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  • IshmaelZ said:

    Only 6 Hs in HAHAHAHAHAHA, and don't call people cents. It's rude.
    LEAVE 52%
    REMAIN 48%

    :innocent:
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,548
    Byronic said:

    HAHAHAHAHAHHA FUCKING LOSER REMAINER C&NTS

    Bit early to be totally wankered, but I guess it is a big day for some. Let's hope there is frictionless trade on thrillers.
  • Byronic said:

    Oh give the F over you pious goon,

    After THREE AND A HALF YEARS of Remainers LITERALLY trying to cancel democracy, while sneering at Leavers as racist thick monkeys, one night of hideous gloating is allowed.

    Tomorrow we can all be nice again. But tonight, of all nights, we fight.
    The worst side of Brexiteers on display sadly

    Fortunately the vast majority would reject such triumphalism and language
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,651

    Bit early to be totally wankered, but I guess it is a big day for some. Let's hope there is frictionless trade on thrillers.
    Tariffs on remaindered thrillers won’t be that bad, surely?
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 22,100
    Byronic said:

    Oh give the F over you pious goon,

    After THREE AND A HALF YEARS of Remainers LITERALLY trying to cancel democracy, while sneering at Leavers as racist thick monkeys, one night of hideous gloating is allowed.

    Tomorrow we can all be nice again. But tonight, of all nights, we fight.
    This is Brexit
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,548
    Byronic said:

    Oh give the F over you pious goon,

    After THREE AND A HALF YEARS of Remainers LITERALLY trying to cancel democracy, while sneering at Leavers as racist thick monkeys, one night of hideous gloating is allowed.

    Tomorrow we can all be nice again. But tonight, of all nights, we fight.
    I could rise to the bait but I have a candle to light.
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578

    The worst side of Brexiteers on display sadly

    Fortunately the vast majority would reject such triumphalism and language
    Jesus, get a life. It's a special day. This is not the time for your measured bleh
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578

    The worst side of Brexiteers on display sadly

    Fortunately the vast majority would reject such triumphalism and language
    And by the way, I am normally one of your stoutest allies on here. You are a voice of reason and sanity. I like you.

    But this is different. This is like VE Day for some of us. We feel that a hideous foe has been vanquished, with much difficulty, to the extent it almost destroyed our democracy,

    Was Churchill magnanimous in victory, maybe in 1947. But not in 1945.
  • Kevin_McCandlessKevin_McCandless Posts: 392
    edited January 2020
    speedy2 said:

    The Republican party will not win Virginia for another 40 years unless it's a landslide.
    And unless they lead the party registration vote in Nevada they won't win there either.

    There is no realistic pickup for Republicans on a close vote.

    New Hampshire is becoming a suburb of Boston.
    Minnessota is a refugee dumping groung for decades.
    Maybe Delaware and Maine in like 8 years.
    You can't really compare Reagan and Trump. Say what you will about his politics, when it came to campaigning and looking presidential, Reagan was the champ. With the economy doing the way it is, Trump should be on track for a 1984 style blow-out. He isn't/

    I know Sanders is from Brooklyn but he's been in Vermont a long time. He should have a natural advantage is all of New England.
  • ClippPClippP Posts: 1,964
    stodge said:

    This is typical Johnson and his biggest weakness.
    He says whatever he thinks the audience in front of him wants to hear so he plays to the gallery for the Scottish Conservatives but this act can't and won't work forever and audiences will end up not believing or trusting a word he says.
    Did you say "will"?
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 22,100
    Byronic said:

    And by the way, I am normally one of your stoutest allies on here. You are a voice of reason and sanity. I like you.

    But this is different. This is like VE Day for some of us. We feel that a hideous foe has been vanquished, with much difficulty, to the extent it almost destroyed our democracy,

    Was Churchill magnanimous in victory, maybe in 1947. But not in 1945.
    Get a life.
  • CatManCatMan Posts: 3,218
    Byronic said:


    This is like VE Day for some of us.

    Ermmm...ok...
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578
    CatMan said:

    Ermmm...ok...
    You don't understand, and never will
  • Darts on itv 4, anyone watching?
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578
    Jonathan said:

    Get a life.
    LOSERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
  • Wulfrun_PhilWulfrun_Phil Posts: 4,780

    I doubt it will make much difference to anything. Johnson has proved you can say one thing one year and something comletely different the next and it doesn't matter, if the zeitgeist is with you. Come 2024 Brexit will either have been a success or failure. That is what will matter.

    I disagree, even though I would like to think that you are right. This is a totemic issue. It's almost as though he's saying that he's reflected on the lessons of the immediate open borders policy to EU accession countries championed by Barbara Roche in 2004 and is shouting from the rooftops that the only lesson is that the UK should do exactly the same again.

    Even if in years to come he attempts some backsliding, he'll then run the risk of (a) no-one believing that he means the backsliding on migration whilst (b) developing a more generalised reputation as a slippery character, such that he isn't believed on other stuff either. Worst of both worlds really.

    Anyway, Starmer's opponents are already using it ruthlessly to define him e.g.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7952535/Labours-Keir-Starmer-vows-bring-freedom-movement-prime-minister.html

  • Byronic said:

    Jesus, get a life. It's a special day. This is not the time for your measured bleh
    Nor is it time for your divisive attitude, and I support brexit
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,359
    OK. Who gave Byronic his drink early?

    :D
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 20,176

    Nor is it time for your divisive attitude, and I support brexit
    He’s just embarrassing himself. No issue here.
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,566
    End of 2020, trade talks over, oops out of time,
    So tonight we're gonna party like it's 1959
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578

    Nor is it time for your divisive attitude, and I support brexit
    Embrace the rancour. It is salutary.
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 22,100
    Byronic said:

    LOSERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
    Such a little man.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 24,291
    Cyclefree said:

    Tariffs on remaindered thrillers won’t be that bad, surely?
    If I recall correctly, 40% of a certain author's revenue stream comes from Germany. Although that may have changed since the film deal...
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578
    People said there would be about 100 people in Parliament Square. There are thousands. This is big. Of course it is big.

    It means we, as a democracy, managed to do what France, Ireland, Holland etc etc failed to do,: we fought off the EU Establishment, and the people were heard, and the referendum was honoured, and the people won. This is enormous. This is globally significant.

    Fuck tariffs and VAT ad whatever. This is another incredible achievement for an ancient democracy. THE global democracy.

    FFS you withered old twats, this is amazing.
  • nico67nico67 Posts: 5,092
    You’d think the Leavers in Parliament Square would be all happy and in celebratory mood.

    Sadly some there can’t just stop the hate and bile. Parading around with lock up the traitors banners!

  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 24,291
    Byronic said:

    And by the way, I am normally one of your stoutest allies on here. You are a voice of reason and sanity. I like you.

    But this is different. This is like VE Day for some of us. We feel that a hideous foe has been vanquished, with much difficulty, to the extent it almost destroyed our democracy,

    Was Churchill magnanimous in victory, maybe in 1947. But not in 1945.
    Churchill was famously magnanimous in victory: there's even a saying about it. Have a read of his speech following the death of Chamberlain, a man he did not like and profoundly disagreed with.
  • Does anyone have the updated tallies for the labour leadership races please?
  • MikeSmithsonMikeSmithson Posts: 7,382
    Byronic said:

    People said there would be about 100 people in Parliament Square. There are thousands. This is big. Of course it is big.

    It means we, as a democracy, managed to do what France, Ireland, Holland etc etc failed to do,: we fought off the EU Establishment, and the people were heard, and the referendum was honoured, and the people won. This is enormous. This is globally significant.

    Fuck tariffs and VAT ad whatever. This is another incredible achievement for an ancient democracy. THE global democracy.

    FFS you withered old twats, this is amazing.

    You need something to give you pleasure Sean
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578
    Jonathan said:

    Such a little man.
    I sense your pain, I do not share it.

    You're a decent chap. I suggest you ignore me for the next few hours, because I will be exultant and belligerent.

    Tomorrow let us talk again, as free Britons. Finally.
  • Meanwhile Brillo is having a prolapse over a kids' programme.

    https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1223324986724769792?s=20
  • FF43FF43 Posts: 17,884

    The worst side of Brexiteers on display sadly

    Fortunately the vast majority would reject such triumphalism and language
    I agree the vast majority would reject the boorishness. I have some sympathy for Byron. The destination for Brexit is barely managed mediocrity. Byron has a vision for Brexit that is exciting and dangerous, even if it's a figment of his addled imagination.
  • nico67nico67 Posts: 5,092
    Byronic said:

    I sense your pain, I do not share it.

    You're a decent chap. I suggest you ignore me for the next few hours, because I will be exultant and belligerent.

    Tomorrow let us talk again, as free Britons. Finally.
    Free Britons ! It’s not a war !
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 22,100
    Byronic said:

    I sense your pain, I do not share it.

    You're a decent chap. I suggest you ignore me for the next few hours, because I will be exultant and belligerent.

    Tomorrow let us talk again, as free Britons. Finally.
    Was free yesterday. Am free now. Will be free tomorrow.

    From 11pm the Brexiteers have to come good on all their promises.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,359
    nico67 said:

    Free Britons ! It’s not a war !
    Doesn't mean we weren't subjugated under the Brussels jackboot.

    :)
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,810

    @kinabalu

    Who's your favourite USA president?

    Clinton. But that's favourite not best.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 34,569
    From the BBC. MEP’s have voted for universal charging cables for mobiles. Same charger for Samsung, Apple etc.
    At first sight that’s a Good Idea.
    Won’t happen in UK of course!
  • ralphmalphralphmalph Posts: 2,201

    From the BBC. MEP’s have voted for universal charging cables for mobiles. Same charger for Samsung, Apple etc.
    At first sight that’s a Good Idea.
    Won’t happen in UK of course!

    Seeing as they will all be wireless charging very soon is this such a good move?
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578

    Meanwhile Brillo is having a prolapse over a kids' programme.

    https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1223324986724769792?s=20

    The BBC is doomed and is, very sadly, turning into a piece of shit. This is one thing Nats and Brexiteers can be agreed upon. I wish it were not the case
  • From the BBC. MEP’s have voted for universal charging cables for mobiles. Same charger for Samsung, Apple etc.
    At first sight that’s a Good Idea.
    Won’t happen in UK of course!

    Why not
  • From the BBC. MEP’s have voted for universal charging cables for mobiles. Same charger for Samsung, Apple etc.
    At first sight that’s a Good Idea.
    Won’t happen in UK of course!

    So no company can innovate with a newer, better cable?

    Hopefully everyone moves on to wireless charging but banning innovation doesn't seem smart. Almost all companies have already moved to standard ones anyway.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    From the BBC. MEP’s have voted for universal charging cables for mobiles. Same charger for Samsung, Apple etc.
    At first sight that’s a Good Idea.
    Won’t happen in UK of course!

    Why not? Will apple and Samsung make uk specific handsets?
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 22,100

    Why not
    Quite. The EU decide. We follow. Had better get used to it.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,536

    Meanwhile Brillo is having a prolapse over a kids' programme.

    https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1223324986724769792?s=20

    At least the word British is used when talking about our past. Unlike German...
  • Anna Botting unashamedly pro EU aggressive reporting tonight has misjudged the tone completely
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 34,569

    Why not
    Just being a bit sarcastic. I’d agree about wireless charging though.
  • tlg86 said:

    At least the word British is used when talking about our past. Unlike German...
    Well, we wouldn't use the word German to describe our past, would we? Well, except when it comes to royalty..
  • nico67nico67 Posts: 5,092
    It’s a real shame that some Leavers in Parliament Square instead of being good ambassadors for the country are stamping on EU flags and making offensive gestures .

    And these are the images being shown all round the world . Really shameful .

  • Jonathan said:

    Quite. The EU decide. We follow. Had better get used to it.
    For once this is not point scoring. It has already been discussed and of course it will be the manufacturers who decide, not the EU or anyone else to be honest
  • kinabalu said:

    Clinton. But that's favourite not best.
    Best is probably Lincoln or JFK, right?
  • OllyTOllyT Posts: 5,035

    You need something to give you pleasure Sean
    Why has Sean T always been allowed to get away with the sort of personal abuse of other posters that would see anyone else banned?
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,536

    Well, we wouldn't use the word German to describe our past, would we? Well, except when it comes to royalty..
    Just to be clear, I was referring to the use of the word Nazi rather than German.
  • It's a phoney comparison with 1945. Then the nation was united against a foreign foe. Even the little princesses snuck out of BP to join the merry throng, if rumour is correct. Today the true comparison is with 1649: a narrow victory in a long internecine conflict that most people didn't want in the first place. It led directly to one of the worse decades in English history, at the end of which the insurgents came out with their hands up, begging for mercy (which some of them didn't receive).
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 34,569

    Best is probably Lincoln or JFK, right?
    Woodrow Wilson?
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578
    Oh god the Remainer sneering on Sky is still going on, Fuck them. Really. They deserve no pity, and no good manners. They are dismal and possibly wicked.
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 22,100

    For once this is not point scoring. It has already been discussed and of course it will be the manufacturers who decide, not the EU or anyone else to be honest
    It doesn’t work that way. The EU set standards that manufacturers adhere to. We will follow along.
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578
    OllyT said:

    Why has Sean T always been allowed to get away with the sort of personal abuse of other posters that would see anyone else banned?
    Because I am not SeanT? Perhaps?
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578
    Byronic said:

    Because I am not SeanT? Perhaps?
    If Mike Smithson has proof that I AM SeanT let him show it. I am not.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,329
    OllyT said:

    Why has Sean T always been allowed to get away with the sort of personal abuse of other posters that would see anyone else banned?
    I thought naming a poster who wished to remain anonymous was the thing that got people banned! #whyalwaysme
  • Byronic said:

    Oh god the Remainer sneering on Sky is still going on, Fuck them. Really. They deserve no pity, and no good manners. They are dismal and possibly wicked.

    Ignoring your fruity language I agree and Sky have just lost the tone of the event. Now interviewing Vince Cable who bemoans the result
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 62,311
    Is there an exit poll at 11pm?
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 5,814

    Seeing as they will all be wireless charging very soon is this such a good move?
    Anti innovation bureaucratic busy bodying.
  • ralphmalphralphmalph Posts: 2,201
    OllyT said:

    Why has Sean T always been allowed to get away with the sort of personal abuse of other posters that would see anyone else banned?
    Boffing all those women in the media, a journalist then an author. Well it is pretty obvious what his next job is, keep on the PB inside for the goss.
  • FF43FF43 Posts: 17,884

    It's a phoney comparison with 1945. Then the nation was united against a foreign foe. Even the little princesses snuck out of BP to join the merry throng, if rumour is correct. Today the true comparison is with 1649: a narrow victory in a long internecine conflict that most people didn't want in the first place. It led directly to one of the worse decades in English history, at the end of which the insurgents came out with their hands up, begging for mercy (which some of them didn't receive).

    It's also like the civil wars (plural) of the seventeenth century due to three different disputes going on in England, Scotiand and Ireland, with different motivations but feeding off each other.
  • glwglw Posts: 10,367
    IshmaelZ said:

    Why not? Will apple and Samsung make uk specific handsets?
    No, but I don't know of any manufacturer of smartphones that varies their connectors by the regional market. That's one thing that remains constant on a model of smartphone. Even when things like frequency bands, Wi-Fi, NFC, memory configurations, or the software changes, the connectors remain the same.

    I think it's a bad idea, if would be absurd if Apple, who have been major proponents and developers of connectors like USB in its first iteration, Firewire, Thunderbolt, Lightning, and the USB Type-C connector were obliged to stick with a connector.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,548

    Best is probably Lincoln or JFK, right?
    What did JFK actually do, other than rape his teenage secretaries?
  • Jonathan said:

    It doesn’t work that way. The EU set standards that manufacturers adhere to. We will follow along.
    With US companies it does and anyway it has long been sought after, even outside your precious EU
  • Woodrow Wilson?
    I don't know much about him, was he alright?
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    Jonathan said:

    It doesn’t work that way. The EU set standards that manufacturers adhere to. We will follow along.
    So will China and the USA, in the sense that we will all buy the new USB C iphone. It is hard to come up with a thoroughly crap anti brexit point, but I think you have cracked it.
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 22,100

    With US companies it does and anyway it has long been sought after, even outside your precious EU
    We used to get a day. Now we don’t. Simple really. It’s ok, because Boris has promised us milk and honey.
  • Jonathan said:

    It doesn’t work that way. The EU set standards that manufacturers adhere to. We will follow along.
    We do not manufacture mobile phones. Samsung and Apple would need to agree and the EU has little influence with them
  • squareroot2squareroot2 Posts: 7,012
    Have we left yet???
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 22,100

    We do not manufacture mobile phones. Samsung and Apple would need to agree and the EU has little influence with them
    That’s not true.
  • CatManCatMan Posts: 3,218
    Wireless charging is a gimmick, you can't even use the phone while it's charging!
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 20,176

    Have we left yet???

    Nearly.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,329
    edited January 2020
    Byronic said:

    If Mike Smithson has proof that I AM SeanT let him show it. I am not.
    The purge begineth. Remainers Revenge?
  • Black_RookBlack_Rook Posts: 8,905
    Well, they did make such a good job of telling people to f*** off and join the Tories that 1 in 3 off their voters f***ed off and joined the Tories. What else did you expect as a follow-up act?
    OllyT said:

    Why has Sean T always been allowed to get away with the sort of personal abuse of other posters that would see anyone else banned?
    I've experienced worse on here, and not from him, either.
  • Jonathan said:

    That’s not true.
    Explain please
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,338
    edited January 2020
    tlg86 said:

    Just to be clear, I was referring to the use of the word Nazi rather than German.
    If you're suggesting that Germany doesn't want to refer to its Nazi past, I'd say the reverse is true in my experience.
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 22,100

    Explain please
    Look for the CE mark on your phone.
  • OllyTOllyT Posts: 5,035
    Byronic said:

    Because I am not SeanT? Perhaps?
    Of course you are not, what on earth could have given me that idea?
  • FF43FF43 Posts: 17,884
    edited January 2020



    I've experienced worse on here, and not from him, either.
    I agree
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 24,291

    Woodrow Wilson?
    (Given his rep, are you being humorous?)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLiI6kXZkZI
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,338
    edited January 2020

    Well, they did make such a good job of telling people to f*** off and join the Tories that 1 in 3 off their voters f***ed off and joined the Tories. What else did you expect as a follow-up act? I've experienced worse on here, and not from him, either.
    Was it that Byronic bloke? He can be a bit fruity also.
  • justin124justin124 Posts: 11,527
    edited January 2020
    A day too late to coincide with the 87th anniversary of the Fuhrer coming to power.
  • ydoethur said:

    What did JFK actually do, other than rape his teenage secretaries?
    Rape is a strong word.
  • CatManCatMan Posts: 3,218
    justin124 said:

    A day too late to coincide with the 87th anniversary of the Fuhrer coming to power.

    Now there was a man truly committed to European integration.
  • OllyTOllyT Posts: 5,035
    isam said:

    I thought naming a poster who wished to remain anonymous was the thing that got people banned! #whyalwaysme
    Sean T never made any attempt to remain anonymous, as far as I recall he was for ever promoting his books and bragging about his lifestyle and sexual conquests
  • isam said:

    The purge begineth. Remainers Revenge?
    Getting a temporay ban so he can come down from his 'high' is a very SeanT event tbf.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,867
    Good evening PB

    I assume the party is in full swing? :D
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,548

    Rape is a strong word.
    Whether you regard his somewhat creepy sexual exploitation of the likes of Mimi Alford as rape or not, the question still stands.
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 22,100
    ydoethur said:

    Whether you regard his somewhat creepy sexual exploitation of the likes of Mimi Alford as rape or not, the question still stands.
    Setting the goal to land a man on the moon is a pretty big deal.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,548

    Getting a temporay ban so he can come down from his 'high' is a very SeanT event tbf.
    Although it would be somewhat surprising, I do wonder what the reaction would be if it turned out Byronic really isn’t Sean Thomas. Just somebody who talks like him, travels to the same location as him, drinks like him and has a wife exactly the same age.

    Well, it’s possible.
  • Beibheirli_CBeibheirli_C Posts: 8,192
    It is an hour until Brexit and I still do not agree with it, I do not support it and I am not reconciled to it. I would satisfied to see Boris, Farage and their hangers-on roast in Hell for all eternity, except that being an atheist I know there is no such place.
  • ydoethur said:

    Whether you regard his somewhat creepy sexual exploitation of the likes of Mimi Alford as rape or not, the question still stands.
    If he had intercourse with numerous women and it was consent, therefore he was living his life. If not, then it's not good.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,652
    ydoethur said:

    Although it would be somewhat surprising, I do wonder what the reaction would be if it turned out Byronic really isn’t Sean Thomas. Just somebody who talks like him, travels to the same location as him, drinks like him and has a wife exactly the same age.

    Well, it’s possible.
    Probably a globetrotting callgirl.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,329

    It is an hour until Brexit and I still do not agree with it, I do not support it and I am not reconciled to it. I would satisfied to see Boris, Farage and their hangers-on roast in Hell for all eternity, except that being an atheist I know there is no such place.

    Very fair minded 👍🏻
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,548
    edited January 2020

    It is an hour until Brexit and I still do not agree with it, I do not support it and I am not reconciled to it. I would satisfied to see Boris, Farage and their hangers-on roast in Hell for all eternity, except that being an atheist I know there is no such place.

    Bit harsh on poor old Satan.

    That’s lumbering him with Farage, not the atheism bit.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,536

    If you're suggesting that Germany doesn't want to refer to its Nazi past, I'd say the reverse is true in my experience.
    That is true. I suspect it's just our media who don't want to offend any Germans.
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