Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
    What about May?

    Odds on a double defenestration?

    That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
    The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.
    I fear for her Maj too.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 67,266
    Time to bid everyone a peaceful nights rest

    Grandchildren coming for sleep overs tomorrow and saturday night

    And the house will resound to the wonderful - Grandma, Grandma I need you.

    A source of great joy to both of us
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,809
    Mortimer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Mortimer said:

    I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...

    I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.
    Oh dear, really? What an anticlimax.

    Has an embargo ever been worthy of the hype?
    Yup.

    During the Indyref we were given an embargoed poll and embargo was scheduled to end at 3.01am.

    Normally embargoes are around 10pm or midnight.

    I made the mistake of posting that PB would be publishing that poll, and people kept on asking me what was the poll showing.

    I think it showed a 1% swing from No to Yes.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 67,986
    Benpointer said:

    williamglenn said:

    rottenborough said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    It'll be a quiet September.

    I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.

    Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
    What about May?

    Odds on a double defenestration?

    That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
    The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.
    I fear for her Maj too.
    Oh dear.

    However, to be pedantic, her Maj going will mean a postponed GE.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    FPT

    williamglenn said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.

    Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
    They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
    No they didn't.
    Ask HYUFD about the polling.
    The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
    You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
    All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
    I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
    No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
    No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
    No 17.4m votes = No leave.

    All the voters matter. All of them.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 67,266
    rottenborough said:

    Benpointer said:

    williamglenn said:

    rottenborough said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    It'll be a quiet September.

    I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.

    Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
    What about May?

    Odds on a double defenestration?

    That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
    The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.
    I fear for her Maj too.
    Oh dear.

    However, to be pedantic, her Maj going will mean a postponed GE.
    Why - is Charles intent on abolishing Parliament
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    rottenborough said:

    Benpointer said:

    williamglenn said:

    rottenborough said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    It'll be a quiet September.

    I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.

    Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
    What about May?

    Odds on a double defenestration?

    That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
    The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.
    I fear for her Maj too.
    Oh dear.

    However, to be pedantic, her Maj going will mean a postponed GE.
    Not if the (snap) GE came first.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 44,320
    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    FPT

    williamglenn said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.

    Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
    They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
    No they didn't.
    Ask HYUFD about the polling.
    The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
    You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
    All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
    I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
    No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
    No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
    No 17.4m votes = No leave.

    All the voters matter. All of them.
    Mathematically wrong.

    Pro-sovereignty + Pro-free trade + Pro-no EU regulations - anti-foreigner = no Leave.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 67,986
    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    Time to bid everyone a peaceful nights rest

    Grandchildren coming for sleep overs tomorrow and saturday night

    And the house will resound to the wonderful - Grandma, Grandma I need you.

    A source of great joy to both of us

    :smiley:

    There's more to life than betting...
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    edited August 2018
    rottenborough said:

    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    Time to bid everyone a peaceful nights rest

    Grandchildren coming for sleep overs tomorrow and saturday night

    And the house will resound to the wonderful - Grandma, Grandma I need you.

    A source of great joy to both of us

    :smiley:

    There's more to life than betting...
    And politics! :)
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 99,391
    Yep, that makes sense. Regrettable, but it tracks. Hunt would get slaughtered up against Boris. Javid is a former remainer donchaknow, so he's untrustworthy.
    Benpointer said:

    rottenborough said:

    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    Time to bid everyone a peaceful nights rest

    Grandchildren coming for sleep overs tomorrow and saturday night

    And the house will resound to the wonderful - Grandma, Grandma I need you.

    A source of great joy to both of us

    :smiley:

    There's more to life than betting...
    And politics! :)
    Now I know you are crazy.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,809
    edited August 2018
    Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

    IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
    PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
    LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
    IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
    IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
    CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

    Independent GAIN from Labour.

    Turnout: 51.3%

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,719
    DecrepitJohnL said:

    Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?

    "Bannon & Banks backed Boris now bookie's best bet to beat May"... :D
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    edited August 2018
    DecrepitJohnL said:

    Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?

    Bannon & Banks backed Boris becomes best bet?

    Edit: RobD beat me to it!
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,719
    Benpointer said:

    DecrepitJohnL said:

    Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?

    Bannon & Banks backed Boris becomes best bet?
    ooo, becomes. Nice!
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,719
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

    IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
    PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
    LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
    IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
    IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
    CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

    Independent GAIN from Labour.

    Turnout: 51.3%

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256

    Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,809
    Told ya.

    image
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 53,202
    RobD said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

    IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
    PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
    LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
    IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
    IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
    CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

    Independent GAIN from Labour.

    Turnout: 51.3%

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256

    Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
    4 votes!

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,719
    Foxy said:

    RobD said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

    IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
    PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
    LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
    IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
    IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
    CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

    Independent GAIN from Labour.

    Turnout: 51.3%

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256

    Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
    4 votes!

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19
    Infinitely more than last time :o
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,809
    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
    I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    FPT

    williamglenn said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.

    Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
    They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
    No they didn't.
    Ask HYUFD about the polling.
    The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
    You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
    All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
    I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
    No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
    No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
    No 17.4m votes = No leave.

    All the voters matter. All of them.
    Mathematically wrong.

    Pro-sovereignty + Pro-free trade + Pro-no EU regulations - anti-foreigner = no Leave.
    What I said is correct what you said is moot.

    Anti foreigner - pro sovereignty - pro free trade - pro-no EU regulations = no Leave.

    Leave didn't win because of anti-foreignors alone. If all Leave had was that it would have lost. Leave won because it got a coalition of voters that exceeded Remains coalition. It won because of every single one of the 17.4 million people who put their X in the Leave box. All of them.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    RobD said:

    Benpointer said:

    DecrepitJohnL said:

    Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?

    Bannon & Banks backed Boris becomes best bet?
    ooo, becomes. Nice!
    Yeah but I missed Bookies!

    Bannon/Banks backed Boris becomes bookies best bet.

    Teamwork!
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 67,986
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
    I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
    I have only heard of Leeson.

    Does that make me sad?
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 53,202
    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030217993953964033?s=19

    Cableism sweeping the nation. Well, Yorkshire anyway.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 44,320
    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    FPT

    williamglenn said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.

    Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
    They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
    No they didn't.
    Ask HYUFD about the polling.
    The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
    You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
    All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
    I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
    No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
    No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
    No 17.4m votes = No leave.

    All the voters matter. All of them.
    Mathematically wrong.

    Pro-sovereignty + Pro-free trade + Pro-no EU regulations - anti-foreigner = no Leave.
    What I said is correct what you said is moot.

    Anti foreigner - pro sovereignty - pro free trade - pro-no EU regulations = no Leave.

    Leave didn't win because of anti-foreignors alone. If all Leave had was that it would have lost. Leave won because it got a coalition of voters that exceeded Remains coalition. It won because of every single one of the 17.4 million people who put their X in the Leave box. All of them.
    Anti-foreigner.

    Your fellow travellers. Suck it up.

    That said, I'd be embarrassed also.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 99,391
    Benpointer said:

    RobD said:

    Benpointer said:

    DecrepitJohnL said:

    Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?

    Bannon & Banks backed Boris becomes best bet?
    ooo, becomes. Nice!
    Yeah but I missed Bookies!

    Bannon/Banks backed Boris becomes bookies best bet.

    Teamwork!
    Well, if you want to keep it going, if there's a time component to this it could be

    Bannon/Banks backed Boris becomes bookies best bet before Brexit begins
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
    I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
    Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

    PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
  • Danny565Danny565 Posts: 8,091
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    I thought Stormy Daniels was meant to be in it....
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 99,391
    Foxy said:

    RobD said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

    IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
    PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
    LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
    IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
    IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
    CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

    Independent GAIN from Labour.

    Turnout: 51.3%

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256

    Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
    4 votes!

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19
    Don't you need 10 names on your nomination papers? Yeesh.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,809
    Liberal Democrat GAIN Knaresborough (North Yorkshire) from Conservative
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    FPT

    williamglenn said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.

    Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
    They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
    No they didn't.
    Ask HYUFD about the polling.
    The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
    You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
    All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
    I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
    No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
    No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
    No 17.4m votes = No leave.

    All the voters matter. All of them.
    Mathematically wrong.

    Pro-sovereignty + Pro-free trade + Pro-no EU regulations - anti-foreigner = no Leave.
    What I said is correct what you said is moot.

    Anti foreigner - pro sovereignty - pro free trade - pro-no EU regulations = no Leave.

    Leave didn't win because of anti-foreignors alone. If all Leave had was that it would have lost. Leave won because it got a coalition of voters that exceeded Remains coalition. It won because of every single one of the 17.4 million people who put their X in the Leave box. All of them.
    Anti-foreigner.

    Your fellow travellers. Suck it up.

    That said, I'd be embarrassed also.
    I'm not embarrassed. Every driver who's ever been tailgated, cut up, stuck behind someone going slow in the outside lane or whatever has dealt with jackass fellow travellers. I'm not responsible for fellow travellers. The motorway has two directions and from my experience there are absolute arsehole fellow travellers on both carriageways. Ditto a binary vote.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,809
    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
    I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
    Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

    PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
    Kirstie Alley.

    She played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 56,314
    Danny565 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    I thought Stormy Daniels was meant to be in it....
    Perhaps she was simultaneously negotiating her fee to appear and her fee not to appear.
  • John_MJohn_M Posts: 7,503
    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    FPT

    williamglenn said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.

    Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
    They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
    No they didn't.
    Ask HYUFD about the polling.
    The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
    You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
    All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
    I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
    No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
    No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
    No 17.4m votes = No leave.

    All the voters matter. All of them.
    Mathematically wrong.

    Pro-sovereignty + Pro-free trade + Pro-no EU regulations - anti-foreigner = no Leave.
    What I said is correct what you said is moot.

    Anti foreigner - pro sovereignty - pro free trade - pro-no EU regulations = no Leave.

    Leave didn't win because of anti-foreignors alone. If all Leave had was that it would have lost. Leave won because it got a coalition of voters that exceeded Remains coalition. It won because of every single one of the 17.4 million people who put their X in the Leave box. All of them.
    Anti-foreigner.

    Your fellow travellers. Suck it up.

    That said, I'd be embarrassed also.
    You voted the same way as Adonis and Grayling. For shame.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    kle4 said:

    Foxy said:

    RobD said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

    IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
    PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
    LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
    IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
    IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
    CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

    Independent GAIN from Labour.

    Turnout: 51.3%

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256

    Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
    4 votes!

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19
    Don't you need 10 names on your nomination papers? Yeesh.
    19 can make an Aussie senator.

    https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/19-people-got-this-bloke-a-200k-job/news-story/f8d8aaa83f0c2bcab53626455a3698d6
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,719
    Philip_Thompson said:

    kle4 said:

    Foxy said:

    RobD said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

    IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
    PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
    LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
    IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
    IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
    CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

    Independent GAIN from Labour.

    Turnout: 51.3%

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256

    Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
    4 votes!

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19
    Don't you need 10 names on your nomination papers? Yeesh.
    19 can make an Aussie senator.

    https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/19-people-got-this-bloke-a-200k-job/news-story/f8d8aaa83f0c2bcab53626455a3698d6
    PR voting systems... not even once!
  • YBarddCwscYBarddCwsc Posts: 7,172
    Foxy said:

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030217993953964033?s=19

    Cableism sweeping the nation. Well, Yorkshire anyway.

    Well, the posh bit of Yorkshire, anyway.
  • No_Offence_AlanNo_Offence_Alan Posts: 5,210
    Foxy said:

    RobD said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

    IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
    PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
    LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
    IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
    IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
    CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

    Independent GAIN from Labour.

    Turnout: 51.3%

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256

    Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
    4 votes!

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19
    22% swing from Lab to Con.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
    I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
    Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

    PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
    Kirstie Alley.

    She played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.
    Cheers.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    williamglenn said:

    Danny565 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    I thought Stormy Daniels was meant to be in it....
    Perhaps she was simultaneously negotiating her fee to appear and her fee not to appear.
    What's with the headline if she's not in it?
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
    I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
    Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

    PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
    Kirstie Alley.

    She played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.
    OK thanks - not sure I'm going to bother filing that nugget in my diminishing mental memory cache though.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,937
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
    I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
    Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

    PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
    Kirstie Alley.

    She played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.
    [after allowing the simulated Tory majority to be destroyed]

    TSE: Well, Mrs May, are you going to stay with the sinking ship?
    THERESA: Permission to speak candidly, sir?
    TSE: Granted.
    THERESA: I don't believe this was a fair test of my Prime Ministerial abilities.
    TSE: And why not?
    THERESA: Because ...there was no way to win the 2017 election.
    TSE: A no-win situation is a possibility every PM may face. Has that never occurred to you?
    THERESA: No sir. It has not.
    TSE: How we deal with Brexit is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?
    THERESA: As I indicated, Admiral, that thought had not occurred to me.
    TSE: Well, now you have something new to think about. Carry on.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 99,391
    Philip_Thompson said:

    kle4 said:

    Foxy said:

    RobD said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

    IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
    PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
    LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
    IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
    IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
    CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

    Independent GAIN from Labour.

    Turnout: 51.3%

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256

    Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
    4 votes!

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19
    Don't you need 10 names on your nomination papers? Yeesh.
    19 can make an Aussie senator.

    https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/19-people-got-this-bloke-a-200k-job/news-story/f8d8aaa83f0c2bcab53626455a3698d6
    Ha, what a calamitous turn of events.

    But in fairness it's 19 more votes than anyone in our Upper Chamber has received!

    (Technically untrue - new Hereditary peers have to be elected in by their fellows. I'll never forget the one with 7 candidates but only 3 eligible voters. I believe that was the one where Viscount Thurso got back in.)
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,937
    williamglenn said:

    rottenborough said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    It'll be a quiet September.

    I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.

    Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
    What about May?

    Odds on a double defenestration?

    That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
    The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.
    Hopefully the "Mike Holiday Special" is nothing like the "Star Wars Holiday Special".
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    FPT

    williamglenn said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    TOPPING said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.

    Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
    They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
    No they didn't.
    Ask HYUFD about the polling.
    The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
    You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
    All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
    I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
    No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
    No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
    No 17.4m votes = No leave.

    All the voters matter. All of them.
    Mathematically wrong.

    Pro-sovereignty + Pro-free trade + Pro-no EU regulations - anti-foreigner = no Leave.
    What I said is correct what you said is moot.

    Anti foreigner - pro sovereignty - pro free trade - pro-no EU regulations = no Leave.

    Leave didn't win because of anti-foreignors alone. If all Leave had was that it would have lost. Leave won because it got a coalition of voters that exceeded Remains coalition. It won because of every single one of the 17.4 million people who put their X in the Leave box. All of them.
    Anti-foreigner.

    Your fellow travellers. Suck it up.

    That said, I'd be embarrassed also.
    I'm not embarrassed. Every driver who's ever been tailgated, cut up, stuck behind someone going slow in the outside lane or whatever has dealt with jackass fellow travellers. I'm not responsible for fellow travellers. The motorway has two directions and from my experience there are absolute arsehole fellow travellers on both carriageways. Ditto a binary vote.
    @Topping He is embarrassed.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,937
    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
    I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
    Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

    PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
    Hardeep Singh Kohli is the Scottish Sikh bloke.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,937
    And Chloe Ayling was allegedly kidnapped in Italy last year.
  • edmundintokyoedmundintokyo Posts: 17,769
    RobD said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    kle4 said:

    Foxy said:

    RobD said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

    IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
    PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
    LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
    IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
    IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
    CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

    Independent GAIN from Labour.

    Turnout: 51.3%

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256

    Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
    4 votes!

    https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19
    Don't you need 10 names on your nomination papers? Yeesh.
    19 can make an Aussie senator.

    https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/19-people-got-this-bloke-a-200k-job/news-story/f8d8aaa83f0c2bcab53626455a3698d6
    PR voting systems... not even once!
    Kind of buries the lede that the party he represented got a quarter of a milllion votes, and that's why they got two candidates in.

    I wonder how many votes British MPs would get if you had the option to vote for their party at the top instead of picking an individual.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 67,986
    edited August 2018
    Philip_Thompson said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
    I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
    Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

    PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
    Kirstie Alley.

    She played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.
    Cheers.
    I went to the Cheers bar once.

    Norm wasn't there, but I had a beer anyway.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,631
    edited August 2018
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    And Chloe Ayling was allegedly kidnapped in Italy last year.

    I like the self-fulfilling fact that one of them is a 'Reality Star' :)
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 25,831
    edited August 2018
    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
    I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
    Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

    PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
    Oh dear God, your education is lacking. It's Kirstie Alley. She had a large role in Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. She played a Vulcan called Saavik.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6tWmSckE40
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 56,314
    edited August 2018
    “Voice of Europe”, a major promoter of pro-Brexit stories, is shutting down.
    https://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1030173243142021121?s=21
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,719
    williamglenn said:

    “Voice of Europe”, a major promoter of pro-Brexit stories, is shutting down.
    https://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1030173243142021121?s=21

    Major promoter? Haven't heard of them before today...
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 25,831
    Philip_Thompson said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Benpointer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Told ya.

    image

    My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
    I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
    Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

    PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
    Kirstie Alley.

    She played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.
    Cheers.
    She was also in "Cheers"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDjTpJKoRc
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 25,831
    Quick check: is this news article plausible?

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexspence/a-new-leak-reveals-84-areas-of-british-life-the-uk?utm_term=.egGYpoQGw#.jxDyjb4J8
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 56,314
    “It’s time to relaunch the Brexit campaign”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/16/time-stop-betrayal-people-relaunch-brexit-campaign/
  • ExiledInScotlandExiledInScotland Posts: 1,540
    Sunil_Prasannan said:


    [after allowing the simulated Tory majority to be destroyed]

    TSE: Well, Mrs May, are you going to stay with the sinking ship?
    THERESA: Permission to speak candidly, sir?
    TSE: Granted.
    THERESA: I don't believe this was a fair test of my Prime Ministerial abilities.
    TSE: And why not?
    THERESA: Because ...there was no way to win the 2017 election.
    TSE: A no-win situation is a possibility every PM may face. Has that never occurred to you?
    THERESA: No sir. It has not.
    TSE: How we deal with Brexit is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?
    THERESA: As I indicated, Admiral, that thought had not occurred to me.
    TSE: Well, now you have something new to think about. Carry on.

    In the Tory Party reboot, we see the scenario from the viewpoint of the one man who beat it:

    TSE: Well Prime Minister, Barnier and Juncker have entered the room and are locking their arguments on us.
    JOHNSON (for it is he): That's Okay.
    TSE: That's Okay?
    JOHNSON: Yes, don't worry about it.
    PB MEMBERS: Did he just say don't worry about it? Is he not taking this negotiation seriously?
    JAVID: Merkel, Macron and Varadker have arrived and they are targeting our strategy. I don't suppose that’s a problem either?
    JRM: They’re making proposals to turn us into a vassal state, Prime Minister.
    JOHNSON: Alert the press to prepare to announce successful Brexit.
    SOUBRY: And how do you expect us to do that while we’re not part of EFTA?
    JOHNSON: Alert the press.
    JAVID: Our credibility is being hit. Border integrity at 60%.
    JOHNSON: I understand.
    JAVID: Well should we, I don't know, make proposals back?
    JOHNSON: No. (he drinks a cup of tea)
    JAVID: Of course not.
    (the power of project fear seems to go out for a second)
    PB MEMBERS: What is this? What's going on?
    JOHNSON: Hmm... notify the WTO that we endorse and accept all the FTAs which the EU has already ratified, and prepare to send ambassadors to the EU countries.
    JRM: Yes, sir.
    JAVID: Prime Minister, their tariffs are still up.
    JOHNSON: Are they?
    JAVID: No. They're not.
    JOHNSON: Send the ambassadors. One FTA each should do it, so don't waste civil servants.
    JRM: Sessions agreed with all countries. Meetings held.
    (the FTAS are easily signed)
    JRM: All tariffs destroyed, Captain.
    JOHNSON: Begin rescue of the Tory Party credibility. So, we've managed to eliminate all EU interference in our national life, no one important was injured, and the successful rescue of the British economy is underway.
    [Under the WTO Most Favoured Nations, (MFN), regulations, the EU cannot refuse the UK the same, best terms afforded to any other nation with which it has a Free Trade Agreement]
    PB MEMBERS: How the hell did that ******* beat your test?
    TSE: I do not know.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 25,831
    ExiledInScotland said:

    Sunil_Prasannan said:



    TSE: Well, Mrs May, are you going to stay with the sinking ship?
    THERESA: Permission to speak candidly, sir?
    TSE: Granted.
    THERESA: I don't believe this was a fair test of my Prime Ministerial abilities.
    TSE: And why not?
    THERESA: Because ...there was no way to win the 2017 election.
    TSE: A no-win situation is a possibility every PM may face. Has that never occurred to you?
    THERESA: No sir. It has not.
    TSE: How we deal with Brexit is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?
    THERESA: As I indicated, Admiral, that thought had not occurred to me.
    TSE: Well, now you have something new to think about. Carry on.

    TSE: Well Prime Minister, Barnier and Juncker have entered the room and are locking their arguments on us.
    JOHNSON (for it is he): That's Okay.
    TSE: That's Okay?
    JOHNSON: Yes, don't worry about it.
    PB MEMBERS: Did he just say don't worry about it? Is he not taking this negotiation seriously?
    JAVID: Merkel, Macron and Varadker have arrived and they are targeting our strategy. I don't suppose that’s a problem either?
    JRM: They’re making proposals to turn us into a vassal state, Prime Minister.
    JOHNSON: Alert the press to prepare to announce successful Brexit.
    SOUBRY: And how do you expect us to do that while we’re not part of EFTA?
    JOHNSON: Alert the press.
    JAVID: Our credibility is being hit. Border integrity at 60%.
    JOHNSON: I understand.
    JAVID: Well should we, I don't know, make proposals back?
    JOHNSON: No. (he drinks a cup of tea)
    JAVID: Of course not.
    (the power of project fear seems to go out for a second)
    PB MEMBERS: What is this? What's going on?
    JOHNSON: Hmm... notify the WTO that we endorse and accept all the FTAs which the EU has already ratified, and prepare to send ambassadors to the EU countries.
    JRM: Yes, sir.
    JAVID: Prime Minister, their tariffs are still up.
    JOHNSON: Are they?
    JAVID: No. They're not.
    JOHNSON: Send the ambassadors. One FTA each should do it, so don't waste civil servants.
    JRM: Sessions agreed with all countries. Meetings held.
    (the FTAS are easily signed)
    JRM: All tariffs destroyed, Captain.
    JOHNSON: Begin rescue of the Tory Party credibility. So, we've managed to eliminate all EU interference in our national life, no one important was injured, and the successful rescue of the British economy is underway.
    [Under the WTO Most Favoured Nations, (MFN), regulations, the EU cannot refuse the UK the same, best terms afforded to any other nation with which it has a Free Trade Agreement]
    PB MEMBERS: How the hell did that ******* beat your test?
    TSE: I do not know.
    So you two are arguing using Star Trek Prime and Kelvin Timeline pastiches against each other.

    Which would make it the [pause, deep breath] Star Trek Wars!

    Pause.

    Ah, my coat... :)
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,937
    viewcode said:

    ExiledInScotland said:

    Sunil_Prasannan said:



    TSE: Well, Mrs May, are you going to stay with the sinking ship?
    THERESA: Permission to speak candidly, sir?
    TSE: Granted.
    THERESA: I don't believe this was a fair test of my Prime Ministerial abilities.
    TSE: And why not?
    THERESA: Because ...there was no way to win the 2017 election.
    TSE: A no-win situation is a possibility every PM may face. Has t.

    TSE: Well Prime Minister, Barnier and Juncker have entered the room and are locking their arguments on us.
    JOHNSON (for it is he): That's Okay.
    TSE: That's Okay?
    JOHNSON: Yes, don't worry about it.
    PB MEMBERS: Did he just say don't worry about it? Is he not taking this negotiation seriously?
    JAVID: Merkel, Macron and Varadker have arrived and they are targeting our strategy. I don't suppose that’s a problem either?
    JRM: They’re making proposals to turn us into a vassal state, Prime Minister.
    JOHNSON: Alert the press to prepare to announce successful Brexit.
    SOUBRY: And how do you expect us to do that while we’re not part of EFTA?
    JOHNSON: Alert the press.
    JAVID: Our credibility is being hit. Border integrity at 60%.
    JOHNSON: I understand.
    JAVID: Well should we, I don't know, make proposals back?
    JOHNSON: No. (he drinks a cup of tea)
    JAVID: Of course not.
    (the power of project fear seems to go out for a second)
    PB MEMBERS: What is this? What's going on?
    JOHNSON: Hmm... notify the WTO that we endorse and accept all the FTAs which the EU has already ratified, and prepare to send ambassadors to the EU countries.
    JRM: Yes, sir.
    JAVID: Prime Minister, their tariffs are still up.
    JOHNSON: Are they?
    JAVID: No. They're not.
    JOHNSON: Send the ambassadors. One FTA each should do it, so don't waste civil servants.
    JRM: Sessions agreed with all countries. Meetings held.
    (the FTAS are easily signed)
    JRM: All tariffs destroyed, Captain.
    JOHNSON: Begin rescue of the Tory Party credibility. So, we've managed to eliminate all EU interference in our national life, no one important was injured, and the successful rescue of the British economy is underway.
    [Under the WTO Most Favoured Nations, (MFN), regulations, the EU cannot refuse the UK the same, best terms afforded to any other nation with which it has a Free Trade Agreement]
    PB MEMBERS: How the hell did that ******* beat your test?
    TSE: I do not know.
    So you two are arguing using Star Trek Prime and Kelvin Timeline pastiches against each other.

    Which would make it the [pause, deep breath] Star Trek Wars!

    Pause.

    Ah, my coat... :)
    "TSE isn't from my Universe. He's from yours!"
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 52,841
    RobD said:

    DecrepitJohnL said:

    Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?

    "Bannon & Banks backed Boris now bookie's best bet to beat May"... :D
    A clever way to make you think about the adjective that isn't there.
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