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Re: You can’t handle the truth – politicalbetting.com
Yes on the whole. But there's always exceptions. In my very early accounting days the firm I was training with (in Savile Row would you believe) hired this bloke at sub partner level who was big and posh, wide shoulders, good hair, and for some reason hadn't quite made it in the way you'd expect of someone like that. First… -
Re: Starmer must be so happy tonight – politicalbetting.com
May be all the adult men were self identifying as women? -
Re: The Truss premiership gets more impressive with each passing day – politicalbetting.com
I'm not expert enough to say whether it deserved to win. On the winner Jesse Darling (good name); 'He has said he was inspired by "the effects of many years of austerity, Brexit, the pandemic" and the "hostile environment" immigration policy.' Might his political views have played a part in winning the prize? Not that… -
Re: Just one in ten Brits oppose an early election – politicalbetting.com
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Re: Could Liz Truss improve Tory fortunes? – politicalbetting.com
One of the things that has become glaringly obvious since moving to Ireland is that every country is catastrophically badly run, but in its own unique and specific ways. I remember an erstwhile acquaintance who moved to Denmark who made essentially this point by blogging about the frustrations of life in Denmark as well.… -
Re: Are We All Trussites Now? – politicalbetting.com
That could sort of be shrugged off as mid term blues. That might not have been accurate (my hunch is that the Conservatives would be doing even worse if BoJo had somehow stayed on.) Daddy's not coming back because of the very bad things he did. Could he have cut Paterson loose, fessed up to Partygate and not promoted… -
Re: Brits love white powder – politicalbetting.com
Following the short exchanges on Dubai yesterday, an aspect that I find interesting is that the model 'cities of the future' they are trying to create in the Middle East is out of a 1950s USA techno-dreamland, and about a century out of date. I don't think that's a viable post-oil future. -
Re: Nikki Haley could be the Republican that stops Trump – politicalbetting.com
By the 90s she'd gone more than slightly nuts. Even this who are not her fans (me) wouldn't call that definitive 'Thatcherism'. -
Re: Sweet Swingback’s Baadasssss Song – politicalbetting.com
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Re: What a difference a year makes – politicalbetting.com
He's only had about 70 years to observe the Queen and see how to do the job. -
Re: Low expectations – politicalbetting.com
Bemused by the thought of someone holding a view to beat up grannies for daring to vote! Free speech seems under pressure from the left for thinking people shouldn't be allowed to behave like twats, and from the right for thinking people should definitely be able to behave like twats, but no-one else is allowed to notice… -
Re: A land of many (black) waters – politicalbetting.com
The counter-argument, which doesn’t seem to have occurred to him (having only listened to extracts), is that his role was to decide whether cases were strong enough to go before the courts, and since the court cases mostly resulted in prosecutions, the miscarriages aren’t his responsibility. Which isn’t to say that his… -
Re: Brexit behaving badly – politicalbetting.com
In theory they don't, in practice they often do and the late Queen raised concerns about them traveling together -
Re: What did Parliament do? – politicalbetting.com
Darling was one of the scummiest politicians around only surpassed by tom watson -
Re: How was this sausage made? – politicalbetting.com
I'm very sad to learn of Alistair Darling's death. He was one of the few people to serve in the Brown administration, who left with his reputation enhanced. -
Re: It’s Acropolis Now for Rishi Sunak – politicalbetting.com
He’s a top top lawyer, there’s no risk of arrogance. -
Re: WH2024: the early primary States – politicalbetting.com
BBC at it again... Nurhan was 15 years old when she was accused of trying to carry out an attack with scissors, Hassan says. Nurhan was sentenced to 13 and-a-half years in jail, https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67562488 Makes it sounds quite very innocnent. The prosecution secured Nurhan Awad’s agreement to… -
Re: It’s not the economy, stupid? – politicalbetting.com
Another version of the same thing, I reckon. The drear is because many nice things are too expensive for too many. And that's true in both the private and public realms. -
Re: It’s 52% vs 48% all over again – politicalbetting.com
What's the point of the Lib Dems? Stuff like this: https://x.com/josiahmortimer/status/1729447269970190629?s=20 -
Re: Will Boris Johnson win a seat at the next election? – politicalbetting.com
Apparently 10% of men over 65 have incontinence of the number 1 variety so even if there were a ban on trans men in gents loos (which nobody is suggesting, the controversy such as it is revolves around trans women in the ladies) it makes sense on its own terms. Whether or not you make them free depends on how generous…