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Not been following it but always happy to back runs on the board.bigjohnowls said:
Requires biggest run chase ever on the ground too.Peter_the_Punter said:
Thanx Bigjohn.bigjohnowls said:Betting Post
West Indies post 321runs in ODI against India
Betfair has them at 2.30 to win surely that has to represent good value.
Although India clearly have a chance of getting them but in my view 1.75 is not good value on India
Even on a flat track, that's a buy.
Its by no means a certainty but almost 11/8 against on WI win having scored 321 has to be worth a small nibble.
If India had posted that score WI would surely be about 5/1 to chase it down
Unless England are playing, of course.
Or Pakistan.
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@MattChorley: I'm going to set up a bookies just so I can send out a press released predicting Nick Clegg is NOT going to resign0
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Get in.
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Whoever thought Clegg might resign today was way off the mark. Can't rely on their forecasts in the future.0
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The Lib Dems can't complain now, if private conversations they've had with the Tories are revealed. This could be fun.isam said:
Cameron does it with conversations he has had with the Queen, and he uses them to take the piss out of her, so the Tories cant really complainScott_P said:@steve_hawkes: Nick Clegg revealing private conversations with George Osborne about previous Budgets - that'll go down a storm with No.11
@GeorgeWParker: Hmm. Dangerous precedent Clegg disclosing private conversations with Osborne to amuse lib dem conference?0 -
To be fair I think Dan did say it might not be today. But Dan seemed near enough 100% certain.0
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Clegg is safe as houses then.FrankBooth said:To be fair I think Dan did say it might not be today. But Dan seemed near enough 100% certain.
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Rampaul to Rahane, no run, beaten outside off, loud appeal from Rampaul! Beautiful ball outside of with a bit of shape going away, Rahane looked to push but was beaten by the movementPeter_the_Punter said:
Not been following it but always happy to back runs on the board.bigjohnowls said:
Requires biggest run chase ever on the ground too.Peter_the_Punter said:
Thanx Bigjohn.bigjohnowls said:Betting Post
West Indies post 321runs in ODI against India
Betfair has them at 2.30 to win surely that has to represent good value.
Although India clearly have a chance of getting them but in my view 1.75 is not good value on India
Even on a flat track, that's a buy.
Its by no means a certainty but almost 11/8 against on WI win having scored 321 has to be worth a small nibble.
If India had posted that score WI would surely be about 5/1 to chase it down
Unless England are playing, of course.
Or Pakistan.
Sounds pleasing.0 -
Clegg criticises Labour on debt although their borrowing plans are virtually the same.0
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No, he didn't!0
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He's a bit delusional isn't he? Fabulous angry passionate stuff - pity that he isn't listed to because he's an untrustworthy liar.0
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No resignation then0
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Stand down, then. But doesn't it still make sense for Clegg to resign at some point before the GE?0
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That's because, again, the public peception of Labour's economic competence has nothing to do with the deficit.FrankBooth said:Clegg criticises Labour on debt although their borrowing plans are virtually the same.
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Mental health treatment will definitely need to be given more priority if labour are in power come May.
The electorate will just have participated in the biggest collective act of self-harming on record...
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@GeneralBoles: Miliband forgot the deficit.....Clegg forgot to resign..... #voteTory0
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Hmm Hopefully Rahane will eat up 10 overs for 20 runs or so then get out just as he's starting to find the ball.0
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OT: Boxing. A very interesting look at those who fight in the main event, but will never be the main event.
Have a real go against some of these up and coming boys, don't play to the script, and the phone isn't going to go the following week. Upset people's plans and stop them making money and you're not going to get any work.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/boxing/295208460 -
Anyone with honour only reveals how disappointed they are with colleagues when they have resigned!TheWatcher said:
The Lib Dems can't complain now, if private conversations they've had with the Tories are revealed. This could be fun.isam said:
Cameron does it with conversations he has had with the Queen, and he uses them to take the piss out of her, so the Tories cant really complainScott_P said:@steve_hawkes: Nick Clegg revealing private conversations with George Osborne about previous Budgets - that'll go down a storm with No.11
@GeorgeWParker: Hmm. Dangerous precedent Clegg disclosing private conversations with Osborne to amuse lib dem conference?0 -
Yay! Cash in the Attic! CANCELLED!!!
If that's not a vote not a vote winner what is.
HEEEEEAAAAAATTTTTHCCLLIIIIFFFFFFEEEEEEEEE*
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What was the revealed convo ?0
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BBC News website reader texts: Nick Clegg, brilliant speech... just one problem nobody believes him.
Odd how an annoymous text gets such prominence. Is it making the news fit an agenda?0 -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxI5fSp1ccoJBriskin said:Yay! Cash in the Attic! CANCELLED!!!
If that's not a vote not a vote winner what is.
HEEEEEAAAAAATTTTTHCCLLIIIIFFFFFFEEEEEEEEE*
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Its true though....dr_spyn said:
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Posted at 14:34
BBC News website reader texts: Nick Clegg, brilliant speech... just one problem nobody believes him.
Odd how an annoymous text gets such prominence. Is it making the news fit an agenda?
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Raising the basic rate tax threshold to £12,500 is a priority, he says.TGOHF said:What was the revealed convo ?
I know that some people think I bang on too much about our success in raising the personal allowance from where we found it – just under £6,500 – to £10,500. But I don’t think we bang on about it enough.
It is, in my view, quite remarkable that a party experiencing it’s first stint in government, which only has 9% of the MPs in Westminster, should have succeeded in driving through the biggest and fairest transformation of our income tax system in a generation. If that isn’t something to bang on about – loud and proud – I really don’t know what is.
The Tories opposed this, he says.
The Conservatives couldn’t have been more explicit that it wasn’t their priority during our Budget negotiations where, year after year, it was frequently referred to as ‘your tax cut, Nick’.
Apparently it’s our tax cut in private, but it’s their tax cut in public. In 2012 - I’ll never forget this – Danny and I said: let’s go further and faster to cut people’s income tax. It’s possible now, so why wait? George Osborne turned to me and said: I don’t want to deliver a Liberal Democrat Budget. He insisted instead on the Tory bit of the Budget: a cut to the top rate of tax. I can’t think of a better, simpler illustration of what sets the two coalition parties apart.0 -
I got a PS4 ad!!!Sunil_Prasannan said:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxI5fSp1ccoJBriskin said:Yay! Cash in the Attic! CANCELLED!!!
If that's not a vote not a vote winner what is.
HEEEEEAAAAAATTTTTHCCLLIIIIFFFFFFEEEEEEEEE*
*probably deliberately wrong literature ref
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Iain Dale's updated prediction of LD seats at GE2015:
http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2014/10/05/updated-seat-prediction-libdems-to-win-28-seats-at-general-election0 -
Is he still standing by his bed, waiting for that third defection to UKIP?AndyJS said:Iain Dale's updated prediction of LD seats at GE2010:
http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2014/10/05/updated-seat-prediction-libdems-to-win-28-seats-at-general-election
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India starting very brightly. According to cricinfo, they've chased down 300+ fifteen times. No other test team has done so more than seven times.0
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I haven't found that tweet, at the moment it looks very much like a made up quote.RochdalePioneers said:
Its true though....dr_spyn said:
Get involved
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Posted at 14:34
BBC News website reader texts: Nick Clegg, brilliant speech... just one problem nobody believes him.
Odd how an annoymous text gets such prominence. Is it making the news fit an agenda?
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Giles Goodall @GoodallGiles 18s18 seconds ago
Clegg gets silver from @adamboultonSKY for leader's speech, ahead of Farage, behind Cameron. No prize for Miliband #ldconf0 -
I have just got out of the position but Dwayne Smith just let the ball go for 4 when he could have stopped it with a dive.. quite incredibleAnorak said:India starting very brightly. According to cricinfo, they've chased down 300+ fifteen times. No other test team has done so more than seven times.
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Surely some sort of wooden spoon would be appropriate, with "Deficit" carved into the handle.SimonStClare said:Giles Goodall @GoodallGiles 18s18 seconds ago
Clegg gets silver from @adamboultonSKY for leader's speech, ahead of Farage, behind Cameron. No prize for Miliband #ldconf
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"Senior Lib Dem ‘ordered destruction of document on Cyril Smith abuse claims’
Liz Lynne, candidate to become party president, denies telling former PA to get rid of notes about abuse at Knowl View school"
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/08/senior-lib-dem-liz-lynne-accused-destroy-document-cyril-smith-abuse-claims?CMP=twt_gu0 -
Off for a meeting, hopefully Windies can get some wickets.0
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Well, the Nats went down fairly limply in the end. I did at least weight my betfair book against them in the end, which softens the blow slightly.Peter_the_Punter said:
Is he still standing by his bed, waiting for that third defection to UKIP?AndyJS said:Iain Dale's updated prediction of LD seats at GE2010:
http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2014/10/05/updated-seat-prediction-libdems-to-win-28-seats-at-general-election
We won't get 20/1 next year though, it will be back to the 9/1 quotes from 2013. However, I do have a team in mind that I think may get mispriced; watch this space a few weeks hence.0 -
James Forsyth:
Indeed, for all the rhetorical attacks on the Tories today – they only look after their ‘own kind’, and believe that ‘every worry can be fixed with a big wave of the Union Jack’ thundered Clegg – a second Tory-Lib Dem coalition seems increasingly likely.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/10/nick-cleggs-liberal-democrats-are-in-high-spirits-and-in-attack-mode/0 -
"Beyond Rotherham: scale of child sex exploitation in England
Exclusive: Channel 4 News finds that more than 6,000 children across England have been reported as at risk of child sex exploitation since the beginning of 2013. Cordelia Lynch reports."
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Good afternoon, everyone.
Watched the speech. Disliked the chummy long lists. Performance generally good, occasionally very good. The Farage pronunciation was amusing, but raising the debates did remind me Clegg had told lies over how many laws came from Brussels.
Still peddling equi-distance. Not sure if anyone's listening to the Lib Dems anymore, but if they are then splitting firepower is unwise, I suspect.
Hugely unimpressed with his pathetic dismissal of equality for England. Good of Clegg to tell us that it's not acceptable to vote UKIP, but it'd be better if he'd given a fuller list of opinions we are permitted.
In more important news, some of you may remember quite a while ago I mentioned Malevolence: Tales from Beyond the Veil, an anthology of ghost stories and the like including the excellent Saxon & Khan, penned by me. It was delayed for a technical reason (I think), but should be released on the 19th of this very month, so if you were good enough to pre-order it should be in your hands in a fortnight or so.
If not, do consider giving it a crack. As well as me, there are 20 odd other writers, many of whom I know to be rather good (Jo Zebedee, for example, who also has a Roundaboutastic name): http://shop.ticketyboopress.co.uk/index.php?id_product=1&controller=product0 -
India 55/2 off ten. Looking promising!0
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Kohli out. India 55-2 off 10.0
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Internet reports suggest a second Spanish auxiliary nurse may have been infected with Ebola.0
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Thanks, TP.Tissue_Price said:
Well, the Nats went down fairly limply in the end. I did at least weight my betfair book against them in the end, which softens the blow slightly.Peter_the_Punter said:
Is he still standing by his bed, waiting for that third defection to UKIP?AndyJS said:Iain Dale's updated prediction of LD seats at GE2010:
http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2014/10/05/updated-seat-prediction-libdems-to-win-28-seats-at-general-election
We won't get 20/1 next year though, it will be back to the 9/1 quotes from 2013. However, I do have a team in mind that I think may get mispriced; watch this space a few weeks hence.
It was fun while it lasted, and like you I layed off a bit. Got me acquainted for the first time with baseball too, though on balance I think cricket is far superior.0 -
Mr. Floater, read yesterday one was cleared. So, one cleared, one infected, leaves two outstanding, I think.
Hopefully it can be contained with those 2-4.0 -
Interesting article. Quite funny also at the end it says: "How to get into Boxing...Be Inspired"...Anorak said:OT: Boxing. A very interesting look at those who fight in the main event, but will never be the main event.
Have a real go against some of these up and coming boys, don't play to the script, and the phone isn't going to go the following week. Upset people's plans and stop them making money and you're not going to get any work.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/boxing/29520846
Not sure reading that article would inspire many people to get into boxing!0 -
I'm not sure about that. I wrote a guest article on it, which if TSE ever decides to put up, will explain why!CarlottaVance said:James Forsyth:
Indeed, for all the rhetorical attacks on the Tories today – they only look after their ‘own kind’, and believe that ‘every worry can be fixed with a big wave of the Union Jack’ thundered Clegg – a second Tory-Lib Dem coalition seems increasingly likely.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/10/nick-cleggs-liberal-democrats-are-in-high-spirits-and-in-attack-mode/0 -
Haha! Iain Dale joins Dan Hodges as two hacks NOT to pay much attention to.Peter_the_Punter said:
Is he still standing by his bed, waiting for that third defection to UKIP?AndyJS said:Iain Dale's updated prediction of LD seats at GE2010:
http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2014/10/05/updated-seat-prediction-libdems-to-win-28-seats-at-general-election
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Wel, he's either using unreliable sources or making these things up. The former, I should think.audreyanne said:
Haha! Iain Dale joins Dan Hodges as two hacks NOT to pay much attention to.Peter_the_Punter said:
Is he still standing by his bed, waiting for that third defection to UKIP?AndyJS said:Iain Dale's updated prediction of LD seats at GE2010:
http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2014/10/05/updated-seat-prediction-libdems-to-win-28-seats-at-general-election0 -
Imagine if IS sent 20 jihadis to West Africa to rub shoulders with Ebola, then got them to sit on the Tube in London and the Metro in Paris for a week or two. *shudders*Floater said:Internet reports suggest a second Spanish auxiliary nurse may have been infected with Ebola.
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Would that qualify for "martyr" status, though?Anorak said:
Imagine if IS sent 20 jihadis to West Africa to rub shoulders with Ebola, then got them to sit on the Tube in London and the Metro in Paris for a week or two. *shudders*Floater said:Internet reports suggest a second Spanish auxiliary nurse may have been infected with Ebola.
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it's bodily fluid borne not airborne.Anorak said:
Imagine if IS sent 20 jihadis to West Africa to rub shoulders with Ebola, then got them to sit on the Tube in London and the Metro in Paris for a week or two. *shudders*Floater said:Internet reports suggest a second Spanish auxiliary nurse may have been infected with Ebola.
They would have to get onto the tube, cut themselves open, or vomit, and then hope that the people they hit with their innards/vomit had cuts themselves.
Not impossible but it's prob easier/more efficient to get an AK or two into central London.0 -
And how many have not been reported, because the police and council authorities look the other way? Thousands of children have been raped and yet the silence from our political class is deafening. It's been six weeks since the Jay report came out, and there's been no national action on it at all.AndyJS said:"Beyond Rotherham: scale of child sex exploitation in England
Exclusive: Channel 4 News finds that more than 6,000 children across England have been reported as at risk of child sex exploitation since the beginning of 2013. Cordelia Lynch reports."
http://www.channel4.com/news/beyond-rotherham-scale-of-child-sex-exploitation-across-uk
I'm coming round to the Sean Fear position that a substantial swathe of our political class are actually evil. Certainly no-one with any morality in them would hear of such a thing and not want to get to the bottom of it. The fact that so many politicians seem to be like that really frightens me.0 -
This could be a useful rumour to spread. Might make people more inclined to use a hankerchief when sneezing on the Tube.TOPPING said:
it's bodily fluid borne not airborne.Anorak said:
Imagine if IS sent 20 jihadis to West Africa to rub shoulders with Ebola, then got them to sit on the Tube in London and the Metro in Paris for a week or two. *shudders*Floater said:Internet reports suggest a second Spanish auxiliary nurse may have been infected with Ebola.
They would have to get onto the tube, cut themselves open, or vomit, and then hope that the people they hit with their innards/vomit had cuts themselves.
Not impossible but it's prob easier/more efficient to get an AK or two into central London.
(Three wickets down. :-) )0 -
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I'm still waiting for him to run down the street naked.Peter_the_Punter said:
Is he still standing by his bed, waiting for that third defection to UKIP?AndyJS said:Iain Dale's updated prediction of LD seats at GE2010:
http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2014/10/05/updated-seat-prediction-libdems-to-win-28-seats-at-general-election0 -
Nice wickets, eliminated liability on India.
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http://c5.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/uploaded/ebolaisisarticle.jpgAnorak said:
Imagine if IS sent 20 jihadis to West Africa to rub shoulders with Ebola, then got them to sit on the Tube in London and the Metro in Paris for a week or two. *shudders*Floater said:Internet reports suggest a second Spanish auxiliary nurse may have been infected with Ebola.
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"Did you see the frenzied bile from the Tory Right against our plan to give young children at primary school a healthy meal at lunchtime?”
What an idiotic line. No-one has opposed giving poor kids a healthy school lunch. What some of us are opposing is the taxpayer providing that to kids from wealthy families too.0 -
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The contrast with the News of the World, phone hacking and Leveson is not looking good for British politics as a whole.Socrates said:
And how many have not been reported, because the police and council authorities look the other way? Thousands of children have been raped and yet the silence from our political class is deafening. It's been six weeks since the Jay report came out, and there's been no national action on it at all.AndyJS said:"Beyond Rotherham: scale of child sex exploitation in England
Exclusive: Channel 4 News finds that more than 6,000 children across England have been reported as at risk of child sex exploitation since the beginning of 2013. Cordelia Lynch reports."
http://www.channel4.com/news/beyond-rotherham-scale-of-child-sex-exploitation-across-uk
I'm coming round to the Sean Fear position that a substantial swathe of our political class are actually evil. Certainly no-one with any morality in them would hear of such a thing and not want to get to the bottom of it. The fact that so many politicians seem to be like that really frightens me.
Did Miliband remember to name-check Murdoch in his speech? [It's in the text, but maybe he forgot?] None of the three main party leaders said anything about Rotherham.0 -
Socrates
"I'm coming round to the Sean Fear position that a substantial swathe of our political class are actually evil."
Grow up for Christ's sake! You don't only embarrass yourself but the site too. You probably ought to get help.0
