The Ballad of No Deal “WTO” Brexit – politicalbetting.com
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But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game..
Well done, K.
Gorgeous Gavin pulls rank on the Borough of Greenwich!
Leaving the life you led before we met
You are the first to have this love of mine
Forever with me 'till the end of time..Oh yeah!
and ransom captive Israel
that mourns in lonely exile here
until the Son of God appear.
Refrain:
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
shall come to you, O Israel.
p.s. 'Israel' is a placeholder
Remarkable echoes of Boris Johnson, including living for the day and for an unobtainable future but never for the time-being. How he could charm people who knew they were being sold a pup but went along with it anyway. A shared interest in Churchill. The levels of self-deception.
Well worth a read.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/18/in-ronnies-court
Thinking about no deal at the weekend I had "Gimme the Prize" by Queen stuck in my head...
Another emergency budget early in the New Year?
I asked my wife if we could move to an Australian style arrangement. She's under the mistaken impression I'm talking about a future where I spend more time drinking beer and watching cricket.
Congratulations President Elect Biden.
Not all politicians see eye to eye. John Major says Brexit is dreadful.
NYTimes
"all but ending"...
The most important was the Congressional election - because they decide what electoral college votes to approve on Jan 6th (and thank God the Democrats won that - which you could be forgiven for forgetting given the way the House election has been reported). The second most important was the State Legislature (!) elections, because they choose the representatives to send to the Electoral college.
Oh and there was one other election - the election for President. But really, that is pretty irrelevant in the grand scheme of things!
I. E. Biden wins the ECV 48.5 market.
https://xkcd.com/2397/
I have taken to watching iPlayer to relieve the tedium of daily home gym sessions and came across this lovely 1968 documentary on the Flying Scotsman. Highly recommended even for if like me you're not really a train buff.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p011vfqw/4472-flying-scotsman
PS Other recommendations welcome!
https://xkcd.com/2395/
You have directly realised the emptiness of its inherent existence.
Does the PM also perceive it? I am not so entirely convinced.
I've been following a lot of this recently, and to be honest it really isn't that surprising that so many people believe that Trump has been robbed. These are people who don't have a great deal of understanding of the political or judicial process and desperately rely on their favoured media outlets to tell them what's going on. And they've been not just misled, but blatantly lied to repeatedly. And not just by fringe people. They have been lied to by individuals at the very top of US Govt all the way up to the President himself. If you don't receive any challenge to what you hear AT ALL, then you are likely to believe it.
Clearly he thinks there is currently no way of retaining Republican power.
Senate Majority Whip John Thune said that Joe Biden is President-elect once he crosses 270 electoral votes and says efforts to challenge the results in Congress are “not going anywhere.” He said “it’s time for everybody to move on” after today.
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/electoral-college-vote-2020-biden-trump/index.html
Though I suppose really him going was inevitable:
Attorney General Bill Barr has reportedly compared Donald Trump's attacks on him as a “deposed king ranting" after the president apparently raised the possibility of firing him.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/bill-barr-trump-election-biden-b1772174.html
I guess Barr was willing to do and say pretty much anything, so long as you actually manage to win the election first.
I liked this one.
https://xkcd.com/2396/
*Well write a sternly written letter.
Be a farce to drag it further.
Congratulations to all winners and hope some cleaned up the free money of recent weeks.
Kerching!!!!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1338614499981602819
Someone else wrote it, didn't they?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg
Money arrived in my Betfair account and I’ve just withdrawn it.
I had to look at this one for a while before I got it:
https://xkcd.com/2394/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjEiB59yn1Q