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Re: If optimism wins elections – politicalbetting.com
There would be a small number that would grow a beard to show they could afford the tax. Better would be to start selling baronetcies again: should raise a few million with no cost to the state.3 -
Re: If optimism wins elections – politicalbetting.com
My impression (and I’d be delighted to be corrected on this) is that most European systems in comparable economies don’t spend much more than us out of taxation, but have a significant private insura…1 -
Re: If optimism wins elections – politicalbetting.com
The Tories can’t reform the NHS: anything meaningful they proposed would result in uproar and headlines about moving directly to the US system. Only Labour has the political cover to actually do what…1 -
Re: How Betfair has reacted to the second round – politicalbetting.com
That was Fangorn, the ent that the hobbits meet in the Two Towers.1 -
Re: How Betfair has reacted to the second round – politicalbetting.com
Glad you got it, though the very model is from an earlier work. I did a bit of Gilbert and Sullivan at university; my last role was Grand Inquisitor in “Gondoliers”.1
